State epidemiologist (Sweden) explained

Post:State epidemiologist
Body:the Public Health Agency of Sweden
Native Name:Swedish: Statsepidemiolog
Flag:Flag of Sweden.svg
Flagsize:120px
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Flagcaption:Sweden
Incumbent:Magnus Gisslén
Incumbentsince:2023
Department:Department of Public Health Analysis and Data Management
Reports To:Karin Tegmark Wisell (director general)
Seat:Solna, Stockholm County
Precursor:Anders Lindblom
Formation:1955
First:Bo Zetterberg
Succession:Seventh
Deputy:Anders Wallensten

The state epidemiologist, or the chief epidemiologist (plural: state epidemiologists or chief epidemiologists, Swedish: statsepidemiolog) is a Swedish civil servant. The current state epidemiologist is Anders Lindblom, with Anders Wallensten as deputy state epidemiologist.

Initially, the state epidemiologist was the head of the epidemiology department at the State Bacteriological Laboratory at the time of its establishment in 1955.[1] In 1993, the post was transferred to the newly founded agency Institute for Communicable Disease Control. After the Institute was merged with Swedish National Institute of Public Health in 2014, the post became part of the new agency, the Public Health Agency of Sweden.[2]

List of Swedish state epidemiologists

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Statens Bakteriologiska Laboratorium. 1993. Statens Bakteriologiska Laboratorium. 35. Margareta Böttiger. Carin Winter. Solna/Stockholm. Epidemiologin.
  2. Web site: Avdelningen för epidemiologi och utvärdering. Folkhälsomyndigheten. 10 January 2016.