Primære forskningsområder

I am heading the research group Social Epidemiology at the section of Social Medicine. The primary focus of the groups is to use state of the art epidemiological methods to explore questions regarding sociale conditions and health. I have a major interest in explaining the role of intergenerational relationships in social inequality in health. I focus especially on three major themes in this field; 1) intergenerational perspectives on the bi-direktional relationsship between social factors and health, 2) social differences in heritability of mental and somatic conditions, 3) sociodemographics in psychiatric epidemiolgy and 4) women's health. I have substantial national and international experience with register-based research and application of new and advanced methods within the field of social epidemiology. 

6 selected publications

1. Gronemann FH, Jacobsen RK, Wium-Andersen MK, Jørgensen MB, Osler M, Jørgensen TSH. Association of Familial Aggregation of Major Depression With Risk of Major Depression. JAMA Psychiatry. 2023;80(4):350-359. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.4965
2. Jørgensen TSH, Osler M, Fors S, Nilsson CJ, Meyer A, Modig K. Adult offspring and their socioeconomic resources for development and survival of stroke: A Swedish and Danish nationwide register-based study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231152352
3. Sloth MMB, Neble Larsen E, Godtfredsen NS, Osler M, Jørgensen TSH. Impact of offspring and their educational level on readmission and death among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a nationwide cohort study using multistate survival models. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2023;77(9):558-564. 77. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2022-220243
4. Larsen EN, Sloth MMB, Nielsen J, Andersen SP, Osler M, Jørgensen TSH. The interplay between the impact of household's and children's education on the risk of type 2 diabetes and death among older adults: a Danish register-based cohort study. Public Health. 2023;224:178-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.08.033
5. Jørgensen TSH, Osler M, Jorgensen MB, Jørgensen A. Mapping diagnostic trajectories from the first hospital diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder: a Danish nationwide cohort study using sequence analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2022;10(1):12-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00367-4
6. Jørgensen TSH, Wium-Andersen IK, Wium-Andersen MK, Jørgensen MB, Prescott E, Maartensson S o.a. Incidence of Depression After Stroke, and Associated Risk Factors and Mortality Outcomes, in a Large Cohort of Danish Patients. JAMA Psychiatry. 2016 okt.;73(10):1032-1040. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.1932

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Current employment and affiliations

2021- Associate Professor, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

2022- Senior Reseacher, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg hospital, Capital Region

Previous employment

2021-23 Adjunct Researcher, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

2020-21 Assistant Professor, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

2019-22 Adjunct Reseacher, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg hospital, Capital Region

2019 Postdoc, Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University in collaboration with Program on Aging, Internal Medicine, Yale University (7 months)

2019 Postdoc, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, Capital Region (5 months)

2016-2018 PhD student, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

• 2017 Research stay at Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm Universitet, Sweden (4 months)
• 2018 Research stay at Program on Aging, Internal Medicine, Yale University, USA (2.5 months)

2015 Research assistant at Research Center for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Capital Region (8 months)

2013-2014 Pre-graduate research student at Department of Cardiology Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte and in collaboration with Department of Geriatrics, Nykøbing-Falster Hospital

Career breaks

2023 Maternity leave (9 months) 

2020 Maternity leave (9 months)

Education

2019 PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen

2015 Master of Science in Public Health, University of Copenhagen

• 2014 Exchange at York University, Toronto, Canada, Internationalization Scholarship

2012 Bachelor of Science in Public Health, University of Copenhagen

Professional posts and commitments

2024-  Steering committee member of the Women in Healthy Transition Survey

2024-  Steering committee member of the Danish Metropolit cohort

2022 - Board member and Chair since 2025 of Danish Epidemiological Society

2021 - Steering committee member of the Danish Conscription Database

2019 - 2023 Board member of Danish Society for Psychosocial Medicine

2016-2018 Chair and coordinator of a network for young researchers (Spirekassen) at the Section of Social Medicin and Section of Epidemiology, Institut of Public Health

2016-2018 Member of the PhD Study board of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2017-2018 PhD representative for Faculty of Health Sciences at Rectorate meetings and at the University of Copenhagen Research and Innovation Council

Organisering of Scientific meetings

2024 Scientific Committee Member and organizer of the 11th Nordic Conference of Epidemiology and Register-Based Health Research

2018 Scientific Committee Member and organizer of the second Nordic Doctoral Conference and Networking Event

Presentations at scientific congresses and meetings

2013- 13 scientific presentations at international congresses and meetings as keynote speaker, oral presetations and poster presentations

Public presentations

2017- A total of 9 public presentations at "Folkeuniversitetet",                      "Aftenskole" etc.   

Academic awards and honours

2022 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Excellence award winner, Vienna, Austria

2014 Student award, second place at the 20^th World Congress of Epidemiology, Alaska, USA

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Course leader at the course:

• Social Medicine, disease prevention and rehabilitation, Bachelor of Public Health Science
• Advanced social epidemiology: concepts, methodology and policy, PhD course

Supervising Internship Projects for Bachelor and Master Students in Public Health and Medicin

Previous course leader or teaching: Health and Society in a Multidisciplinary Perspective, Master of Public Health, Medical sociology, Master in Medicine, Social Epidemiology and Pandemics, Bachelor in Public Health, SAS-programming, Master in Public Health