Yasmina Molero

I am a researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience and the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet. I obtained my PhD at Karolinska Institutet and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford and at Karolinska Institutet.

My research is mostly focused on pharmacoepidemiology. That is, I study the risks and benefits of common medications with a specific interest in psychiatric and behavioural outcomes such as depression, anxiety, suicide, overdoses, accidents, violence and other crimes. For this, I use Swedish pharmacy, healthcare, sociodemographic, crime and death registers, and I study nationwide cohorts of people who take different medications. I have previously published studies on the psychiatric and behavioural outcomes of antidepressants, nicotine replacement therapy, antiepileptic drugs, cholesterol-lowering medications, and medications for treating substance use disorders.