Anna Sarkadi
Anna Kristiansson Sarkadi is a physician and professor of public health at Uppsala University in Sweden. Her expertise is in parenting and the health of children.Education
Sarkadi was born in 1974 in Buda, Hungary. She is the daughter of two physicians and professors, Zsófia Kálmán and Balázs Sarkadi, and sister of puppeteer Bence Sarkadi. She studied medicine first in Hungary and then in Sweden, where she moved in 1995. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 from Uppsala University, with a thesis on The borderland between care and self-care.Scientific research
Sarkadi studies the effect of different forms of parenting on children's health, and how to improve parental support from day care centers, schools and government family services. One emphasis is on the prevention of psychological and mental health problems in children. She conducts both quantitative and qualitative research studies.Media
Sarkadi's research has been cited by the popular press in various countries, including the Irish Independent, SDP Noticias in Mexico, State of Mind in Italy, Huffington Post Deutchland in Germany, the Daily Mail in England, and Psychology Today in the United States.
