Anders Wallensten | |
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Deputy State Epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden | |
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Born | Anders Theodor Wallensten 22 January 1974 Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Alma mater | Uppsala University |
Profession | Physician, epidemiologist, civil servant |
Anders Theodor Wallensten (born 22 January 1974 in Stockholm [1]) is a Swedish physician and epidemiologist. He is the son of Richard Wallensten and Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, both physicians. [2]
He obtained his medical degree at Uppsala University in 2000, and later obtained his PhD at Linköping University in 2006 for a thesis on the Influenza A virus among wild birds. [3] He currently serves as the Swedish deputy state epidemiologist, under state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell. [4]