STAKEHOLDER BOARD
The Stakeholder Board provides guidance and feedback on the Center's research and outreach activities to ensure they are relevant, impactful, and aligned with the needs and priorities of stakeholders. The input from Board members helps to ensure that research emerging from the Center is translated into meaningful action and engagement, and that research findings are disseminated to the appropriate stakeholders. The diverse perspectives of the Board members also facilitate our collaboration across a range of sectors and between different stakeholders, which is crucial for addressing complex public-health challenges.
Ziga Friberg
With a focus on management, development, and facilitation of strategies and change processes, Ziga is driven to make a difference at a societal level. As Director of Askov Foundation’s Social Psychiatry (ASPA), she strives to ensure that no one affected by mental vulnerability stands alone, and she aims to develop a cohesive welfare society. Ziga has many years of experience working with people in vulnerable and exposed positions, including 12 years at the Red Cross, where she worked with strategic civil-society initiatives as a section manager, and as Managing Director at the consulting and advisory company We Do Democracy. ASPA offers holistic social interventions, such as group and individual programs, structured communities and open anonymous socializing, with a focus on communities, personal development, and employment.
Camilla Hersom
Camilla is Deputy Director of the Danish Regions (Danske Regioner) and has a strong background within the healthcare field. She works to coordinate the Danish Regions’ joint interests in areas related to health and social services, and she is responsible for the Danish Regions’ Center for Health and Social Initiatives, including the secretariat services of the Health Committee and the Psychiatry and Social Affairs Committee. Camilla previously worked as President of the Danish Consumer Council and as Chairman of both ViBIS og Danske Patienter and KVINFO. Camilla also served as a Member of Parliament (Social-Liberal Party) from 2011 to 2015, during which time she served as Chairman of the Social-Liberal Parliamentary Group, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Spokesperson on Finance.
Annemette Krabbe
Annemette is head of section, Promoting Children’s Well-being, at the National Department of Save the Children Denmark (Red Barnet). In this position, she focuses on promoting the well-being of children and youth by building safe communities of children in which each young person—regardless of their background and circumstances—has a valued place. Annemette is responsible for several nationwide programmes that aim to promote the well-being of children and youth as well as to protect children against bullying and loneliness in both physical and digital communities. Through these programmes, Save the Children Denmark collaborates with professionals working in daycare institutions, schools, special schools, after-school institutions, and youth education. These programmes work across institutions, sectors, and organisations—and are always grounded in a modern and rights-based approach to supporting children and preventing bullying. Children’s voices and participation are central to the section’s work, along with advocacy and working to change structures to protect and provide for all children.
Karina Nørby
In her position as Director of Guldborgsund Municipality, Karina brings many years of experience as a manager in the public sector as well as extensive knowledge of issues related to health and welfare. Karina is a trained nurse with a Master's degree in educational psychology from Aarhus University and a Master's degree in public governance from Copenhagen Business School. She has held leadership positions in several municipalities since 2015, including working as the Center Manager for Health and Welfare in Glostrup Municipality. Karina is skilled at creating collaboration among managers, employees, citizens, and politicians, and she is particularly interested in health prevention and promotion as well as working to find sustainable welfare solutions for the future.
Signe Boe Rayce
Signe’s research focuses on children and adolescents’ health and well-being – especially their psychosocial well-being. As a senior researcher at VIVE (The Danish Centre for Social Science Research), Signe has been the project manager of the large longitudinal study SPOR – Børns udvikling og trivsel gennem livet (Children’s development and well being throughout life) and is affiliated with the panel study Børn og unge i Danmark (Children and adolescents in Denmark). Signe works with quantitative methods and has extensive experience in conducting socio-epidemiological analyses and systematic reviews. She has a strong focus on the valid measurement of psychosocial concepts through scale validation.
Ninna Thomsen
As the director of Mother’s Help (Mødrehjælpen), Ninna is responsible for the daily operations of a large social-humanitarian organisation that offers support and counselling to pregnant women as well as families in vulnerable positions. In 2021, Mother’s Help was the recipient of Crown Prince Couple’s Award (Kronprinsparrets Sociale Pris), which highlights and recognises extraordinary achievements within Danish culture and social work. Ninna is an expert in the conditions that affect families with children, including pregnancy, abortion/miscarriage, childbirth, health, education, employment, divorce, domestic violence, housing, economics, and child poverty. Ninna also has experience in politics, as she was Mayor for Health and Care (Green Left Party) in the City of Copenhagen for eight years until 2017.