University of
Copenhagen
Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen, UCPH), founded in 1479, is Denmark’s oldest and largest university, recognized internationally for its scientific excellence and influential research. With more than 36,000 students, over 10,000 staff members, and a long history that includes 10 Nobel Laureates and 37 Danish Prime Ministers, UCPH is a leading institution in global health, epidemiology, and population research.
Within IMPROVE PRETERM, the University of Copenhagen provides expertise in perinatal and lifecourse epidemiology, contributing advanced knowledge on how early-life factors shape health across childhood and adulthood. The team offers access to Danish national health registers – among the most comprehensive and high-quality population datasets in the world – enabling robust, long-term outcome research for children and adults born very preterm.
UCPH’s contributions strengthen the project’s comparative analyses across Nordic data sources and support the development of evidence-based strategies to improve lifelong health for preterm-born individuals.
Stine Kjaer Urhoj
Perinatal and pediatric epidemiologist with a strong focus on register-based studies and social inequality in child health. My research focus on how early life exposures, such as parental age, infections, vaccinations, and social determinants, affect health outcomes in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. I design and conduct register-based studies and my work reflects a strong interest in leveraging and developing large-scale data register data infrastructures to advance public health research.
Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen
AMNA has worked with maternal and child health, mainly using epidemiologic approaches, but also some health services research. She finds special interests in the foetal, childhood and long-term health effects of exposures in pregnancy, particularly gestational duration, social factors (in particularly parental age, education and housing), infections and health behaviours during pregnancy, reproductive immunology and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Birth cohort research is a key interest, and Anne-Marie was part of establishing the Danish National Birth Cohort in 1995. She was responsible for the 11-, 18- and 25-years follow-up of the cohort, and from 2017 to 2024 she was the scientific PI for this large-scale cohort. She was instrumental in building the European Child Cohort Network, first by founding the www.birthcohorts.net platform. She was a co-PI for the FP-7 project CHICOS, that built up a close scientific collaboration between more than 15 birth cohorts in Europe and the Horizon2020 projects LifeCycle and EUCANconnect aimed at improving causal inference from epidemiologic studies of childhood metabolic, respiratory, and mental health and developing infrastructures for GDPR secure cross-country collaborations. AMNA has innovatively used linked social and health register data for 25 years. Recently, she has been co-PI for the large Scandinavian collaborative study SCOPE, using registry data to study health consequences of Covid during pregnancy.
Trine Damsted Rasmussen
Postdoctoral researcher at the Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen. I hold a PhD in Epidemiology, an MSc in Public Health, and have a clinical background as a midwife. My research focuses on reproductive, perinatal, and early-life epidemiology, with a particular emphasis on social and ethnic inequalities in maternal and child health outcomes, as well as on infections and vaccination strategies to improve maternal and neonatal health.