Jonas F. Ludvigsson

Jonas F Ludvigsson is a pediatrician and pediatric gastroenterologist at Örebro University Hospital. He has a professorship at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and is adjunct professor at Columbia University, US.
Ludvigsson's research emanates from a long-standing expertise in Swedish healthcare registers. He has so far written about 600 papers, often concerning celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, vaccinations, and pregnancy outcomes.

Many of his publications are of high societal importance. He has written extensively on COVID-19, but also on the health of Ukrainian children. He was the lead author of a recent government report on hormonal treatment in young people with gender dysphoria.

Ludvigsson was the president of the Swedish Society of Epidemiology (2011-14) and chaired the Swedish Society of Pediatrics (2014-16). He is currently Scientific secretary of the Swedish Society of Medicine.
In his spare time he coaches a soccer team of 9-10-year old boys.