Research projects

​This study will develop, test and validate a multidimensional Food Literacy index for school children grade 6-7. The resulting instrument will be useful for assessing food literacy levels and guide food education activities.

​ASPHALT is a research project and an intervention developed in collaboration between the non-profit organisation GAME and Health Promotion Research at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen.

We develop a core outcome set (COS) for behaviour change interventions to prevent diabetes after pregnancies (DAP) affected by gestational diabetes. The COS is expected to enhance opportunities for comparison of future studies.

​​The FACE-IT research programme aims to increase quality of life and reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes among women with prior gestational diabetes and their families.

​​This project focuses on family-based obesity interventions for children and adolescents. The aim is to produce knowledge and to develop new methods (for creating family involvement) that involve the whole family in positive and constructive ways and reduce detrimental communication.

​This EU project aims at preventing overweight among children and young people consolidating, providing access to and scaling up best practices from previous European school and community health promotion interventions.

​Project SoL is a series of interrelated initiatives that are all based on the supersetting approach to mobilise local communities for public health and social action.

​​The JOM MAMA project explores the potential of pre-conception obesity prevention and health promotion among young couples in Malaysia.

​​​Using cross-cultural encounters as a means of health promotion among primary school students – the Move Eat Learn (MEL) project.

​​This project investigates the development and implementation of health promotion activities in deprived neighbourhoods. In these areas, the residents are at increased risk of developing diabetes and other Non-Communicable Diseases (NSD’s) as inappropriate health behaviour is concentrated among socially disadvantaged groups.

The PULSE project was a research-based, action-oriented exhibition-development project that took place at a science centre in Copenhagen called Experimentarium.

​​Smoke-free Vocational Schools is a research- and intervention project which aims to implement ‘smoke-free school hours’ in nine Danish vocational education and training (VET) schools  and create new knowledge on effective tobacco control interventions.

​We Act – Together for Health is a development and research project including a multi-component health promoting school intervention implemented in four Danish public schools with four control schools.

​​Developing tools for community-based health promotion.