Leif Svanström
Male, Person
1943 –
Who is Leif Svanström?
Leif Svanström is a M.D., Ph.D. in Injury Epidemiology and Social Medicine and Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet.
Leif Svanström was born in Småland. He studied at the University of Lund where he first obtained a fil.kand. degree. He started studying medicine in 1965 and got his medical degree in 1972. He obtained his research degree in 1973.
He was appointed professor in Social Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in 1980.
He is the former Leader of the Research Group in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. He is the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion and the European Certifying Centre for Safe Communities.
He chaired the First World Conference of Accident and Injury Prevention in Stockholm, 1989 and has been member of the IOC of all following nine conferences. He is the author of about 1200 papers and many text-books in Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Safety Promotion.
He has been Professor Emeritus since 2010.
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