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Digital health promotion in schools – a serious games approach for cardiovascular health education in Nepal
PURPOSE & AIM: 80% of non-communicable disease deaths globally occur in low- and middle-income countries like Nepal, cardiovascular diseases being most common. We contribute to red...
The Effects of Joint Custody on parents and children: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges
Relative to just a few decades ago, today´s children are much more likely to grow up with separated parents. In Sweden today, about 50 000 children experience parental separation e...
EmpoderAR – Investigating informal sector Self-Managed Abortion using web-based Respondent Driven Sampling – a multi country study in Latin America
Latin America is a region with high burden of unsafe abortion. Due to stigma and restrictive abortion laws, self-managed abortion (SMA) is widespread but carried out clandestinely...
HUMAN-MICROBIOME INTERACTIONS TO TOLERATE A POTENT TOXICANT
Inorganic arsenic is a potent toxicant and millions of people worldwide ingest arsenic in food and water. We recently identified genetic variants associated with efficient arsenic...
Developing and testing a COVID-19 focused Learning Intervention with a focus on crisis, recovery and transformation in communities across disadvantaged urban areas.
Since early months of 2020, when the WHO declared a global state of emergency, many communities are in a challenging situation coping with the ongoing crisis. Data suggest that som...
Spectral Subsampling for Large-Scale Bayesian Inference - Theory and Applications
Rapid technological developments have made it possible to generate huge amounts of data. In social science, large databases have opened up new fields like computational social scie...
Learning to consume less: Can experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic trigger lifestyle transformation?
The project will explore insights and learning experiences gained by citizen-consumers from the involuntary disruption of many consumer practices caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. T...
How should municipals adapt their waste services when individuals work more from home?
Many have experienced what it is like to work for home during the Corona crisis. A large share of them have been positive and as a consequence, it has been claimed that many will s...
Development of a neuroimaging biomarker to identify the pro-coagulant state in Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a multifactorial disorder characterized by amyloid plaques, tau tangles and neurodegeneration. One important process contributing to pathology is the so...
Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on sustainable livelihoods, forests, and conservation in Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic is global but its impacts differ between regions and income groups. The pandemic is affecting the livelihoods of the poor in Africa. These families are in man...
Technological and social adaptation to COVID-19: food supply for vulnerable urban groups in five global cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed large cities worldwide to unprecedented challenges. COVID-19 enters now a second phase, further straining access to food among vulnerable urban gr...
Trust and distrust in Sweden´s Covid-19 management: The pandemic rhetoric project extended (PAR-EX)
It is well known that trust is important in risk communication, but how it is shaped communicatively in today´s digital, multifaceted media society is relatively unexplored. Sweden...
Human brain clearance imaging: the missing link in understanding and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases
Current lack of knowledge on the clearance of amyloid-beta and tau from the brain limits our understanding of Alzheimer’s Disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and other dementias....
BRAINSTORM - gloBal RetinAl Imaging coNSorTium fOR alzheiMer´s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, affecting 43,8 million people in 2016 and an estimated 130 million by 2050. There is an urgent need for low cost, minimal...
Accessible information for persons with deafblindness during the corona pandemic
For individuals with deafblindness communication and interaction with the surrounding environment is challenging due to a combined impaired hearing and vision. The received informa...
Co-benefits of green recovery packages for climate and society in response to the COVID-19 crisis
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, unprecedented confinements were enforced in many countries, leading to reduced global CO2 emissions. Governments issued short term economic resc...
Creating evidence for forest based resilience during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping how forests are used and managed around the world. Forest products play a critical role in household responses to many kinds of livelihood shocks...
Optimized T cells for personalized immunotherapy for solid cancer (OptiCAN)
The overall goal of OptiCAN is to overcome the present limitations of CAR T cell therapies and extend their application towards personalized immunotherapy of solid tumors through a...
What can the transition to sustainable mobility learn from the corona crisis? A comparative analysis of policy instruments, communication, and societal threat
One of the striking changes during the corona crisis is significant alterations in citizens’ mobility. Authorities have used a range of instruments: hard legislation and prohibitio...
LivE-COVID-19: how can living environments impact the consequences of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic?
COVID-19 control measures mainly include slowing down SARS-CoV-2 virus spread, with social distancing being one of the key components and consequences of this disease prevention st...