Assessment Committee for the Prevention Lab

Learn more about the Assessment Committee for the Prevention Lab and get an overview of its members.

As part of the initiative, the Danish Cancer Society has appointed an external and independent assessment committee. The committee will assess the quality of the incoming applications in relation to the realization of Prevention Lab’s goals.

Composition of the Assessment Committee
The committee includes researchers, practitioners, and representatives of the public/patient perspective, and encompasses knowledge in:

Health behavior and structural frameworks for health behavior
Bridging health research and practice
Public health and health inequality
Personalized prevention/Artificial intelligence/Technology
Register research/Biomarkers
Implementation research
Innovation

Meet the assessment committee

Chair

Tine Curtis, Adjunct Professor, Aalborg University and University of Southern Denmark, Head of Health Promotion on the Centre for Childhood Health.

Members

Katrina Feilberg, Director for Life Science and Health, Danish Chamber of Commerce.
Torben Frøstrup, Chief Physician, PhD, Dr. Med, Professor, Department of Oncology, Sygehus Lillebælt.
Janne Tolstrup, Professor, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark. Member of Council for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Julie Dupont. Patient, member of Ung Kræft. Former nurse.
Ulla Toft, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Head of department, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen.
Vedran Sekara, Associate Professor, IT-University in Copenhagen, Machine Learning Lead at UNICEF.
Niels Kvorning, PhD, Post Doc Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Director og co-founder in Melatech.
Jonas Wiederholt Larsen, Member of the Executive Committee of the Danish Red Cross, Master’s student in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.
Lene Tanggaard, Professor of Educational Psychology at the Department of Communication at Aalborg University, Member of Denmark’s Council for Research and Innovation Policy.

Tine Curtis, chair of the committee:

- There is a need to focus more on prevention in Denmark, and there is a need to find new pathways doing so. I am therefore excited to support new and innovative prevention methods, and to collaborate with a very competent and varied assessment committee.

Tine Curtis is appointed as chair for the assessment committee. Tine brings her extended experience in combining research and practice within health promotion and prevention, and her strong capacity for novelty, partnerships and holistic interventions, into the assessment committee.