Mats Målqvist
Professor at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Swedesd - Sustainability Learning and Research Centre
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- mats.malqvist@uu.se
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- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 14B, 1 tr
75237 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
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- 0000-0002-8184-3530
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Mats Målqvist is professor of global health and the director of Uppsala Institute of Sustainable Transformations. He also leads SWEDESD - Sustainability Learning and Research Center at the medical faculty (https://www.swedesd.uu.se/). His research centers on social sustainability, with a focus on equity and empowerment. He has published 120+ scientific articles within the areas of implementation science, SRHR, maternal, newborn and child health, and health systems delivery.
Keywords
- child health
- envmed008
- health equity
- health systems
- maternal health
- neonatal health
- sexual and reproductive health and rights (srhr)
- social sustainability
- sustainable development
Biography
Mats Målqvist is the director of Uppsala University Institute for Sustainable Transformations, which is a part of Uppsala University Future Institutes (UUniFI).
At the Department of Women's and Children's Health he is leading SWEDESD, a transdisciplinary centre for health equity, sustainability and transformation (https://www.swedesd.uu.se/).
Between 2013-2016 he, as the Executive Director, Mats Målqvist developed and established Siphilile Maternal and Child Health, a community-based organisation working in maternal and child health in Eswatini (https://www.siphilile.org/).
Mats Målqvist is a medical doctor by profession, and has a Master’s degree in Media and Communications Studies. He earned his PhD in International Health in 2010 at Uppsala University. He became Associate Professor in 2013 and Professor of Global Health in 2018. As a medical doctor, Mats Målqvist has been working as a resident doctor within emergency medicine (2007-2010) and pediatrics (2010-2013).
Mats Målqvist is founder of SIHI Sweden (https://socialinnovationinhealth.org/sihi-sweden/).
Ongoing and recent external assignments
Swedish Medical Society's Committee on Global Health (2024-ongoing)
Ethical advisor HOLICARE (2024-ongoing)
World Council of Churches' Commission on Health and Healing (2023-ongoing)
National Board of RFSU (2021-ongoing)
Co-editor of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (2016-ongoing)
Member of Swedish National Committee on Global Environmental Change (2022-2023)
FORTE - assessment committee for project grants (2022)
Swedish Research Council - assessment committee for international postdoc grants (2017-2018)
Chair of Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) NeoSupra trial (2018-2019)
Ongoing and recent assignments within Uppsala University
Director Uppsala University Institute for Sustainable Transformations (2024-ongoing)
Steering group ENLIGHT (2023-ongoing)
Dean of education at basic and advanced level at the Medical Faculty (2023-2024)
Director SWEDESD - Sustainability Research and Learning Centre (2022-ongoing)
Research group leader Uppsala Global Health Research on Implementation and Sustainability (UGHRIS) (2020-ongoing)
Chair of Master's Program Committee at the Medical Faculty (2020-2023)
Chair of Internationalization Committee at the Medical Program (2016-2023)
Department Board member (Women's and Children's Health (2017-2023)
ERASMUS Coordinator at the Department of Women's and Children's Health (2019-2023)
Member of Electoral College (2019-ongoing)
Mentor within the iMPACToR mentorship program (2020-2022)
Board member, Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) (2021-2022)
SACO/UU board member (2020-2022)
Representative ANSER - Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy
Research
As a global health researcher, the main focus of Mats Målqvist’s research has been on the implementation of interventions for improved maternal and child health in Sweden as well as in low and middle-income settings, where he has participated in and led research projects in Vietnam, Nepal, Uganda and Tanzania. He has been working in Swaziland, leading and implementing a community-based peer support intervention addressing socio-economic barriers to health. Structural determinants of health is another focus area of Prof Målqvist, exploring inequities in health and the impact of different interventions on unjust differences in health outcome and social sustainability. Mats Målqvist has supervised 9 PhD students to completion as main supervisor and been the co-supervisor for 5 PhDs. He is currently main supervisor for 5 and co-supervisor for 4 PhD students.
