DIAS event: Understanding complex problems and creating change in complex systems. An interdisciplinary approach to public health research – lecture by Naja Hulvej Rod & Morten Hulvej Rod

Naja Hulvej Rod, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center, and Morten Hulvej Rod, PhD, anthropology, Professor of health promotion and Director of the National Institute for Public Health have both worked with public health research for 20 years, but only started to work together when COVID-19 hit, and their living room became their shared office space.

In their presentation they will explain how coming from two different backgrounds has fuelled the development of a new framework for interdisciplinary knowledge production in relation to complex public health issues, such as health inequalities, obesity, and mental health. They will explain how a stay at University of Amsterdam’s IAS led to new thinking and the establishment of collaboration with scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, public health, epidemiology, and medicine, which is now being integrated in ongoing work.