Current research

I am interested in the organization and regulation of the healthcare system and medical research, in particular with respect to introduction of new medical technologies. I belong the interdisciplinary field known as Science and Technology Studies (STS) and have my background in social anthropology, empirical ethics and African area studies. 

I have worked with, e.g., research biobanking, stem cells, property issues, forensic biobanking, bone, blood, and organ transplantation, public-private partnerships, ethics regulation, EU health regulation, data-intensification and public perceptions of various of these topics.

I am currently working on a project funded by the European Research Council (Advanced Grant) called DataSpace. It is a project about how cross-border health data infrastructures come into being, and how different actors experience living in the data-intensive environments they create.  

Before that I focused on what I have called 'intensified data sourcing' in healthcare and explored the performativity of hopes, promises and expections in the shaping of digital and data-intensive technologies as they play out in relation to national integration of health data infrastructures. This also took place within the framework of an ERC-funded project: Policy, Practice and Patient Experience in the Age of Intensified Data Sourcing (POLICYAID). 

And I am also happy to be part of the Novo Nordic Foundation project reNEW on stem cell technology: https://renew.ku.dk/. Here I work on the sub-project called PREPARE, which is an exciting collaboration between ethicists, social scientists, and health economists placed in Melbourne, Leiden, and Copenhagen. 

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Teaching

I am course manager on Organisation analysis and philosophy of science on the BA in the public health sciences programme and Data and digitalization on the MA programme. I also teach topics related to qualitative methods, public health ethics, STS etc. I supervise essays on issues relating to medical STS, health politics, organisation, regulation, and public health ethics. 

CV

Education

- 2004: Dr. Med. Sci./Ph.D., Medical ethics, University of Umeå.                                        
- 2001: Cand.scient.anth. (MA anthropology), Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
- 1998: MA. African studies, Centre for African studies, University of Copenhagen.        
- 1998: BA. in anthropology, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

Awards and distinctions

• 2025 Panel Chair, European Research Council, Consolidator Grant, SH3
• 2024 Guest professor, St Gallen University, Switzerland
• 2023 ERC Advanced grant, The European Research Council
• 2018 Distinguished Research Fellow Award, Monash University, Australia
• 2017 EliteForsk, reward of distinction from the Ministry of education and Research
• 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant, The European Research Council
• 2012 Sapere Aude Research Leader of Excellence, The Danish Research Councils
• 2010 Viking Fund Medal for organizing a symposium, Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York City

Work experience

- 2013: Professor of Medical Science and Technology Studies, Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Section for Health Services Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
- 2011-2014: Head of Section, Section for Health Services Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
- 2007: Associate Professor, Department of Health Services Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Combined research and teaching position in Organizational analysis with special emphasis on research regulation.
- 2005-2007: Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Combined research and teaching position in Health Services Research with special emphasis on organization and power.
- 2001-2004: Doctoral student in Medical Ethics and Health Services Research, Department of Medical Ethics, University of Umeå, and Department of Health Service Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

Selected Projects

 - 2023-2028 DataSpace (ERC Advanced Grant)

- 2022-2027 PREPARE (Part of the renew project for 2,3 billion DKK running, grant holder: Melissa Little, PI for Prepare Denmark, 17.3 mio DKK: Klaus Hoeyer) Novo Nordisk Foundation

- 2020 Together apart: How Danes experience the Pandemic. (Grant holder: Klaus Hoeyer, project leader Naja Rod, DKK 545,000) Velux Foundation 

- 2016-2021: Policy, Practice and Patient Experience in an Age of Intensified Data Sourcing (ERC Consolidator Grant)

- 2012- 2016: GLOBAL GENES, LOCAL CONCERNS (2013-2017) UCPH Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research (PI:Jens Schovsbo, 24.168.000)

- 2011-2014: BODY AND PERSON. De Frie Forskningsråd, FKK, Sapere Aude-forskningsleder (PI:
                   Klaus Høyer, DKK 8.542.816)

Possible conflicts of interest

No known conflicts of interest