Professor Aasa Feragen is the professor behind the “Bias and fairness in medicine” project, researching the field of AI fairness in healthcare. Her work addresses how bias in AI algorithms can impact medical decision-making and explores the ethical challenges of creating "fair" predictive models. Through large-scale register studies of major depressive disorder, she examines the nature of bias in diagnosis and treatment, aiming to redefine fairness in medicine in the intersection of ethics, philosophy, and mathematical modelling.
Professor Jens Juul Holst is a renowned Danish physician and physiologist, best known for his discovery of the gut hormone GLP-1, which has revolutionized the treatment of Type 2 diabetes and obesity. His work has been foundational in the development of life-changing therapies, including the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy. Over his distinguished career, Professor Holst has received numerous accolades, including the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, the Banting Medal, and the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research.
The PhD Day is an annual event taking place in January as a joint venture between the PhD Association and the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University. The day seeks to bring PhD students together and network across the broad diversity of scientific fields within health sciences that are represented at the faculty.
The PhD day is a chance for you to present your research to your peers as well as to more experienced researchers.The event also offers the chance for you to act as co-chair during the presentations, giving you the opportunity to get experience with acting as a scientific panel member in a conference.
The PhD Day will as always include a keynote lecture. In addition, we invite you to join us for the Fogh-Nielsen prize competition and for the JCD prize award ceremony.
The PhD Day 2025 takes place on 17 January 2025 and the planning continues. After the summer holiday an invitation will be sent to PhD students and Research Year students at Graduate School Health. The website will be updated continuously. You can visit the archive to learn more about previous years' PhD Days.