Publications
Recent publications
- Dietary diversity and associated factors among women attending antenatal clinics in the coast region of Tanzania (2024)
- Exploring women’s interpretations of survey questions on pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: Cognitive interviews in Iganga Mayuge, Uganda (2024)
- Implementing a social innovation for community-based peer support for immigrant mothers in Sweden (2024)
- Differences in Antenatal Care Policies in England, Finland, and the Netherlands (2024)
- Qualitative Exploration Study of Perceptions of Women and Nurse-Midwives on Antenatal Care Information and Communication in Tanzania (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Dietary diversity and associated factors among women attending antenatal clinics in the coast region of Tanzania (2024)
- Exploring women’s interpretations of survey questions on pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: Cognitive interviews in Iganga Mayuge, Uganda (2024)
- Implementing a social innovation for community-based peer support for immigrant mothers in Sweden (2024)
- Differences in Antenatal Care Policies in England, Finland, and the Netherlands (2024)
- Qualitative Exploration Study of Perceptions of Women and Nurse-Midwives on Antenatal Care Information and Communication in Tanzania (2023)
- Women's Expectations of and Satisfaction with Antenatal Care Services in a Semi-Urban Setting in Tanzania and Associated Factors (2023)
- Psychosocial effects of adverse pregnancy outcomes and their influence on reporting pregnancy loss during surveys and surveillance (2023)
- Improved obstetric management after implementation of a scaled-up quality improvement intervention (2023)
- Effect of light-touch intervention and associated factors to microbial contamination at small-scale pig slaughterhouses and traditional pork shops in Vietnam (2023)
- Impact of perception and assessment of consumers on willingness to pay for upgraded fresh pork (2023)
- Assessment of a light-touch intervention to reduce microbial contamination at small-scale pig slaughterhouses and traditional pork shops in Vietnam (2023)
- Community perceptions and experiences on the events leading to facility maternal death; a verbal autopsy qualitative study (2023)
- Exploring caregivers' experiences of Kangaroo Mother Care in Bangladesh (2023)
- Contradictions hindering the provision of mental healthcare and psychosocial services to women experiencing homelessness in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2023)
- Addressing the needs of Ethiopia's street homeless women of reproductive age in the health and social protection policy (2023)
- Implementing quality improvement intervention to improve intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring during COVID-19 pandemic- observational study (2022)
- Effect of a perinatal care quality improvement package on patient satisfaction (2022)
- Service readiness and availability of perinatal care in public hospitals - a multi-centric baseline study in Nepal (2022)
- Factors associated with poor adherence to intrapartum fetal heart monitoring in relationship to intrapartum related death (2022)
- Family planning practices and women?s impression of the reproductive life plan in Eswatini (2022)
- Adverse pregnancy outcome disclosure and women's social networks (2022)
- Adapting a South African social innovation for maternal peer support to migrant communities in Sweden (2022)
- Beyond global health: Redefining the ‘public’ in public health (2022)
- Health, sustainability and transformation (2022)
- Effect of a scaled-up quality improvement intervention on health workers' competence on neonatal resuscitation in simulated settings in public hospitals (2021)
- Performance of health workers on neonatal resuscitation care following scaled-up quality improvement interventions in public hospitals of Nepal-a prospective observational study (2021)
- Respectful maternal and newborn care (2021)
- Mistreatment of newborns after childbirth in health facilities in Nepal (2021)
- Payment mechanism for institutional births in Nepal (2021)
- Using an urban child health index to detect intra-urban disparities in Sweden. (2021)
- The perpetuating cycle of unplanned pregnancy (2021)
- Maternal death surveillance and response in Tanzania (2021)
- Mismatched ambition, execution and outcomes (2021)
- Negotiating social norms, the legacy of vertical health initiatives and contradicting health policies (2020)
