Projects

Member of the Complexity and Big Data research group at the Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. The aim of the research group is to study the social and biological factors determining health and disease and to elucidate the underlying behavioral, psychological, and physiological mechanisms that might explain these effects.

The DANish LIFE course cohort (DANLIFE) is a nationwide, register-based, life-course cohort that is based on comprehensive and continuously updated information on social adversity and major life events from the Danish registers. These unique data from a large, unselected population provide an unprecedented resource for testing life-course mechanisms, such as sensitive periods and the accumulation of various stress factors across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

The overall goal of this use case is to study longitudinal health trajectories - and in particular those leading to cardiometabolic diseases. Furthermore it will assess how these trajectories compare across nationwide registries from France, Norway, Finland and Denmark. This project seeks to define health trajectories as the longitudinal sequence of health-related events (e.g. disease diagnoses, medications and hospitalizations) that precede a main outcome of interest, for example, a myocardial infarction.

Patterns, mechanisms, and dynamics underlying sleep health in young adults.