Søren Rud Kristensen

Søren Rud Kristensen is a Professor at the Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark and holds an Honorary Senior Lecturer position at Imperial College London. His research focuses on healthcare organization and performance, particularly incentive design for quality improvement, with expertise in microeconometric analysis of large administrative datasets. He has held roles including Senior Lecturer (2017-2021) at Imperial College London.

Key research areas include payment for performance systems, integrated care models, and clinical guideline implementation. He has published extensively on healthcare quality, patient safety, and health policy with 71+ peer-reviewed articles. His work addresses challenges like hospital competition effects, spillover mechanisms of financial incentives, and the impact of adverse events on patient outcomes.

He has received multiple research grants including support for Manchester research stays and funding from Sygekassernes Helsefond. Teaching responsibilities include modules on integrated health care, quality management, and data-driven quality development. His current projects focus on regulating knowledge use in healthcare (PINCH project) and evaluating resource constraints in primary care.

Labs/teams involvement includes collaborations through the Danish Centre for Health Economics (DaCHE) and international networks analyzing health systems in England, Brazil, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. His work bridges economic theory with practical healthcare system improvements.