- The burden of adolescent motherhood and health consequences in Nepal (2020)
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal (2020)
- Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health in Health Facilities in Nepal (2020)
- Peer support for disadvantaged parents (2020)
- Disclosing suboptimal indications for emergency caesarean sections due to fetal distress and prolonged labor (2020)
- Breastfeeding hampered by complacency and commercial interests (2020)
- Evaluating the implementation of the Reproductive Life Plan in disadvantaged communities (2020)
- Foreign-born women’s lifestyle and health before and during early pregnancy in Sweden (2020)
- Delayed cord clamping was not associated with an increased risk of hyperbilirubinaemia on the day of birth or jaundice in the first 4 weeks (2020)
- Causes of maternal deaths and delays in care (2020)
- Placing children and adolescents at the centre of the Sustainable Development Goals will deliver for current and future generations (2019)
- Intact cord resuscitation versus early cord clamping in the treatment of depressed newborn infants during the first 10 minutes of birth (Nepcord III) - (2019)
- Scaling Up Safer Birth Bundle Through Quality Improvement in Nepal (SUSTAIN) - a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial in public hospitals (2019)
- Achieving the SDGs through interdisciplinary research in global health (2019)
- Effect of a scaled-up neonatal resuscitation quality improvement package on intrapartum-related mortality in Nepal (2019)
- Contraception use and unplanned pregnancies in a peri-urban area of eSwatini (Swaziland) (2019)
- Implementing delayed umbilical cord clamping in Nepal - Delivery care staff's perceptions and attitudes towards changes in practice (2019)
- Effect of Delayed Cord Clamping of Term Babies on Neurodevelopment at 12 Months (2019)
- Clinical communication and caregivers' satisfaction with child healthcare in Nepal (2019)
- From skepticism to assurance and control (2018)
- Implementation of Pediatric Early Warning Score (2018)
- Secular trend, seasonality and effects of a community-based intervention on neonatal mortality (2018)
- Community agency and empowerment (2018)
- Maternal health (2018)
- High levels of unmet need for family planning in Nepal. (2018)
- Factors associated with timing of umbilical cord clamping in tertiary hospital of Nepal. (2018)
- Increased immunization coverage addresses the equity gap in Nepal (2017)
- Rebuilding research capacity in fragile states (2017)
- Scaling up quality improvement intervention for perinatal care in Nepal (NePeriQIP); study protocol of a cluster randomised trial (2017)
- Effects of Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping vs Early Clamping on Anemia in Infants at 8 and 12 Months (2017)
- Evaluation of Helping Babies Breathe Quality Improvement Cycle (HBB-QIC) on retention of neonatal resuscitation skills six months after training in Nepal (2017)
- Essential newborn care after home delivery in Nepal (2017)
- Persistent inequity in maternal health care utilization in Nepal despite impressive overall gains (2017)
- Care seeking for children with fever/cough or diarrhoea in Nepal (2017)
- Improved postnatal care is needed to maintain gains in neonatal survival after the implementation of the Helping Babies Breathe initiative (2017)
- Teamwork among midwives during neonatal resuscitation at a maternity hospital in Nepal (2017)
- Resuscitation practices of low and normal birth weight infants in Nepal (2017)
- Caring for the Acutely, Severely Ill Child-A Multifaceted Situation with Paradoxical Elements (2016)
- Prolonged Exclusive Breastfeeding Through Peer Support (2016)
- Father's involvement and its effect on early breastfeeding practices in Viet Nam. (2016)
- Delayed Verses Early Cord Clamping (2016)
- Effect of timing of umbilical cord clamping on anaemia at 8 and 12 months and later neurodevelopment in late pre-term and term infants (2016)
- Inadequate fetal heart rate monitoring and poor use of partogram associated with intrapartum stillbirth (2016)
- Reducing perinatal mortality in Nepal using Helping Babies Breathe (2016)
- Incidence of intrapartum stillbirth and associated risk factors in tertiary care setting of Nepal (2016)
- Time to step up commitments to child survival and poverty reduction. (2016)
- Screening for Antepartum Depression Through Community Health Outreach in Swaziland (2016)
