Anders Wallensten | |
Office: | Deputy State Epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden |
Birth Name: | Anders Theodor Wallensten |
Birth Date: | 22 January 1974 |
Birth Place: | Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Profession: | Physician, epidemiologist, civil servant |
Alma Mater: | Uppsala University |
Mother: | Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg |
Father: | Richard Wallensten |
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]