Olof Lindahl

Position: Associate Senior Lecturer

Institution: Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University

Role with AMR - One Health Consortium: Coordinator

Dr. Olof Lindahl is an associate senior lecturer at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden from where he also received his Ph.D. in International Business in 2015. Starting in July 2019, Olof joined the Uppsala Antibiotic Center as a tenure-track full-time researcher. Lindahl’s research concerns business models in pharmaceutical R&D and government innovation policy. He has co-authored several official reports to both the Swedish Government and the European Commission. Current projects investigate the functioning of so-called antibiotic accelerators to promote innovation in antibiotics and related technologies as well as the development of new incentives for innovation that also promote the responsible use of new antibiotics. Another key research interest revolves around challenges associated with the spread of new diagnostic tools for bacterial infection within and between health care systems, which is also the focus of the project iDX which he is coordinating from 2020.