Kåre Mølbak

Ansvarsområder

Faglig direktør for infektionsberedskabet som omfatter afdelingerne Infektionsepidemiologi & Forebyggelse, Virus & Mikrobiologisk Specialdiagnostik, Bakterier, Parasitter & Svampe samt Tuberkulose & Mykobakterier. Endvidere er der i området et sekretariat for Dataintegration & Dataanalyse, DIAS, som bl.a. driver nationale systemer som MiBa (den danske mikrobiologidatabase) og HAIBA (overvågning af hospitalsassocierede infektioner).

I området arbejder ca. 250 medarbejdere med mikrobiologisk specialdiagnostik, sygdomsovervågning, rådgivnings- og referencefunktioner, udbrudshåndtering, formidling samt forskning. 

Vores mission er at sikre et samlet, samarbejdende og forskningsbaseret infektionsberedskab.

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Komplet publikationsliste

Forskningsområder

Mine egne forskningsinteresser spænder vidt indenfor infektionsepidemiologi og folkesundhed, herunder betydning af resistens for folkesundheden, zoonoser, herunder fødevarebårne sygdomme samt vaccinologi.

Udvalgte publikationer

• Møller FT, Mølbak K, Ethelberg S. Analysis of consumer food purchase data used for outbreak investigations, a review. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur 
  les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. 2018; 23(24). PubMed [journal] PMID: 29921346, PMCID: PMC6152197
• Amdisen L, Kristensen ML, Rytter D, Mølbak K, Valentiner-Branth P. Identification of determinants associated with uptake of the first dose of the human
  papillomavirus vaccine in Denmark. Vaccine. 2018; 36(38):5747-5753. PubMed [journal] PMID: 30111513
• Ulendorf Jacobsen S, Valentiner-Branth P, Mølbak K. Examining determinants for reporting suspected adverse events following HPV vaccination in Denmark. Vaccine.
  2018; 36(41):6158-6162. PubMed [journal] PMID: 30201304 
• Suppli CH, Hansen ND, Rasmussen M, Valentiner-Branth P, Krause TG, Mølbak K. Decline in HPV-vaccination uptake in Denmark - the association between
  HPV-related media coverage and HPV-vaccination. BMC public health. 2018; 18(1):1360. PubMed [journal] PMID: 30526589, PMCID: PMC6288961
• Kuhn KG, Nielsen EM, Mølbak K, Ethelberg S. Epidemiology of campylobacteriosis in Denmark 2000-2015. Zoonoses and public health. 2018; 65(1):59-66. PubMed
  [journal] PMID: 28597535
• Helmuth IG, Mølbak K, Uldall PV, Poulsen A. Post-varicella Arterial Ischemic Stroke in Denmark 2010 to 2016. Pediatric neurology. 2018; 80:42-50. PubMed
  [journal] PMID: 29307566 
• Iuliano AD, Roguski KM, Chang HH, Muscatello DJ, Palekar R, Tempia S, Cohen C, Gran JM, Schanzer D, Cowling BJ, Wu P, Kyncl J, Ang LW, Park M, Redlberger-Fritz 
  M, Yu H, Espenhain L, Krishnan A, Emukule G, van Asten L, Pereira da Silva S, Aungkulanon S, Buchholz U, Widdowson MA, Bresee JS. Estimates of global seasonal 
  influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study. Lancet (London, England). 2018; 391(10127):1285-1300. NIHMSID: NIHMS962240 PubMed [journal] PMID:
  29248255, PMCID: PMC5935243
• Pebody RG, Green HK, Warburton F, Sinnathamby M, Ellis J, Mølbak K, Nielsen J, de Lusignan S, Andrews N. Significant spike in excess mortality in England in winter
  2014/15 - influenza the likely culprit. Epidemiology and infection. 2018; 146(9):1106-1113. PubMed [journal] PMID: 29743125
• Frisch M, Besson A, Clemmensen KKB, Valentiner-Branth P, Mølbak K, Hviid A. Quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination in boys and risk of autoimmune
  diseases, neurological diseases and venous thromboembolism. International journal of epidemiology. 2018; 47(2):634-641. PubMed [journal] PMID: 29425361
• Nielsen J, Krause TG, Mølbak K. Influenza-associated mortality determined from all-cause mortality, Denmark 2010/11-2016/17: The FluMOMO model. Influenza and
  other respiratory viruses. 2018; PubMed [journal] PMID: 29660769, PMCID: PMC6086850
• Anker JCH, Koch A, Ethelberg S, Mølbak K, Larsen J, Jepsen MR. Distance to pig farms as risk factor for community-onset livestock-associated MRSA CC398
  infection in persons without known contact to pig farms-A nationwide study. Zoonoses and public health. 2018; 65(3):352-360. NIHMSID: NIHMS985986 PubMed
  [journal] PMID: 29314752, PMCID: PMC6115690
• Suppli CH, Dreier JW, Rasmussen M, Andersen AN, Valentiner-Branth P, Mølbak K, Krause TG. Sociodemographic predictors are associated with compliance to a
  vaccination-reminder in 9692 girls age 14, Denmark 2014-2015. Preventive medicine reports. 2018; 10:93-99. PubMed [journal] PMID: 29868358, PMCID: PMC5984205
• Kuhn KG, Nielsen EM, Mølbak K, Ethelberg S. Determinants of sporadic Campylobacter infections in Denmark: a nationwide case-control study among
  children and young adults. Clinical epidemiology. 2018; 10:1695-1707. PubMed [journal] PMID: 30538574, PMCID: PMC6255050