At the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Health Science and Technology, a position as Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology is open for appointment from December 1st 2025 or soon thereafter.
At Department of Health Science and Technology we conduct research, teaching and innovation within engineering, biomedicine, sports science, public health, neuroscience, psychology, and physiotherapy to develop sustainable technological solutions. Our mission is to contribute to increased quality of life for the benefit of the individual human being and society.
We take active part in implementing the 2030 vision of the Faculty of Medicine: to become leading within digital health and well-known for doctors and engineers finding solutions together. Our mission is to drive positive societal impact through cutting-edge research and innovation, with a strong focus on digital health. We are dedicated to addressing four grand challenges that shape our vision for a healthier and more sustainable future.
We educate bachelors and Master of Science within biomedical engineering, medicine, medicine with industrial specialization, biomedical engineering, sports science, public health, and clinical health and technology. Our graduates contribute to setting the agenda for future needs and solutions for increased public health and implementation of new health knowledge and technologies.
Currently, our department has approximately 280 employees, 100 Ph.D.-students enrolled in the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology, and 1,500 students in our bachelors and master’s programs. We hold state of the art research and teaching facilities
You can read more about our department at our web page and research portal

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We seek a professor with a solid theoretical and practical knowledge of public health and epidemiology.
The qualified candidate must have documented significant scientific production in public health and epidemiology, experience with national and international collaboration, funding, Ph.D. supervision and teaching as described in the following list of criteria below. We expect that the candidate should have a broad and multidisciplinary theoretical foundation in relation to health, disease, health promotion and prevention. The candidate should preferably have experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
The professor will be affiliated with the existing Public Health and Epidemiology research group at the department, which is an interdisciplinary research group, dealing with health, disease, prevention, health promotion, treatment and rehabilitation, including psychological, social, biological, organizational, structural, institutional and environmental factors. The research group employs people with broad methodological knowledge from epidemiology, statistics, public health science, community medicine, health services research, humanities and social science health research.
The research group is responsible for the Master’s degree in Public Health primarily aimed at students with a health professional bachelor’s degree, bachelor in sports or in medicine with industrial specialization. In addition, the research group is responsible for teaching public health, epidemiology and evidence-based medicine in the bachelor programs for medicine and medicine with industrial specialization, and further contributes with teaching and supervision in other bachelor and master’s programs. The research group also conducts several PhD courses, especially with methodological content.
The educations are mainly taught in Danish, but teaching and supervision in English is possible. If you are a non-native Danish speaker, you will be expected to learn Danish, with support from the department, within the first few years of your employment, to be able to conduct teaching.

Please refer the Job description for details