Maria Grandahl

Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa; Obstetrisk och reproduktiv hälsoforskning

Mobiltelefon:: 072-258 17 17
E-post:: maria.grandahl@uu.se
Besöksadress:: MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala
Postadress:: Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA

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Kort presentation

Maria is an Associate professor and Director of Nursing and Midwifery programs at the Department of Women's and Children's Health. The research adopts a paediatric perspective, focusing on vaccine hesitancy and the primary prevention of HPV-related cancer, and zero separation of mother and infants in neonatal intensive care units.

Biografi

Maria is a specialist nurse in paediatrics and has a medical master degree in public health. In 2015 she received her PhD in Medical Sciences at Dept. of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. The overall aim of the thesis was to examine beliefs about human papillomavirus (HPV) prevention of HPV, especially HPV vaccination, in the perspective of parents, immigrant women, adolescents and school nurses, and to promote primary prevention of HPV among adolescents.

In January 2016 Maria began as a Post doc at the Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health at Uppsala University. The research adopts a paediatric public health perspective, focusing on the primary prevention of HPV-related cancer. The research also comprises sexual and reproductive health among adolescents, and vulnerable groups such as immigrant women. Since 2020 the research also focus on Zero separation after birth and the effects of the maternal-newborn dyad.

Since January, 2018, Maria is a Senior lecturer at the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University.