Mats Målqvist

Professor at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Centre for Health and Sustainability

Mobile phone:: +46 70 267 35 45
E-mail:: mats.malqvist@uu.se
Visiting address:: MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 14B, 1 tr
75237 Uppsala
Postal address:: Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA

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Director at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)

Mobile phone:: +46 70 267 35 45
E-mail:: mats.malqvist@uu.se
Visiting address:: MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:: Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala

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ORCID:: 0000-0002-8184-3530

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Mats Målqvist is professor of global health and the director of UUniCORN - Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Nexus. He also leads the Centre for Health and Sustainability at the medical faculty. His research focuses on social sustainability, 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
health systems
neonatal health
maternal health
sustainable development
social sustainability
health equity
envmed008
sexual and reproductive health and rights (srhr)

Biography

Mats Målqvist is the director of Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Nexus (UUniCORN) (https://www.uu.se/en/research/uunicorn), which is a part of Uppsala University Future Institutes (UUniFI).

At the Department of Women's and Children's Health he is leading Centre for Health and Sustainability, a transdisciplinary centre for health equity, sustainability and transformation (https://www.uu.se/en/centre/health-and-sustainability).

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 Research Council - panel member for Medicine and Health (Women's and Children's Health)
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 Conflicting Objectives Nexus (UUniCORN) (2024-ongoing)
Steering group ENLIGHT (2023-2025)
Dean of education at basic and advanced level at the Medical Faculty (2023-2024)
Director Centre for Health and Sustainability (f.k.a. 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 Eswatini, 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 7 PhDs. He is currently main supervisor for 5 and co-supervisor for 3 PhD students.