Primary fields of research

Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson is a social anthropologist working within the fields of medicine, public health and social sciences. Dr. Jønsson has a PhD in public health and works as a postdoc at the Section for General Medicine, Univerisity of Copenhagen. Her core methodological competences lies within ethnographic research and merging the fields of art and science. 

Her research is focused on the patient experiences of aging and multimorbidity with a particular focus on severe mental illnesses. She is also doing research in health inequality and inequity and overdiagnosis. Dr. Jønsson is head of the workpackage co-designing the intervention in The Phy Psy Trial.  

Dr Jønsson has published in international peer reviewed journals, academic books and won several prices for her research and research presentations. She is often invited nationally and internationally as keynote speaker, presenter or moderator. 

Dr. Jønsson teaches qualitative methods, social science theories and patient engagement and communication.

Ph.d.-thesis:
Jønsson, ABR 2018. Aging with Multimorbidity. Illness and Inequity in Everyday Life. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen.

Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson (she/her)

BSc, MSc, PhD Anthropology and Public Health

Keywords: Aging, health inequties, severe mental illness, user involvement, illness trajectories, general practice, diagnostics and consultations, and the welfare state. 

Research

I am is a social anthropologist working within the fields of medicine, public health and social sciences. Core methodological competences lies within ethnographic research, co-design and userinvolvement, and merging the fields of art and science. 

My research is focused on aging, health inequity, severe mental illness and illness perceptions (including overdiagnosis) in the welfare state. I do research on the patient experiences  and am currently head of the workpackage co-designing the intervention in SOFIA study

Supervision

I supervise PhD students, MSc and BA students from social sciences, public health and medical sciences within my field of research. 

Office Hours

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