November session with Professor Christoffer Johansen and Professor Bodil Rasmussen
Join us online for our tenth session of the Faculty of Health’s International Research Partnerships Colloquium Series 2024.
Each month we will feature one of our major international partners, with presentations from a Deakin and partner researcher on their latest collaborative work. These 50-minute Zoom sessions (20-minute presentation plus 30-minute Q&A) will highlight the great research being progressed within our strategic partnerships. They provide an opportunity for all staff, HDR and other research students to learn more about our major international partners, the key researchers involved and the opportunities that exist to engage.
Following the success of our event in October, this month’s session will feature our collaboration with the Danish Cancer Society.
Session details
- Professor Christoffer Johansen presenting Care or Treatment – the MyHealth study.
- Professor Bodil Rasmussen presenting Guided Self-determination: a method to empower and enhance motivation to self-management among people with chronic conditions.
Date: Tuesday 12 November 2024
Session time: 6pm–7pm AEDT
Keynote speakers
Professor Christoffer Johansen
Professor Christoffer Johansen is a leading expert in psychosocial oncology. He is renowned for his pioneering work at the Danish Cancer Institute, where he established the first department dedicated to applying epidemiological methods to understand the psychological impacts of cancer. Professor Johansen's research has focused extensively on depression in cancer patients, evaluating how psychological factors may influence cancer development, as well as the psychosocial outcomes of cancer survivors.
Professor Johansen currently leads the CASTLE project, a key initiative in cancer late-effect research at Rigshospitalet, and has published 713 papers on the Web of Science, and 743 on ORCID. In recognition of his contributions, he was recently granted an extended professorship from 2023 to 2027.
Professor Bodil Rasmussen
Bodil Rasmussen is a Professor of Nursing and held a Chair of Nursing position in the Western Health and Deakin University partnership (2016-2024). Professor Rasmussen has extensive academic experience and was previously the Course Director of the Graduate Certificate of Diabetes Education and Management and Master of Nursing Practice at the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her program of research investigates the impact of changes during life transitions on self management and risk management among adults with diabetes and complex conditions as well as implementing evidence into practice and development of technologies to capture hard-to-reach populations with heterogeneity needs. Professor Rasmussen has been awarded affiliated professional positions at the Universities of Copenhagen and Southern Denmark.
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