KI Global Health Nursing

Global health is cross disciplinary and includes both international health related challenges and local health system management, where environmental health is an important aspect. Our research area is the meeting point between global health, caring and healthy sustainable environment. The project group also act as coordinating unit of the Research network about female genital mutilation (former FORTE-supported).

The project group KI Global Health Nursing works for appropriate and sustainable improvements in health and healthcare through innovative nursing research. Nurses reach the most vulnerable people and communities. Engaging nurses in design and testing of innovations is critical to implementing effective health promotion interventions. This work is linked to several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, ex. SDD 3 Good health and wellbeing: SDG 5 Gender Equality and SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities. Our focus is on the health of the most vulnerable populations.

Research themes

Sexual Health and Rights (SRHR), honour related violence and violence against other vulnerable groups

Sexual Health and Rights (SRHR): This theme involves research on HPV & HIV in Jordan and in Uganda and maternal health in South Africa. Two common student theses supervisions and three international scientific publications 2024-2025.
Honour related violence, incl. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): This theme involves government mission on honour related violence in Sweden 2025-2026.
Violence against women and healthcare-personnel & social workers: Two scientific publications 2024-2025, one on domestic violence during COVID-19 and on violence to health care personnel in Jordan.

Immigration and health determinants

Disparity and social determinants in stroke incidence in Sweden: Swedes with immigrant background versus native borns are compared in relation to Stroke diagnosis, rehabilitation and health parameters in Sweden.
Socio-economical determinants of health include three scientific publications on the context of the educational- and health system 2023-2025.

Critical Exploration of Crisis

Global populations face major and dire crisis of various kinds. A multidisciplinary collaboration resulted in one scientific publication (2022) and in a book (2025).

Our collaborations

Our focus is marginalized communities in Sweden and elsewhere. We have developed key partnerships with Stockholm University, and VID in Bergen/Oslo, Norway and others outside Scandinavia, as Amman University in Jordan, Khon Kaen University in Thailand, Lira University in Uganda and Venda University in South Africa. As we expand, we plan to connect further with key partners in Africa and in Asia.