Naja Hulvej Rod

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Naja Hulvej Rod

(Formerly Naja Rod Nielsen)

MS, PhD, DMSc

EDUCATION

2014	DMSc in Medicine	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2007	PhD in Epidemiology	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
2004	Master of Public Health Science	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2002	Bachelor of Public Health Science	University of Copenhagen, Denmark

CURRENT APPOINTMENT

2018-	Head of Section of Epidemiology	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2017-	Professor in Stress Epidemiology	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2017-	Adjunct Researcher	University of Stockholm, Sweden

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

2008-2017	Associate Professor in Epidemiology	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2008-2011	Adjunct Postdoctoral Fellow	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
2007-2008	Researcher	National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
2005-2006	Teaching Assistant	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2002-2006	Research Assistant	National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
2004	Epidemiologic advisor	RAND Health, Santa Monica, USA
2001-2002	Research Assistant	Institute of Preventive Medicine, Denmark

CAREER BREAKS

Three periods of maternity leave; July 2007 to March 2008 (9 months), June 2010 to February 2011 (9 months) and from October 2013 to June 2014 (9 months).

HONORS

DFF Starting Grant (Sapere Aude), Independent Research Fund Denmark 2017

Matas’ Heart Prize 2011

Raymond D. Goodman Scholarship Award, UCLA 2006

RESEARCH STATEMENT

I am heading an interdisciplinary research group in Complexity and Big Data in Epidemiology. Health is a complex phenomenon and the aim of the research group is to study the social and biological factors determining health and disease and to elucidate the underlying behavioral, psychological and physiological mechanisms that might explain these effects. I specifically aim to investigate the health consequences of the accumulation of childhood social adversities and the complex interactions between work, life and health as they evolve across the life span. I have solid experience in working with longitudinal datasets, register-based research and complex modelling including social influences and group dynamics. I also have a particular interest in causal inference and in development and application of new methods in epidemiology, such as interaction and mediation analyses. To embrace complexity in epidemiology I actively explore new sources (e.g. smartphones) of 'big data', incorporate system theory thinking and try to leverage insights across disciplines.

RESEARCH LEADERSHIP

2017-	Primary Investigator of the Danish Life Course (DANLIFE) Cohort, which is a register-based cohort of more than 2 mill Danish children
2012-	Head of the Steering Committee for the Copenhagen Stress Research Center (www.stressresearch.ku.dk), which has been established to provide coordinated and innovative research into the mechanisms, health consequences and prevention of stress.
2011-	Head of the research group in Complexity and Big Data in Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (http://publichealth.ku.dk/sections/section-epidemiology/research/complexity-and-big-data/)
2010-	Primary investigator for the Stress and Health Sub-study of CAMB, which includes detailed information on physiological stress mechanisms

RESEARCH FUNDS

I have, in total, received 3,281,640 Euros (equivalent to 25.6 mill DKK) in research funds as primary investigator and more than 3.1 m Euros as Co-PI.

Funded projects where I am PI or co-PI:

