Camilla Riis Nielsen

Camilla Riis Nielsen is a visiting researcher and research assistant at the University of Southern Denmark, specializing in epidemiology, demography, and public health. She is affiliated with the Department of Public Health and has worked at the Center on Population Dynamics (CPop). Her research focuses on life expectancy, cognitive function, multimorbidity disparities, and aging-related health metrics using SHARE survey data.

• PhD in Demography (European Doctoral School of Demography, 2018)
• MSc in Public Health (University of Southern Denmark, 2015)

Her research explores:

• Quantifying risk factors for severe diseases in aging populations
• Dynamics of cognitive health and life expectancy
• Frailty-based healthy aging metrics
• Health inequality analysis

Recent publications highlight trends in:

• COVID-19 vulnerability in elderly Europeans
• Cognitive function trajectories (2004-2015)
• Frailty-state healthy life expectancy
• European multimorbidity disparities
• Alcohol consumption measurement methodologies

She contributes to teaching courses on:

• Scientific methodology (2020-2021)
• Biodemography and population dynamics (2020)