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Karin Källander

Karin Källander

Affiliated to Research | Docent
Visiting address: Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: K9 Global folkhälsa, K9 GPH Alfvén, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Karin is a public health professional with specialisation in health systems,
    child health epidemiology and control of pneumonia, malaria and other
    infectious diseases. She has 15+ years’ experience as researcher, lecturer,
    programme coordinator, and consultant in both development and emergency
    settings, including seven years living and working in a low- income country.
    She also has a deep understanding of the health sector and working with
    governments and policy makers in Africa to achieve desired outcomes. She is
    currently working as Senior Research Adviser at Malaria Consoritum, and
    international NGO with head office in London.
    * Associate Professor of International Child Health Policy and Systems,
    ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2013.
    * Senior Lecturer, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2013.
    * Visiting Lecturer, Makerere University, 2009.
    * Post Doc, Makerere University, 2007.
    * PhD in Medical Science, Karolinska Insitutet, 2006.
    * Master of Science (Molecular Biology), Lund University, 2002.

Research

  • Karin has extensive experience in operational research, design-,
    implementation-, management- and evaluation of programmes, health systems
    strengthening, health workforce development, assessment of quality of care,
    health policy development, behaviour change and community-based care.
    *Current projects include: *
    * TRAction - Universal versus conditional three-day follow-up visits for
    children with unclassified fever at community level in Ethiopia [1]
    * The Acute Repiratory Infection Diagnostic Aids (ARIDA) project [2], which
    evaluates community health workers' use of automated respiratory rate
    counting aids on children under five in Ethiopia.
    *Previous projects include:*
    * Pneumonia diagnstics [3]
    * Integrated Community Case Management of Common Childhood Diseases:
    Mozambique and Uganda - the inSCALE project [4]
    * Consequences of pneumococcal vaccination on child morbidity, serotype
    replacement and resistance pattern - comparative studies in Sweden
    and Uganda
    She has received grants from, among others, the Bill &
  • Melinda Gates
    Foundation, Sida/SAREC, KI Public International Health
    Network (KIPIH), and the Strategic Research Program in Epidemiology.
    [1]
    [2]
    [3]
    [4]

Articles

  • Article: THE LANCET: DIGITAL HEALTH. 2023;5(9):e627-e631
    Hellden D; Tesfaye S; Gachen C; Lindstrand A; Kaellander K
  • Article: PLOS DIGITAL HEALTH. 2023;2(6):e0000235
    Soremekun S; Källander K; Lingam R; Branco A-CC; Batura N; Strachan DL; Muiambo A; Salomao N; Condoane J; Benhane F; Kasteng F; Vassall A; Hill Z; Ten Asbroek G; Meek S; Tibenderana J; Kirkwood B
  • Article: PLOS DIGITAL HEALTH. 2023;2(6):e0000217
    Källander K; Soremekun S; Strachan DL; Hill Z; Kasteng F; Kertho E; Nanyonjo A; Ten Asbroek G; Nakirunda M; Lumumba P; Ayebale G; Bagorogoza B; Vassall A; Meek S; Tibenderana J; Lingam R; Kirkwood B
  • Article: PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;3(7):e0001800
    Pfurtscheller T; Baker K; Habte T; Lasmi K; Matata L; Mucunguzi A; Nicholson J; Nuwa A; Petzold M; Posada González M; Sebsibe A; Alfvén T; Källander K
  • Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT. 2023;12:1-11
    Rawat A; Ameha A; Karlstrom J; Taddesse L; Negeri EL; Detjen A; Gandrup-Marino K; Mataruse N; Kallander K; Tariku A
  • Article: MALARIA JOURNAL. 2022;21(1):239
    Batura N; Kasteng F; Condoane J; Bagorogosa B; Castel-Branco AC; Kertho E; Kallander K; Soremekun S; Lingam R; Vassall A
  • Article: JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS. 2022;11(5):e34013
    Evans L; Evans J; Pagliari C; Kallander K
  • Article: CHILDREN. 2021;8(11):996
    Mwanga-Amumpaire J; Kalyango JN; Ndeezi G; Rujumba J; Owokuhaisa J; Stalsby Lundborg C; Alfven T; Obua C; Kallander K
  • Article: ECLINICALMEDICINE. 2021;38:101040
    Baker K; Petzold M; Mucunguzi A; Wharton-Smith A; Dantzer E; Habte T; Matata L; Nanyumba D; Okwir M; Posada M; Sebsibe A; Nicholson J; Marasciulo M; Izadnegahdar R; Alfven T; Kallander K
  • Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2021;18(15):7742
    Mwanga-Amumpaire J; Alfven T; Obua C; Kallander K; Migisha R; Lundborg CS; Ndeezi G; Kalyango JN
  • Article: ACTA PAEDIATRICA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS. 2021;110(5):1620-1632
    Baker K; Ward C; Maurel A; de Cola MA; Smith H; Getachew D; Habte T; McWhorter C; LaBarre P; Karlstrom J; Ameha A; Tariku A; Black J; Bassat Q; Kallander K
  • Article: PLOS ONE. 2021;16(10):e0257851
    Mwanga-Amumpaire J; Ndeezi G; Kallander K; Obua C; Migisha R; Nkeramahame J; Lundborg CS; Kalyango JN; Alfven T
  • Article: GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION. 2021;14(1):1961398
    Mwanga-Amumpaire J; Kalyango JN; Kallander K; Sundararajan R; Owokuhaisa J; Rujumba J; Obua C; Alfven T; Ndeezi G
  • Article: GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION. 2020;13(1):1775368
    Counihan H; Baba E; Oresanya O; Adesoro O; Hamzat Y; Marks S; Ward C; Gimba P; Qazi SA; Kallander K
  • Article: JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HEALTH. 2020;10(2):021201
    Clarence C; Shiras T; Zhu J; Boggs MK; Faltas N; Wadsworth A; Bradley SE; Sadruddin S; Wazny K; Goodman C; Awor P; Bhutta ZA; Kallander K; Hamer DH
  • Article: BMJ OPEN. 2020;10(8):e038932
    Funk T; Kallander K; Abebe A; Alfven T; Alvesson HM
  • Article: GLOBAL HEALTH, SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 2020;8(2):190-204
    Nanyonjo A; Kertho E; Tibenderana J; Kallander K
  • Article: ACTA PAEDIATRICA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS. 2020;109(6):1207-1220
    Kallander K; Ward C; Smith H; Bhattarai R; Ashish KC; Timsina D; Lamichhane B; Maurel A; Shrestha PR; Baral S; McWhorter C; LaBarre P; de Cola MA; Baker K
  • Article: ACTA PAEDIATRICA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS. 2020;109(6):1196-1206
    Ward C; Baker K; Smith H; Maurel A; Getachew D; Habte T; McWhorter C; LaBarre P; Karlstrom J; Black J; Bassat Q; Ameha A; Tariku A; Petzold M; Kallander K
  • Article: JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS. 2020;9(4):e16531
    Ward C; Baker K; Marks S; Getachew D; Habte T; McWhorter C; Labarre P; Howard-Brand J; Miller NP; Tarekegn H; Deribessa SJ; Petzold M; Kallander K
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All other publications

