1st delegate for the Swedish Society
Charlotta Rydgård
Charlotta Rydgård is a medical doctor and infectious disease specialist; she has been Chair of the Swedish Society for Tropical Medicine since June 2018.
She became interested in tropical medicine and global health during a student elective in a rural hospital in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa; once graduated, she worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Somali refugee camps in Kenya in 1996-97 and was a member of the MSF board in Sweden in 1997-98.
Charlotta studied tropical medicine at Faculté Bichat, Paris in 1992, did her Diploma in Tropical medicine and International health at Karolinska institute in 2000 and has a Diploma in Travel medicine from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2013 (Foundation Course in Travel medicine)
She has been working clinically in the Infectious Diseases Department at Karolinska University Hospital and Danderyd´s hospital in Stockholm since 1998, and is currently, since 2022, working at the County Council for Communicable Disease Control. In addition she has given short courses in clinical tropical medicine every year for residents in infectious diseases.
Charlotta sees the Swedish Society for Tropical Medicine as a forum for exchange of experience and knowledge in the field of tropical-and travel medicine locally and globally. The Society welcomes all health professions including laboratory staff and students.
