SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
We are proud to feature the latest publications by researchers at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center.
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2026
Larsson L, Rod NH, Khan P, Ferrand RA (2026). “Rethinking maternal health beyond linear paradigms”. The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health 2(6): e499–e500. https://doi.org/10.1016/S3050-5038(26)00097-X
Xu T, Nielsen MB, Clark AJ, Rugulies R, Pentti J, Sørensen JK, Nordentoft M, Westerlund H, Stenholm S, Vahtera J, Madsen IEH, Hansen ÅM, Virtanen M, Knardahl S, Oksanen T, Kivimäki M, Magnusson Hanson LL, Rod NH (2026). “Onset of workplace bullying and violence and changes in health-related behaviors: a multi-cohort study”. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 4302. https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.4302
Davies M, De Stavola B, Nielsen KK, Damm P, Rod NH (2026). “Childhood adversity and gestational diabetes: examining the mediating effect of BMI and depression through interventional mediation analysis”. International Journal of Obesity, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-026-02080-9
Udu K, Adjei NK, Akanni L, Niccodemi G, Chen Y, Chua YW, Cattermole R, Black M, Munford L, Thielen K, Elsenburg LK, Hope S, Creese H, Hargreaves D, Rod NH, Taylor-Robinson D (2026). “Poverty and family adversity trajectories and not in education, employment or training (NEET) status in late adolescence: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study”. BMJ Public Health 4(1): e003958. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2025-003958
Uleman JF, Al-Shama RFM, Zucco AG, Echterhoff J, Luijten M, Verhagen M, Vyrastekova J, Treur JL, Wootton RE, Jones S, Dresler M, Drews HJ, Egebjerg C, Kornum BR, Stronks K, Rod NH (2026). “The Young Adult Sleep model: an evolving causal loop diagram of mental health dynamics”. BMC Medicine 24(1): 159. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-026-04738-7 / Click here to see the interactive causal loop diagram
Clarke RB, Okholm GT, Elsenburg LK, Heitmann BL, Specht IO, Tuffier S, Lim Y-H, Andersen ZJ, Andersen MS, Mortensen EL, Rod NH, Flensborg-Madsen T (2026). “Childhood adversity trajectories and IQ in a cohort of young adult Danish men”. Pediatrics Open Science 2(1): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1542/pedsos.2025-001154
Møller AL, Sørensen KK, Nance N, Mortensen JT, Gerds TA, Torp-Pedersen C, Rytgaard HCW (2026). “Estimating effects of targeted public health interventions using the interventional disparity indirect effect among the exposed”. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 80(5): 309–315. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-224627
Kvart S, Mangot-Sala L, Aronsson A, Badarin K, Bosmans K, Gunn V, Johansson G, Mireia J, Kreshpaj B, Matilla-Santander N, Mendez-Rivero F, Thern E, Östergren P-O, Bodin T (2026). “Precarious employment and mental health: the moderating role of household income and family type in Sweden”. BMC Public Health 26: 349. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26259-x
Laustsen LM, Ejlskov L, Chen D, Lasgaard M, Rod NH, Gradus JL, Grønkjær MS, Plana-Ripoll O (2026). “Quantifying the contribution of social disconnection to the mortality gap associated with mental disorders: a decomposition analysis”. European Journal of Epidemiology 41(2): 217–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-025-01348-0
2025
Forster RB, Alvarez EG, Zucco AG, Bernal-Delgado E, Diallo G, Estupiñán-Romero F, Ganna A, Gorman- Asal M, Hilmarsen C, Holub P, Hoeyer K, Rawat A, Rod HN, Vuorinen AL, Varga TV (2025). “User journeys in cross-European secondary use of health data: insights ahead of the European Health Data Space”. European Journal of Public Health 35(Supplement_3): iii18–iii24. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf096
Onizuka H, Rod NH, Kragelund Nielsen K, Damm P, Davies M (2025). “Examining the joint association of parental education and childhood adversities on gestational diabetes risk: A nationwide register study from Denmark”. Diabetic Medicine 42(9): e70091. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.70091
Rod NH, Varga TV (2025). “A practical guide to interdisciplinary work in public health”. Nature Human Behaviour 9(8): 1519–1522. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02257-8
Rod NH, Davies M, de Vries TR, Kreshpaj B, Drews H, Nguyen TL, Elsenburg LK (2025). “Young adulthood: a transitional period with lifelong implications for health and wellbeing”. BMC Global and Public Health 3(1): 25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44263-025-00148-8
