Professor of Social Epidemiology

Section of Epidemiology
Department of Public Health

The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Research in perinatal, obstetric, and pediatric epidemiology, including etiological studies of fetal death, congenital anomalies, preterm birth, and social and demographic conditions in relation to child health.

Associations between early life conditions and disease outcomes in later life are studied in a life-course perspective.

• Research group leader of POPE (Obstetric and Paediatric Epidemiology) 
• Scientific Principal Investigator of the Danish National Birth Cohort
• Principal Investigator of the DanCHASE (Danish Child Health And Social Equity) project, a register-based research project concerning social factors and early life, e.g. fetal and childhood, health and disease'
• Partner in the CHICOS FP7 project (www.chicosproject.eu/the-project), , LifeCycle (https://lifecycle-project.eu/), EUCANConnect (https://eucanconnect.com/) and Athlete (https://athleteproject.eu/)
• Founder and co-ordinator of www.birthcohorts.net, a website that collects information about birth cohorts worldwide and aims to facilitate research collaboration between birth cohort researchers

Teaching in epidemiology:

PhD-courses in perinatal, obstetric and pediatric epidemiology and Epidemiology for health researchers

Supervisor for BA students, MA students and PhD students

Current affiliation

Professor of Social Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Address: Øster Farimagsgade 5, PO Box 2099, 1014 København K
Phone: +45 35 32 67 65          
E-mail: [email protected]

Education and degrees                    

2002
Theoretical specialization in Public Health Medicine 

2001
PhD in Medicine (Epidemiology), University of Copenhagen: 
Fetal death: Epidemiological Studies

1988
MD (Medicine), University of Copenhagen

Professional experiences

2010 -
Professor of Social Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2010 -

Research group leader, Perinatal, Obstetric and Paediatric Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen

2015 - 2017

Head of Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health

2007 - 2010
Professor of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark

2004 - 2007
Research Director (Child Health), National Institute of Public Health

2004
Associate Professor, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen

2003 - 2004
Visiting Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit

2000 – 2004
Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen

1994 - 2000
Research Fellow, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre

1988 - 1994
Work as Medical doctor (Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obsterics&Gynecology)

Selected scientific and professional posts:

2019 - 
Appointed member, Independent Research Fund|Medical and Health Science

2017 -
PI for the Danish National Birth Cohort

2013 -
Co-Editor Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 

2005 - 2006
European Councillor in the Council for International Epidemiological Association                 

2000 -
Member of the Danish National Birth Cohort’s Scientific Management Team

Other research-related activities:

2005 -
Founder and editor of www.birthcohorts.net