Amanda Paust

Amanda Paust is a Researcher at the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University’s Faculty of Health, focusing on social inequality in health with emphasis on general practice and marginalized populations. She leads projects like Escape from Inequity in Health (gamification for structural competence) and Deep End Denmark (user-driven research). Her teaching spans public health, health inequality, and complex interventions across programs.

• Education: PhD in Social Inequality in Medical Treatment (Aarhus University, 2024)

Research interests include healthcare disparities, medication optimization, and innovative interventions for vulnerable groups. Her 2021-2025 publications address anticoagulant therapy equity, multimorbidity costs, and temporal barriers in chronic care. She employs mixed methods and collaborates with general practitioners serving complex communities.

Key projects:

• SPARK (social prescribing)
• ReMoTe (remote assessment during pandemic)
• MOSAIC (medication optimization)

Her work receives attention through 15 news outlets and 9 Mendeley readers, with funding from Innovationsfonden (2020). She teaches courses like Global Health (2019-2024) and Inequality in Health (2022).