Department of Public Health Sciences

The Department of Public Health was established in 1997. Our primary focus is to improve the health of the population and the connection between health and society.

The Department of Public Health fulfils its mission to provide the scientific foundation for efforts to improve public health, both nationally and globally, and to create greater insight into the links between health, the individual and society as well as the ethical, equity and political implications. This is achieved through research, education and engagement with stakeholders and the public at large with a wide-ranging multidisciplinary research agenda covering most aspects of public health at a high international level.

The research is carried out in our eight research sections and three research centres.

Research
Research at the Department of Public Health contributes to the scientific foundation for improving the health of the population and for increased insight into the connection between health and society.

The primary focus of research is the occurrence, distribution and causes of diseases and disease consequences in the population. The research also includes the study of health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation efforts as well as the organization, function and results of the health serivices.

The Department has a number of core competencies within methodological disciplines such as biostatistics, epidemiology, science theory, qualitative research methods, etc. and has a broad collaboration with biomedical and clinical research.

Teaching at Department of Public Health
The Department of Public Health provides teaching and supervision for all programmes at the Faculty of Health Sciences.

The following educational programmes are based at the Department of Public Health:

Bachelor's and Master's Programme in Public Health (in Danish only)
Head of Studies, Mads Kamper-J?rgensen

Bachelor's and Master's Programme in Health and Informatics (in Danish only)
Head of Studies, Henriette Langstrup

Master of Science in Global Health
Head of Studies, Britt P. Tersb?l

Master of Public Health (MPH) (in Danish only)
Head of Studies, My von Euler-Chelpin

Master of Disaster Management (MDMa)
Head of Studies, Peter Furu

Graduate Programme in Public Health and Epidemiology
Head of Programme, Naja Hulvej Rod

Graduate Programme in Medicine, Culture and Society
Head of Programme, Klaus H?yer

Graduate Programme in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Head of Programme, Torben Martinussen