State epidemiologist (Sweden)

The state epidemiologist, or the chief epidemiologist (plural: state epidemiologists or chief epidemiologists, Swedish: statsepidemiolog) is a Swedish civil servant. The current state epidemiologist is Anders Lindblom, with Anders Wallensten as deputy state epidemiologist.

State epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden
Statsepidemiolog
Sweden
since 2023
Department of Public Health Analysis and Data Management
Reports toKarin Tegmark Wisell (director general)
SeatSolna, Stockholm County
PrecursorAnders Lindblom
Formation1955
First holderBo Zetterberg
SuccessionSeventh
DeputyAnders Wallensten

Initially, the state epidemiologist was the head of the epidemiology department at the State Bacteriological Laboratory at the time of its establishment in 1955.[1] In 1993, the post was transferred to the newly founded agency Institute for Communicable Disease Control. After the Institute was merged with Swedish National Institute of Public Health in 2014, the post became part of the new agency, the Public Health Agency of Sweden.[2]

List of Swedish state epidemiologists

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Margareta Böttiger (1993). "Epidemiologin". In Carin Winter (ed.). Statens Bakteriologiska Laboratorium. Solna/Stockholm: Statens Bakteriologiska Laboratorium. p. 35.
  2. ^ "Avdelningen för epidemiologi och utvärdering". Folkhälsomyndigheten. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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