Katrine Tranberg Jensen

Katrine Tranberg Jensen is a Postdoc and PhD Student at the Department of Public Health, Section of General Practice, within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on health inequality, particularly in mental health contexts, with emphasis on access to healthcare for people with severe mental illness, especially when combined with substance use disorders.

Her research interests center on implementation science, exploring how theoretically developed health interventions function in real-world settings. She investigates how interventions change when implemented in practice and how they affect the context of implementation. Her work specifically addresses healthcare access for people with severe mental illness, their use of healthcare systems, morbidity, mortality, and substance use patterns.

Methodologically, she employs mixed methods approaches, combining quantitative register studies with qualitative interviews and observations. Her recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate consistent output in high-impact journals related to public health, mental health services, and implementation science. She has published on topics including dual diagnosis interventions in general practice, prediction models for identifying people with severe mental illness, obesity management interventions, and the relationship between childhood aspirations and later psychiatric disorders.

Her research shows a clear pattern of investigating health disparities through the lens of mental health and substance use, with particular attention to primary care settings. She frequently collaborates with researchers at the Department of Public Health, especially those working in general practice and mental health services research.

She has been involved in several significant research projects including the SOFIA trial, which examines contact with patients with severe mental illness in clinical practice. Her work bridges theoretical intervention development with practical implementation challenges, making important contributions to understanding how to effectively deliver healthcare to vulnerable populations.