The state epidemiologist, or the chief epidemiologist (plural: ''state epidemiologists'' or ''chief epidemiologists'', sv, statsepidemiolog) is a
Swedish civil servant. The current state epidemiologist is
Anders Tegnell, 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. 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
The Public Health Agency of Sweden ( sv, Folkhälsomyndigheten, abbreviated ''Fohm'') is a Swedish government agency with national responsibility for public health. It falls under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs and works to promote pu ...
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List of Swedish state epidemiologists
* 1956–1976: Bo Zetterberg
* 1976–1993: Margareta Böttiger
* 1995–2005:
Johan Giesecke
* 2005–2013:
Annika Linde
* 2013–present:
Anders Tegnell
See also
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Healthcare in Sweden
The Swedish health care system is mainly government-funded, universal for all citizens and decentralized, although private health care also exists. The health care system in Sweden is financed primarily through taxes levied by county councils a ...
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COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
References
External links
Public Health Agency of Sweden
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Government of Sweden
Health in Sweden
Swedish civil servants
Swedish epidemiologists
1955 establishments in Sweden