Signe Kær Bennetsen

Signe Kær Bennetsen is a Guest Researcher in the Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and a PhD fellow at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center. Her research addresses critical public health challenges through epidemiological analysis of childhood adversity and its lifelong societal consequences.

Her work spans epidemiology, public health, and social determinants of health with emphasis on life course perspectives. Bennetsen investigates how childhood experiences like adversity and poverty shape health trajectories and social outcomes into adulthood using longitudinal cohort studies and simulation modeling. Key methodologies include mediation analysis and population-level data synthesis to identify intervention points for reducing health inequalities.

Her 2025 publications demonstrate a cohesive research program examining early-life conditions through Danish nationwide data. Studies analyze childhood adversity's impact on educational disruption, social benefit dependency, and health disparities using advanced statistical approaches. This body of work bridges epidemiological rigor with policy-relevant insights for mitigating social vulnerability across generations.

Bennetsen operates within the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center, applying complexity science to public health challenges, and collaborates through the Section of Epidemiology to advance interdisciplinary research on health inequities.