Sol Juarez Professor

About me

I am a Professor of Public Health Sciences with focus on health inequalities.

I completed my B.A with honors in Sociology (2006) and my PhD in Sociology with European Mention (2011) at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Economic Demography (School of Economics and Management) and at the Unit of Social Epidemiology (Faculty of Medicine), at Lund University. Later on, I was affiliated researcher with the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Lund University) and Stockholm University Demography Unit, Department of Sociology (Stockholm University). I joined the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) in 2014 and obtained the title of Docent in Public Health Sciences from Stockholm University in 2017.

I have been visiting scholar at the Population Studies Center (University of Michigan, U.S.A), at the Max-Planck Institute for Demography Research (Germany), at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) and at the Institute for the Futures Studies
(Sweden).

Coordinator

Master's programme in Public Health Sciences: Individual and societal perspectives.

Course manager

Introduction to public health sciences (advanced level, 7,5 credits)

Internship in public health science, PH20A1  (advanced level, 7,5 credits)

Degree project in Public Health Sciences for master's degree (advanced level, 30 credits)

Introduction to Public Health Sciences:A brief overview (PhD level, 3 credits)

Supervision

I supervise master's and doctoral level students

 

Major Research areas

  • Health inequities
  • Social determinants of health
  • Migration and health
  • Maternal and child health
  • Life-course epidemiology
  • Welfare policies
  • COVID-19

My main research line revolves around health inequities, with a special focus on the presence of the “healthy migrant paradox” in Europe. Also, I examine the determinants and long-standing consequences of outcomes derived from birthweight and gestational age. More recently, I investigate the effect of governmental policies on health.

Research projects:

Principal investigator of the FORTE-project: Explaining COVID-19 mortality among immigrants in Sweden: A social determinants of health perspective (#2021-00271). Duration: 2022-2024(6); Total: 4,970,000SEK

Principal investigator of the VR-project: The unintended consequences of Swedish parental leave policy: A health equity perspective (#2018-01825). Duration: 2019-2022(5); Total: 5,604,000SEK

Coordinator of the FORTE-programme: Social determinants of health among individuals with foreign background: Societal and individual perspectives and project leader of a subproject on Social policies (PI: Mikael Rostila, FORTE # 2016-07128). Duration: 2017-2022(5); Total: 18,000,000 SEK

Since 2005, I have participated in more than 18 (co-applicant of 10) national and international research projects.

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