DESorientering Spring Edition 2026: Register now for the DES Summer Meeting 2026

At the upcoming general assembly on June 23^rd, we will have the opportunity to welcome new DES board members. As most current board members are based in the Copenhagen area, we particularly encourage epidemiologists from institutions in Northern, Western, and Southern Denmark to consider joining the DES board. You can read more about the board here: https://www.dansk-epidemiologisk-selskab.dk/om-des/bestyrelsen/ and about the DES bylaws here: https://www.dansk-epidemiologisk-selskab.dk/om-des/vedtaegter/.   

The DES board is responsible for all decisions made in the society and we organize two yearly scientific meetings. The board meets approximately once a month online and additional meetings are held in subgroups as needed. All board work is unpaid, but fun! And most administrative work is handled by our amazing student assistant.

If you want to run for the DES board, please send your application to us at dansk.epidemiologisk.selskab@outlook.dk no later than three days before the general assembly. Your application should include your name and title. At the general assembly, you will have the opportunity to provide a short presentation of yourself and why you wish to be elected for the board. If you cannot attend the general assembly, please include a short text of max 300 words in your application. We look forward to welcome new board members. 

SAVE THE DATE: DES AUTUMN MEETING

We would like to share initial details about the upcoming very exciting DES Autumn Meeting, which will take place on 22-23 September 2026 at Hotel Nyborg Strand.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Maya Petersen is our first confirmed speaker for the DES Fall Meeting 2026. Professor Petersen, from UC Berkeley, is internationally recognised for her pioneering work at the intersection of AI, statistical inference, and causal inference, particularly through her leadership in developing the Causal Roadmap - a framework for transparent, rigorous causal analysis in health research. Her expertise and innovative methods promise to make her session a highlight of this year’s meeting.

Please remember to follow DES on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/89309694/admin/dashboard/  

We will soon announce the next Epidemiologist of the Month, Senior Researcher Sandra Feodor Nilsson, who is one of our new DES board members.

Please contact us if you have relevant news, job postings, or events that you would like us to share on LinkedIn and/or in our newsletter.

Thank you for the many amazing contributions to our name competition – we will announce the winner soon!

BIRTHDAY SYMPOSIUM

In celebration of Professor Merete Osler’s birthday, the symposium “Psykiatri i forandring – mellem social ulighed, somatisk sygdom og AI” will take place on 27 March 2026, 13:00–15:00, in Frederiksberg. The symposium will bring together researchers to discuss key developments at the intersection of social inequality, somatic health, and emerging technologies in psychiatry. Further information is available here: Psykiatri i forandring - mellem social ulighed, somatisk sygdom og AI

COURSE INFORMATION

Advanced Social Epidemiology - PhD courses in Denmark

PhD course in Advanced Social Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen, 08 June 2026 - 12 June 2026. The course will provide an insight into the 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.

Summer school

Pharmacoepidemiology Summer School by the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. The summer school in pharmacoepidemiology will take place in Grenaa, Denmark, on 15-19 June 2026. It includes topics such as basic and advanced pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness research, meta-analysis, and the US FDA Sentinel System Framework. There will be prominent speakers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard Medical School, and Leiden University Medical Center. Further details here:

https://kea.au.dk/education/summer-school