Bio
Dr Jonas Karlström is a Swedish MD trained in pediatrics and a global health professional with more than 15 years of experience in health innovation, health, international development, policy and global health.
Before joining the SDGHI, Dr Karlström worked from 2015 in various positions of UNICEF Health and Innovation programming. Prior to taking up the lead for Innovation Core with SingHealth DukeNUS Global Health Inistitute (SDGHI), Dr Karlström served as a Health Innovation Specialist with the UNICEF Product Innovation Centre. In this capacity, he led a number of large health innovation efforts for the centre including a UNICEF Scaling Initiative to scale up access to oxygen therapy which was implemented in multiple countries in West and Central Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. In health programmatic work Dr Karlström formed part of the Interagency Technical Support Team on SDG3 during the Agenda2030 process and later investigated Health System Resilience with a focus on the role of the community in the wake of the large West African Ebola outbreak. At SDGHI, Dr Karlström has held a lead organizing role for the World One Health Congress 2022 hosted in Singapore, together with partners initiated a project innovation portfolio around affordable trauma care solutions in Sri Lanka, and created the first graduate certificate on Global Health Innovation in Asia.
Dr Karlström has published a range of articles on implementation and investigations of various types of novel health technologies, including diagnostic devices and Health AI, in LMICs across a variety of geographies. Dr Karlström previously led the Karolinska Institute course on Global Health in Laos PDR in coordination with the University of Health Sciences in Vientiane. He also holds a degree in business administration degree with a focus on Management and Leadership from the Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm.
Education
Master of Science (Management)
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Doctor of Medicine and Surgery
Lund University, Sweden