Evidence on Yoga – Future for Health & Care conference 2026

Anna Strömberg

Professor and nurse
​My research focuses on developing e-health interventions to support rehabilitation and self-care support for people living with long-term illnesses and their families. I evaluate the impact of these interventions on self-care behaviors, health-related quality of life, physical function, participation, perceived control, survival and healthcare utilization.

My research group is currently conducting several projects aimed at evaluating and implementing e-health tools, such as digital group yoga, gamification, digital support and education via the 1177 e-health platform, to support rehabilitation and self-care. These efforts primarily target people with heart failure, but also include those e􀆯ected by cancer and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Ambalam M Chandrasekaran

Head, Centre for Yoga in Public Health Research

Dr. Chandrasekaran is a board-certified Yoga and Naturopathy physician, public health expert, and researcher with over 15 years of experience. He heads the Centre for Yoga in Public Health Research at CCDC, India, where he leads clinical trials and evidence synthesis on yoga-based interventions for chronic diseases. His work has been published in top journals including Nature Medicine and JACC. He has presented at major global conferences and received multiple awards. Dr. Chandrasekaran holds an MPH, a postdoctoral fellowship from Emory University,and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Leicester, UK, focusing on multiple long-term conditions.

Anna-Karin Ax

Medicine doctor and oncolgy nurse

I combine research with clinical work as a contact nurse at an oncology clinic in Linköping. Side effects of cancer treatment affect individuals both during the treatment period and long after it has ended. My research focuses on cancer rehabilitation during ongoing oncological treatment, with the aim of improving health-related quality of life for indviduals undergoing cancer therapy.

Lotti Orvwelius

Assistant professor, Intensive care Nurse

My interest started early in how patients who survive severe illness and intensive care, and how important it is to capture the patient's perceived health, so-called PROM (patient-reported outcome measure). In 2009, I present my dissertation in the field of Intensive Care and PROM, and since then I have continued to investigate how former intensive care patients can return to as good health as possible. As a certified yoga instructor, I see an opportunity for yoga to be a supportive tool.