About Center for Healthy Aging
About
Center for Healthy Aging is a research
Center for Healthy Aging is a network of research units, most of which are currently located at the University of Copenhagen and the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Bente Merete Stallknecht, has the overall responsibility for the
Vision
Our vision is to make Denmark the world's best country to grow old in.
Mission
Our mission is to employ a common conceptual framework to understand the complex interplay of biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that influence health and wellbeing at an individual and a societal level. We engage actively with a variety of stakeholders to develop interventions and policies that promote healthy living and social participation in old age.
Funding
Center for Healthy Aging is supported by approx. 50 million Euro in funding from Nordea-fonden. The Foundation supports activities that promote good living.
The role of the International Advisory Board (AB) is to provide advice about strategic planning, recruitment, feasibility, progress and development of the scientific program.
AB proposes criteria for evaluating scientific progress and success, assists in establishing suitable external domestic and international collaborations, and advises on scientific goals. Finally, AB helps ensure the leadership of Center for Healthy Aging that its research programs meet the highest international standards and achieve optimal scientific impact.
The Board members meet once a year in Copenhagen.
Scientific advisory board members
- Academy Research Fellow Sari Stenholm, University of Turku, Finland
- Professor Erik Boddeke, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
- Professor Todd Trappe, Ball State University, US
- Professor Hans E. Krokan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Professor Paul Greenhaff, University of Nottingham, UK
- Senior Research Associate Louise Lafortune, Cambridge University, UK
- Professor Brian Kennedy, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, US, & National University Health System (NUHS) Centre for Healthy Ageing, Singapore
- Associate Professor Matteo M. Galizzi, London School of Economics, UK
- Professor Simon Cohn, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK