Christina Carlander

About me

Senior consultant of Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital. Senior researcher affiliated to the Department of Medicine Huddinge, Unit of Infectious Diseases and Dermatology https://ki.se/en/medh/unit-of-infectious-diseases-and-dermatology, Professor Sönnerborgs group https://staff.ki.se/people/anders-sonnerborg. I am also affiliated to the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at KI, Solna https://ki.se/en/meb.

Since 2021 I am the Director of the National Quality Register of HIV (InfCareHIV) https://infcarehiv.se

Research description

My research is focused on epidemiological register-based studies, mainly on comorbidity in people living with HIV. Through linking of the Swedish National HIV Register InfCareHIV with other nationwide demographic and health registers my colleagues and I collect big population-based data. I collaborate with among others the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at KI Solna (https://staff.ki.se/people/par-sparen) and the Department of Laboratory Medicine, KI (https://ki.se/en/labmed/research-group-joakim-dillner).

I am especially interested in including women and migrants in my study populations as previous international HIV cohort studies are often dominated by white males.

Current projects on comorbidity

Cancer & HIV: Cancer incidence trends by HIV status, risk factors for cancer associated with HIV, cancer outcome by HIV status. 

HPV & HIV: HPV genotypes associated with cervical precancer and its outcome after treatment by HIV status and country of birth.

Covid-19 & HIV: Risk for severe Covid-19 by HIV status

Current other projects based on the Swedish HIV cohort

Employment & HIV: Is the possibility to be employed in Sweden similar irrespective of HIV status?

 

Education

Senior Consultant of Infectious Diseases at the Departement of Infectious Diseases at Region Västmanland 2014-2021.

PhD 2018, “Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in migrant women living with HIV”. Supervisor Professor Anders Sönnerborg, Dept. of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet. Opponent: Dr. Gary Clifford, IARC, WHO

Specialist of Infectious Diseases 2009. 

MD (Linköping University) 2000.

 

Academic honours, awards and prizes

Nordic HIV 2014. Best Abstract award. “High incidence of high-grade cervical neoplasia among women with HIV in Sweden".