Name Leif Svanstrom | Role Author | |
Books Safety Promotion: An Introduction, Evidence-based safety promotion and injury prevention : an introduction | ||
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Leif Svanström, born 1943, is a Swedish doctor and a specialist in Social medicine.
Svanström is professor emeritus in Social Medicine at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He is the former prefect for the department of Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institute and the former leader of the scientist group of accident prevention and work in safety promotion. Leif has been doing policy development and is described as the founder of the Safe Community movement. He is the leader of International Safe Community Certifying Centre – a NGO for injury prevention and certifyer of municipalities at a global level.
Leif Svanström organized the first world conference in accident and injury prevention in Stockholm in 1989 and has since been a member of the organizational committee for the following nine conferences.
Leif Svanström was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.
Leif Svanström is a guest professor at Shandung University, Jinan, China and Ajou University, Suwon South Korea and also nominated for the same position at the University in Skopje, Macedonia. Svanström is the author of nearly 1200 articles and many educational books in social medicine, epidemiology and safety promotion work.