About
The Center for Clinical Research and Prevention (CCRP) is a research center at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, a University hospital in the Capital Region of Denmark. Its research is aimed at improving the knowledge for the prevention of disease and promotion of health across a wide range of health problems, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and general mortality. One of the key lines of research is based on analytical epidemiology, which includes both environmental and genetic factors as equally important etiological contributors. The Center is engaged in a number of international collaborative research activities and academic education.
Expertise
CCRP coordinates research dealing with population-based studies, covering the whole age span from pregnancy to old age. The Center’s areas of expertise include large observational cohort studies, lifecourse epidemiology methods, biostatistics and register linkages with particular focus on research in obesity and obesity-related topics.
Our team
Dr Jennifer L. Baker
Associate Professor and DynaHEALTH Principle Investigator
Jennifer is an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, leader of a research group on lifecourse epidemiology and lead investigator of several national and international research projects. Jennifer’s research interests focus on understanding how early life body size, growth and exposures affect health across the lifespan.
Dr Lise Geisler Bjerregaard
Postdoctoral researcher
Lise is a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in epidemiology and public health with a focus on longitudinal studies of body weight, infant feeding and infant growth studied in population-based studies.
Dr Lars Ängquist
Lars, a statistician, has expertise in applied research within general epidemiology, biostatistics and genetic epidemiology.
Professor Thorkild I.A. Sørensen
Professor of Metabolic and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Copenhagen
Thorkild has long-standing research interests in obesity, its causes, development, occurrence, distribution changes over time and place, psychological, medical and societal implications and complications, and in opportunities for prevention and cure, addressed by methods in genetic, metabolic, clinical and general epidemiology. His current primary interest is in the development of a theory that unifies the evidence about why obesity develops and why it is harmful.
Role in this project
CCRP is involved in research tasks in Work Packages 1, 3 and 4 and is responsible for large-scale life-course studies on cohort data under Work Package 3.