Bevilling
Projektet Pathogens, Pandemics and the Development of Nordic Societies (NORDEMICS) har fået 11 mio. DKK i støtte fra Nordforsk.
Forskningsprojekt Pathogens, Pandemics and the Development of Nordic Societies
Projektperiode: 01/05/2021 - 30/09/2025
While infectious diseases have faded from the Nordic region today, they have not gone away. That threat materialized in December 2019, as the world encountered the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To cope with these emerging threats, a clear understanding of forces that drive the dissemination, impact and control of infectious pandemics is essential.
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.
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.
Samarbejdspartnere i Norden
Publikationer
The 1919–21 influenza pandemic in Greenland
Ingholt, M. M., Simonsen, L., Mamelund, S.-E., Noahsen, P. & van Wijhe, M., 6 mar. 2024, I: International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 83, 1, 12 s., 2325711.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
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
Aktiviteter
Historisk Epidemiologi: Tværfaglige undersøgelser af fortidens sygdomme. – En samtale om kildebrug i digitale analyser?
Simonsen, L. (Oplægsholder)
1 feb. 2024Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
5th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography
Wijhe, M. V. (Deltager)
30 aug. 2023 → 2 sep. 2023Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangering af en begivenhed › Organisation og deltagelse i konference
Mere viden
Meet the NORDEMICS consortium
The NORDEMICS consortium consists of members and partners from Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.
ARTIKEL
11 millioner kroner til tværnationalt forskningsprojekt om pandemier i de nordiske samfund
Professor Lone Simonsen fra Roskilde Universitet står i spidsen for et forskningssamarbejde på tværs af fire nordiske lande.
Finland's first vaccine mandate
A preprint from NORDEMICS researchers shows that Finland’s first vaccine mandate helped to raise vaccination rates, and has implications for COVID-19 vaccine policy.
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
Mere om forskningsprojektet
Mere viden om Nordemics: Pathogens, Pandemics and the Development of Nordic Societies
Kontakt
Lone Simonsen
Forskningscenterleder, professor
Telefon +45 2342 9503
lonesimo@ruc.dk
Johanne Greibe Andersen
Centerkoordinator
Telefon +45 4674 3980
johannea@ruc.dk