Helle Ussing Timm

Helle Ussing Timm is Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Senior Researcher at UCSF/Rigshospitalet, and Adjunct Professor at the University of the Faroe Islands. Her work bridges public health, palliative care, and rehabilitation through narrative and qualitative methodologies.

Education:

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Research Focus: Professor Timm’s scholarship centers on palliative care and rehabilitation for people living with cancer, chronic lung disease, alcohol-related liver cirrhosis, and heart failure. She employs narrative inquiry and qualitative designs to illuminate patient experiences, clinician perspectives, and the integration of rehabilitative and palliative paradigms.

Across her extensive publication record, recent studies explore lung cancer survivorship trajectories, emergency nurses’ encounters with sudden death, Danish women’s nuanced attitudes toward abortion, and the lived experience of harm within combined rehabilitative-palliative interventions. These works reveal a consistent commitment to understanding how complex illness narratives inform compassionate, person-centered care.

Scientific & Professional Recognition:

• 210 research outputs indexed in major databases
• 85 scholarly activities including invited keynotes, conference organization, peer review, and editorial duties
• Supervisor for PhD project on narrative methods in heart-failure palliative care

Grants & Projects:

• Principal Investigator, “Balance, Activity and Quality of Life” (2021-2024)
• Supervisor, PhD project “Integrating general palliative care in a heart failure clinic” (2017-2021)
• Project participant, Nordic narrative rehabilitation and palliative care collaboration (2020-2021)

Professor Timm is actively involved in national public discourse, contributing to over 47 press and media engagements that translate her research into policy and practice recommendations.