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Personal profile
Research
Lone Simonsen is a professor of population health sciences, at the Department of Science and Environment at RUC, following an EU-funded Marie Curie Action funded visiting professorship at U. of Copenhagen. She also holds a position as Research Professor in Global Health at George Washington U. in DC. After obtaining a masters degree from Roskilde University in 1985, she pursued a PhD in population genetics at U. Massachusetts, Amherst in 1992, did a postdoc at the Danish Technical U. and later trained at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in infectious disease epidemiology. She is an elected member of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences & Letters.
Over the past 20+ years she has worked at the US-CDC, World Health Organization (WHO) and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) on issues including HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, antibiotic resistance, SARS, pandemic influenza, e-health, surveillance systems and vaccine program evaluation. Before moving to academia in 2007, she was a senior epidemiologist at the NIH-NIAID and later a senior fellow with RAPIDD, an epidemiological modeling network at Fogarty-NIH. She has published ~200 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and commentaries, happily working with international colleagues and in an interdisciplinary manner (H-index 65; I10-index 147; >20000 citations). A representative subset of her publications can be found in "Research outputs".
Her research currently focuses on modeling historical and contemporary pandemics and emerging infectious diseases, population transitions to long healthy lives, "Big data" in health, and vaccine program evaluation. Lone enjoys mentoring students and look forward to teach courses in Epidemiology and Global Health, with a focus on interesting case studies.
Education/Academic qualification
Population Genetics, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1 Jan 1987 → 1 Feb 1992
Award Date: 1 Feb 1992
Biology and Chemistry, Masters Degree, Roskilde University
1 Sep 1980 → 1 Jun 1985
Award Date: 1 Jun 1985
Applied Epidemiology, EIS Diploma
Aug 1992 → Jun 1994
Microbial Ecology, Postdoctoral Fellow
1 Jan 1992 → 1 Aug 1992
External positions
Research Professor, Department of Global Health, George Washington University
30 Jul 2007 → …Keywords
- Health, Medicine
- Epidemiology
- Historical Epidemiology
- Pandemic Influenza
- Vaccine Program Evaluation
- Disease Burden Modeling
- Global Health
- cholera
Publication network
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Research Output
Asymptomatiske personer står for stor andel af COVID-19-smitte
Simonsen, L., 21 Apr 2020, In : Ugeskrift for Laeger. 2020, 9, 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Research
Open Access
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Estimating the early death toll of COVID-19 in the United States
Weinberger, D., Cohen, T., Crawford, F., Mostashari, F., Olson, D., Pitzer, V. E., Reich, N. G., Russi, M., Simonsen, L., Watkins, A. & Viboud, C., 2020, (Submitted) In : medRxiv. PreprintResearch output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
Surveillance data confirm multiyear predictions of rotavirus dynamics in New York City
Olson, D. R., Lopman, B. A., Konty, K. J., Mathes, R. W., Papadouka, V., Ternier, A., Zucker, J. R., Simonsen, L., Grenfell, B. T. & Pitzer, V. E., 2020, In : Science Advances. 6, 9, eaax0586.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Are expensive vaccines the best investment in lower-middle income countries?
Simonsen, L., Wijhe, M. V. & Taylor, R. J., 1 May 2019, In : The Lancet Global Health. 7, 5, p. E548-E549 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
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Challenges in Estimating the Impact of Vaccination with Sparse data
Shioda, K., Schuck-Paim, C., Taylor, R. J., Lustig, R., Simonsen, L., Warren, J. L. & Weinberger, D. M., 2019, In : Epidemiology. 30, 1, p. 61-68 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
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Projects
- 2 Active
Plagues and Rural Populations. Social and geographical factors in the epidemic diseases of nineteenth and early twentieth century rural Denmark
Ingholt, M. M., Simonsen, L. & Vallgårda, S.
01/08/2019 → 31/07/2022
Project: Research
Long-term Impact of Childhood Vaccination Programs: Using Historical data to Understand Modern Disease Patterns
Simonsen, L., Andreasen, V., Wijhe, M. V., Ingholt, M. M., Perner, M. L., Lykkeskov, C. R. & Wallinga, J.
01/06/2018 → 30/11/2020
Project: Research
Activities
- 2 Lecture and oral contribution
Centennial Reflections on the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic: Insights and Remaining Puzzles
Lone Simonsen (Speaker)
6 Jun 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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PANDEMIER I FORTID, NUTID OG FREMTID
Lone Simonsen (Speaker)
5 Nov 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Press / Media
Nu har Sverige den højeste dødelighed i verden: 'Vi kan lære af det'
22/05/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Coronaafdelinger rundt om i landet bliver lukket
22/05/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Kontaktopsporing, test og isolation er frivillig: »Vi kan ikke fange al smitte. Men vi kan dæmpe den«
20/05/2020
1 item of Media coverage
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