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En gratisapp som ska hjälpa till att kartlägga smittspridningen i Sverige och öka kunskapen om coronaviruset lanseras av forskare vid Lunds universitet. – Data från appen kan ge oss en bättre bild av sjukdomsförloppet och varför vissa bara drabbas lindrigt medan andra blir svårt sjuka och dör, säger Paul Franks professor i genetisk epidemiologi. Läs mer om appen på Medicinska Fakultetens hemsida:

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/appen-covid-symptom-tracker-lanseras-i-sverige-och-forskarna-behover-din-hjalp - 2025-12-17

Marju Orho-Melander, professor och vicekoordinator för EpiHealth är medförfattare till artikeln ”Height, body mass index and prostate cancer risk and mortality by way of detection and cancer risk category” som har publicerats i International Journal of Cancer. Studien visar att fetma är en riskfaktor för avancerad, men inte lokaliserad, prostatacancer (PCa) och för dålig prognos. Studien visar en

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/nypublicerad-artikel-i-international-journal-cancer - 2025-12-17

Ny studie syftar till att beskriva fysisk, mental och funktionell hälsa i förhållande till familjevård i ålderdomen (60+) under en sexårsperiod. Sölve Elmståhl, professor och koordinator för EpiHealth ligger bakom studien och han är medförfattare till artikeln ”The Health of Older Family Caregivers–A 6-Year Follow-up” som har publicerats i Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Studien visar att d

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/aldre-vardgivares-halsa-en-6-arig-uppfoljning - 2025-12-17

Charlotte är professor vid Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper på Lunds universitet och forskargruppschef för enheten Epigenetik och Diabetes vid Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC). Charlotte disputerade i endokrinologi vid Göteborgs universitet i 2002 och efter en anställning som postdoktor vid Lunds universitet, där hon studerade genetik av typ 2-diabetes, ägnar hon sin forskning åt studi

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/vi-bjuder-professor-charlotte-ling-valkommen-som-ny-styrelsemedlem-i-epihealth - 2025-12-17

Vi hälsar Åsa Westrin välkommen som ny styrelsemedlem i EpiHealth. Åsa är professor i psykiatri vid Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper vid Lunds universitet. Åsas forskningsområde ligger inom självmordsforskning och inkluderar psykobiologisk sårbarhet och behandling av självmordsförsökare samt den vård som ges till personer som har avlidit genom självmord.Hon är PI för tre stora forskningsproj

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/valkommen-till-professor-asa-westrin-ny-styrelsemedlem-i-epihealth - 2025-12-17

Professor Sölve Elmståhl är medförfattare till artikeln Predictive Performance of the FIF Screening Tool in 2 Cohorts of Community-Living Older Adults som har publicerats i Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Studien visar att screeningsverktyget First-time Injurious Fall (FIF) kan identifiera fallrisker hos äldre män och kvinnor och användas i förebyggande syfte. Skadliga fall

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-visar-att-screeningsverktyget-fif-kan-forebygga-skadliga-fall-bland-aldre-vuxna - 2025-12-17

2018-02-07The strategic research area EpiHealth - Epidemiology for Health - together with LUPOP - Lund University Population Research Platform - now opens a call for proposals for new PhD - courses of relevance for population research. We will fund 3 - 5 courses during 2018 related to e.g. epidemiological data analysis, medical statistics, biobank studies, bioinformatics or related to register-bas

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/utlysning-om-att-arrangera-kurser-med-finansiering-sfo-epihealth - 2025-12-17

For its fourth edition of All My Relations, the Ecocamp transforms into a nomadic experience. This year, we embrace movement—not just as a physical act, but as a metaphor for existence itself. Walking, travelling, and traversing landscapes will be central to our practice, fostering new connections on the move and reflecting on migration, transition, and relational encounters. All My Relations IV i

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/call-applications-all-my-relations-iv-ecocamp-nomadic-encounters-september-4-6-2025 - 2025-12-17

The graduating students of the new MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice are working intensively on their final projects this Spring. On April 9 - 16 they invite you all for a preview of what is to come, when they present work-in-progress showings both at Malmö Theatre Academy, Skånes Dansteater and Community Kultur Centrum. This is not their final showings, those will take place in May at Malmö

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-work-progress-showings-2025 - 2025-12-17

We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as assistant professor in artistic research and AI. Are you curious about the intersection of artificial intelligence, culture, and societal engagement through storytelling and the arts? At Malmö Theatre Academy, a part of Lund University, you have the opportunity to take the next step tow

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/we-are-looking-assistant-professor-artistic-research-and-ai - 2025-12-17

The third issue of Matter Journal is out, with texts from our research collegium on artistic research in theatre and performance. The third issue of Matter brings together texts that explore contemporary performing arts. Tanja Hylling Dier writes about Hjem, a project that shapes place and community through art and participation. Jörgen Dahlqvist examines time as a dramaturgical tool, using the pl

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/matter-journal-3 - 2025-12-17

Get to know our MA students who started fall 2025 and will graduate in spring 2027. Elena BinerElena Biner is a Swiss artist living and working in Copenhagen. With a background in visual communication and a strong foundation in storytelling, her practice sits at the intersection of visual arts and performative spaces, specialising in immersive experiences. In her work she blurs the line between re

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/presentation-our-master-students-performing-arts-critical-practice-programme - 2025-12-17

We are now announcing the opportunity for project support of up to SEK 150,000 (including overhead costs) to enable artists, artistic researchers and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from each other in an open dialogue and exploratory environment.  The aim of ArtCollab is to enable artists, artistic researchers, and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/call-project-funding-artcollab - 2025-12-17

Some years ago, Sven Bjerstedt researched the forgotten Finnish American musician and composer Einar Swan (1903–40) who wrote the immortal song, “When Your Lover Has Gone”. Bjerstedt published an 80-page biography )and participated in one-hour TV and radio documentaries on Einar Swan.Recently, Finland’s former prime minister Esko Aho translated Bjerstedt’s Swan biography into Finnish and included

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/finnish-translation-sven-bjerstedts-research-about-composer-einar-swan - 2025-12-17

SWEAH 2.0 is the working name of the new venture on the National Graduate School on Aging and Health. Management representatives for all higher education institutions met recently to consolidate their participation in the initiative. There will be twelve higher education institutions joining forces to finance the national graduate school on aging and health, SWEAH, after the funding from the Swedi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/twelve-higher-education-institutions-are-investing-graduate-school-aging-and-health - 2025-12-17

SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of digital technologies are unequally distributed among older people.  Groups of older people in lo

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-12-17

Emilia Viklund is a SWEAH-affiliated doctoral student in health sciences at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. In her research, she examines the mental well-being of the elderly and the connection to the use of digital tools. Her research concerns older people in Finland and Sweden. She also examines what the health promotion work aimed at older people looks like

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2025-12-17

The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as a case example. The article explore doctoral students’ perceptions of being part of SWEAH and provide implications for practice. Written self-reports reflecting 78 students’ experiences and perceptions were analyzed

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-article-doctoral-students-experiences-being-affiliated-interdisciplinary-graduate-school-aging - 2025-12-17

SWEAH affiliated Xia Li has defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet: Biological ages: correlations, genetic determinants, and health outcomes. She has studied “biological age”; a quantification of aging-related changes in the cellular, organ-, system-, and/or organismal features. - Biological age can be useful as a source of information different from our chronological age. We explored

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/biological-age-useful-source-information-according-new-sweah-research - 2025-12-17

SWEAH welcomed everyone who works with aging and health at the partner universities to participate in the conference. The conference gave the participants the opportunity to take part in research on aging and health in many different disciplines. Current and former SWEAH-affiliated doctoral students and their supervisors told about ongoing research and also other invited researchers contributed wi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-milestone-conference-watch-films - 2025-12-17