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  • Gothersgade 160, 3

    1123 København K

  • Gothersgade 160, 3, 1123 København K, 01 Gothersgade 160, 01-3-33

  • Øster Farimagsgade 5

    1353 København K

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1989 …2024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Primary fields of research

Reproductive health, family building, focus on infertility, pregnany loss, involuntary childlessness, medically assisted reproduction, prevention of infertility and pregnancy loss. Social epidemiology, qualitative methods. 

Current research

  • Programme coordinator (PI) for the research group, Reproductive Health, Section of Social Medicine
  • Programme coordinator for The Copenhagen Multi-centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Programme. The COMPI group involves researchers from University of Copenhagen; Chapman University, CA, USA; Porto University, Portugal. Collaboration with public fertility clinics in Denmark. 
  • Social inequality in use of assisted reproduction technology treatment
  • Psychiatric disorders, infertility and medically assisted reproduction treatment 
  • Assisted reproduction technology treatment and women's risk of cancer
  • Family building among men and women having survived childhood/early adulthood cancer
  • Collaborative projects on stress, infertility and pregnancy loss
  • Collaborative projects on family building and prevention of infertility and pregnancy loss

CV

Profile

  • Contributes substantially nationally and internationally, to research in reproductive health with a special focus on family building, infertility, pregnancy loss, medically assisted reproduction, prevention of infertility and pregnancy loss
  • Developed and implemented questionnaire-based infertility-specific measurement scales for stress, coping,  communication and marital benefit. The instruments have been translated and used in more than 50 countries throughout the world
  • Established in 2000 an international, inter-disciplinary research group involving researchers from Denmark, Estonia, Portugal, Sweden, UK, USA; The Copenhagen Multi-centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Group
  • Combines quantitative and qualitative research methods
  • Contributes substantially to the development and running of pre- and postgraduate educations at the Faculty of Health, University of Copenhagen
  • Participates substantially in the public health debate within reproductive health policy and family building
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Academic educations and degrees

2006                                                                                             Doctor of Medical Sciences (DMSci), University of Copenhagen
Thesis: Infertility and assisted reproduction in Denmark. Epidemiology and psychosocial consequences.

1996
PhD in Medicine, University of Copenhagen
Thesis: Psychosocial consequences of infertility and treatment.

1986
Medical Doctor, University of Copenhagen

Professional experience

Since 2017 - Professor wsr in Public Health and Infertility, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health

2000 - 2017
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health

1997 - 1999
Assistant Professor in Health Services Research, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health

1996 - 1997
Vice Deputy Program Director, University of Copenhagen, Master of Public Health

1992 - 1995
PhD-student, University of Copenhagen, Department of Social Medicine

1986 - 1991
Internship and registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology, internal medicine, and surgery.

Selected appointments

2021 

International Fertility Education Initiative (IFEI), Member of network

2015
The Council on Health and Disease Prevention, Member of Working Group on Prevention of Infertility

2015
Coordination for Gender Research, Steering Committee, University of Copenhagen

2014
WHO, Steering Committee for Guidelines and Nomenclature for infertility investigation and treatment

2010 - 2020            
Danish Fertility Society, Member of Fertility Awareness Working Group,             

2008 – 2011
European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), Member of Task Force on Reproduction and Society

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Teaching

Medicine

  • Medical sociology
  • Supervision of bachelor and master theses

 BA and MA in Public Health

  • Elective course: Fertility and health
  • Supervisor of bachelor and master theses

 Supervision

  • Reproductive health
  • Infertility and assisted reproduction
  • Prevention of  infertility
  • Family building

 

Keywords

  • Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
  • Reproductive health
  • Infertility
  • Assisted reproduction
  • Family building
  • Prevention and health promotion
  • Qualitative methods
  • Social epidemiology
  • Complex interventions

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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