Anna Sidorchuk

About me

I am a researcher at the Department of Public Health Sciences and currently employed as a research coordinator in the research group of Social Epidemiology. By the background, I am a medical doctor with specialization in epidemiology. In 2007 I defended my PhD in epidemiology at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. I was then working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Institute of Environmental Medicine, KI. On completion of the postdoc period, I worked as an assistant professor (FoAss) at the Department of Public Health Sciences, KI.

My main areas of research are epidemiology and public health sciences with a particular focus on substance use epidemiology, intergenerational transmission of health and ill-health determinants and register-based methodology. In addition, my research involves conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

At the Department of Public Health Sciences I have been and I am currently involved in the PhD, Master and Bachelor Programmes in Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology carrying out my duties as a course organizer, examiner and a teacher.

Commissions of trust:

• Member of the Programme Board for Public Health and Global Health master education at Karolinska Institutet (the Programme Board 5) (2011-2016)
• Member of the Programme Committee for Public Health and Global Health master education at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet (2012-ongoing)
• Member of the Department Council at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet (2014-ongoing)
• Member of the Karolinska Institutet Junior Faculty Steering Committee, Karolinska Institutet (2014-ongoing)
• Junior Faculty representative at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet (2013-ongoing)
• Member of the International Recruitment and Marketing reference group (IRMA) Karolinska Institutet (2013-ongoing)
• Member of the Steering Group “Epidemiology / Biostatistics progression group” within the PhD programme in Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet (2014-2015)

Research description

I am running a series of interdisciplinary projects, collaborating within and outside of KI as well as internationally. The projects are primarily population-based, register-based cohort studies with multigenerational linkages and a special focus on: transmission and accumulation of substance use harm within and between several consecutive generations; life-course and intergenerational predictors and consequences of substance use, including social causation and social selection mechanisms; and cross-generational patterns of substance use. The projects also deal with health and social inequalities in migrants as well as include a series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

 

Teaching portfolio

Course organizer (co-organizer), examiner and teacher:

PhD courses:

• “Epidemiology I:introduction to Epidemiology”, 1577 (2013-ongoing)
• “How to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses”, 2790 (2014-ongoing)

Master courses:

• “Introduction to Public Health Sciences”, 4FH004 (2010-ongoing)
• “Methods for outcome evaluation of Public Health interventions”, 4FH045 (2013-2014)

 

Teacher:

PhD course:

• “Epidemiology III: Analysis and interpretation of epidemiological data”, 1684 (2016)

Master courses:

• “Study of social determinants in relation to public health problems” a 1-week session within the master course “Applied Epidemiology 2, 4FH047 (2011-2014)
• “More about methods and ethics”, (2011-2012)
• “Collecting and organizing data” (2011-2012)
• “Introduction to Public Health Epidemiology”, (2010-2011)

Bachelor courses: 

• “Pathology” (2012)
• “Quantitative methods” (2011) 

Education

• Medical Doctor, St. Petersburg State Medical Academy named after I.I.Mechnikov, St Petersburg, Russia (1996)
• Postgraduate specialization in Occupational Medicine, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden, (1997-1998)
• Postgraduate specialization in Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (1999-2000)
• Candidate of Medical Sciences, St. Petersburg State Medical Academy, St Petersburg, Russia (2000)
• Ph.D.in Epidemiology; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (2007)

Academic honours, awards and prizes

Research funding obtained as principal investigator:

• Medel för forskningsanknytning, Karolinska institutet (2014, 2015, 2016)
• The European Foundation for Alcohol Research (ERAB), Belgium (2013)
• The Alcohol Research Council of the Swedish Alcohol Retailing Monopoly (Systembolagets råd för alkoholforskning (SRA)), Stockholm, Sweden (2011, 2013, 2016)

Research funding obtained as co-applicant:

• The European Foundation for Alcohol Research (ERAB), Belgium (2016)

• Swedish Asthma and Allergy Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (2005, 2007)
• Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (2005, 2007)
• Swedish Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (2006)