Epidemiologist with strong analytical skills and experience in quality improvement in the healthcare system (Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense or Copenhagen)

The Danish Health Authority's Quality Institute (SundK) seeks a strong analyst for data-supported and evidence-based quality development across the health system - with a focus on heart disease and chronic illnesses.

Do you want to contribute to strengthening quality in the Danish health system? We are looking for an engaged colleague who will help develop a more data-based, targeted and effective quality work across the health system's sectors and actors - for the benefit of patients and citizens in Denmark.

You will play a central role in driving, analyzing, interpreting and communicating results from clinical quality databases - and contribute to translating insights into concrete quality improvements across the health system. The work is carried out in close collaboration with health professionals, management, patients and other key actors with the shared aim of ensuring high and consistent quality in assessment, treatment and follow-up for patients.

The position provides an opportunity to influence and develop the efforts for people with chronic illness - currently including supporting the implementation of care pathways for people with chronic illness (chronic care packages) and monitoring the dissemination of the packages to relevant patient groups and the impact on patient quality.

About the job

You will be employed in the Quality Unit A, where the focus is on the heart area, musculoskeletal area and chronic diseases. The unit consists of about 20 employees who work broadly with SundK’s core tasks: clinical guidelines, admissions guidelines, analyses and assessments, patient safety work and clinical quality databases.

As an epidemiologist you contribute analytical skills to SundK and will have a varied daily life with good opportunities to contribute to the development of both the institute's and the quality unit's work to strengthen quality, equality and coherence in the care pathways for people with chronic diseases.

You will be attached to the Clinical Quality Base function and will work closely on a daily basis with, among others, data managers and quality consultants on the development and operation of several clinical quality databases. You will become part of steering groups in selected quality databases, where you collaborate with health professionals, management representatives and patients on data-supported quality development.

In the steering groups you contribute to identifying and discussing key quality challenges and selecting tools to address them. In this context you will help to establish appropriate and robust quality indicators that can illuminate central quality challenges. Additionally you will work with analysis and interpretation of data as well as dissemination of knowledge and recommendations to support concrete quality improvements within specific disease areas and interventions.

We offer

• a dynamic organization in rapid development
• an opportunity to influence the development of treatment quality for people with chronic illness
• a diverse portfolio of tasks including both operational and development tasks within central areas of the health system
• a strong interdisciplinary collaboration within SundK as well as close cooperation with health professionals and other actors nationwide
• a high professional level, engagement and good opportunities for collegial sparring
• flexibility and influence on the planning of your tasks
• a informal and welcoming collaborative culture.

Your tasks

You will, among other things, come to

• Support development, updating and implementation of clinical guidelines in the psychiatry area
• Facilitate working groups and meetings with clinical experts and professional societies
• Advise on the choice of good topics, literature searches, evidence evaluation and formulation of recommendations
• Contribute to translating research and evidence into practice-oriented recommendations
• Ensure progress in guideline projects in close collaboration with the professional environments
• Contribute to further development of methods, processes and tools in guideline work
• Engage in cross-cutting collaborations with, among others, quality consultants and epidemiologists in SundK on quality, data and improvement of patient pathways.

Your tasks will include

• participating in the unit's work with data-supported quality development with focus on the chronic disease area, including SundK’s support of chronic care packages
• represent SundK in the steering groups of the quality databases and contribute with epidemiological methods and improvement focus, including defining populations and quality indicators
• analyze and interpret data to translate results into usable knowledge and concrete quality improvements
• communicate results in a recipient-friendly and professionally solid manner, both in writing and orally,
• document the contents of the databases and ensure transparency in data quality, evidence base and methodology
• advise partners locally and nationally on data-supported quality development
• collaborate with colleagues on quality development and prioritization in the health system, including in the preparation of admission guidelines, clinical guidelines, analyses and assessments
• cooperate with health system actors on quality development within the unit's focus areas with a view to synergies with SundK’s other core tasks.

About you

We emphasize that you

• have experience with quality development in the health system, preferably across sectors and professional backgrounds
• have experience with data analysis, preferably using national health registers as a starting point
• have worked with epidemiological methods
• can navigate in complex settings and keep focus on progress in the joint task
• have insight into and interest in the organization of the health system
• have a relevant academic education, preferably supplemented by a PhD.

As a person you are

• a pioneer who can take responsibility for and drive new tasks
• a strong team player who can build consensus across different professional backgrounds and organizations
• good at aligning, communicating expectations and frameworks as well as achieving progress in your collaborations
• solution-oriented and see new possibilities
• systematic, analytical and able to create overview
• a skilled communicator who can translate complex results into clear and usable messages
• proactive with flair for change management.

Salary and terms of employment

The position is 37 hours per week and desired to be filled by January 1, 2027.

Salary and terms of employment follow the applicable collective agreement. Depending on your competences, experience, educational background and the content of the position there may be a possibility of employment as a senior consultant.

Work location can be in Odense (Forskerparken), Aarhus N (Hedeager), Aalborg (NOVI Science Park) or Copenhagen (Rigshospitalet). You should expect some travel activity due to internal and external collaborations.

You will be employed by the Central Denmark Region with the service location in Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense or Copenhagen.

Habilitation policy: As of January 1, 2027 SundK will introduce a habilitation policy to support openness, transparency and trust in SundK's work with quality development and patient safety in the Danish health system.

As an employee of SundK you will be covered by the habilitation policy. Read more here: https://www.sundk.dk/nyheder/sundk-vedtager-habilitetspolitik/

Application

Submit your application, CV, education certificates and relevant attachments via our online recruitment system no later than Thursday, October 29, 2026 . We expect to conduct interviews on November 5, 2026 in Odense (Forskerparken).

Would you like to hear more? You are welcome to contact epidemiologist Christian Skødt Antoniussen, tel. 2170 2204 or unit head Charlotte Cerqueira 2921 4916.

About SundK

The Danish Health Authority's Quality Institute (SundK) has the overarching purpose of supporting strengthened, data-based and more targeted quality work as well as better prioritization and resource use to benefit patient care in Denmark. The mission is to ensure high and uniform quality as well as efficient prioritization throughout the health system in close collaboration with health system actors.

We create synergy between five core areas

• Clinical guidelines
• Admission guidelines
• Nationwide clinical quality databases
• Evaluations and analyses of treatment forms and health technologies
• The work with adverse events and the Danish Patient Safety Database

We are just over 180 employees spread across our four offices in Aarhus, Aalborg, Copenhagen and Odense. See more about Sundhedsvæsenets Kvalitetsinstitut on our website SundK.dk

As Region Central Denmark undergoes ongoing cost reductions and reorganizations, employees in redeployment who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Central Denmark is, in accordance with the EU's salary transparency directive, which took effect on 7 June 2026, obliged to inform you of the starting salary or a salary range for a position before offering employment.

Here you can find Region Central Denmark's salary catalog for most professional groups and positions available in Region Central Denmark:  Transparency prior to employment - Employee.rm.dk