Isabel Goicolea

I am a professor in public health, and responsible for PhD education at the Department.

My research focuses on two main areas: youth health and gender-based violence. I am a medical doctor by background, and before getting into academia worked for several years with community health workers and in the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

I lead and I am involved in several research projects. In the area of youth health, I am leading a project funded by FORTE and the Public Health Agency of Sweden that analyses Swedish youth clinics’ work on mental (ill) health. In Zambia I participate in a project analysing how to make community-based health systems more responsive towards young people’s sexual and reproductive health needs. In the area of gender-based violence I lead a project in Sweden analysing what we call ‘question center responses to gender-based violence’ within social services and I participate in two projects: one analysing the feminist support online provided by the women empowerment centers and another one analysing violence against people with disabilities and existing support systems. I lead a project on feminist advocacy for safe abortion in Bolivia and Ecuador, and I am also involved in a project on gender-based violence and disabilities in Uganda.

In addition to my own research a very important part of my work is also supervising PhD students, and teaching. My teaching focuses on qualitative methodologies for public health research - we offer different courses both online and on campus, and at master and PhD level, and on gendered violence, health and healthcare - we offer an online course that can be taken both as a PhD courses and as a single subject course.