Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

Short presentation

Professor of Social Epidemiology

Section of Social Medicine
Department of Public Health
The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Primary fields of research

Research in perinatal, obstetric, and pediatric epidemiology, including etiological studies of fetal death, congenital anomalies, preterm birth, and social and demographic conditions in relation to child health.

Associations between early life conditions and disease outcomes in later life are studied in a life-course perspective.

Current research

• Principal Investigator of the 11 year and the 18 year follow-up of the Danish National Birth Cohort
• Principal Investigator of the DanCHASE (Danish Child Health And Social Equity) project, a register-based research project concerning social factors and early life, e.g. fetal and childhood, health and disease
• Founder and co-ordinator of www.birthcohorts.net, a website that collects information about birth cohorts worldwide and aims to facilitate research collaboration between birth cohort researchers

Teaching

Teaching in epidemiology:

PhD-courses in perinatal, obstetric and pediatric epidemiology

Supervisor for BA students, MA students and PhD students

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Current affiliation

Professor of Social Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Address: Øster Farimagsgade 5, PO Box 2099, 1014 København K
Phone: +45 35 32 67 65          
E-mail: [email protected]

Education and degrees                    

2001
PhD in Medicine (Epidemiology), University of Copenhagen: 
Fetal death: Epidemiological Studies

1988
MD (Medicine), University of Copenhagen

Professional experiences

2010 -
Professor of Social Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2007 - 2010
Professor of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark

2004 - 2007
Research Director (Child Health), National Institute of Public Health

2004
Associate Professor, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen

2003 - 2004
Visiting Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit

2000 – 2004
Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen

1994 - 2000
Research Fellow, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre

1988 - 1994
Work as Medical doctor (Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obsterics&Gynecology)

Scientific qualifications

Publications
See Publications

Referee and reviewer tasks

Ugeskrift for Laeger, American Journal of Epidemiology, International Journal of Epidemiology, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UK Medical Research Council; Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, Jornal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Genus, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Medical Journal; BMJ, UK Medical Research Council; Norges Frie Forskningsråd,  Academy of Finland, UK National Institute of Health Research

Selected scientific and professional posts

2005 - 2006
European Councillor in the Council for International Epidemiological Association

2001 -
Member of Project Metropolit’s board of Directors

2000 -
Member of the Danish National Birth Cohort’s Board of Directors

1995 - 2001
Member of the board, Danish Epidemiology Society

1993 - 1996
Member of Council for Professional Ethics, Danish Medical Association