phd health economics sweden

PhD programs

Apply for the intake 2025.

Interested in our PhD programs in Business Administration, Economics or Finance? We are now accepting applications for the 2025 intake.

Application deadline: 🗓️ February 1, 2025 | 23:59 CET 🔗  Apply now.

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• Live chat with the PhD admissions team   January 31, 2025

An overview of all upcoming events can be found here .

PhD program in Business Administration

PhD program in Economics

PhD program in Finance

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PhD courses

Enabling informed decision making

With over 40 years of experience in health economics research, IHE is thorough and accurate but also fast and efficient in its contribution to a range of endeavors to improve public health. Through high quality research, we provide evidence-based support for informed decision making for health and welfare. What can we do for you?

Our recent IHE Reports

Kapacitet för lungcancerscreening i sverige, utmaningar och lösningar.

Endometrial Cancer – Improving Care and Driving Policy Change

Health-economic evaluation of precision medicine in cancer care – literature review and analysis of methodological considerations

We contribute with evidence-based documentation for informed decision making.

IHE has many years of experience of health economic studies in the therapeutic area of dermatology and far-reaching collaboration with the national quality registry for psoriasis (PsoReg).

IHE has a broad experience of health economic studies in diabetes, both Type I and Type II. Among other things, IHE has provided health economic expertise in the development of the National Board of Health and Welfare's national diabetes guidelines.

Dermatology

Our recent publications

Disease burden among patients with arginase 1 deficiency and their caregivers: a multinational, cross-sectional survey, the impact of unrelated future medical costs on economic evaluation outcomes for different models of diabetes, access to oncology medicines in eu and oecd countries, applied health economics and outcomes research – policy and preferences, applied health economics and outcomes research – market access, news & insights, launch of the cancer dashboard for italy, ihe celebrates with europa donna, does germany need a new national cancer plan.

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Doctoral studies

Doctoral programmes (PhD programmes) are offered by all six departments at the Lund University School of Economics and Management. It is often given in collaboration with other parts of Lund University or with other institutions in Sweden.

The doctoral degree is the highest academic degree. The Swedish doctoral degree comprises 240 credits and the doctoral programme normally takes four years of full-time study.

The programmes differ somewhat between disciplines, but in all cases they consist of at least one year of course work and at least two years spent writing the doctoral thesis. The thesis can be produced in the form of a monograph or in the form of a number of articles published during the doctoral programme, a so-called compilation thesis. The thesis is defended at a public defence where an opponent reviews and opposes the thesis. An examining committee consisting of at least three people grade the thesis.

You also have the option of obtaining a licentiate degree after 120 credits. Such a degree can either conclude a programme or be awarded when you are halfway to a doctoral degree. The thesis is then called a licentiate thesis and is presented and examined at a seminar.

After graduation many doctors pursue academic careers while others obtain positions within business or public administration.

At present, the School of Economics and Management has about 100 admitted doctoral students and around 20 doctoral theses are produced each year.

Regulations for third-cycle education at LUSEM (pdf, 290 kB)

Apply to a doctoral programme

Are you interested in joining a doctoral programme at the School of Economics and Management? You apply via the department where you want to do your research. All vacant PhD positions are advertised via Lund University’s job portal.

Application and admission

Financing your doctoral studies

At the School of Economics and Management there are two different ways of financing your studies: employment as a doctoral student, or external funding. External funding may consist of employment outside the university or a scholarship from an external source. It is important to recognise that the different types of funding give you different levels of social security. Upon admission, funding must be secured for the entire duration of the programme and must be at least half-time.

The doctoral degree conferment ceremony

The doctoral degree conferment ceremony takes place at the end of May and is the biggest event of the academic year. During the ceremony, the University rewards those who have completed a doctoral programme and defended a doctoral thesis. At the promotion ceremony, the insignia of learning are awarded: the hat or laurel wreath, the ring and the diploma.

On the same occasion, the University also honours outstanding researchers from other universities and individuals by awarding them honorary doctorates. As a tribute to previous generations, those who received their doctoral degree 50 years ago are also promoted to jubilee doctors.

The doctoral degree conferment ceremony – lunduniversity.lu.se

Quality assurance in research education

Our doctoral programmes are regularly evaluated to maintain their quality.

Doctoral studies at the departments

• Department of Business Administration
• Department of Business Law
• Department of Economic History
• Department of Economics
• Department of Informatics
• Department of Statistics

Lund’s Doctoral Student Union

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For current doctoral students

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• Health Economics

Researchers in health economics

Researchers and PhD students in the field of health economics.

Bolin, Kristian , Professor, University of Gothenburg

Durevall, Dick Professor, University of Gothenburg

Kovacs, Roxanne Postdoctor, University of Gothenburg

Lampi, Elina Senior lecturer, University of Gothenburg

Lindskog, Annika Senior lecturer, University of Gothenburg

Martinsson, Peter Professor, University of Gothenburg

Mitrut, Andreea Professor, University of Gothenburg

Wikström, Jens Researcher, University of Gothenburg

Research subject Health Economics

Research within Health Economics at Stockholm University stretches across many subfields and addresses questions using theoretical as well as empirical tools.

Projects cover a wide range of topics such as on causes and consequences of child health, COVID-19, medical innovation, the impact environmental regulation and other public policies have on health outcomes, the organization of health care and careers of medical professionals and researchers.

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Researchers

Evelina Linnros

Living conditions from adolescence to old age for people with disabilities: A life-cycle analysis of working life, education, health, and family In this project we study education, health and labor market outcomes for people with physical, mental or intellectual disabilities.

SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration focused on using quantitative methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.

A dataset to study the causal effects of university education, exploiting a statistical technique called regression discontinuity. I study the returns to education (in terms of earnings and wealth), educational spillovers between siblings and across generations, and how university education can influence health and social preferences.

Departments and centres

Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)

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Doctoral education at the Department of Global Public Health

At the Department of Global Public Health around 110 doctoral students conduct research within the areas of global health, social medicine and public health epidemiology. The doctoral education at the department has a multidisciplinary scientific orientation and attracts both national and international students.

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For current students, for current phd students.

Information and instructions for current PhD (doctoral) students at the Department of Global Public Health.

For doctoral supervisors at the department

Admission process at GPH

Doctoral supervisor training

The doctoral supervisor training is mandatory for all who wish to be registered as a doctoral supervisor and who has not previously acted as main supervisor.

Apply for green light at the department

The application for green light is a mandatory attachment when you apply to establish a doctoral position. 'Green light' is also needed when changing the main supervisor during an ongoing doctoral project.

Meet our doctoral students

Doctoral students about their research and Agenda 2030

Anders Klingberg, Juliet Aweko and Patricia Eustachio Colombo describes their research projects and how it relates to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  

The sustainable developement goals are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030.

Doctoral programmes and research schools

Public health science (phsp).

The PHSP programme places particular emphasis on the study and influence of determinants of health and disease in the population.

Biology of Infections and Global Health (BIGH)

The programme BIGH provides professional knowledge in infection biology, global health and generic cross-pollinating.

The Swedish Research School for Global Health

The aim of the Swedish Research School for Global Health is to achieve multi-disciplinary collaboration in education, research and training by coordinating existing courses and seminars in global health and develop new courses to fill gaps in knowledge. 

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Advertised doctoral positions, available doctoral positions at our department, all advertised positions for doctoral education at ki.

If the list is empty, there are no available doctoral positions at our department. Find all available positions at KI.