Healthcare, public health & professional ethics

We explore ethical issues raised in clinical practice and care, preventive programmes, and healthcare management. Examining policy, organisation, professional roles and value conflicts.

Exploring healthcare, public health & professional ethics

Niklas Juth

Professor of medical ethics and research leader at CRB. Focus on the ethical issues that arise at the intersection of political philosophy and medical ethics. Chair of the ethics council of Region Uppsala.

Anna T. Höglund

Professor in care ethics with a focus on gender studies. Expertise on ethical competence for healthcare personnel, moral stress and priorities in healthcare.

Pernilla Pergert

Teaches ethics at the nursing and specialist nursing programmes. Senior lecturer in caring science and associate professor of paediatric care science with a special focus on clinical ethics and intercultural care.

Adam Ehlert

Doctoral student investigating severity as a criterion for priorities in healthcare, whether early death contributes to severity and whether severity should be understood in subjective or objective terms.

William Bülow O'Nils

Senior lecturer in biomedical ethics, with research focus on normative issues that arise in the intersection of ethics, law and policy.

Jens Lundegård

Doctoral student investigating how increasing management control impacts the practice of family medicine. Specialist in family medicine and working as a general practitioner.

Åsa Grauman

Researches how individuals perceive health risks and how we are affected by risk information, including through preference studies, with a focus on breast cancer, bowel cancer, precision medicine, and screening for rare diseases.

Tove Godskesen

Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Uppsala University and Professor in Nursing at Nord University, Norway.

Susanna Pohjola

Doctoral student with a focus on ethical dilemmas and ethical competence when providing dietary advice. Evaluates an educational intervention with a focus on its feasibility.

Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist

Teaches ethics at the molecular biology and medical doctors programmes. Senior lecturer in biomedical ethics and Associate Professor in practical philosophy, with a research focus on moral responsibility in various fields.

Deborah Mascalzoni

Research about ethics and policy for advanced research approaches in genetics and biomaterials with the integration of participant-centric approaches.

Sylvia Martin

Research focus on newborn screening and Multiple Sclerosis. Expertise in cognitive emotional behavioral therapy, personality disorders treatment, impulsivity and consciousness.

Mirko Ancillotti

Reseach on public health, ethics, and patient preferences. Works with questions about the effect of lighting, cancer patient preferences, and antibiotic resistance.

Michele Farisco

Researcher focusing on issues related to consciousness, artificial intelligence and neuroethics. Collaborates with neuroscientists, AI researchers and clinicians to develop indicators of consciousness to diagnose patients, and to recognize consciousness in animals and machines.

Kathinka Evers

Research with a focus on philosophy of mind, neurophilosophy, neuroethics, bioethics and artificial intelligence. Professor ad honoram at Universidad Central de Chile.

Karl Sallin

Doctoral student investigating philosophical and neuroscientific aspects of resignation syndrome. Working as consultant in paediatric neurology at Astrid Lindgren Childrens' Hospital.

Kajsa Norberg Wieslander

Doctoral student exploring ethical issues in clinical research with children, with particular focus on children with cancer and informed consent.

Mats Hansson

Senior professor in biomedical ethics with expertise in clinical issues, genetics and biobanks. Research focus on drug safety during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and genetic screening.

Erica Sundell

Research assistant with a background as a nurse and public health scientist. Works with coordination, data collection and other study-specific tasks within various projects at the center.

Erica Falkenström

Associated researcher at CRB & Senior Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, with a specialization in organizational ethics in healthcare.

Sara Frygner-Holm

Associated researcher at CRB, physiotherapist & Lecturer at the Department of Women's and Children's health.

Linus Johnsson

Associated researcher at CRB and general practitioner. Engaged in several projects about the everyday ethical decision making of GPs, their work environment, and communication with patients.

Jennifer Viberg Johansson

Associate professor in medical ethics, with a research focus on methods that measure people's preferences and how to balance preferences against other ethical values; artificial intelligence and digital health information.

Karin Schölin Bywall

Associated researcher at CRB & Senior Lecturer at the School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Division of Public Health Sciences, Mälardalen University.

Jennifer Drevin

Associated researcher at CRB. Reg. nurse, public health scientist, PhD and medical student. Did her PhD on epidemiological and psychometric studies within the field of Reproductive Health.

Joar Björk

Physician and clinical ethicist. Research focuses on prioritization challenges, autonomy issues and ethical support in healthcare.

Emelie Gustafson Hedov

Doctoral student focusing on ethical aspects of AI in emergency care, including questions related to communication, responsibility and autonomy.