Professor Dr. Erik Malmqvist

Biography

Erik Malmqvist is a Professor at the University of Gothenburg specializing in applied ethics and moral political philosophy. His research focuses on ethical issues related to healthcare, medical research, and public health. He has addressed significant questions in his work, including the moral acceptability of offering financial incentives for kidney donations and the implications of testing new drugs in low- and middle-income countries with limited healthcare access. His current research emphasizes the ethical challenges associated with antibiotic resistance, a growing concern in modern society, and he is actively engaged in the Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) established in 2018. Malmqvist also teaches applied ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law at the undergraduate level, supervising master’s and doctoral students. His prior experiences include academic positions at Linköping University and postdoctoral studies in Paris. He completed his PhD at Linköping University in 2008, focusing on ethics and selective reproduction. Malmqvist has diverse teaching experience in practical philosophy and has developed curricula for medical students, highlighting the need for ethics education in healthcare training.

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