Merete Labriola

Merete Labriola serves as a Professor in the Department of Public Health, Section of Social Medicine, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with contact details including phone +45 35 33 31 32 and email merete.labriola@sund.ku.dk at Gothersgade 160, 3., 1123 København K.

Her research spans Occupational Health, Public Health, and Social Medicine, with specialized focus on return-to-work dynamics, long-term sickness absence predictors, disability pension risk factors, and psychosocial work environment impacts. Key methodologies include prospective cohort studies leveraging Danish national registers like DREAM to examine socioeconomic gradients and individual behavioral influences on work disability outcomes.

Analysis of her 9 publications (2006-2019) reveals consistent investigation into administrative data as predictive markers for disability, multilevel workplace risk factors, and cross-cultural instrument validation. Her work demonstrates strong policy relevance with multiple citations in governmental sources and significant academic impact evidenced by citation counts exceeding 140 in occupational health journals.