Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

Zorana Jovanovic Andersen is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Section of Environmental Health, specializing in Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology. Her research focuses on health impacts of air pollution, noise exposure, and lifestyle factors across large cohorts including the Danish Nurse Cohort and Diet, Health, and Cancer cohort.

• Primary research areas: Environmental Epidemiology, Breast Cancer Risk, Air Pollution, Noise Studies, Physical Activity Interactions
• Key projects: Hyperion (road traffic noise), ELAPSE (low-level air pollution), TAPAS (climate-transportation health risks)

Research Themes

She investigates long-term exposure to air pollution and noise in relation to breast cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and brain cancer, while exploring how factors like physical activity modify these risks. Recent work includes dementia and COVID-19 mortality analyses.

Scientific Contributions

Her 15 most recent publications address: 1) Air pollution disparities in Europe 2) Dementia-air pollution links 3) Stroke-noise interactions 4) Airport ultrafine particle exposure 5) Asthma-COPD overlap 6) Breast cancer-mammographic density relationships.

• Major Grants

• Danish Working Environment Research Fund (1.79M DKK, 2017)
• Danish Heart Association (433K DKK, 2016)
• Danish Council for Independent Research (1.93M DKK, 2015)

Teaching & Leadership

Course Leader for Data Processing in Health Care and Public Health Informatics at UCPH since 2011. Organized Danish Health Registries seminars and served on scientific committees for environmental conferences.