Drude Molbo

Drude Molbo

PhD

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3372-8711

  • Øster Farimagsgade 5

    1353 København K

Personal profile

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

I am an evolutionary biologist, who changed to social medicine in 2008 - so it's not a mistake that my first publications are about insect genetics.

CV

Education:

2002                Doctorat es Sciences (PhD)
                       from institut d’écologie, laboratoire de zoologie et d’écologie animale
                       at Lausanne university in Switzerland
 
1995                Cand. Scient.  (MSc)
                       from dept of ecology and genetics, institute of Biology,
                       Aarhus university, Denmark
 

Work:

2008 - now      Data administrator
                      Section of Social Medicine, Department of public health,
                      Copenhagen University, Denmark

2004 - 2007     Post doc., Tupper fellow
                       Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama
 
2002 - 2004     Post doc., Marie Curie fellow
                       ICAPB, Edinburgh universitet, Scotland
 
1998                Short term fellow, 4 months
                       Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

Primary fields of research

As data administrator and project manager, my primary responsibility is anything that has to do with data, including the biological samples in the biobank CAMB

My main areas of responsibility are

  • data collection - among other things I set up programs for data entry, surveys, develop manuals to verify data, plan projects and document data collection
  • cleaning and merging of data into larger databases using the program SAS
  • administration of projects and permits - I pull out subsets of data or biological samples for specific analyses, coordinate between collaborators in different parts of the project, handle collaboration agreements and GDPR permits
  • analyses and SAS programming - I do statistical analyses and help with SAS programming problems
  • guidance on choice of data for projects and application procedures
  • one of the 4 database managers at the public health database, hosted at Statistics Denmark

 

Current research

I work on two projects:

  1. I am data manager on the project CAMB, Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank, which is a large project headed by professor Rikke Lund and managed by Bodil Marie Holst.
    The project studies early aging in relation to low grade inflammation.
    Data were collected in 2009 -2011 (CAMB1), and again in 2021 (CAMB2) where approximately 10000 middle-aged men and women answered a large questionnaire, and, for CAMB1, came in for physical tests, health assessments and gave blood samples to the biobank.
    My responsibility is anything that has to do with blood samples, data management and register linkage, but we are a group of people working together on this.

  2. I am data manager for the project STRIT about health, well-being and social relations in the housing estate Taastrupgaard.
    The project studies the effect of large structural changes (partial demolition among others) in a housing estate on the health and social life of the residents. Residents are interviewed before, during and after the changes, compared to a similar housing estate without changes and followed up in national registers. 

  3. I am one of the database managers on the Public Heath Database at Institute of Public Health. This is our institute's shared platform for register based research via Statistics Denmark.

Education/Academic qualification

Biology, PhD, University of Lausanne

1997 → 2002

Biology, MSc, Aarhus University

1988 → 1995

Keywords

  • Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
  • Biobanking
  • Data Management
  • Register based research
  • Public health
  • Social medicine

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  • 31 Journal article
  • 1 Conference abstract in journal
  • 1 Letter
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  • 1 Lecture and oral contribution