Mats Målqvist Uppsala University, Sweden

Mats Målqvist is an Associate Professor of International Health at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Uppsala University, Sweden. Dr Mats Målqvist is a medical doctor by profession, and has a Master’s degree in Media and Communications Studies.

The main focus of Dr Målqvist’s research has been on the implementation of interventions for improved maternal and child health in low and middle-income settings. Dr Målqvist has participated in large population-based trials in Vietnam as well as hospital-based studies in Nepal. The past three years he has been living and working in Swaziland, leading and implementing a community-based peer support intervention addressing socio-economic barriers to health. Structural determinants of health is another focus area of Dr Målqvist, exploring inequities in health and the impact of different interventions on unjust differences in health outcome.

Dr Målqvist has authored and co-authored recent articles in journals such as PloS Medicine, PloS One, Bulletin of WHO, Pediatrics and several BMC journals. He is also a frequent reviewer for several high impact journals in the field of maternal and child health.