Signild Vallgårda

Current research

Social categories in health policy and epidemiology studied from a historical, conceptual and political perspective. Policies towards obesity and obese people from a power and an ethical perspective. Media representations of obesity and peopel with obesity. Morbidity and mortality in a historical perpsctive.

Teaching

Health policy analysis, social inequalities in health, obesity policies, comparative studies, power analyses and public health ethics.

Primary fields of research

Health policy analysis

CV

1983
MA in history and literature

1992
DMSc with a dissertation on Danish hospital policy in the 20th century.

Appointments

2008-
Professor of Health Policy Analysis, Department of Public Health

1992-2008
Associate professor Department of Public Health (previously Department of Social Medicine), University of Copenhagen

1989-92
Senior fellow at Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen

1987-89
Research fellowship financed by the research councils for medicine, social science and humanities

1984-87
Research fellowship at the Faculty of Arts, University of Copenhagen

Positions

2017- 

Head of section, Section of Health Service sResearch

2014- 

Member of the Danish Council of Ethics

2011-16

Member of The Danish Committe on Scientific Dishonesty for the humanities and social sciences

2010-2013
Director of study, bachelor and master programme in Public Health Science

2005-10
Head of the committee responsible for the master education in Public Health Science

1997-2003
Member of the steering board of the Danish Study of Power and Democracy appointed by the Research Council for the Humanities

1997-2000
Head of section, Section of Health Services Research in 1998 and 1999 also with responsibility for the Museum of Medical History

1997-2006
External examiner at the Departments of History in Denmark

2000-06
External examiner at Master of Health Science, University of Southern Denmark

1994-97
Member of the committee on Health Services Research under the Research council for Health Sciences

1993
Member of the committee on infant mortality under the Commission on Mean Life Expectancy, Ministry of Health

1992-96
Vice chair of the Society for Philosophy, Ethics and Methodology in Medicine 

1991
Awarded the research price of the Nordic Societies for the History of Medicine

1989 - 94
Initiator and member og the Network for Humantisc Studies of Health