Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
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Research interests in global & international health, health systems & transition in health, double burden of communicable & non-communicable diseases, malaria, TB, HIV, diabetes, and their interactions and impact, including long-term on mother & child health in particular.
Specialist in tropical medicine and in infectious diseases.
Supervised > 50 ph.d.s and > 150 masters students, many from low- and middle-income countries. Capacity building & research collaboration with Tanzania since 1992 and with India since 2002. Running courses and teaching in global & international health and tropical medicine at pre- & postgraduate level in Copenhagen and abroad. Former board member, World Diabetes Foundation. Founder of Masters in International Health, MIH, and of Masters in Global Health, University of Copenhagen.
Published more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Please refer to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Bygbjerg
Keywords
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
- Tropical Medicine
- International Health
- Infectious Diseases
- Diabetes
- HIV
- AIDS
- African Health Systems
- Malaria
- Tuberculosis
- Infectious and Viral Diseases
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Anaemia in the first trimester and poor physiological plasma expansion during pregnancy negatively impact foetal weight and newborn anthropometrics: An observational cohort study in Tanzania
Schmiegelow, C., Møller, S. L., Yde, A. M., Nielsen, B. B., Hjort, L., Theander, T. G., Lusingu, J. P. A., Minja, D. T. R. & Bygbjerg, I. C., 2024, In: Tropical Medicine & International Health. 29, 3, p. 243-255 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Assessing worldwide trends of underweight and obesity
Christensen, D. L. & Bygbjerg, I. C., 26 Oct 2024, In: The Lancet. 404, 10463, p. 1642 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Differential dietary intake and contribution of ultra-processed foods during pregnancy according to nutritional status
Granich-Armenta, A., Contreras-Manzano, A., Cantoral, A., Christensen, D. L., Marrón-Ponce, J. A., Ávila-Jímenez, L., Ramírez-Silva, I., Rivera Dommarco, J. A., Grunnet, L. G., Bygbjerg, I. C. & Lamadrid-Figueroa, H., 2024, In: Frontiers in Nutrition. 11, 9 p., 1400513.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Do WHO criteria for gestational diabetes fit a rural population in Tanzania? – A follow-up study assessing mother and child health six years after a pregnancy diagnosed with gestational diabetes
Eriksen, C. B., Minja, D. T., Christensen, D. L., Bygbjerg, I. C., Damm, P., Schmiegelow, C., Grunnet, L. G. & Hjort, L., 2024, In: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 211, 8 p., 111657.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Informal caregiving among people supporting a person with type 2 diabetes in rural communities of Northern Vietnam: A cross-sectional study of caregiver burdens
Bui, D. H. T., Nguyen, B. X., Søndergaard, J., Gammeltoft, T. M., Bygbjerg, I. C., Nielsen, J. & Meyrowitsch, D. W., 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 5, 13 p., e0304821.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Neonatal mortality risk of vulnerable newborns: A descriptive analysis of subnational, population-based birth cohorts for 238 143 live births in low- and middle-income settings from 2000 to 2017
Hazel, E. A., Erchick, D. J., Katz, J., Lee, A. C. C., Diaz, M., Wu, L. S. F., West, K. P., Shamim, A. A., Christian, P., Ali, H., Baqui, A. H., Saha, S. K., Ahmed, S., Roy, A. D., Silveira, M. F., Buffarini, R., Shapiro, R., Zash, R., Kolsteren, P., Lachat, C. & 93 others, , 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The effects of diabetes clubs on peer-support, disclosure of diabetes status, and sources of information regarding diabetes management: results of a pilot-intervention in rural Vietnam
Meyrowitsch, D. W., Thi Dang, N-A., Phong, T. V., Nielsen, J., Søndergaard, J., Cuong, N. D., Le Minh, H., Vu, T. K. D., Bygbjerg, I. C., Gammeltoft, T. M. & Thanh, N. D., 2024, In: Public Health. 228, p. 171-177 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The pioneers of Vietnam’s epidemiological transition: an ethnographic study of pregnant women’s experiences of gestational diabetes
Gammeltoft, T. M., Nguyen, T. A., Dung, T. K., Thi Dang, N. A., Phuong Nguyen, T. M., Nguyen, V. T. & Bygbjerg, I. C., 2024, In: Global Health Action. 17, 1, 9 p., 2341521.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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