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Denmark: New research centre opens

Steno Health Promotion Centre to have focus on prevention

Posted in Industry on 25 June 2010

A new research centre, focusing on patient education, prevention and health promotion, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 11 June. The Steno Health Promotion Centre, part of the Steno Diabetes Centre (owned by Novo Nordisk A/S), will initiate research projects to generate new knowledge and methods.

Among the projects to be launched in 2010 are research initiatives on:

  • Preventing diabetes among urban youth in Kenya
  • Seeking synergy between school and community (developing and testing innovative participatory approaches to health promotion)
  • Diabetes and obesity – integrating frontiers in epidemiology, medicine and education
  • The workplace as a setting for prevention

Lise Kingo, executive vice president at Novo Nordisk, commented: ‘The fact that the new centre will do research in both prevention and patient education while at the same time being able to study the results in clinical practice – that is fantastic. You don’t see that in many other places.’

The centre is expected to have 15–20 employees by the end of 2010.

Sources: Press release and website.

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