Healthy working among people with chronic disorders. Danish Work Environment Foundation, 340,000 Euros, 2019 to 2022, PI together with Alice Clark (co-PI)
Parental leave reforms and women’s health. Danish Health Insurance Foundation, 52,000 Euros, 2018 to 2020, PI together with Emilie Courtin (co-PI)
The SmartSleep program. Documenting health consequences of smartphone interrupted sleep through a pioneering combination of high-resolution smartphone data and rich clinical health data, DFF Starting Grant (Sapere Aude), Independent Research Fund Denmark, 757,000 Euros, 2018 to 2021, PI
Psychosocial working environment and the risk of diabetes, sickness absence and disability pension (PSA-DISPO), Danish Work Environment Foundation, 512,000 Euros, 2017 to 2020, co-PI
Negative social relations at work and risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease: mediating mechanisms, Danish Work Environment Foundation, 123,320 Euros, 2016 to 2019, PI
Psychosocial work environment in the Region, Danish Regions, 245,000 Euros, 2016 to 2018, PI
Childhood adversities and onset of type 1 diabetes, Innovation Foundation, 145,000 Euros, Company PhD to Jessica Linnéa Bengtsson, 2016 to 2019, Co-PI from the University.
Resourceful work: a multi-national study on health effects of improvement in work environment, Danish Work Environment Foundation, 520,000 Euros, 2016 to 2019, PI
Psychosocial work environment and healthy ageing, NordForsk, 2015 to 2020, 2.6 mill Euros, PI: Mika Kivimaki, co-PI for Work package 2
Social capital at hospitals – well-being, sickness absence and quality of work, Danish Work Environment Foundation, 306,000 Euros, 2014 to 2017, PI
Health consequences of the complex interplay between psychosocial work demands and demands in private life, Danish Work Environment Foundation, 435,000 Euros, 2013 to 2017, PI
Impaired sleep and cancer, Lundbeck Foundation, 13,500 Euros, 2011 to 2012, PI
Psychosocial risk factors for Parkinson’s Disease, Danish Health Insurance Foundation, 46,500 Euros, 2011 to 2012, PI
Impaired sleep and cardiovascular disease prognosis, Danish Health Insurance Foundation, 53,500 Euros, 2010 to 2012, PI
Psychosocial factors and cardiovascular disease: Understanding the mechanisms for men and women, Danish Heart Association, 53,500 Euros, 2010 to 2011, PI
Life course stress and risk of chronic obstructive lung disease, Lundbeck Foundation, 16,000 Euros, 2009 to 2010, PI
Stress and risk of developing the metabolic syndrome, Danish Heart Association, 13,500 Euros, 2009 to 2010, PI
Stress-related morbidity and mortality, Danish Research Council, 306,500 Euros, 2007 to 2011, PI

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

2017	Visiting Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, USA (6 weeks)
2014	Visiting Researcher, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), Paris, France
2013	Visiting Researcher, Department of Insurance Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
2012	Visiting Researcher, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
2010-	Program Director for the Danish arm of the IDEAR (Integrated Datasets across Europe for Ageing Research) network, which has been established in order to improve research on chronic diseases and aging (www.idear-net.net). The IDEAR network brings together large, well-established cohort studies from five European countries and builds on a highly productive collaboration between researchers at University of Copenhagen; University College London, UK; Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute, Sweden; INSERM, France; and University of Turku, Finland
2004	Research stay at the Bandim Health Project, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, 2004

REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS

British Medical Journal, Psychological Medicine, Cancer Causes and Control, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Diabetologia, Steroids, Acta Oncologica, International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Sleep Research, JAMA

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2012-2013	Scientific Committee Member for the IEA-IEE European Congress of Epidemiology 2013
2010-2011	Scientific Committee Member for the European Public Health Association Conference 2011
2005	Scientific Committee Member for the annual Danish Stress Research Conference

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2014-	Head of Research Education Program in Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2010-2016	Member of Educational Board for Master in Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen
2008-	Faculty member, University of Copenhagen

COMMISIONS OF TRUST

2019-	Scientific Evaluation Committee member, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte)
2015-	Board Member, the Council on Health and Disease Prevention, Denmark
2014-2017	International Scientific Reviewer, National Cancer Institute, France
2013, 2015	PhD Review Panel Member, University of Aarhus, Denmark
2011-2015	Board Member, Danish Epidemiologic Society, Denmark
2011	International Scientific Reviewer, Swedish Research Council

SELECTED INVITED TALKS AND TEACHING

2019	Invited speaker, Institute of Child Health, University College London
2018	Invited expert, the National Stress Panel, National Ministry of Health, Denmark
2018	Keynote speaker, Danish Society for Obesity Research annual meeting, Nyborg
2017	Keynote speaker, 14^th Stress Research Conference, Copenhagen
2017	Invited speaker, seminar series on epidemiologic methods, University of California, San Diego, USA
2016	Invited panel discussant, Conference on Social Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015	Keynote speaker, National Working Environment Conference, Nyborg, Denmark
2015	Keynote speaker at 11^th Parkinson's Disease Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden
2013	Invited Lecturer at a 3-day PhD level course on Causal Inference, Center for Social Inequity Studies, Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden
2013	Invited keynote-speaker at the Summer School of the national graduate research program in Public Health (GRASPH), Denmark
2012	Invited expert, workshop on psychosocial risk management in the EU- company experiences in the context of regulatory frameworks and politics at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Germany
2012	Invited expert on stress, National Ministry of Health, Denmark

PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2017	Smartphone Interrupted Sleep: a new public health challenge Oral presentation at the World Congress of Epidemiology, Tokyo
2013	Sleep apnea and risk of permanent exclusion from the labor market and cause-specific mortality Oral presentation at European Congress of Epidemiology, Aarhus
2009	Major life events and risk of Parkinson’s disease Oral presentation at European Congress of Epidemiology, Warsaw
2007	Do young, presumably healthy men die from stress? Results from a prospective study Poster presentation at the Society of Epidemiologic Research Meeting, Boston
2006	Perceived stress and risk of colorectal cancer in men and women Poster presentation at the International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Bangkok
2006	Interactions between intakes of alcohol and postmenopausal hormones on risk of breast cancer Oral presentation at the 2^nd American Congress of Epidemiology, Seattle
2006	Is perceived stress associated with lower risk of endometrial cancer? Poster presentation at the IEA-EEF European Congress of Epidemiology, Utrecht
2005	Perceived stress and risk of ischemic heart disease: Causation or bias? Oral presentation at the 2^nd Danish Stress Conference, Copenhagen
2005	Self-reported stress and risk of breast cancer. Oral presentation at the Society of Epidemiologic Research annual meeting, Toronto
2004	Stress reporting in a representative health interview study of Danes Oral presentation at The 1^st Danish Stress Conference, Copenhagen
2003	Is the effect of alcohol on risk of stroke confined to highly stressed persons? Oral presentation at the 12^th European Stroke Conference, Valencia

TEACHING

I am responsible for PhD-level courses in Causal Inference and Introduction to Directed Acyclic Graphs at the University of Copenhagen. I also give lectures in stress and sleep epidemiology. I have been the main advisor for nine master-levels students in Public Health Science and Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, and I have been on the assessment committee for seven PhD theses and one Doctoral Dissertation.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Post graduate supervision

I am currently supervising nine PhD students and I have supervised six PhD students who have been awarded their PhD degree.

