Lotus Sofie Bast

Lotus Sofie Bast is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, specializing in health promotion and interventions. Her work focuses on smoking prevention among children and adolescents and implementation research within Danish public health contexts.

She holds a PhD and cand.scient.san.publ. degree, reflecting her expertise in public health sciences and research methodology. Her educational background underpins her rigorous approach to mixed-methods studies and population-based research.

Bast's research centers on tobacco control, adolescent health behaviors, and implementation fidelity of school-based interventions. She investigates social gradients in smoking prevalence, parental influence on youth tobacco use, and organizational readiness for health promotion programs. Her fingerprint reveals strong associations with cigarette filter research, social class determinants, regression analysis, and focus group methodologies within Danish populations.

Her 2025 publications demonstrate consistent focus on youth nicotine exposure patterns, co-use behaviors with marijuana, and structural barriers to implementing school health initiatives. These works collectively advance implementation science through mixed-methods designs and policy-relevant findings for Danish public health authorities.

Bast supervises master's theses on implementation readiness analysis, nicotine products, and nature therapy interventions while leading projects like 'Røgfri Ungdomsuddannelser' (Smoke-free Youth Education). Her grant portfolio includes partnership-focused smoking prevention initiatives with regional educational authorities.

She operates within interdisciplinary teams at the National Institute of Public Health, notably contributing to the X:IT school-based smoking prevention program and Project ROS suicide prevention gatekeeper training. Her collaborations span educational administrators, public health researchers, and Nordic-Baltic research networks addressing youth substance use.