Åsa Grauman

Researches how individuals perceive health risks and how we are affected by risk information, including through preference studies, with a focus on cancer and cardiovascular diseases, precision medicine, and genetic screening for rare diseases.

Åsa Grauman is a researcher with expertise in how people perceive their risk of health threats. She is currently investigating how people perceive their risk of developing breast- and colorectal cancers, and how risk information may benefit and harm individuals. She also studies cancer patients' preferences for individualised treatment using algorithms sequences techniques. Within the Innovative Medicines Initiative-funded research project Screen4care, she studies parents' preferences regarding newborn screening for rare diseases.

Åsa Grauman has a master's degree in public health science and has a doctorate in medical science. Her PhD project was about how people perceive their risk of suffering from heart disease, how people are affected by cardiovascular risk information and their preferences of how risk information should be conveyed.

Publications

  • Master program of public health sciences
  • Ethics of public health
  • Risk perception
  • Supervision of master students

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