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Lars Sandman

Professor

Director at National Centre for Priorities in Health.
My research area is organisational ethics in health-care, focusing on priority setting and ethical analysis of health-care methods.

Presentation

My research field involves studying ethical aspects of distributing scarce resources within health care and studying and developing methods for ethical analyses of health-care procedures.

Outside my research activity I have a number of assignments as ethics advisor for Swedish health care authorities and regions, e.g. The Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency, The National Board of Health and Well-being, The New Therapies Council, The Sahlgrenska University hospital, The Västra Götaland region etc.

Research projects

  • Just Severity – a research program on severity as a factor for priority setting – sponsored by the Swedish Research Council
  • Development and implementation of a model for horizontal priority setting within the Swedish Knowledge Management Structure.

About me

CV

  • PhD in practical philosophy, 2002.

Publications

2025

Niklas Juth, Erik Gustavsson, Lars Sandman (2025) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Article in journal)
Liam Strand, Lars Sandman, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Gustav Tinghög (2025) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Article in journal)
Ken Bond, Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson (2025) Journal of Medical Ethics (Article in journal)
Jonas Wihlborg, Ulf Andersson, Anders Sterner, Lars Sandman, Anna Kangstrom, Gabriella N. Boysen (2025) Nursing Ethics, Vol. 32, p. 1197-1209 (Article in journal)
Thomas Hartvigsson, Lars Sandman, Gunnar Bergstrom, Elisabeth Bjork Bramberg (2025) Health Care Analysis, Vol. 33, p. 173-191 (Article in journal)

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Recent publications

2025

Niklas Juth, Erik Gustavsson, Lars Sandman (2025) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Article in journal)
Liam Strand, Lars Sandman, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Gustav Tinghög (2025) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Article in journal)
Ken Bond, Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson (2025) Journal of Medical Ethics (Article in journal)
Jonas Wihlborg, Ulf Andersson, Anders Sterner, Lars Sandman, Anna Kangstrom, Gabriella N. Boysen (2025) Nursing Ethics, Vol. 32, p. 1197-1209 (Article in journal)
Thomas Hartvigsson, Lars Sandman, Gunnar Bergstrom, Elisabeth Bjork Bramberg (2025) Health Care Analysis, Vol. 33, p. 173-191 (Article in journal)

Research affiliation

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