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NAME:                  Ulf-Göran Gerdtham, BORN: November 15, 1960 in Jönköping.

Current Position:  Professor, Department of Economics and Department of Clinical Sciences Research (Malmö), Lund University, Sweden.

Home Address:     Karl XI gata 11b, 222 20 Lund, Sweden.

Telephone:            Office: (+46) (0) 46 222 48 10 or (+40) (0) 40 331969.

Facsimile:              Office: (+46) (0) 46 222 41 18.

Marital status:      Married, 3 children.

Education:             BA in Public Administration (Advanced Economics and Statistics), Högskolan i Örebro, 1987.
                               PhD, Department of Health and Society, Linköpings University, 1991 (Subject: Health     Economics).

Dissertation:         Essays on International Comparisons of Health Care Expenditure.
                               Linköping Studies in Arts and Science 66. Linköping: Linköping University, 1991.

Employment:         Assistant Professor (Doktorstjänst i Nationalekonomi, särskilt
                               hälsoekonomi), Stockholm School of Economics, 1991-1994.
                               Associate Professor (Docent i hälsoekonomi), Stockholm School of Economics, 1994-2001.
                               Professor (Health Economics), Lund University 2001-2007.
                               Professor (Economics), Scottish Institutet for Research in Economics (SIRE), Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, 2007-2008.
                               Professor (Health Economics), Lund University 2009-

TEACHING:
At Karolinska Institute:
Health Economics (graduate/master/undergraduate)
Public Health (master)

At Lund University:
Health Economics (graduate/master)
Master of Public Health Programme

At Stockholm School of Economics:
Economic statistics (undergraduate).
Health Economics (undergraduate/graduate).

At University of Linköping:
Microeconomics (undergraduate).
Statistics (undergraduate).

At University of Aberdeen
Health economics (undergraduate).
Public Finance (undergraduate)
Critical studies course (undergraduate)

Supervisor of PhD Candidates
Henrik Axelson
Kamrul Islam (PhD examination 2007)
Johan Jarl                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Åsa Ljungvall (co-supervisor)                                                                                                                                                                                               Mahmood Yousefi (pre PhD)

RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS
•    Apoteksbolagets fond för forskning och studier i hälsoekonomi och socialfarmaci. Title: Vård på lika villkor: en hälsoekonomisk studie (Care on Equal Terms: An Health Economic Study). SEK 631,382.
•    Socialvetenskapliga Forskningsrådet, Projektnummer 97-0154:1B. Title: Avvägningen mellan effektivitet och hälsa (The Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off for health). SEK 250,000.
•    Apoteksbolagets fond för forskning och studier i hälsoekonomi och socialfarmaci (160/01) 2001-03-16. Title: Effekter av förändringar i läkemedelssortimentet på läkemedelskostnaderna (The Effects of Changes in Treatment Patterns on Drug Expenditure). SEK 615,000.
•    Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (dnr 2002-0376) 2003-01-01. Title: Ojämlikhet i hälsa och inkomst: En hälsoekonomisk analys (Inequalities in health and income; An health economic analysis). SEK 1,500,000.
•    SIDA/SAREC (2004-0116 SAREC 012/2004) Globalization and Population Health. SEK 50,000 (grant for setting up a workshop).
•    Primary Care Fund of the Medical Faculty, Lund University, Health Care Utilization and Financing in an Ageing Society (Dnr m:b249 73). SEK 200,000.
•    Government Grant for Clinical Research (“ALF”), Health economic aspects of community and preventive medicine with special emphasis on costs, cost-effectiveness and equity (Dnr M B39 977/2005). SEK 748,000.
•    Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (dnr 2005-0342) 2006-01-01. Title: Sjukvårdsutnyttjande, hälsa och dödlighet i en åldrande befolkning (Health services, health health and mortality in an aging society). SEK 100,000 (Planning grant).
•    Svenska Diabetesförbundets Forsknings Fond (DIA2005-026) 2006-01-01. Title: A Computer Model to Analyse Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes. SEK 240,000.
•    Institute of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health. Title: Economics aspects of obesity and overweight, Globalization and health, Health as a growth factor for regional development (50% financing of Gerdtham’s professorship 2001-2007). SEK 1,500,000.
•    Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (dnr 2006-1217) 2006-01-01. Title: Ekonomiska utvärderingar av strategier för behandling och revention av diabetes i Sverige med användande av datorsimuleringsmodeller. SEK 514,000.
•    Apoteksbolagets fond för forskning och studier i hälsoekonomi och samhällsfarmaci 2006-12-10. Title: A Computer Model to Analyse Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes. SEK 436,314.
•    Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (dnr 2006-1660) 2007-07-01. Title: The Health Economics Program on Health, Health Care and Public Policy. SEK 12,000,000.
•    Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (dnr 2007-0318) 2008-01-01. Title: What is the role of population aging on health inequality? A longitudinal analysis. SEK 2,100,000.
•    Region Skåne (25% financing of “Gerdtham’s professorship” 2009 - present).
•    Systembolagets råd för alkoholforskning (SRA). 2008. Title: Undvikbara ekonomiska konsekvenser av alkoholkonsumtion och kostnadseffektanalys av interventioner: Metod, resultat och policy implikationer. SEK 130,000.
•    The Swedish Research Council (dnr 2009-3094). 2009. Title. Development and application of methods for estimation of avoidable societal cost of alcohol and policy analysis. SEK 1,350,000.

INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Swedish co-ordinator in the ECuity projects (ECuity I: Equity in the finance & delivery of health care in Europe, financed by EU BIOMED 1; ECuity II: Economic determinants of the distribution of health and health care in Europe, financed by EU, BIOMED II; ECuity III The dynamics of income, health and inequality over the life cycle.
Member of the OECD Health Equity Group 2003-2004.
Member of the health evaluation committee of the Research Council of Norway (Norges forskningsrådet) 2002-2003.
Member of editorial board of The European Journal of Health Economics 2003-2005.
Member of the advisory board of The Health Economics, Policy and Law 2004-.
Member of the editorial advisory board of The Open Demography Journal 2008-.                                                                                                                      Member of the Editorial Board International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2009-                                                                                  Member of the OECD expert group on Measuring Equity of Access to Health Care, 2003-2004.
Permanent Expert Assessor for the Research Council of Norway 2004-.
Member of the steering committee for the Nordic Network on Justice in Health 2006-.
External Expert Consultant at the Macroeconomic Policy Unit at CEPS 2006-2007.
Scientific Committee, ECHE, Roma, 23-26 July, 2008.                                                                                                                                                                Guest Editor of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2009-2010

OTHER COMMISSIONS

Discussant at:
Licentiate seminar for Katarina Steen (Department of Economics, Lund University).
Licenciate seminar 2002 for Hala Abou Ali (Department of Economics, Göteborg University)
PhD external reviewer in 2004 for Tan Boon Seng (Physician Hospital Integration and Cost Efficiency in US Private Hospitals in 1997) (Department of Business Policy, National University of Singapore).
PhD seminar 2007 for Jens Gundgaard (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark)

Consultancies
OECD Factors Affecting Health Spending: A Cross-Country Econometric Analysis 1995.
Astra Draco, Impact of Inhaled Corticosteroids on Asthma Hospitalization, 1995-1996.
Karolinska institutet, Division of Social Science, Advisor in Health Economics 2001-
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Drug Division, Advisor in Health Economics, 2002-
Astra Zeneca, Lund, Factors affecting COPD costs, 2002-
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Health Economics Division, Pernatal mortality and size of clinic., 2003-
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Alkoholinförselutredningen, As an external consultant (together with Johan Jarl) presented a critical review of studies estimating the costs of illness of alcohol, methods and results. Alkoholinförselutrednings delbetänkande “Våga visa vägen”, Statens Offentliga Utredningar SOU 2004:86.
WHO. Reproductive Health and Research Department. Systematic Review of the Costs-of-Illness (COI) Associated with Maternal-Newborn Morbidity and Mortality. Maternal-Newborn Health and Poverty (MNHP) Project, 2004-2005.
WHO. Reproductive Health and Research Department. Systematic Review of the Evidence of the Impact on Economic Growth of Investing in Maternal and Newborn Health. Maternal-Newborn Health and Poverty (MNHP) Project, 2004-2005.
WHO. Expert to provide support for technical assistance to analyse constraints and opportunities for the Macroeconomics and Health process in Vietnam and Uganda, 2005-2006.
Stockholms läns landsting, Beroendecentrum Stockholm. Kostnadsutveckling för den specialiserade beroendevården i Stockholms läns landsting, 1998 – 2004.
The AHEAD project (Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure). Funded by EU (www.enepri.org) 2006-2007.