2016-2019	Principal supervisor for PhD student Eszter Török. Project title: Workplace as a resource: the health effects of increasing workplace resources and decreasing psychological strain at workplaces. University of Copenhagen
2016-2019	Principal Supervisor for PhD student Jessica Linnéa Bengtsson. Project title: Childhood adversity and the onset of type 1 diabetes. University of Copenhagen.
2016-2019	Principal Supervisor for PhD-student Tianwei Xu. Project title: Negative social relations at work and cardiometabolic disorders. University of Copenhagen.
2016-2019	co-Supervisor for PhD student Andreas Rieckmann. Project title: Long-term non-specific effects of BCG and smallpox vaccinations. University of Southern Denmark. PhD degree awarded on April 18th, 2018
2015-2018	co-Supervisor for PhD student Camilla Bonnesen. Project title: Design and evaluation of a complex health intervention among high school students – with a special focus on stress. University of Southern Denmark.
2015-2018	co-Supervisior for PhD-student Johan Høy Jensen. Project title: Work environmen and health in restructuring Public Sector. University of Copenhagen.
2015-2018	Principal Supervisor for PhD-student Jesper Mortensen. Project title: Combined effects of psychosocial work factors and increased family demands on sickness absence and long-term physical health in European workers. University of Copenhagen. PhD degree awarded on April 5, 2018
2015-2016	Supervisor for Postdoc Alice Clark. Project title: Sleep, mediation and cardiovascular disease. University of Copenhagen.
2014-2017	co-Supervisor for PhD-student Gitte Lindved Petersen. Project title: Life course trajectories of socioeconomic position and physical performance in midlife including the roles of leisure physical activity and personal traits. University of Copenhagen.
2014-2016	Supervisor for Postdoc Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt. Project title: Social capital at hospitals – well-being, sickness absence and quality of work. University of Copenhagen
2014-2017	co-Supervisor for PhD-student Agnete Dissing. Project title: Stress in Dynamic Social Networks: Social Influence Effects on Perceived Stress among Young Adults. University of Copenhagen.
2012-2015	Supervisor for Postdoc Nadya Dich. Project title: Protective effects of positive emotionality and life satisfaction against the impact of economic hardship, work strain and major life event on allostatic load accumulation. University of Copenhagen.
2011-2014	co-Supervisor for PhD-student Kasper Olesen. Project title: Long-term health consequences of retirement. University of Copenhagen. PhD degree awarded on October 13, 2014
2011-2014	Principal Supervisor for PhD-student Alice Clark. Project title: Impaired sleep and ischemic heart disease incidence and prognosis. University of Copenhagen. PhD degree awarded on March 5, 2015
2010-2014	co-Supervisor for PhD-student Jolene Masters Pedersen. Project title: Mechanisms of psychosocial and biological factors acting over a life course and low-grade inflammation (mediation and interaction). University of Copenhagen. PhD degree awarded on April 20, 2015
2010-2014	co-Supervisor for PhD-student Helene Nordahl Jensen. Project title: Socioeconomic position and colorectal cancer – the impact of clustering, interaction, and mediation by modifiable risk factors. University of Copenhagen. PhD degree awarded on May 28, 2014
2009-2014	Principal Supervisor for PhD-student Camilla Pedersen. Project title: Residential and occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MF) and the risk for diseases. University of Copenhagen.PhD degree awarded on November 27, 2014
2009-2014	Principal Supervisor for PhD-student Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt. Project title: Social inequality in breast cancer – clustering, interaction, and mediation. University of Copenhagen. PhD degree awarded on June 23, 2014
2004	Epidemiologic advisor for an expert group of medical doctors. Evidence review on time trend and risk factors for urologic diseases. RAND Health, Santa Monica, USA

Research Scholarship Students

Anne Christensen. Research project: Impaired sleep and cancer. Feb-Dec 2012

Malene Nielsen. Research project: Caregiving and mortality. May 2011 to Marts 2012

Anne Mette Bender and Gunhild Christensen. Research project: Psychosocial factors and cardiovascular disease. Understanding the mechanisms for men and women. February 2010 to January 2011

Alice Clark. Research project: Psychosocial risk factors and chronic obstructive lung disease. Feb-Dec 2010

Jolene Masters Petersen. Research project: Psychosocial risk factors for metabolic syndrome. Sep 2009 to Jun 2010

Primære forskningsområder

My primary research interests are centered around complexity and lifecourse approaches to understand long-term health consequences of stress, impaired sleep and social adversities. I also have a keen interest in epidemiological methododology including causal inference approaches.

Aktuel forskning

I am heading an interdisciplinary research group in Complexity and Big Data in Epidemiology. Health is a complex phenomenon and the aim of the research group is to study the social and biological factors determining health and disease and to elucidate the underlying behavioral, psychological, and physiological mechanisms that might explain these effects. I specifically aim to investigate the health consequences of the accumulation of childhood social adversities and the complex interactions between work, life and health as they evolve across the life span. I have solid experience in working with longitudinal datasets, register-based research and complex modelling including social influences and group dynamics. I also have a particular interest in causal inference and in development and application of new methods in epidemiology, such as interaction and mediation analyses. To embrace complexity in epidemiology I actively explore new sources (e.g. smartphones) of ‘big data’, incorporate system theory thinking and try to leverage insights across disciplines.

