Jannie Nielsen
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022 – Associate Professor Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, Univesity of Copenagen
2021 Senior Researcher Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Health Promotion Research, Copenhagen
2019-21 Assistant Professor Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
2017-19 Visiting Assistant Professor Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
2017- Associate Researcher at Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.
2015-17 Postdoctoral Fellow Global Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
2014 Visiting Doctoral fellow Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
2011-14 PhD Fellow International Health Unit, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2009-11 Research Assistant International Health Unit, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2009 Research Assistant Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
ELECTED AND APPOINTED POSITIONS
2015-17 Chair for Workshop Planning Committee, International Diabetes Epidemiology Group (IDEG).
2015-17 Conference Planning Committee Member, International Diabetes Epidemiology Group (IDEG).
HONORS AND AWARDS
2017-19 International Mobility Fellowship Award, Independent Research Fund Denmark
2015-17 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Danish Council for Independent Research
EDUCATION
- PhD Global Health, 2015, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: Dissertation: Living with type 2 diabetes in rural Uganda – Exploring the household as an intersection for diabetes management, risk and behaviors.
- Human Physiology, 2007, Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Exercise Physiology, 2003, Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. and Department of Sport Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
- Minors:
- MPH Courses, 2010, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
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Geography and Geoinformatics, 2005, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
TEACHING
Course leader
2021 Social Networks and Health, Emory Universty, USA (College/Bach.)
2020-21 Survery Method Development, Emory University, USA (MPH)
2017 Transition in Urban Living: From Global to local using the Municipality of Copenhagen as a Case. Summer School, University of Copenhagen (MSc.)
Pedagogic Training
2021 Social Justice Pedagogies. Emory University, GA, USA.
2007-08 Post-graduate course in educational theory and practice (Gymnasium pædagogikum). Ordup Gymnasium, Denmark.
Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacology: 2 postdocs
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen: 6 Master Students
School of Public Health, Emory University, USA: 1 Master Student
Supervision of field research teams
2010 The association between glucose intolerance and low birth weight caused by maternal malaria infection in Muheza, Tanzania. Research project with Teule District Hospital, Muheza, Tanzania, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2011-13 Living with type 2 diabetes in rural Uganda. 15 months field data collection in South-western Uganda.
2018-21 Living Together with Chronic Disease: Informal Support for Diabetes Management in Vietnam. collaboration between Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacology and University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Guest Lecturer
Doctoral
- Ethics of health research involving humans in resource-poor settings. Graduate School in Global Health, University of Copenhagen.
Graduate
- Health and Diseases in Low- and Middle-income countries. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Ethnicity and metabolic chronic disease in a global perspective. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- International Health. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.
- Advanced Research Methods and Ethics. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Quantitative Data Analyses (GH 523), Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, GA, USA.
- Diabetes: A Model for Global Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Control (GH 534), Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, GA, USA.
- Community Health Assessment, Department of Global Health, Emory University, GA, USA
Undergraduate
- 1st year project (1.årsprojekt) in Social Epidemiology and Population Diseases: Prevention, Health Promotion and Sociology, School of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Other Teaching Positions
2008 External Lecturer in ’Sport Nutrition’ at SUHR’s Copenhagen (Bach. level), Denmark.
2007-08 High School Teacher at Ordrup Gymnasium, Denmark.
2006 High School Teacher at Nærum Gymnasium, Denmark.
EXTERNAL FUNDING
Current
Disparities in the burden and progression of multi-morbidity across adulthood (R01).
Agency: NIH, National Institute Aging.
Role: Co-Investigator
Period: 2022-2025
Rapid Optimization of COVID-19 Testing for People Affected by Diabetes. (P30DK111024-05S1)
Agency: NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Role: Co-Investigator.
Period: 2020-2022
Living Together with Chronic Disease: Informal Support for Diabetes Management in Vietnam
Agency: DANIDA
Role: Co-Investigator
Period: 2018-2022
Completed
Dynamics and Health Consequences of Obesity between Infancy and Young Adulthood in the U.S. (R01).
Agency: NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Role: Co-Investigator.
Period: 2018-2021
The Interplay of Family and Psychosocial Factors in Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Management.
Agency: Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Role: Principle Investigator
Period: 2017-2019
Family matters: A new approach to identify individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes.
Agency: Danish Research Council for Independent Research (Postdoctoral Research Award)
Role: Principle Investigator
Period: 2015-2017
Living with type 2 diabetes in rural Uganda.
Agency: Aase & Ejnar Danielsens Fond
Role: Principle Investigator
Period: 2011-2014
Living with type 2 diabetes in rural Uganda – HbA1c Measurements
Agency: Thorvald Madsen fond.
Role: Principle Investigator
Period: 2012
Narratives from people living with type 2 diabetes in rural Uganda
Agency: Graduate School of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Role: Principle Investigator
Period: 2013
Trainee and Travel Grants
2019 Training and Travel Grant, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Training workshop, University of Michigan, USA.
2015 Training and Travel Grant, Danish Diabetes Academy Winter School, Malaga, Spain.
2013 Travel Grant (for World Diabetes Congress), Oticon Fonden, Denmark
2011 Training and Travel Grant, International Diabetes Epidemiology Group Training Session and Conference 2011, Sharjah, UAE.
2011 Training and Travel Grant, ‘11th WHO/IDF/EASD Cambridge Seminar on the Epidemiology and Public Health Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
2011 Travel Grant, Christian & Ottilia Brorsons rejselegat, for field work in Uganda.
Education
MSc. Human Physiology
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Household and familial resemblance in risk factors for type 2 diabetes and related cardiometabolic diseases in rural Uganda sample: a cross-sectional community
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Unmet needs for social support and diabetes-related distress among people living with type 2 diabetes in Thai Binh, Vietnam: a cross-sectional study
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Polypharmacy among people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in rural communes in Vietnam
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