Signe Smith Jervelund

Signe Smith Jervelund

Associate Professor - Promotion Programme

Education
2011: PhD, Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen
2006: Master of Science in Public Health (MSc), University of Copenhagen
2004: Health Law, The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
2003: Bachelor of Public Health Science (BA), University of Copenhagen

Work experience 
2016-2018: Director, Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, University of Copenhagen
2014-2016: Research Director, Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, University of Copenhagen
2014-current: Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Section for Health Services Research
2011-2014: Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health
2011: Acting research director at Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, University of Copenhagen
2010-2011: Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health
2007-2010: PhD Scholar, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health
2006-2007: Research assistant, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health

Research and educational stay abroad 
2013: Veterans Health Administration, Los Angeles, USA
2009: Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, Boston, 6 months
2009: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA, 1 month
2009: Agency of Public Health, Lazio Region, Rom, Italien, 1 month.
2009: NIVEL (Netherlands Institute of Health Services Research), Holland, 1 month
2005: University of Auckland, School of Population Health, New Zealand. 12 months

Other professional activities
2017-2019: Member of Steno Faculty Steering Group (representative of public health)
2016-: Danish Editor of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
2016-: Director of the Scientific Committee of Danish Public Health Society
2008-: Reviewer: Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, European Journal of Public Health, International Journal for Equity in Health, International Journal of Public Health, and Ugeskrift for Læger
2008: Award winner of the Association of Master of Science in Public Health-Award 2008
2008: Member of web-committee at the Institute of Public Health
2007-2008: Member of external advisery group for the investigation of rejected asylum seekers' conditions conducted by Institute of Human Rights

Knowledge of languages

English, basis German and knowledge of French and the Scandinavian languages

Education

MSc, PhD

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