Niels Christian Hvidt

Biography

Niels Christian Hvidt, born 1969, 1997 Master's degree at the Divinity School of the University of Copenhagen; 1998 Advanced Expository Writing, Harvard Summer School; 1999 Proficiency exam, Cambridge University; 2001 Doctoral Dissertation (ThD - Roman equivalent to the PhD-grade) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on the thesis "Christian Prophecy - Its Preconditions, Function, and Status in the Church" awarded with the Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen dissertation prize. 2000-2002 Editor, Scandinavian section of Vatican Radio; 2000-2004 Visiting professor, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; 2002-2006 Post-doc research on theological perspectives on religion and coping, by H. Lundbeck A / S; 2001 Visiting professor, Angelicum University, Rome; 2004 Visiting fellow at the Divinity School at m University as well as the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health; 2004-05 Visiting fellow at Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society; 2005-06 Visiting fellow at the Theological Faculty of the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA. Since 2006 Associate Professor, Research Unit of Health, Man, and Society, Institute of Public Health, The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. Selected memberships: Member of the scientific board of the museum project "Marie de Nazareth" since 2002; Reviewer for Oxford University Press and the Medical Journal of Australia since 2007; Co-founder of International Society for Research in Spirituality, Religion and Health, Berne, Switzerland (in process of realization) since 2010; Coordinator for Interdisciplinary Nordic Network for Research in Faith and Health since 2011.

Research Interest

His research interest is Risk of cancer, myocardial infarction and psychiatric disease among members of religious societies - a Danish cohort study. Epidemiological study,