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Advanced Social Epidemiology
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3127-26-00-00There are 30 available seats 
Enrollment deadline: 11/05/2026
Date and time08.06.2026, at: 09:15 - 12.06.2026, at: 16:00
Regular seats30
Course fee5,880.00 kr.
LecturersTerese Sara Høj Jørgensen
ECTS credits3.70
Contact personKathe Jensen    E-mail address: kje@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration SUND    E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment guidelines
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.


Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Understand different ways of measuring and analyzing social inequality in health
2. Explain life-course processes related to social stratificaiton and social epidemiology
3. Apply different theoretical explanations for social inequality in health
4. Discuss the central conceptual, methodological and analytical challenges in social epidemiology
5. Analyze and discuss the policy implications of social epidemiological research


Content
The course will provide an insight into to main conceptual and methodological topics in social epidemiology. The aim is to understand contextual determinants of population health and health inequalities in a life course perspective, with a focus on measurement, mechanisms, and causes. Inequalities in health related to different social categories including socioeconomic position, gender, etnicity, and social relations will be discussed as well as the role of social policy and commercial actors in shaping population health and health ineqailites.


Participants
30
The participants are expected to have a basic understanding of epidemiology


Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

Public Health and Epidemiology


Language
English


Form
Lectures, discussions, presentations

The students are expected to prepare a short presentation on their own PhD project reflecting on how it relates to Social Epidemiology


Course director
Else Foverskov, Assistant professor, IFSV, Section of Social Medicine, elfo@sund.ku.dk
Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen, Associate professor, IFSV, Section of Social Medicine, tshj@sund.ku.dk


Teachers
Sam Harper, Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Alissa Koski, Associate Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Sanja Golubovic, PhD fellow, Steno Diabetes Center
Amanda Hughes, Research Fellow, Bristol University
Christopher Jamil de Montgomery, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Adrian G. Zucco, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Else Foverskov, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen


Dates
8-12 June 2026


Course location
CSS


Registration
Please register before 11 May 2026


Expected frequency

Unknown

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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