Department of Epidemiology Research
Welcome to Department of Epidemiology Research. On this site, you can find information about the Department's research activities, staff and other department initiatives.
Department staff
What do we do in Department of Epidemiology Research?
The activities of the Department are focused on epidemiological investigations on the aetiology of disease, the effect of vaccines, and on factors that may influence progression of disease.
Who are the staff?
The Department consists of approximately 50 persons, the majority being medical doctors, statisticians and masters of public health science of whom many are working on their PhD projects. Moreover, we have administrative staff and laboratory technicians as well as assisting students.
See list of Staff
Research areas
The core areas of interest are infectious diseases, cancer, allergy, autoimmune diseases and diseases related to exposures in fetal life and vaccines/pharmaceuticals. The research is based partly on data obtained from population-based health or demography registers, partly on information collected by direct population contact, often by means of cohort studies or case-control studies. Other important resources are the activities at the research station in Guinea-Bissau, Bandim Health Project, and at the research facility in Greenland. The Department furthermore houses 'The Danish National Birth Cohort' which studies 100,000 pregnant women and their offspring.
Education and counselling
The Department provides counselling for the Danish health authorities, takes part in specific surveillance programmes, and participates in the postgraduate education programme at Copenhagen University and at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. A large number of phd students are affiliated with the Department.
Every second year, the Department is the organiser of an 8-day Nordic Summer School in Methods of Infectious Disease Epidemiology for Nordic PhD students.
Financing
The Department's activities are primarily financed by external grants.
Last revised 30 August 2010