Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen

Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen

Associate Professor

Current employment and affiliations

2021- Associate Professor, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

2022- Senior Reseacher (20%), Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg hospital, Capital Region

2021- Adjunct Researcher, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Previous employment

2020-21 Assistant Professor, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

2019-22 Adjunct Reseacher, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg hospital, Capital Region

2019 Postdoc, Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University in collaboration with Program on Aging, Internal Medicine, Yale University (7 months)

2019 Postdoc, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, Capital Region (5 months)

2016-2018 PhD student, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

  • 2017 Research stay at Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm Universitet, Sweden (4 months)
  • 2018 Research stay at Program on Aging, Internal Medicine, Yale University, USA (2.5 months)

2015 Research assistant at Research Center for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Capital Region (8 months)

2013-2014 Pre-graduate research student at Department of Cardiology Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte and in collaboration with Department of Geriatrics, Nykøbing-Falster Hospital

 

Career breaks

2023 Maternity leave (9 months) 

2020 Maternity leave (9 months)

 

Education

2019 PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen

2015 Master of Science in Public Health, University of Copenhagen

  • 2014 Exchange at York University, Toronto, Canada, Internationalization Scholarship

2012 Bachelor of Science in Public Health, University of Copenhagen

  

Professional posts

2022 - Board member of Danish Epidemiological Society

2021 - Steering committee member of the Danish Conscription Database

2019 - Board member of Danish Society for Psychosocial Medicine

2016-2018 Chair and coordinator of a network for young researchers (Spirekassen) at the Section of Social Medicin and Section of Epidemiology, Institut of Public Health

2016-2018 Member of the PhD Study board of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2017-2018 PhD representative for Faculty of Health Sciences at Rectorate meetings and at the University of Copenhagen Research and Innovation Council

  

Organisering of Scientific meetings

2018 Scientific Committee Member and organizer of the second Nordic Doctoral Conference and Networking Event

 

Presentations at scientific congresses and meetings

2022

  • European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) , Vienna, Austria (poster jam præsentation)

2019

  • The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), Austin, Texas (poster presentation)

2018

  • Social Inequalies in Ageing Midterm Conference, Stockholm, Sweden (oral presentation)
  • European Congress of Epidemiology, Lyon, France (poster presentatíon)

2017

  • The 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, San Francisco, USA (two oral presentations and chair)
  • The 10th European Public Health Congress, Stockholm, Sweden (Oral presentation)

2016

  • The Nordic Doctoral Conference and Networking Event, Stockholm, Sweden (oral)

  • The 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Tampere, Finland (oral)

2014

  • The 20th World Congress of Epidemiology, Alaska, USA (poster)

2013 

  • Nordic Meeting in Epidemiology and Register-based Health Research, Aarhus, Denmark (poster)

  • European Congress of Epidemiology, Aarhus, Denmark (poster)

  • Research day at Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Gentofte, Denmark (poster)

 

Public presentations

2022

  • 'The impact of social relations on health aging', Folkeuniversitetet, University of Southern Denmark

2021

  • 'The impact of social relations on health aging', Folkeuniversitetet, University of Southern Denmark (Virtual talk)

2019

  • 'The impact of social relations on health aging', Folkeuniversitetet, University of Southern Denmark

2017

  • 'Friends for life: A talk on the impact of social relations on health and mortality', Hundested Aftenskole

 

Academic awards and honours

2022 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Excellence award winner, Vienna, Austria

2014 Student award, second place at the 20th World Congress of Epidemiology, Alaska, USA

 

Reviewer for scientific journals

  • Social Science & Medicine
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Journal of Aging and Health
  • Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences
  • Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • General Hospital Psychiatry
  • European Psychiatry
  • Journal of primary care & community health

ID: 137647413