LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION
The Center’s leadership team consists of the Center Director, the Deputy Director, and an academic Center Coordinator. This team oversees the day-to-day management and develops the scientific strategy for the Center. The leadership team is supported by an Administrative Coordinator and a Data Manager.
Naja Hulvej Rod
Naja is Professor and Director of the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center. Her expertise spans various domains including sleep, health inequality, young-adult health, and early-life adversity with a focus on health complexity, causal inference, and life-course mechanisms. She has a particular interest in complex-systems theory and how it intersects with methodological insights from causal-inference theory. She has extensive expertise in working with longitudinal datasets and register-based research. Naja is Principal Investigator of the Danish Life Course Cohort (DANLIFE) Study, which leverages multi-dimensional exposome data covering the totality of measured lifetime exposures across multiple social, environmental, and biological dimensions in 2 million people. She has participated in numerous boards and committees across Europe, and she has been awarded several prestigious grants and awards including the Sapere Aude starting grant, the Elite Researcher Prize 2022, and an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Tibor V Varga
Tibor (he/him) is the Deputy Director and Group Leader at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center, and an Associate professor specialising in epidemiology and health equity. Tibor has over a decade of experience leveraging big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle public-health challenges, including developing predictive models for complex diseases, investigating health disparities, and uncovering determinants of health and disease. Tibor's current work lies at the intersection of AI, epidemiology, and social and health equity. He emphasises the critical importance of identifying and mitigating biases in data and algorithms to prevent the perpetuation of societal inequalities in healthcare. As an educator, Tibor has led numerous workshops on AI and algorithmic fairness and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on epidemiology, systematic reviews, and algorithmic fairness and bias in AI. He particularly enjoys challenging outdated practices, identifying inefficiencies and, through rigorous research, proposing improved and innovative solutions.
Amy Clotworthy
Amy (she/her) is the academic Center Coordinator at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center. With a professional background in interdisciplinary research coordination, international communications, and cross-sectoral network-building, Amy manages the daily operations of the Center and ensures that the physical and mental work environment reflects the Center’s values and provides a strong foundation for the research process. She is also an Assistant professor with expertise in qualitative studies of health systems, medical education, and professional practices. As such, Amy’s knowledge of the research process and complexity science supports both the Center’s researchers and leadership in developing their core research agenda on health complexity in relation to concepts, data, methods, and culture.
Dora Kovacs
Dora is Academic Research Staff, primarily responsible for data management at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center. Dora assists the Center’s researchers with obtaining access to relevant data and ensuring that all data is handled responsibly and in compliance with both Danish and international regulations. Dora is also a member of the Public Health Database secretariat, managing a vast reservoir of public health-related data at the Department of Public Health.
Kathe Jensen
Kathe is Administrative Coordinator at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center and the Department of Public Health. Kathe has been an integral part of staff at the University of Copenhagen since 1984. Throughout her tenure, Kathe has accumulated extensive expertise in a variety of administrative areas. In her work at the Center, she is responsible for administrative tasks and documentation, ensuring compliance with university policies and procedures, and providing support and guidance to the Center's researchers, students, and visitors.