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Current affiliation

      Associate Professor in Gerontology, MD, PhD    

      University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Section of Social Medicine.

      Address: Øster Farimagsgade 5, P.O.Box 2099, DK-1014 Copenhagen K. Denmark.

      Phone +45 35 32 71 22.

      E-mail: [email protected]

Academic education and degrees.

2011:      PhD in Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

               Thesis: Mobility limitations in midlife and old age: The role of social relations and socioeconomic position.

2008:      Medical Doctor, University of Copenhagen.

Employment

2014 – :                         Associate professor in Gerontology, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

2011 – June 2014:        Assistant professor, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

2011:                             Research assistant (February to June), Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

2008-2011:                   PhD-student, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

Leadership

Research

2012-             Co-chair of CLEAR (Copenhagen Lifecourse Epidemiology of Aging and Rehabilitation group), Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

2013-             Co-PI of the Danish Intervention Study of Preventive Home Visits in collaboration with DrMSc Mikkel Vass

2013-             Member of steering committee of the Danish Intervention Study of Preventive Home Visits

2014-             Member of steering committee of the Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank

2015-             Co-leader of workpackage B “Trends and trajectories of health and functioning among the oldest old” of the Nordic collaborative project “Social Inequalities in Aging (SIA); health, care and institutional reforms in the Nordic welfare model” with Professor Marja Jylhä, University of Tampere, and Assistant Professor Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet.

Publications

               15 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 3 chapters in textbooks, >10 presentations at International and Nordic conferences.

International collaboration

                      University of Tampere, School of Health Sciences, Professor Marja Jylhä.

Karolinska Intitutet, Aging Research Center. Assistant Professor Stefan Fors.

University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Professor Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Gerontology (GERO) & Frailty in Ageing research (FRIA) departments, Professor Ivan Bautmans

University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Hjelt-research institute, Post.doc. Minna Mänty

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, School of Life Sciences, UK, Lecturer Alan Gow.

Research networks

2013-             Participate in network for The Danish General Rural Population Study (GERUS) in Lolland Falster.

2011-             Member of theme 2 ’Life course aging processes’, Center for Healthy Aging, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, PI Professor Erik Lykke Mortensen.

2011-             Participates in networks around the theme in International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) on Ageing, Longevity and Health.

2011-             Member of Research group on Psychosocial Stress Exposures, Section of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

2008-             Member of Research group on Gerontology, Section of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

Scientific and professional posts

2016-             Substitute, the Study Board for Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

2013                           Member of the student profile committee appointed by the study board for Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2013.

2012-2014    Danish Society of Psychosocial Medicine (member of executive committee)

2011-             Danish Society of Gerontology (member of executive committee, Secretary for executive committee)

Reviewer for scientific journals

European Journal of Aging, Aging and Mental Health, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Journal of Aging and Health, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

Primary fields of research

The association between social relations and functional ability among middle-aged and older individuals.

Social inequality in functional decline among middle-aged and older individuals.

The interaction between social relations, socio-economic status and functional ability among middle-aged and older individuals.

Teaching

Course leaderships

Course leader of “Social epidemiology and public health”, BSc Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen.

 Course leader of “Gerontology – about the complex issues in dealing with older patients”, elective course for MSc in Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

Course leader of “Gerontology - health and everyday life in old age”, elective course for BSC and MSc in Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen.

Teaching

 Lectures  at the course on “Medical Sociology”, MSc in Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

 Lectures and class teaching at the course in “Social epidemiology and public health” annually, BSc Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen.

Lectures at the course in “Gerontology – about the complex issues in dealing with older patients”, annual elective course for MSc in Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

 Lectures at the course in Clinical Social Medicine and Rehabilitation, MSc in Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

Supervision

first year projects at BSc in Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen.

bachelor assignments at BSc in Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen.

master thesis at MSc in Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen.

bachelor assignments at BSc in Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

master thesis at MSc in Medicine, University of Copenhagen.

Master of Public Health theses, University of Copenhagen.