How to do research across healthcare sectors
Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline.
This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.
Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. Know the relevance and benefits of working across sectors and involving partners from various sectors and organizations and engage in theoretical considerations about research design
2. Understand the research process from project development and planning, conduct and management to implementation and evaluation
3. Use acquired knowledge to put own research into perspective
Content
Collaboration across healthcare sectors – between the somatic and the mental hospital, municipalities, and general practice – is important because the complexity of health determinants makes it difficult for one institution to deal with all public health problems.
To improve and strengthen health promotion and integrated care and at the same time reduce social inequality and the burden of chronic disease, intersectoral health research is of great significance.
The purpose of the PhD course is to provide the knowledge and tools required to plan, complete, and evaluate research projects that span across different healthcare sectors and organizations.
The course will follow the steps of conducting intersectoral research projects, including choosing a research design, data security and data processing agreements, involvement and collaboration with partners and stakeholders from different sectors and organisations, co-creation, project management, evaluation design, and implementation of results after the project.
The course is based on Danish legislation and the Danish healthcare system.
Participants will be provided with practical examples of key stages in the research process and will be presented with different approaches to intersectoral research and hands-on experiences with developing and conducting actual research projects involving partners from different healthcare sectors and organizations, volunteers, and informal caregivers.
Pre course:
At registration participants must provide information about their date of enrolment and expected date of submission of the thesis as well as a one-page description of the problem and empirical foundation of their intersectoral research project. This will enable the lecturers to divide the participants in relevant groups.
Each participant must prepare a mini presentation of a project that will be discussed with a group of participants and teachers in sparring sessions on day 1, 2 or 3.
Day 1: Get started with your intersectoral research project
Day 2: How to manage and complete an intersectoral research project
Day 3: Implementation and evaluation of intersectoral research projects
Participants
PhD students and other post-graduate planning to conduct intersectoral research in the health and medical fields involving
- several sectors of the health system (hospitals, municipalities, and general practice)
- one health sector and one or more private companies, NGOs, volunteers, informal caregivers, or the civil society.
Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
Public Health and Epidemiology
Psychiatry
Medicine, Culture and Society
Language
English (Danish, if all participants are Danish speaking)
Form
A combination of lectures, discussion, homework, and group sessions
Course director
Lotte Broberg, Associate Professor Department of Clinical Medicine, Midwife, PhD.
Mail: lotte.broberg.01@regionh.dk
Teachers
From University of Copenhagen:
Lotte Broberg, Associate Professor Department of Clinical Medicine, Midwife, PhD.
From Center for Clinical Research and Prevention:
Hanne Birke, Post.doc, PhD.
Julie Christina Grew, Senior Researcher, PhD.
Michaela Louise Schiøtz, Head of Section, PhD.
Sanne Lykke Lundstrøm, Researcher, PhD.
From healthcare sectors:
A representative from the hospital
A representative from a municipality
A representative from general practice
Dates
January 28th-30rd 2025
Course location
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Frederiksberg Hospital
Registration
Please register before December 16th 2024
Expected frequency
Yearly
Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.
Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.