 Birgitta Evengård became MD in 1979 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden where she also did her thesis (1989) and became an associate professor in infectious diseases in 1997 and professor of clinical parasitology in 2006. In 2007 she was appointed the first woman with a chair in infectious diseases in Sweden at Umeå university. She is a specialist in infectious diseases (1991) and clinical immunology (1994) and in clinical parasitology. She has been senior consultant since 1994. Her research has been focused on parasites (Schistosoma and Toxoplasma gondii) and fatigue science eg unwellness after infections. She has worked with large databases as the Swedish twin registry and performed molecular epidemiological studies from a public health perspective as well as improved diagnostics of parasitic diseases using molecular techniques. She has initiated a European study group on clinical parasitology and participates in several international scientific networks. She has also led a project initiated by politicians on gender equality in the health care system and has interacted with society in many debate articles, as well as being the author of 9 books and 17 chapters in teaching books.
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