For details about my research group please visit: https://publichealth.ku.dk/about-the-department/section-epidemiology/research-epi/complexity-and-big-data/

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Bachelor- og kandidatuddannelsen i folkesundhedsvidenskab:

Epidemiologi på kandidatdelen
Vejleder på kandidatspecialer

Ph.d.-kurser

From Research Idea to Scientific Paper in Public Health
Causal Inference
Introduction to Directed Acyclic Graphs

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Economic hardship over twenty-two consecutive years of adult life and markers of early ageing: physical capability, cognitive function and inflammation
Foverskov, E., Petersen, G. L., Pedersen, J. L. M., Rod, N. H., Mortensen, E. L., Bruunsgaard, H. & Lund, R., 1 mar. 2020, I: European Journal of Ageing.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
3 Citationer (Scopus)
Perceived stress and dementia: Results from the Copenhagen city heart study
Nabe-Nielsen, K., Rod, N. H., Hansen, A. M., Prescott, E., Grynderup, M. B., Islamoska, S., Ishtiak-Ahmed, K., Garde, A. H., Gyntelberg, F., Mortensen, E. L., Thien Kieu Thi Phung, Waldemar, G. & Westendorp, R. G. J., 1 nov. 2020, I: Aging & Mental Health.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
3 Citationer (Scopus)
Psychosocial working conditions and depressive disorder: disentangling effects of job control from socioeconomic status using a life-course approach
Svane-Petersen, A. C., Holm, A., Burr, H., Framke, E., Melchior, M., Rod, N. H., Sivertsen, B., Stansfeld, S., Sørensen, J. K., Virtanen, M., Rugulies, R. & Madsen, I. E. H., 1 feb. 2020, I: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 12 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
5 Citationer (Scopus)
Work-unit organizational changes and risk of cardiovascular disease: a prospective study of public healthcare employees in Denmark
Jensen, J. H., Flachs, E. M., Skakon, J., Rod, N. H., Bonde, J. P. & Kawachi, I., 1 maj 2020, I: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 11 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
1 Citationer (Scopus)
Antidepressant treatment among social workers, human service professionals, and non-human service professionals: A multi-cohort study in Finland, Sweden and Denmark
Rantonen, O., Alexanderson, K., Clark Lyth, A. J., Aalto, V., Sónden, A., Brønnum-Hansen, H., Hougaard, C. Ø., Rod, N. H., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Kivimäki, M., Oksanen, T. & Salo, P., 1 maj 2019, I: Journal of Affective Disorders. 250, s. 153-162 10 s.
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
1 Citationer (Scopus)
Bi-directional relation between effort‒reward imbalance and risk of neck-shoulder pain: assessment of mediation through depressive symptoms using occupational longitudinal data
Halonen, J. I., Lallukka, T., Virtanen, M., Rod, N. H. & Magnusson Hanson, L. L., 2019, I: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. 45, 2, s. 126-133 7 s.
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Cohort profile: The DANish LIFE course (DANLIFE) cohort, a prospective register-based cohort of all children born in Denmark since 1980
Bengtsson, J., Dich, N., Rieckmann, A. & Rod, N. H., 2019, I: BMJ Open. 9, 8 s., e027217.
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Commentary: Causal models adjusting for time-varying confounding -please send more data
Lange, T. & Rod, N. H., 2019, I: International Journal of Epidemiology. 48, 1, s. 265-267 3 s.
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Naja Hulvej Rod

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EDUCATION

Primære forskningsområder

Aktuel forskning

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Ekspertise relateret til FN’s Verdensmål

Emneord

Fingeraftryk

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Economic hardship over twenty-two consecutive years of adult life and markers of early ageing: physical capability, cognitive function and inflammation

Perceived stress and dementia: Results from the Copenhagen city heart study

Psychosocial working conditions and depressive disorder: disentangling effects of job control from socioeconomic status using a life-course approach

Work-unit organizational changes and risk of cardiovascular disease: a prospective study of public healthcare employees in Denmark

Antidepressant treatment among social workers, human service professionals, and non-human service professionals: A multi-cohort study in Finland, Sweden and Denmark

Bi-directional relation between effort‒reward imbalance and risk of neck-shoulder pain: assessment of mediation through depressive symptoms using occupational longitudinal data

Cohort profile: The DANish LIFE course (DANLIFE) cohort, a prospective register-based cohort of all children born in Denmark since 1980

Commentary: Causal models adjusting for time-varying confounding -please send more data