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The Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences (IFV) belongs to the Faculty of Medicine and has an extensive research conducted by our 10 research groups in the fields of public health science, caring science, speech therapy and bioethics. Furthermore, the department conducts education on the medical programme, the nursing programme, the speech therapy programme, the master's programme in public health and through a number of courses. We are a total of about 370 employees including our associated researchers and PhD students.
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News
- Pernilla Pergert new professor in caring science focusing on care ethics– Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)Pernilla Pergert was promoted to professor in caring science with a focus on care ethics on 1 …
- Amelia Dahlén has been awarded the Gun and Bertil Stohne PhD prize– Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskapWe congratulate Amelia Dahlén, a PhD student in the Molecular Geriatrics research group, who has …
- SEK 5 million from Forte for research on autism and working life– Department of Public Health and Caring SciencesAnna Nyberg, Head of the Public Health, Working Life and Rehabilitation research group at Uppsala …
- How can we study the behavioural and ethical determinants of antibiotic use?– Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)Antibiotic resistance is a complex challenge. Researchers from CRB provide tools to study the …
- Meet the Master's Student Who Completed Her Internship within the Public Health, Working Life and Rehabilitation Research Group– Department of Public Health and Caring SciencesAs part of her Master's programme in Global Health, Anashwara Baburaj completed an internship within …
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Events
- Science communication & policy feedback: a primer for getting your message acrossto – Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)Higher seminar
- Malin Bauer: Communication access in follow-up after stroke - A health literacy perspective on care for people with aphasiato – Department of Public Health and Caring SciencesHalf-time seminar
- The ethics of postmortem reproductionto – Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)Higher seminar
- Barn i sorg – mående, stöd och rättigheterto – Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)Higher seminar (in Swedish)
- Elin Byström: Behavioral activation for the treatment of depression in older adults in primary careto – Department of Public Health and Caring SciencesHalf-time seminar
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