- Level of mortality risk for babies born preterm or with a small weight for gestation in a tertiary hospital of Nepal (2015)
- Health system context and implementation of evidence-based practices-development and validation of the Context Assessment for Community Health (COACH) tool for low- and middle-income settings (2015)
- Determinants of marginalization and inequitable maternal health care in North-Central Vietnam (2015)
- Validation of the foot length measure as an alternative tool to identify low birth weight and preterm babies in a low-resource setting like Nepal (2015)
- Risk factors for antepartum stillbirth (2015)
- Dimensions of Learning Organizations Questionnaire (DLOQ) in a low-resource health care setting in Nepal (2015)
- Preserving misconceptions or a call for action? - A hermeneutic re-reading of the Nativity story (2015)
- Abolishing inequity, a necessity for poverty reduction and the realisation of child mortality targets (2015)
- Effect of Facilitation of Local Stakeholder Groups on Equity in Neonatal Survival (2015)
- Fathers as Supporters for Improved Exclusive Breastfeeding in Viet Nam (2014)
- Poor adherence to neonatal resuscitation guidelines exposed; an observational study using camera surveillance at a tertiary hospital in Nepal (2014)
- Linking community with primary health care through peer support in Swaziland (2014)
- What interventions are effective on reducing inequalities in maternal and child health in low- and middle-income settings? (2014)
- Lessons learned from stakeholders in a facilitation intervention targeting neonatal health in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam (2013)
- Ethnic minority health in Vietnam (2013)
- Maternal health care utilization in Viet Nam (2013)
- Targeted Interventions for Improved Equity in Maternal and Child Health in Low- and Middle-Income Settings (2013)
- A narrative review of factors influencing detection and treatment of depression in Vietnam (2013)
- Effect of Facilitation of Local Maternal-and-Newborn Stakeholder Groups on Neonatal Mortality (2013)
- The world we want (2013)
- Bringing evidence to policy to achieve health-related MDGs for all (2013)
- Inequity in maternal health care utilization in Vietnam (2012)
- Sex of newborns associated with place and mode of delivery (2012)
- Implementing a simplified neonatal resuscitation protocol-helping babies breathe at birth (HBB) (2012)
- Causes and determinants of inequity in maternal and child health in Vietnam (2012)
- Causes of neonatal death (2012)
- Neonatal mortality (2011)
- Ethnic inequity in neonatal survival (2011)
- Promoting equity to achieve maternal and child health (2011)
- Implementing knowledge into practice for improved neonatal survival (2011)
- Neonatala dödfall - osynligt trauma bland utsatta i Vietnam (2010)
- Distance decay in delivery care utilisation associated with neonatal mortality (2010)
- Perinatal services and outcomes in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam (2010)
- Evidence-based practice in neonatal health (2009)
- Social orättvisa stark orsak till ohälsa och för tidig död (2009)
- Persistent neonatal mortality despite improved under-five survival (2008)
- Unreported births and deaths, a severe obstacle for improved neonatal survival in low-income countries; a population based study (2008)
- Delivery care utilisation and care-seeking in the neonatal period: a population-based study in Vietnam (2008)
- Increased intensive care admission rate after introduction of Early Detection and Treatment program for Children and the establishment of a pediatric intensive care unit at a tertiary hospital in Sweden
- Effect of a quality improvement package on early essential newborn care in public hospitals of Nepal, a multi-center observational cohort study.
- Empowerment strategies of the Mentor Mother peer support program among immigrant mothers in Sweden: a Photovoice study
- Effect of Facilitation of Local Maternal-and-Newborn Health Groups on Continuum of Perinatal Care
- The cost-benefit analysis of a light-touch intervention to improve the safety of pork in Vietnam
- Effect of delayed cord clamping on risk of hyperbilirubinemia in term newborns
- "Councelling is the only thing to do" - Healthcare providers´ experience of Kangaroo Mother Care in Bangladesh
- Mentor Mothers as trust brokers between immigrant communities and the Swedish welfare system: A qualitative study
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