
Susanne Rautiainen Lagerström
Research Specialist
- K9 Department of Global Public Health
- GPH
- Ekström
- as Research Specialist
- K2 Department of Medicine, Solna
- KEP
- Stephansson
- as Research Specialist
About me
I am a researcher at the Global and Sexual Health (GloSH) Research Group and research fellow at the Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA.
I have research experience in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and clinical- and lifestyle-related risk factors from small- and large-scale clinical trials and obsevational studies gained from my PhD training at Karolinska Institutet and 4-year postdoc at Harvard Medical School.
My main research goal is to identify new strategies to tackle malnutrition, infectious, and NCDs in low- and middle-income countries.
Research description
Current project:
- The open population-based Rakai Community Cohort in Uganda: Understand the interplay between nutrition and microbiome in NCDs and infectious diseases
- WelTel study: Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), HIV/AIDS care in Kenya - mobile phone intervention
- The COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) trial http://www.cosmostrial.org
- Physicians' Health Study (PHS) II
- the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL)-HT trial https://www.vitalstudy.org/index.html
- Aterenon trial: Testing lycopene supplementation on changes in key cardiovascular biomarkers
Teaching portfolio
- Course cooridnator: NCD, Non-Communicable Diseases, Injuries, Natural Emergencies and Conflicts in a Global Health Perspective
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BSc courses - “Nutrition and nutritional status” and “Nutritional Epidemiology” - at the Nutrition Program, Karolinska Institutet.
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BSc courses - “Nutritional Epidemiology” - at the Nutrition Program, Karolinska Institutet. Topic: Randomized Clinical Trials.
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MSc course - “Epidemiology” - at the Program of Toxicology, Karolinska Institutet: Topic: Different study designs.
Education
- 2012: PhD degree (June 15, 2012) in Medical Science, Department of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Title of the thesis: Antioxidants from Diet and Supplements in Relation to Cardiovascular Disease. Advisors: Prof. Alicja Wolk and Prof. Ralf Morgenstern, IMM, Karolinska Institutet.
- 2006: MSc in Nutrition, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Title of the thesis: Total Antioxidant Capacity of diet among Swedish Women. Supervisor: Prof. Alicja Wolk, IMM, Karolinska Institutet.
- 2005: BSc in Nutrition, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Title of the thesis: Estrogen Receptor-Beta as a new pharmaceutical target treating Leukemia. Supervisor: Margaret Warner, PhD, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet.
Academic honours, awards and prizes
2014: Funding from the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet to develop a PhD course in Nutritional Epidemiology.
2014: American Society for Nutrition’s Advances and Controversies in Clinical Nutrition. Abstract selected for Travel Award.
2013: 36-month COFAS 2 Marie Curie fellowship for postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Boston USA and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden.
2013: Travel award from FORTE for AHA Epi/Lifestyle in New Orleans, LA; USA, 2013.
2011: 12-month postdoc award from FORTE to support postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Boston USA.
2007: Four year PhD award from the Karolinska Institutet (KID).
2006: Travel award from Anders Otto Swärds stiftelse for training in the ORAC assay at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.