Mathilde Sengoelge worked first in the United States at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, and then in Austria with the Austrian Road Safety Board. In addition, she was the conference manager for the 1st European Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in Vienna, Austria, in June 2006, and the conference manager for the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in June 2004. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy, a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States, and a doctorate from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, where she has an Associate Professorship in Public Health Sciences. Her research areas are health equity, injury prevention, evidence-based physiotherapy, neuroorthopaedics, and resettled refugee mental health.