Forskningsprojekt Pathogens, Pandemics and the Development of Nordic Societies
This project aimes to create NORDEMICS, a Nordic interdisciplinary consortium dedicated to understanding how factors such as urbanization, increased trade and travel, large-scale migration, vaccines and other public health interventions, climate change and ecological degradation influence the dynamics of epidemic and pandemic infections in human populations. The consortium will systematically study historical health data to understand the patterns of spread and health impact of such diseases in the Nordic countries over the last 300 years.
We will take full advantage of the Nordic countries’ unique and zealous tradition of record-keeping, which has produced troves of quantitative health and mortality data stretching far into the past, but which have yet to be comprehensively analyzed. We will apply cutting-edge mathematical modeling techniques to these data, while thoroughly integrating the analytical methods and insights of historians, demographers and economists in a truly interdisciplinary environment.
Combined with insights into the social, environmental, economic and demographic context, our effort will yield a deep quantitative understanding of past pandemics that will allow us to draw a detailed picture of pandemic and epidemic diseases in the pre-modern era. In short, the proposed Consortium will reveal important insights into the major diseases that shaped human society, and broaden the knowledge base that helps us prepare for future pandemics.

Publikationer
An ordinary malaria? Intermittent fever in Denmark, 1826-1886
Ingholt, M. M., 2023, I: Medical History. 67, 1, s. 57-73 17 s.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Een historisch perspectief op vaccinatieprogramma’s. Hoeveel gezondheidswinst hebben we behaald?
van Wijhe, M., 2 nov. 2023.Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Konferenceabstrakt til konference › Formidling
Temperate climate malaria in nineteenth century Denmark
Ingholt, M. M., Chen, T. T., Hildebrandt, F., Pedersen, R. K. & Simonsen, L., 4 maj 2022, I: BMC Infectious Diseases. 22, 1, 432.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Aktiviteter
5th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography
Maarten van Wijhe (Deltager)
30 aug. 2023 → 2 sep. 2023Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangering af en begivenhed › Organisation og deltagelse i konference
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Bevilling
Projektet Pathogens, Pandemics and the Development of Nordic Societies (NORDEMICS) har fået 11 mio. DKK i støtte fra Nordforsk.

Base på RUC
Forskningsprojektet hører hjemme på Institut for Naturvidenskab og Miljø
Relaterede forskningsenheder: PandemiX Center, Matematik og Fysik (IMFUFA), Molecular and Medical Biology
Ph.d.-skole: Doctoral School of Science and Environment
Uddannelser og fag: Matematical Bioscience // Molecular Health Science // Naturvidenskabelig Bachelor // International Bachelor in Natural Sciences
Forskning fra Roskilde Universitet

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Kontakt
Lone Simonsen
Forskningscenterleder, professor
Telefon +45 2342 9503
lonesimo@ruc.dk
Johanne Greibe Andersen
Centerkoordinator
Telefon +45 4674 3980
johannea@ruc.dk