I am a public health researcher working at the intersection of global health, climate change and health, and noncommunicable diseases. My work focuses on how health systems can prevent and manage NCDs equitably under increasing environmental, social, and health system pressures.

I hold a PhD in Public Health from Aarhus University, where I designed and implemented a cluster-randomised trial on community-based COPD prevention and management in Nepal. My research combines implementation research, health systems research, environmental epidemiology, mixed methods, and policy-oriented public health. I work closely with academic, humanitarian, government, and WHO partners to generate evidence that supports equitable access, resilient health systems, and practical public health action.

My research focuses on NCD prevention and care, chronic respiratory diseases, climate change and health, and health systems strengthening. I study how primary health care, community-based approaches, early detection, risk communication, and continuity-of-care models can improve outcomes for people living with chronic diseases, particularly in low-resource and climate-vulnerable settings.

A central part of my work concerns COPD, asthma, air pollution, climate-related exposures, disasters, and service delivery for NCDs. Current and recent projects address chronic respiratory disease integration in primary care, continuity of NCD care during climate-related disasters, planetary health education, and equitable health system responses.

My work aims to produce evidence that is scientifically rigorous, policy-relevant, and useful for health systems.

I teach global health, climate change and health, NCD prevention, health literacy and communication, and public health to medical, public health, and international students.

At Aarhus University, I coordinate and teach the Global Health component of the Public Health for Medicine course and contribute to exam design, assessment, small-class teaching, and curriculum development. I also teach in the Bachelor of Public Health Thesis Module, AU Summer University, and international summer schools.

I supervise bachelor, master, research-year, and PhD students, with a focus on global health, climate change and health, NCDs, implementation research, health systems, and equity.

I collaborate with academic, humanitarian, policy, civil society, and public sector partners in Denmark and internationally. My cooperation and dissemination work focuses on global health, NCDs, chronic respiratory diseases, climate change and health, planetary health, and health systems strengthening. I contribute through AU-led research projects, WHO technical work, Interntational partnerships, international research networks, peer-reviewed publications, policy-oriented outputs, invited lectures, conferences, editorial work, media engagement, and public communication.

As a consultant at the World Health Organization Headquarters, I support work on chronic respiratory diseases within the NCD Management Unit. My consultancy focuses on strengthening primary health care responses to asthma and COPD, particularly in low-resource and vulnerable settings.

This includes technical support to country programmes, development of training and implementation materials, and contributions to service delivery models that improve prevention, diagnosis, management, referral, and continuity of care for chronic respiratory diseases.

My responsibilities include research, teaching, supervision, grant development, project coordination, and international collaboration within global health, climate change and health, and NCDs.

I contribute to externally funded projects on climate-resilient NCD care, chronic respiratory disease integration in primary health care, disaster preparedness, planetary health education, and health equity. My work includes study design, data analysis, manuscript development, stakeholder engagement, policy-oriented dissemination, and coordination of academic and practice-oriented partnerships.

I also contribute to research communication and support early-career researchers and students through supervision, mentoring, and collaborative project development.