How are Sweden’s students really doing – and how can their wellbeing be improved? Together with the Public Health Agency of Sweden, the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) will study students’ mental health and develop new ways to support wellbeing and academic performance. The results will be presented in February 2027.

Young adults in Sweden feel significantly worse than older people in almost all areas of life. While older Swedes rank among the happiest in the world, young adults struggle with loneliness and psychological distress. These are the findings of a new large-scale study on flourishing in Sweden, published in the International Journal of Wellbeing and conducted by researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics, Lund University, Oslo Metropolitan University and Harvard University.

On Thursday 18 December 2025, John-Erik Bergkvist successfully defended his PhD dissertation "Behavioral foundations of grand challenge partnerships: Essays on control, coordination, channelization, & crowdsourced search in conditions of absent formal authority" at the Stockholm School of Economics.

How can partnerships accelerate Europe’s health transformation when no single actor is in charge? That question brought together researchers, policymakers, healthcare leaders, and industry representatives at the Stockholm School of Economics on 12 December.

Södersjukhuset has initiated a collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics' Center for Resilient Health (CRH) to strengthen innovation in healthcare delivery. The partnership focuses on the development and implementation of SöS Testbädd, a new innovation arena designed to support collaboration between healthcare providers, academia, industry, and patient representatives.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping not only how we treat disease, but how we understand it. At a recent seminar at the Center for Resilient Health at the Stockholm School of Economics, UC Berkeley professor Ziad Obermeyer shared how machine learning is generating new discoveries in medicine - and what that means for researchers, economists, and society.

Each week, people in Sweden’s capital sit down for fika nearly four times on average. It is a small ritual, but one that the research team at the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare, and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics says carries real economic weight. According to Stockholm’s new Wellbeing Index Report, strengthening social connection through measures like shared fika could be worth more than 600 million kronor per quarter if it lifted part of the region’s sense of togetherness by just one step.

What if wellbeing growth became a formal societal target — measured, tracked, and used to guide decision-making? In this seminar, we explore the first results of the Stockholm Wellbeing Index, a new quarterly index aiming to understand how wellbeing is developing across the city.

Meet Patrick Agte in the second part of GaPP's new Research Portrait series, where we meet our researchers who bring fresh perspectives to major societal challenges.

SSE Alumni, Students, Staff & Faculty — this one’s for YOU! We are proud to invite you to SSE Health Day November 12 - a full day dedicated to health and wellbeing. Find the full schedule and the sign up link for the events below.