  • Letter: IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS. 2021;2(1):112
    Jackson D; Shahabuddin ASM; Sharkey AB; Källander K; Muñiz M; Mwamba R; Nyankesha E; Scherpbier RW; Hasman A; Balarajan Y; Albright K; Idele P; Peterson SS
  • Corrigendum: JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS. 2019;8(3):e13755
    Baker K; Akasiima M; Wharton-Smith A; Habte T; Matata L; Nanyumba D; Okwir M; Sebsibe A; Marasciulo M; Petzold M; Kallander K
  • Review: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2019;116:FHDT
    Helldén D; Källander K; Peterson S; Alfvén T
  • Review: GLOBAL HEALTH, SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 2018;6(Suppl 1):S41-S48
    Long L-A; Pariyo G; Kallander K
  • Editorial comment: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 2017;5(1):e20-e21
    D'Ambruoso L; Boerma T; Byass P; Fottrell E; Herbst K; Kallander K; Mullan Z
  • Editorial comment: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 2016;4(1):e12-e13
    Kallander K; Burgess DH; Qazi SA
  • Editorial comment: THE LANCET RESPIRATORY MEDICINE. 2014;2(12):950-952
    Kaellander K; Young M; Qazi S
  • Review: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH. 2013;15(1):e17
    Kaellander K; Tibenderana JK; Akpogheneta OJ; Strachan DL; Hill Z; ten Asbroek AHA; Conteh L; Kirkwood BR; Meek SR
  • Editorial comment: BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. 2012;90(6):403-403A
    Waiswa P; Kalter HD; Jakob R; Black RE
  • Review: PLOS MEDICINE. 2011;8(9):e1001099
    Rudan I; El Arifeen S; Bhutta ZA; Black RE; Brooks A; Chan KY; Chopra M; Duke T; Marsh D; Pio A; Simoes EAF; Tamburlini G; Theodoratou E; Weber MW; Whitney CG; Campbell H; Qazi SA
  • Review: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2010;107(24-25):1623-1626
    Hanfot E; Wladis A; Källander K
  • Editorial comment: PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL. 2010;29(5):457-461
    Shann F; Nohynek H; Scott JA; Hesseling A; Flanagan KL
  • Editorial comment: THE LANCET. 2009;373(9675):1582-1584
    Kallander K; Nsungwa-Sabiiti J
  • Thesis / dissertation: 2005
    Källander, Karin

Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Global Public Health, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2023-2025

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2013
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Global Public Health, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2006

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