Minna Johansson | Seeing Things Differently

Minna Johansson is a general practitioner working clinically at Herrestads healthcare centre a healthcare centre in Uddevalla, a small town on the Swedish west coast. She is an Associate Professor at Gothenburg University, director of Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare.She is the lead investigator of the Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, focused on finding novel ways to make healthcare more sustainable for patients, clinicians, health systems, societies, and for our planet. Minna feels just as passionate about her clinical work as she does about her research. “My goal is to contribute to a more sustainable healthcare through research inspired by the problems me and my patients face in clinical practice.”Her PhD in 2018 was titled "Evaluating benefits and harms of screening - the streetlight effect?". Her research interests include methodological aspects of evaluating benefits and harms of screening when up-to-date data from randomized trials is lacking, informed choice/shared decision making, overdiagnosis/medicalization and how values and context can be integrated in evidence-based medicine.