Allan Krasnik

Current research

Ongoing research projects on continuity of care (organizational factors and patient perspectives), the role of preventive medication in relation to healthy ageing and studies on the health of migrants and ethnic minorites, their access to health services and the improvement of migrant and ethnic minority care.

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Education

 - 1971: cand.med., University of Copenhagen.

 - 1973: Master of Public Health, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

 - 1976: ph.d. University of Copenhagen.

 - 1984: specialist in public health.

Employment and Research Scholarships:

 - 1971-79: various jobs as Registrar in departments at hospitals within the Copenhagen area (a total of 2 years) as well as research scholarships at the Institute of Social Medicine, the University of Copen¬hagen.

 - 1979-81: Sundhedsstyrelsen (The National Board of Health) as Assistant Medical Doctor,

 - 1980-94: Ugeskrift for Læger, (a weekly medical scientific publication) as Editor.

 - 2011-: President for the Section of Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health in the European Public Health Association (EUPHA).

 - 1981-86: Dansk Sygehus Institut, (Danish Hospital Institute), as Deputy Director.

 - 1986-92: Institut for Social Medicin, (Institute of Social Medicine), the University of Copenhagen, as Associate Professor.

 - 1988-94: Nordisk Medicin, (a monthly, scientific journal) as Editor.

 - 1992-94: City Medical Office in Copenhagen as a Medical Officer of Health.

 - 1995-: The Department of Social Medicine at the University of Copenhagen as a Professor of Social Medicine, from 1997 Department of Health Service Research at the Institute of Public Health - as Head of Institute until 2004.
 

Primary fields of research

Scientific main interest is health services research with special attention to prevention, evaluation of innovations and changes and the effect on the structure of the health service as to access and health care utilization for different social and ethnic groups. Has published about 200 research publications and articles in national and international scientific journals dealing with these subjects. Has been project leader of a number of research groups, i.e. the Naestved Project (Community Medicine within primary health services) 1974 - 1980, The Billund Project (Evaluation of the Health Center) 1982 -1986, a project concerning the remuneration system in Copenhagen 1988-90, an evaluation project regarding community psychiatry in Copenhagen 1988-92,  evaluation projects concerning Bispebjerg Hospital as a model hospital of prevention since 1996 and interntional and Danish projects on immigrant health and access to health services for immigrants. Has, furthermore, participated in a number of single Danish and international projects concerning, among others, HIV-/AIDS-prevention and inequity in access to health services in Denmark and Europe as well as international comparative projects on performance of health services. Has been leader of the Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health and for a research program about society, culture and health policy in the Center for Healthy Ageing (CEHA) at University of Copenhagen.  Now leading a large Nordic project, CAGE, on the health and welfare of refugee children and adolescents.

Teaching

Has given lectures on theories and methods within public health at many  pre-graduate and post-graduate courses and has been personally responsible for and co-operated in the establishment and the implementation of new educations, courses and seminars within the field of health services research, including the MPH programme in Denmark, Master of Science in Public Health programme,  Master in International Health , and PhD courses on health services research and migrant health at the University of Copenhagen.