CONTACT
Phone: (310) 794-2706
E-mail: jo@ucla.edu

EDUCATION
M.D. Medicine (1973/1974) University of Aarhus, Denmark
Ph.D. Epidemiology (1980) University of Aarhus, Denmark

Jorn Olsen, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UCLA. He came to UCLA from Denmark in 2006 where he was head of the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre and was Principal Investigator of the Danish National Birth Cohort, a study among 100,000 pregnant women and their children. The aim of this study is to examine early determinants of health in a cohort that will be followed from conception to death (www.DNBC.DK).

Most of Dr. Olsen’s research has been in reproductive health but studies have also been done on cancer and other chronic diseases. He has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals and his publications also include textbooks on epidemiology.

He has been a member of the Medical Research Council in Denmark and serves as consultant for research councils in several countries. He serves on advisory committees for several research centers and on editorial boards for scientific journals and is Associate Editor of Human Reproduction.