Susanne Rautiainen Lagerström

Susanne Rautiainen Lagerström

Research Specialist
Visiting address: Maria Aspmans gata 30A, 17164 Solna
Postal address: K2 Medicin, Solna, K2 KEP Stephansson, 171 77 Stockholm
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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. 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. * 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.

Research

  • *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 [1] * Physicians' Health Study (PHS) II * the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL)-HT trial https://www.vitalstudy.org/index.html [2] * Aterenon trial: Testing lycopene supplementation on changes in key cardiovascular biomarkers [1] https://www.cosmostrial.org [2] https://www.vitalstudy.org/index.html

Teaching

  • * Course cooridnator: NCD, Non-Communicable Diseases, Injuries, Natural Emergencies and Conflicts in a Global Health Perspective * BSc courses - “Nutrition and nutritional status” and “Nutritional Epidemiology” - at the Nutrition Program, Karolinska Institutet. * BSc courses - “Nutritional Epidemiology” - at the Nutrition Program, Karolinska Institutet. Topic: Randomized Clinical Trials. * MSc course - “Epidemiology” - at the Program of Toxicology, Karolinska Institutet: Topic: Different study designs.

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Employments

  • Research Specialist, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024
  • Research Specialist, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Master Of Science In Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2022
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2012

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