Ulla Marie Nørgaard Toft

Ulla Marie Nørgaard Toft serves as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Public Health, Section of Social Medicine at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Her research portfolio demonstrates extensive contributions to public health, particularly in the areas of food environment, nutrition, and preventive medicine.

Her research interests span across several critical domains of public health, with particular emphasis on how socioeconomic factors influence food environments and dietary patterns. Her work examines structural prevention approaches focusing on diet, tobacco, nicotine, alcohol, and physical activity. She has developed conceptual frameworks for municipal health promotion and disease prevention, and has conducted significant research on community-based interventions to promote healthy eating through supermarket-based initiatives.

Professor Toft's recent publications reveal a strong focus on food environment research and childhood health interventions. Her work spans methodological approaches including spatial analysis of food outlets, scoping reviews for nutritional guidelines, and multi-component intervention studies targeting children's health. She has been instrumental in developing the Health and Local Community Project (SoL), which successfully increased sales of healthy foods in local supermarkets through community-based participatory approaches.

She has contributed significantly to the Generation Healthy Kids project, developing protocols for cluster-randomized controlled trials targeting healthy weight and wellbeing in children aged 6-11 years. Her research demonstrates a consistent pattern of translating public health research into practical community interventions with measurable outcomes.