Lectures and seminars Faculty event: Elizabeth Arkema

Title 

KI School of Public Health” Pre-study (förstudie)

Abstract 

We are conducting a pre-study, requested by the vice presidents of KI North and KI Solna, to examine how public health sciences are organised and conducted across KI. This project aims to compile information, perspectives and suggestions on different ways that KI’s public health sciences could be coordinated to strengthen the field, promote interdisciplinary collaboration and increase the visibility and impact of public health sciences at KI. By March 2027, the pre-study will provide an overview of research, education, collaborations, and other public health-related activities at KI, complemented by insights from stakeholder engagement and international benchmarking. The findings will support the Steering Group in considering future approaches to strengthening, coordinating, and advancing public health sciences at KI. I will present briefly about the pre-study project plan but will leave time for discussion. My main goal is to inform MEB about the study and to collect perspectives and ideas on what to incorporate into our work. 

About the speaker 

Elizabeth Arkema received both a master’s and a doctoral degree in epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and moved to Sweden to do a postdoc at KEP in 2013. She is currently Principal Researcher at KEP and lead a team studying the causes and consequences of autoimmune diseases using Swedish population-based cohorts and registers. I am also Chair of the Strategic Research Area in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at KI. I teach a course on systematic reviews and meta-analysis in the  Master’s Programme in Public Health Sciences. 

Faculty lunch

Join the faculty event in Wargentin! After the seminar, the faculty lunch will be served in Ljusgården. The faculty lunches are intended for employees at MEB, and a monthly net salary deduction of 260 SEK will be made for those who work here 20% or more. If you have any questions about the lunch or specific dietary needs due to allergies, etc., please contact internservice@meb.ki.se. If you won’t be participating in the lunches for all or part of the spring term, our new routine is that you need to contact hr-support@meb.ki.se at the start of a new term, to be removed from the list. Retroactive adjustments will not be possible.  

Please, check the labeling on the salads not to take special diet foods that were pre-ordered by your colleagues.