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Looking for an expert on health, healthcare or care?

Researchers in the Health Transitions research programme are available for interviews, expert commentary and background information on current developments and challenges in health, healthcare and care.

The programme brings together researchers from the humanities and health sciences with expertise in areas such as care and equity, mental health and well-being, medical knowledge, and the social, technological and environmental conditions that shape health and healthcare.

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Rikke Sand Andersen

Professor, Research Programm Director
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H 4230, 225
P +4526822476
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Solitary living
  • Kinship and care
  • Cancer diagnostics, body, and uncertainty
  • Welfare, care, and intimacy
  • Ethnography

Niels Brimnes

Professor
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H 1461, 526
P +4587162215
  • History of the World Health Organisation
  • History of global tuberculosis control
  • History of vaccination, vaccination campaigns and opposition to vaccination
  • History of Primary Health Care

Line Dalsgård

Professor
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H 4236, 219
P +4587162121
P +4530279097
  • Mental health and the arts (reading, writing)
  • Motherhood as social practice and bio-cultural phenomenon
  • Breath, the nervous system and political affects

Rasmus Dyring

Associate Professor, Research Programme Director
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H 1465, 618
P +4551788292
  • Dementia care
  • Person-centered care
  • Ethics of care
  • Professional ethics
  • Ethics and values in healthcare
  • Existence and health (ofte diskuteret som existential health)
  • Innovation and practice development in healthcare
  • Philosophy of health

Hannah Lang

PhD Student
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H 1465 - 528
P +4520715620
P +4520715620
  • The existential significance of birth and natality
  • Motherhood, pregnancy, and birth in contemporary culture and society
  • Existential philosophy and midwifery Studies

Rosanne Liebermann

Associate Professor
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H 1442, 115
P +4587169136
  • Illness in the Old Testament
  • Narrative medicine
  • Uses of sacred texts in contexts of ill health

Maria E. Louw

Associate Professor
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H 4235, 222
P +4587162062
P +4522262279
  • Care
  • Thriving and well-being
  • Aging and intergenerational relations

Lotte Meinert

Professor
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H 4236, 115
P +4587168957
P +4524262202
  • Relationships between climate change/environmental change and health (in Africa and Europe)
  • Mental health, temporality and thriving
  • Kinship, life phases, gender and aging

Anne Marie Kragh Pahuus

Associate Professor
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H 1467, 528
P +4523287896
P +4523287896
  • Birth, motherhood and human transitions
  • Love, judgement, and resonance in relation to health and care
  • Trust, care and responsibility in human relationships

Christine Parsons

Professor
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P +4587162127
P +4587162127
  • Mental health during the period around childbirth
  • Social and emotional functioning in transitions
  • Scientific cooperation and science dissemination

Marie Louise Tørring

Associate Professor, Research Programme Director
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H 4236, 114
P +4587162089
  • Hospital ethnography, focusing on the integration of physiotherapy and occupational therapy across somatic and psychiatric healthcare
  • Cancer in primary care and healthcare reforms, focusing on bias and evidence in efforts to expedite diagnostic processes, and changing forms of healthcare organisation
  • Vaccine controversies, focusing on methodological challenges in using large-scale media archives to study emerging public health debates

Claudia Welz

Professor
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H 1443, 112
P +4587169145
  • Care ethics connected to artistic and religious practices
  • Spiritual care, working through grief
  • Trauma studies, research in existential resilience

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Anja Kjærgaard

Senior consultant
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H 1467, 426
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Thomas Erslev