Public Defence in Public Health Sciences: Klara Gurzo
On Friday, March 6, Klara Gurzo will defend her doctoral thesis in public health sciences at Stockholm University. In her thesis, she has studied how income and social mobility shape our health — not only in adulthood, but across generations.
Respondent: Klara Gurzo
Title of the thesis: Perspectives on income and health: cohort change, intergenerational social mobility, and the role of personal attributes and childhood friends
Opponent: Professor George Ploubidis, Department of Social Science, University College London
Members of the grading committee: Markus Jäntti, Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University; Professor Maria Brandén, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University; Associate Professor Karin Engström, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet. Deputy member: Associate Professor Sol Juárez, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University.
Chair: Professor Ylva Brännström Almquist, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University.
Principal supervisor: Professor Bitte Modin, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University.
Supervisors with the right to attend and speak at the first part of the grading committee's meeting: Professor Bitte Modin and Associate Professor Olof Östergren, both at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University.
Last updated: 2026-03-05
Source: Department of Public Health Sciences