Sofia Gjertsson

PhD student at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Social Medicine/CHAP

Telephone:: +46 18 471 62 76
Mobile phone:: +46 73 469 71 42
E-mail:: sofia.gjertsson@uu.se
Visiting address:: BMC, Husargatan 3, Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 564
751 22 Uppsala

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Short presentation

Sofia is a research assistant at CHAP. Her main research interests are related to health equity and access to healthcare services. She currently works with children's knowledge, experiences and health literacy of the Covid-19 pandemic. As well as with school-based interventions on sexual violence and health among youth in Uppsala.

Publications

Recent publications

"Maybe rape is illegal?" how adolescents with intellectual disabilities experience a sexual violence prevention intervention

Gjertsson, Sofia; Sarkadi, Anna; Fäldt, Anna

Part of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2026
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"The Earth Is Becoming a Coronavirus": Children's Perceptions, Knowledge, and Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic as Presented in Their Drawings

Gjertsson, Sofia; Thell, Maria; Sarkadi, Anna

Part of Qualitative Health Research, 2025
- DOI for "The Earth Is Becoming a Coronavirus": Children's Perceptions, Knowledge, and Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic as Presented in Their Drawings
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All publications

Articles in journal

"Maybe rape is illegal?" how adolescents with intellectual disabilities experience a sexual violence prevention intervention

Gjertsson, Sofia; Sarkadi, Anna; Fäldt, Anna

Part of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2026
- DOI for "Maybe rape is illegal?" how adolescents with intellectual disabilities experience a sexual violence prevention intervention
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"The Earth Is Becoming a Coronavirus": Children's Perceptions, Knowledge, and Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic as Presented in Their Drawings

Gjertsson, Sofia; Thell, Maria; Sarkadi, Anna

Part of Qualitative Health Research, 2025
- DOI for "The Earth Is Becoming a Coronavirus": Children's Perceptions, Knowledge, and Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic as Presented in Their Drawings
- Download full text (pdf) of "The Earth Is Becoming a Coronavirus": Children's Perceptions, Knowledge, and Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic as Presented in Their Drawings