Therese Eskilsson is the Head of the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå university and an associate professor, physiotherapy.
Academic degrees
Research
My research area includes concrete methods to prevent work-related ill health, and also rehabilitation and return to work in stress-related illness. Most of my research is carried out in collaboration with Stress Rehabilitation, Region Västerbotten.
I have experience in conducting several randomized controlled trials, with both quantitative and qualitative designs.
I mainly teach in the field of work environment and health, work-related stress, workplace interventions, rehabilitation of stress-related diagnoses, and motivational interviewing at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.