Areas of supervision

  • Promotion of reproductive health for migrants in Denmark
  • Infertility, e.g. psychosocial aspects and prevention
  • Reproduction and the health of women in later life
  • Health consequences of socioeconomic factors in childhood
  • Family Health
  • Development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions
  • Healthy reproduction
  • Pension age and health
  • Evaluation of quality in and effect of prevention and rehabilitation among older people
  • Patient perspectives among older people 
  • Health and functional ability of older people, e.g. social and psychological aspects
  • Evaluation of the quality and effect of rehabilitation and prevention efforts among the elderly
  • Consequences of the introduction of technology to geriatric care
  • Inequality factors in rehabilitation of life style diseases
  • Hospital doctors’ judgements of patients’ rehabilitation potential versus the actual rehabilitation provided by municipal services
  • Health behaviours and lifestyle – patterns, causes and intervention possibilities
  • Social relations and health
  • Social networks and health - the formation of health behaviour and health in  networks
  • Health, employment and working environment
  • Employment and health
  • In the use of survey and register data, what importance has possible variation in the used educational groups for different outcomes?
  • The social consequences of illness
  • Social inequality in health – mechanisms and interventions
  • Social capital and health
  • Stress and physical effects of stress
  • Mechanisms leading to work related stress
  • Negative social relations at work
  • Cardiometabolic conditions and access to health care in middle- and low-income countries

Specific projects

  • A systematic literature review of social connectedness and high levels of social isolation associations with epigenetic modifications (DNA methylation) and gene expression of e.g. inflammation.
  • A systematic literature review of social connectedness and high levels of social isolation associations with neurological changes (MRI) and cognitive function.