Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen is a Professor and Head of Research at the Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where she is affiliated with the Danish Centre for Health Economics (DaCHE) and the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Health. She holds a PhD and MSc in economics and is actively engaged in research, teaching, and public dissemination.

Her research focuses on health economics and behavioral aspects of healthcare access, with an emphasis on both citizen/patient behaviors and health professionals' decision-making under financial incentives and resource constraints. She utilizes stated preference methods, field and laboratory experiments, and integrates register data with survey data to uncover motivations behind health-related behavior.

The trends in her recent publications reflect a strong focus on health inequalities, prioritization in healthcare, physician behavior, quality of life, and the ethical dimensions of health policy. Her work frequently appears in leading journals such as Health Economics and the European Journal of Health Economics, and she contributes regularly to public discourse through media appearances.

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Advising and Grants: She has supervised master’s theses, including one on well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has led or coordinated multiple major research projects such as PINCH, TRACE, IQCE, and NORMA, often involving national and international collaboration and significant research funding.

Labs and Research Teams: She is a key figure in DaCHE - Danish Centre for Health Economics and the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Health, where she leads research initiatives and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on health economics and policy projects.