Research
The Centre for Health Governance research has its starting point with the many challenges the health care sector faces, challenges especially suitable for interdisciplinary, cross-professional and cross-sectorial collaborations.
The Centre for Health Governance brings together expertise from several institutions at the University of Gothenburg, thereby combining qualitative methods in governance research, economic analyses of causal relationships, and expertise in health economic evaluation. This opens up opportunities for unique studies of healthcare organization as well as the evaluation of interventions and new medical technologies. The research results have the potential to improve the organization of the healthcare system, which not only impacts the health of the population but also the allocation of healthcare resources.
The aim is to support a sustainable societal development within the health care sector through research and cooperation between people active within the academy, the public administration and the business community.
Research questions
The center's research focuses on how healthcare should be organized to achieve high-quality and equitable care based on available resources – both at an overarching level and within individual healthcare units. The focus is on how governance models, reimbursement systems, and market structures shape healthcare – particularly in relation to the effects of medical technological development, digitalization, and AI.
The core group of researchers at the Centre for Health Governance consists of governance and management researchers at the Department of Business Administration, researchers in health- and healthcare economics at the Department of Economics and HEPER (Health Economics, Policy, and Evalutation Research) researchers at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Affiliated researchers
Gustav Kjellsson, Head of Centre for Health Governance
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics, Learning and Leadership for Health Care Professionals.
Christian Gadolin, Vice Head of Centre for Health Governance
Researcher, Dept Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, GU.
Research area: management, governance and organizing within healthcare.
Ewa Wikström
Professor, Health Governance, Business Administration, Dept Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, GU..
Research Area: Health governance, leadership, collaboration, teams, communication, projects and change management in health care.
Mikael Svensson
Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics.
Jahangir A.M. Khan,
Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics.
Kristian Bolin
Professor, Health Economics, Dept Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, GU.
Research Area: Health economics; Microeconomics; Economic evaluation.
Mikael Cäker
Senior Lecturer, Dept Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, GU.
Research Area: Inter-organizational management control, incentive systems, responsible accounting practices and interaction between different forms of control.
Pia Johansson
Senior Lecturer, School of Public and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy
Roxanne Kovacs
Post-doc, Dept Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, GU.
Yuejun Zhao
Post-doc, Dept Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, GU.
Johanna Andersson
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Administration, GU.
Research Area: Public Administration, Collaboration, Interorganizational integration.
Hanna Gyllensten
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Person-centred Care, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics, Learning and Leadership for Health Care Professionals.
Lisa Norrgren
PhD, from HHGU, Region Västra Götaland.
Research Area: Health Economics, The Economics of Time Preferences, Health, and Education.
Ingrid Svensson
PhD, Postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet.
Research Area: Leadership and management for healthcare.
Affiliated PhD students
Karl Maack
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Telemedicine, Implementation, Innovation.
Erik Söderberg
PhD-student, School of Public Administration, GU.
Research Area: Public Health, Health Prevention, Health Promotion, Project Management.
Mimmi Kheddache Jendeby
PhD-student, Centre for Global Human Resource Management, Sociology and Work Science, GU.
Research Area: Strategy, Information system, Change, Silence.
Linnéa Windahl Strömblad
PhD-student, Business Administration, HHGU.
Research Area: Organizing Sustainability in MedTech-organizations.
Otto Nieminen
PhD-student, Department of Business Administration, HHGU.
Research Area: Organizing Innovation in MedTech-organizations.
Nazneen Rony
PhD-student, Department of Business Administration, HHGU.
Research Area: Human Resource Management, Well-being in organizations.
Elin Sandegård
PhD-student, Department of Law, HHGU.
Research Area: Public law, with a particular focus on medical law, and jurisprudence.
Reza Javid
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics.
Jonathan Severin
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU; Institute of Stress Medicine (VGR).
Research Area: Health Economics, Organizational Work Environment, Stress.
Thi Ngoc Phuong, Nguyen
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Epidemiology.
Jean Nepo Utumatwishima
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Socioeconomic aspect of nutrition.
Royasia Viki Ramadani
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics.
Benjamin Peter Harvey
PhD-student, Centre for Person-centred Care, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, GU.
Research Area: E-Health, Health Economics.
David Bilén
PhD-student, Department of Economics, HHGU.
Research Area: Health Economics.
Sofie Larsson
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics.
Mohannad Taha O. Alkhateeb
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics.
Khaled Al-Thabaiti
PhD-student, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, GU.
Research Area: Health Economics.