Dr Jonas Karlström is a Swedish MD and a global health professional with more than 15 years of experience in health innovation, health, international development, policy and global health.

Before joining SDGHI, Dr Karlström worked from 2015 in various positions of UNICEF Health and Innovation programming. In his latest post, 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.

Dr Karlström has published a range of articles on implementation and investigations of various types of novel health technologies in LMICs across a variety of geographies and led the Karolinska Institute course on Global Health in Laos PDR in coordination with the University of Health Sciences in Vientiane.