Anders TEGNELL

Biographie

Dr. Tegnell is the state epidemiologist in Sweden, the Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Public Health Reporting at the Public Health Agency.

Before this position, he was responsible for a department of the National Board of Health and Welfare dealing with knowledge management, developing guidelines and recommendations.

Dr. Tegnell is a MD, a specialist in infectious diseases. He has a PhD in infectious disease and a master in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Epidemiology. He has worked with preparedness for health threats in different settings since the early 2000. He has been working closely together with many others in developing the pandemic plans in Sweden. He has been involved and managed health threats starting with the Ebola outbreak in Zaire in 1995.