Chakradeo K, Huynh I, Balaganeshan SB, Dollerup OL, Gade-Jørgensen H, Laupstad SK, Malham M, Nguyen TL, Hulman A, Varga TV (2025). “Navigating fairness aspects of clinical prediction models”. BMC Medicine 23(1): 567. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04340-3
Stronks K, Rod MH, Rutter H, Rod NH (2025). “Towards a complex systems model of evidence of public health”. BMJ Global Health 10(10): e021061. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2025-021061
de Vries TR, Bennetsen SK, Elsenburg LK, Andersen SH, Kreshpaj B, Thielen K, Rod NH (2025). “Trajectories of childhood adversity, social welfare dependence in young adulthood, and the mediating role of mental health problems: a Danish population-based cohort study“. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry 67(5): 707–717. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70062
Zucco AG, Drews HJ, Uleman JF, Bhatt S, Rod NH (2025). “Exploring nationwide patterns of sleep problems from late adolescence to adulthood using machine learning”. Science Advances 11 (39): eadw1227.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1227
Malhalm M, Sejling C, Davies M, Wewer V, Bhatt S, Fox MP, Rod NH (2025). “How early-life affects the risk of pediatric-onset immune mediated inflammatory disease”. Journal of Autoimmunity 156: 103457. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40706221/
Joensen A, Elsenburg LK, Olsen EM, Ekstrøm CT, Rod NH, Larsen KS (2025). “Trajectories of Childhood Adversity and Eating Disorders in Adolescence”. International Journal of Eating Disorders 58(11): 2077–2089. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40726199/
Dalsager L, Sørensen K, Sørensen JK, Burr H, Dragano N, Hanson LM, Nielsen MBD, Rod NH, Wahrendorf M, Madsen IEH, Rugulies R (2025). “Time trends in prevalence of depressive disorder in the Danish working population from 2012 to 2018”. Journal of Affective Disorders 385: 119449. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40398605/
Coupland H, Scheidwasser N, Katsiferis A, Davies M, Flaxman S, Rod NH, Mishra S, Bhatt S, Unwin HJT (2025). “Exploring the potential and limitations of deep learning and explainable AI for longitudinal life course analysis”. BMC Public Health 25(1): 1520. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22705-4
Uleman JF, Petersen AH, Rod NH (2025). “Bridging system dynamics and causal epidemiology: an opportunity for both fields”. System Dynamics Review 41(1): e1799. https://doi.org/10.1002/sdr.1799
Rod NH, Davies M, de Vries TR, Kreshpaj B, Drews H, Nguyen T-L, Elsenburg LK (2025). "Young adulthood: a transitional period with lifelong implications for health and wellbeing". BMC Global and Public Health 3(1): 25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44263-025-00148-8
Nadaraia T, Whittaker E, Kenyon I, Boonpor J, Zhou Z, Nakada S, Rochmawati ID, Celis-Morales C, Ward J, Rod NH, Pell JP, Minnis H, Hehlmann T, Ho FK, Mackay D (2025). "Childhood maltreatment, adulthood obesity and incident type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study using UK Biobank". International Journal of Obesity 49(1): 140–146. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-024-01652-x
Bennetsen SK, Kreshpaj B, Andersen SH, de Vries TR, Thielen K, Lange T, Rod NH, Elsenburg LK (2025). "Childhood adversity, early school leaving and long-term social benefit use: A longitudinal mediation analysis of a population-wide study". Social Science & Medicine 370: 117770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117770
Sørensen JK, Mathisen J, Bültmann U, Lallukka T, Melchior M, Rod NH, Pedersen J, Stansfeld S, Rugulies R, Christensen KB, Madsen I (2025). "Sickness absence trajectories among young employees in their first full-time employment and subsequent long-term sickness absence: a Danish register-based cohort study". BMJ Public Health 3(1): e002046. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2024-002046
Elsenburg LK, Kreshpaj B, Andersen SH, de Vries TR, Thielen K, Rod NH (2025). "Childhood adversity trajectories and not being in education, employment, or training during early adulthood: The Danish life course cohort (DANLIFE)". Social Science & Medicine 371: 117841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117841
Kreshpaj B, Elsenburg LK, Andersen SH, de Vries TR, Thielen K, Rod NH (2025). "Association between childhood adversity and use of the health, social, and justice systems in Denmark (DANLIFE): a nationwide cohort study". The Lancet Public Health 10(1): e29–e35. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00242-1