Prof. Jannie Nielsen

Associate Professor Jannie Nielsen is a social epidemiologist who have lived and conducted research in Denmark, Uganda, United States, and Tanzania. The primary goal of her research is to provide novel insights on the role of social networks and social inequality in risk of non-communicable diseases and access to care. She focuses on how diseases and related risk factors are shaped, shared, spread and interact in social network such as families, and how social networks influence disease management and access to treatment and care. She has investigated non-communicable disease, qualitatively and quantitatively; in families, couples, and parents and their children; collected primary data in Uganda, Tanzania, and Vietnam, and worked with secondary data from Denmark, United Kingdom, India, and the United States. Professor Nielsen has received research awards from the Independent Research Fund Denmark and National Institute of Health (USA). Email: Jannie.nielsen@sund.ku.dk