Gloria Macassa

Short Curriculum Vitae

Education/Training

I graduated in Medicine from Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo-Mozambique (1992). Thereafter, I was awarded a Master in Public Health Sciences with emphasis in Demography at Karolinska Institutet (1999) and a PhD in Epidemiology from Karolinska Institute (2004). Currently I am a Professor of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology and the research leader of the “Social Epidemiology, Population Health and Violence” (SEPHV) research group/network.

PhD Thesis

Poverty and health in different contexts- social inequalities in child mortality in Mozambique and 19th Century Stockholm . Karolinska Institute/CHESS.

Current Position (s)

2015 - af. Professor of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Unit-ISPUP, University of Porto Medical School

2014 - Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Sweden

2013 - Professor of Public Health Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden

2011 - Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

2011 - Associate Professor of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences Mid-Sweden University, Sweden.

Previous Position (s)

2012-2013 - Senior Lecturer in Public Health Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

2010-2014 - Senior Lecturer in Public Health Sciences, Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Sweden

2011 - Guest Researcher, Department of Psychology Mid-Sweden University, Sweden

2007-2010 - Epidemiologist, Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences; Karolinska Institutet, (Research Group Health and Safety Promotion; sub Section Violence and Determinants of Health)

2005-2007 - Epidemiologist, Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences; Karolinska Institutet, (Research Group Health Equity and Policy Analysis)

1998 to date - Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Medicine, Mozambique

1992-1996 - Clinical Director, Malhangalene Health Centre, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

1992 - Senior lecturer Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Community Health, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

Activities in Peer Review Journals

Member of the editorial board

• Mid-Sweden Journal of Public Health
• BMC Global Health Research and Policy
  

Supervision of PhD Students

Completed: Ismail Yahaya (MIUN 2014); Bahareh Eslami (MIUN2013); Diego Arturo

Sarastri- (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia 2015)

Current PhD students

Ann Kristin Eriksson MSc: Thesis title: Erfarenheter av utmattningssyndrom och existentiell rehabilitering: En kvalitativ intervjustudie med vårdtagare och vårdgivare I svensk vårdkontext (MIUN)

Sayed Hesameddin Abassi MD; Thesis title: Social Inequalities in Coronary Heart Disease in Iran (MIUN);

Maryam Rumanian BSc, MSc. Thesis title: Health and Health Behaviour Among School Children in Teheran (MIUN)

Afroza Begum, MPH. Thesis title: Suicide Ideation among Adolescents in Rural Bangladesh (MIUN)

Elena Ahmadi, MSc: Thesis title: Leadership Behaviour, Working Environment and Health in Award-winning Companies – a Manager and Subordinate Perspective (HIG)

Anne-Sofie Hiswåls MPH. Thesis title: Employment Conditions and Inequities in Health in Gävleborg (MIUN)