Jessica Storbjörk Associate professor

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Name and title: Jessica StorbjörkAssociate professor

ORCID0000-0002-1757-9974 Länk till annan webbplats.

Workplace: Department of Public Health Sciences Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room A4516Albanovägen 12 Plan 5

Postal address Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap106 91 Stockholm

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About me

Jessica Storbjörk is Associate Professor of Sociology (Docent), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Health Sciences, and Director of the Center for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD).

In addition to research and teaching, Storbjörk is responsible for the Swedish national research network Sonad (Alcohol and Drug Research Network within the Social Sciences), which was launched in 2004 and has so far organized 18 national conferences and a Nordic comparative research conference in 2024. She has had several other academic and expert appointments (e.g., served as opponent, member of various scientific councils or boards and expert groups). She is since 2024 an elected trustee of the board of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP), and since 2023 an elected member of the coordinating committee of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol.

Storbjörk is involved in the creation and development of new courses and programs at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels at the Department of Public Health Sciences. She is currently responsible for two undergraduate courses (on addictive substances and behaviors and on public health data collection and analysis) and three graduate courses on welfare state and social policy models and research and on qualitative research methods. In addition, Storbjörk contributes with lectures on stigma, New Public Management (NPM) and neoliberalism, value conflicts in health and welfare systems, and health impacts of welfare policies. 

She supervises masters students and Ph.D. students Tuulia Lerkkanen, who is researching Swedish drug policy, and Elin Holmén, who is researching the Stockholm Needle and Syringe Exchange Program/Karolinska Institutet (KI).

Storbjörk conducts research on alcohol and other drugs with a particular focus on policy, social marginalization and substance use treatment in Sweden and internationally. She is currently leading the research project Risks of injection drug use in a Swedish context: Prevention of harms in practice according to users, treatment staff, and societal actors. The project examines how harm reduction is created and understood in interaction between individuals, groups and social institutions, in the prohibitionist drug policy context of Sweden. She is also part of a long-term follow-up of women and men who enered treatment through social services or regional addiction care in Stockholm 20 years ago. Her involvement with the Stockholm Needle and Syringe Exchange program includes research on Naloxone (antitode in case of opioid overdose) and supervised consumption sites for people who inject drugs. 

Previous projects have focused on the organization and governance of the substance use treatment system and how New Public Management (NPM) affects the daily practice of social services, health care and other private and non-profit actors.


Contact

Name and title: Jessica StorbjörkAssociate professor

ORCID0000-0002-1757-9974 Länk till annan webbplats.

Workplace: Department of Public Health Sciences Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room A4516Albanovägen 12 Plan 5

Postal address Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap106 91 Stockholm

Research group