Sweden

Cathrin Frisemo

Growing up in an IBM-family, computers and technical development has always been a part every day life. And later with own experience from the computer business at Digital Equipment Inc. A college education with a major in Health in San Diego, California, was followed by a period in the airline- and travel business. My graduation work in Preventive Medicine/Health promotion at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, was on "Health promotion as part of private health insurance - a study at 60 middle-sized businesses" and lead to employment at the National Institute for work and health (NIWL). At NIWL I worked with identifying health promoting work places in Sweden for the EU-founded network "Europen Network for Work Place Healthpromotion (ENWHP).