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Jesper Löve

Senior Lecturer

School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Telephone
+46 31-786 68 68
+46 766-18 68 68
Mail
jesper.love@socmed.gu.se
Visiting address
Guldhedsgatan 5 A, plan 3
413 20 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 469
40530 Göteborg

About Jesper Löve

My primary interest in both research and teaching centers on the drivers and manifestations of health inequalities. I am exploring various aspects of this topic and find great satisfaction in embracing the interdisciplinary approach required to fully understand this dynamic field.

Research interests (keywords)

  • Social inequalities in health
  • Gendered structures
  • Intersectionality and health
  • Policy and health inequalities
  • Barriers to care
  • Migration and health
  • Stigma and mental health
  • Psychosocial work environment

Ongoing research (in selection)

  • ENTITLED (FORTE) - Elucidating the iNequaliTy gaps in burdens and access to mental health and substance use services in Sweden using IntersecTional and impLementation rEsearch Designs
  • EMBRACE (FORTE) - Embracing diversity invulnerability - a multilevel intersectional study of communities’ vulnerability and public health institutions’ capability to cope with COVID-19and future pandemics
  • Equal-Life (EU) - Life-course perspective on inequalities in total exposome and health in children (EU-research program)
  • The EpiVib-Equality (FORMAS) - Effects of rail traffic noise and vibration on cardiometabolic health: social inequalities in exposure, social susceptibility or both? The EpiVib-equality project

Teaching commitments (in selection)

  • Senior lecturer at the international Masters program in public health science (MPH) and the Masters in global health (MGH) at University of Gothenburg.
  • Leadership group in the Masters program in public health science
  • Course leader for "Health equality and the right to health" (MPH212) at the MPH program.
  • Course leader for the PhD-course "The individual, health, and the community - theory and methods within research in public health and community medicine" (SM00130).
  • Lecturer in several courses in the MGH & MPH, e.g., "Social epidemiology", "Governing health equality..."

Ongoing PhD supervision

  • Helene Svensdotter - Selection and treatment effect within pain rehabilitation form a gender equality perspective (Co-supervisor)
  • Tornike Batavani - Inequalities of occupational health and safety in the construction sector in the republic of Georgia. Department of Public Health,Faculty of Medicine, Tbilisi State University (TSU), (Co-supervisor)
  • Mohammad Akbar Kabir - Financial risk protection for universal health coverage: Cross-country investigations (Co-supervisor)
  • Agneta Blomberg - Determinants of capacity to work and work participation with common mental disorders. A cross-sectional survey and longitudinal register study of Swedish employees in private and public sectors (Co-supervisor)

Previous PhD supervision (defended)

  • Sophia Nguyen Ngoc Phuong - Tobacco control policies in Vietnam: Evaluation and stakeholder perceptions (co-supervisor)
  • Sara Blom - Unmet need for mental healthcare among men Sweden: Gendered pathways to care (main supervisor)
  • Tommy Pehrson - Notions of men and masculinities among personnel working with sexual and reproductive health (co-supervisor)
  • Solveig Lövestad - Intimate partner violence, sociodemographic factors and mental health among population based samples in Sweden (co-supervisor)