Folkhälsomyndigheten (FOHM) - EUPHEM

Ramona Groenheit (main EUPHEM supervisor) 
Tel. +46 10 205 24 39

The Public Health Agency of Sweden (PHAS) has a national responsibility for public health issues and works to ensure good public health. The agency also works to ensure that the population is protected against communicable diseases and other health threats.

Please visit the PHAS website for more information about the agency’s mission and responsibilities.

The Public Health Agency of Sweden is an acknowledged training site for both EUPHEM and EPIET. For all projects, experts and skilled supervisors will be available to train and supervise the fellows.

The EUPHEM fellow will be placed at the Department of Microbiology and will have the opportunity to participate in projects and training opportunities in all units within the department as well as units working with epidemiological projects, data analysis and statistics at other departments.

Training programmes and projects for the EUPHEM fellow will be tailored to suit training needs, based on the requirements for the EUPHEM core competencies, previous experience, and personal interests. Visits to BSL-3 facilities will be available.

The EUPHEM fellow will in general be supervised by members of the EUPHEM and EPIET supervision team at PHAS. For specific tasks and assignments, the fellow will be supervised by the respective project scientist/supervisor.

Supervision is coordinated by: Dr Ramona Groenhet, PhD

English will go a long way in Sweden. For hands-on experience in outbreak investigations involving regional departments of communicable disease control, as well as to work in the national surveillance system, Swedish language knowledge is an advantage.

Five EU-track EUPHEM fellows and three MS-track EUPHEM fellows have been trained at PHAS. 

Twenty-nine EPIET fellows (both EU- and MS-track fellows) have been trained at PHAS. In February 2026 there were three EUPHEM alumni and eight EPIET alumni employed at the training site.