 Tine Curtis is Research Program Director (Health Behaviour, Lifestyle and Living Conditions) at the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen, Denmark, and associate professor at the Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. She has been engaged in multidisciplinary health research in Greenland since the early 90’s. She received the Masters in Cultural Sociology and a PhD in Public Health, both from the University of Copenhagen.
Her research focuses on social epidemiology, i.e. the influence of social and cultural factors on health. She has worked with survey research and with qualitative methods, and is keenly interested in the integration of methods and developing supplementary research methodologies for the understanding of health problems.
Her main fields of research include: Health interview surveys (social epidemiology, self-rated health, family health), internet based youth surveys (everyday life resources, health behaviour, sexual abuse), community health promotion projects (design and evaluation), health services research (interpreted doctor-patient communication, evaluation of alcohol treatment), focus group interview studies (perception of health, food and environment).
During January-July, 2004, she was a visiting scientist at the Public Health Research Unit, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université Laval in Québec City, Canada. She is currently co-principal investigator of the proposed Inuit Health in Transition Study, involving several circumpolar countries. She is a
contributing author to the chapter on health in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. She is a
Board member of the Danish-Greenlandic Society of Circumpolar Health.
She has presented more than 35 oral papers at congresses and scientific meetings, and published a total of 28 monographs, scientific reports and articles, as well as a number of articles in the public media, pamphlets etc.
She is also engaged in teaching and supervising of graduate and undergraduate students in Denmark and Greenland, with lectures on social medicine, health promotion and community health.
email: tc@si-folksundhed.dk
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