Division of Children's and Women's Health (BKH)

The division consists of several different research and teaching areas.

Within obstetrics/gynecology there is, for example, reproductive health including endocrinology, contraception, reduced fertility, etc. Within paediatrics, research is carried out on childhood and adolescent diabetes, endocrinology, neurology, allergology, etc.

Research

En kvinna som sitter vid ett bord och matar sitt barn.

Interaction support in everyday life 鈥� Swedish Inklings iBASIS

The research project targets all families with extremely preterm infants. We aim to investigate whether early support for parents helps foster the child's social and communicative development.

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MAMA Research Hub for Multidisciplinary Approaches to Maternity Advancement

MAMA Research Hub is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to advancing individualized, equitable, and evidence-based maternal maternity care and postpartum care through research, education, and clinical collaboration.

Abrahamssons forskargrupp, gruppbild vid vatten.

Thomas Abrahamsson´s research group

Our research group aim to improve outcomes in preterm infants by identifying strategies to reduce sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and neurodevelopmental impairment, focusing on nutrition, immunity, and the gut microbiota.

News

A woman in a white lab coat holding up a toothbrush.

19 February 2026

Treatment can protect extremely premature babies from lung disease

Early hydrocortisone treatment of extremely premature babies increases their chances of survival without lung disease, according to a study led by LiU. The study also shows that the treatment is safe to give.

Young woman measures blood sugar level. Diabetes using lancet.

28 January 2026

Foundations for type 1 diabetes may already be laid during pregnancy

Researchers have identified a protein pattern that, already at birth, looks markedly different in those who later go on to develop type 1 diabetes. The findings show that a combination of several factors during pregnancy affects disease risk.

08 December 2025

Better care of expectant mothers in focus for new research centre

It should not matter where in the country a woman gives birth. Nor should her background. A new research centre is therefore being set up, to make the entire care chain for expectant and new mothers more equal and based on their individual needs.

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