Linda Ejlskov

Linda Ejlskov is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health and the National Centre for Register-based Research at Aarhus University. She specializes in Social Epidemiology and Health Inequalities, focusing on how socioeconomic factors and social contexts influence population health. Her research integrates register-based methodologies to study family, neighborhood, and social relationship effects on wellbeing across the life course.

Education:

• PhD in Social Epidemiology (Aalborg University, 2018)
• MA in Social Science Data Analysis (University of Essex, 2015)
• MSc in Sociology (Aalborg University, 2015)
• BSc in Business Administration (Aarhus University, 2012)

Research Interests: Her work examines socioeconomic position measurement, mental disorder outcomes, mortality disparities, and multigenerational health effects. She collaborates internationally, including with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and leads projects funded by the Lundbeck Foundation.

Key Achievements:

• Principal Investigator on a Lundbeck Foundation grant
• Recipient of the Early Career Researcher keynote prize (EPA section, 2022)
• Published in top-tier journals like JAMA Psychiatry and The Lancet Public Health

Laboratory/Teams: Affiliated with the National Centre for Register-based Research, leveraging Denmark’s comprehensive register data for large-scale epidemiological studies.