Mariam Claeson has been senior advisor of global public health at Karolinska Institutet since 2021, working on the political economy of adolescent mental health and on academic partnership on critical care between Sweden and Indonesia.

She has worked for many years in public health across reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, including as director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents at the World Bank and the maternal newborn and child health team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  She was program coordinator for AIDS in the South Asia region, where she lived in India for three years, and lead public health specialist at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Claeson worked for the global program for the control of diarrheal diseases at the World Health Organization.

Claeson has worked in clinical practice at the district level in Tanzania, Bangladesh and Bhutan, in national immunisation and diarrheal disease control programs in Ethiopia, and in health sector development in Egypt, Jordan, Uzbekistan, China and the Philippines. She has published extensively, is co-editor of the 2nd Disease Control Priorities, and commissioner of the forthcoming Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. She is a physician and Honorary Medical Doctor at the Karolinska Institutet.