Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Cancer Prevention Research Training Program in the Department of Health Services Research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He received his Master of Science in Public Health in Sweden in 2010, and later received his PhD degree in Health Services Research/Health Economics at the University of Texas School of Public Health in 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Halliburton Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. During the fellowship, he received the Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Award in Population Science in 2016, and was named Outstanding Postdoctoral Trainee in Cancer Prevention in the Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2017.