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EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. One of the five recipients is Karl Gisslander. His project is about the rare but life-threatening disease anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculiti

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-money-karl-gisslanders-project-about-anca-associated-vasculitis - 2026-04-17

Adam Mitchell is one of five recipients of this year´s EpiHealth seed money. Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic caused disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality in older adults, particularly in nursing homes for older adults. In Swedish nursing homes, COVID-19 was associated with a large excess in mortality after controlling for an extensive number of risk factors, suggesting that reducing t

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/seed-funding-project-about-pandemic-response-and-preparedness - 2026-04-17

Psychiatric conditions, above all depression and anxiety, are the leading cause of reduced ability to function in everyday life for children and young people. Children of parents with psychiatric problems have a high risk of developing their own problems, and when both parents are affected the risk is extreme. At the moment, however, knowledge is limited about which genetic, psychological and envi

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/identifying-risk-and-resilience-mental-illness-during-childhood-and-adolescence-irma-study - 2026-04-17

Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through a call for project seeding funding that will cover salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. A total amount of 1 000 000 SEK is allocated to grant up to five proposals with 200 000 SEK each during 2025. We now invite app

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-seed-funding-preparing-application-and-research-plan-writing-research-area-0 - 2026-04-17

The strategic research area Epihealth at Lund University hereby announces research space for two years (SEK 750,000/year including OH) corresponding to a postdoctoral position. Around 200 employees (researchers and other staff) are attached to the Epihealth network who work with epidemiological research to improve the understanding of the spread and etiology of both chronic and infectious diseases

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-research-space-postdoc-2025-application-closed - 2026-04-17

Lund University and SRA EpiHealth support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through project seeding funding that covers salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. Hallo Shomaila!How do you use your seed money from Epihealth?- The EpiHealth seed money supports preparatory analyses aimed at exploring how individual-level

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/funding-helps-me-take-first-steps-developing-and-validating-new-tools - 2026-04-17

The first two days in Uppsala included a course on machine learning in epidemiology. The third day was a conference day with presentations from the large Swedish cohorts. PhD student Josefine Andreasson participated all three days and was a bit surprised: "Machine learning is more accessible than I thought!" Josefine Andreasson is a PhD student in epidemiology and population studies (EPI@Lund), an

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/lessons-learnt-8th-swedish-cohort-meeting-uppsala - 2026-04-17

As of January 1, EpiHealth has new board members. The board consists of researchers from both Lund University and Uppsala University. Karin Broberg is a professor of occupational and environmental medicine and her research focuses on how the environment - via the job or surroundings - can affect the body and cause disease. She uses various biomarkers in studies on humans, so-called molecular epide

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/three-new-board-members-epihealth - 2026-04-17

The conference theme is: "Life course epidemiology" 12 November 2026 12:00 to 13 November 2026 13:00 in Lund or Malmö More info and program will be published here in later spring.

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/save-date-9th-swedish-meeting-epidemiology-health-epihealth - 2026-04-17

The Strategic Research Area SFO EpiHealth (Epidemiology for Health) at Lund University hereby announces the availability of two kinds of funding, se below. Call for ApplicationsResearch Funding for the Recruitment of Early-Career ResearchersThe Strategic Research Area SFO EpiHealth (Epidemiology for Health) at Lund University hereby announces the availability of SEK 1,500,000, including overhead,

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/closed-new-calls-open-research-funding-recruitment-early-career-researchers-and-seed-money - 2026-04-17

The call will open on 23 February 2026 and close on 23 March 2026 at 14:00. Apply via Prisma. Swedish registers constitute a unique and powerful resource for research, enabling efficient and cost-effective investigations across a range of disciplines and thereby making a substantial contribution to improving public health and welfare. Two year programmeThe Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/closed-new-call-swedish-interdisciplinary-graduate-school-register-based-research-sings - 2026-04-17

New study aims to describe physical, mental and functional health in relation to family care in old age (60+) over a six-year period. Sölve Elmståhl, professor and coordinator for EpiHealth is behind the study and he is co-author of the article "The Health of Older Family Caregivers - A 6-Year Follow-up" which has been published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. The study shows that th

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/health-older-family-caregivers-6-year-follow - 2026-04-17

Marju Orho-Melander, professor and deputy coordinator for EpiHealth is co-author of the article "Height, body mass index and prostate cancer risk and mortality by way of detection and cancer risk category" which has been published in the International Journal of Cancer. The study shows that obesity is a risk factor for advanced, but not localized, prostate cancer (PCa) and for poor prognosis. The

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/newly-published-article-international-journal-cancer - 2026-04-17

We welcome Åsa Westrin as a new board member of EpiHealth. Åsa is a professor of psychiatry at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University. Åsa's research area is within suicide research and includes psychobiological vulnerability and treatment of suicide attempters as well as the care given to people who have died through suicide. She is the PI for three major research projects: genes,

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/welcome-professor-asa-westrin-new-board-member-epihealth - 2026-04-17

To researchers at the Faculties for Humanities and Theology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law and the School of Economics and Management. The Centre for European Studies at Lund University announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia and lectures on European themes during spring 2023 – autumn 2023. The theme must have a clear connection to European matters. It shoul

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-european-themes-1 - 2026-04-17

The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of grants for preparing research applications. The Centre has allocated 400.000 SEK (plus LKP) for this purpose during 2022 which will be divided into two calls (spring and autumn). This is the second call. The grant is to be used during spring 2023 – autumn 2023. The application must have a clear connection to Eur

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-preparing-research-applications-1 - 2026-04-17

The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) regularly awards smaller travel grants to students who would benefit from carrying out field studies in connection with their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis. The overall theme of the thesis must be related to European affairs, broadly interpreted. Students enrolled at Lund University, who are planning to write their Bachelor's or Master's the

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/apply-student-travel-grants-bachelors-and-masters-theses-spring-semester-2023 - 2026-04-17

Centre for European studies has awarded Katarina Bungerfeldt an honorary mention for her Master’s thesis “Money Talks: The potential of an EU financial conditionality mechanism linked to the rule of law”. The thesis is about rule of law conditionality in the EU. Is it possible to persuade political actors (such as the governments of certain EU member states) to respect fundamental principles of ru

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/katarina-bungerfeldt-receives-honourable-mention-her-thesis - 2026-04-17

Evelina Hagberg has received the Centre for European studies' best thesis award 2022, for her Master’s thesis “…Thanks, but I’ll bypass: How state gatekeeping impacts regional bypassing in the EU”. The thesis analyses regional government mobilisation and participation in the EU. Evelina distinguishes between so called bypassing, when regions work directly to influence the EU level, as well as nati

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/evelina-hagberg-receives-cfes-best-thesis-award-2022 - 2026-04-17

To researchers at the Faculties for Humanities and Theology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law and the School of Economics and Management. Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia and lectures on European themes during the autumn semester 2023 and/or spring semester 2024. The theme must have a clear connection

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-european-themes-2 - 2026-04-17