Anders Håkansson, our Swedish editor since 2000, died at the beginning of 2010.
Anders was a very active and inspiring member of our editorial group. He continued with his editorial work during his battle with cancer, only stepping back from the work the week before he died. His family, friends, colleagues, the editorial group and his large network of authors and reviewers have suffered a major loss by his untimely death.
Anders started his career as a part time researcher in primary health care in Växjo in the county of Småland and later became reader and professor of general practice at Lund University, Malmö. Anders was also well known to all Swedish GPs as Chief Editor of AllmänMedicin, the Swedish national journal of primary health care, in the period 1987–2000, and as a Medical Editor of Läkartidningen, the main Swedish journal of medicine.
Anders Håkansson (left) and Johann A Sigurdsson at editorial meeting.
Change of Icelandic editors
In June 2010 Johann August Sigurdsson resigned from his post as National Editor for Iceland. Johann was one of the founding editors of this journal – the first and only Icelandic editor for the 28 years of the journals’ history! Although we only receive a few manuscripts each year from the small country of Iceland, Johann's role in the editorial group has been major. As Nestor and with a strong interest in the well-being of the journal he has been a central figure. The assisting National Editor for Iceland, Pétur Petterson, has also decided to stop. I would like to thank Johann and Pétur for their contributions!
The new national editor for Iceland, Emil L. Sigurdsson, and the new assisting editor, Kristján G. Gudmundsson, will be presented in the next issue of the journal.
Jakob Kragstrup
Editor-in-Chief
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care