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Førsteamanuensis General Practice Research Unit in Tromsø alexandra.b.jonsson@uit.no

Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson

Job description

BSc, MSc, PhD Anthropology and Public Health

Associate professor at Department of Community Health. 

  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson :
    Medicalization of Old Age: Experiencing Healthism and Overdiagnosis in a Nordic Welfare State
    Medical Anthropology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Christina Sadolin Damhus, Mette Bech Risør, John Brandt Brodersen, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson :
    Reply: How do we avoid polarization of interdisciplinary research on cancer diagnosis?
    Health 2024 DOI
  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, John Brodersen, Susanne Reventlow, Christina Svanholm, Anne Møller, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard :
    General practitioners’ experiences of providing somatic care for patients with severe mental illness: a qualitative study
    BMC Primary Care 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Christina Sadolin Damhus, Mette Bech Risør, John Brandt Brodersen, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson :
    Rethinking the logic of early diagnosis in cancer
    Health 2024 DOI
  • Emma Grundtvig Gram, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, John Brodersen, Christina Sadolin Damhus :
    Questioning ‘Informed Choice’ in Medical Screening: The Role of Neoliberal Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Context
    Healthcare 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Emma G. Gram, Sigrid W. Knudsen, John Brodersen, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson :
    Women's experiences of age-related discontinuation from mammography screening: A qualitative interview study
    Health Expectations 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Emma Grundtvig Gram, John Brodersen, Cæcilie Hansen, Kristen Pickles, Jenna Smith, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson :
    Fictitious cases as a methodology to discuss sensitive health topics in focus groups
    International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, F.H.J. Martiny, M.K. Søndergaard, John Brodersen, T.D. Due, M.H. Nielsen et al.:
    Introducing extended consultations for patients with severe mental illness in general practice: Results from the SOFIA feasibility study
    BMC Primary Care 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Katrine Tranberg, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Tina Due, Volkert Siersma, John Brodersen, Kristine Bissenbakker et al.:
    The SOFIA pilot study: assessing feasibility and fidelity of coordinated care to reduce excess mortality and increase quality of life in patients with severe mental illness in a general practice setting; a cluster-randomised pilot trial
    BMC Primary Care 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, John Brodersen :
    Klimaaftryk af overdiagnostik
    Ugeskrift for Læger 2023 ARKIV
  • Katrine Tranberg, Tina Drud Due, Maarten Rozing, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Anne Møller :
    Challenges in reaching patients with severe mental illness for trials in general practice—a convergent mixed methods study based on the SOFIA pilot trial
    Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Iben Emilie Christensen, Susanne Reventlow, Mette Bech Risør :
    Responsibilities of Risk: Living With Mental Illness During COVID-19
    Medical Anthropology 10. March 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Benedicte Møller Christensen, John Brodersen :
    Informationens ironi: Patienters frie adgang til sundhedsdata
    Tidsskrift for forskning i sygdom og samfund 2022 DOI
  • Kevin Doherty, Per Bækgaard, Maria Haahr Nielsen, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Susanne Rewentlow, Jacob E. Bardram :
    Unboxing the Clinical Health Technology Deployment
    IEEE pervasive computing 2022 DOI
  • Anne Mia Steno, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson :
    Spaces out of reach? Service user involvement in residents’ meetings at recovery-oriented social housing facilities for young people with mental health disorders
    Health 2022 DOI
  • Kristine Bissenbakker, Anne Møller, John Brodersen, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson :
    Conceptualisation of a measurement framework for Needs-based Quality of Life among patients with multimorbidity
    Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes 2022 DOI
  • Camilla Hoffman Merrild, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Sanne Rasmussen, Amanda Sandbæk :
    Social ulighed i sundhed
    Ugeskrift for Læger 2022
  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, John Brodersen :
    Snart er vi alle patienter: Overdiagnostik i medicinske og samfundsfaglige perspektiver
    Samfundslitteratur 2022

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    Publications outside Cristin

    New book out: 

    Snart er vi alle patienter...Overdiagnostik i samfundsfaglige og medicinske perspektiver. Alexandra Jønsson & John Brodersen, København: Samfundslitteratur (2022) https://samfundslitteratur.dk/bog/snart-er-vi-alle-patienter

    Selected publications 2022-2023:

    Jønsson A & Spaletta O (2023) Tuning the Self. Revisiting Health Inequities Through the Lens of Social Interaction. In: Ethos (forthcoming)

    Bissenbakker, K, Møller, A, Brodersen, JB & Jønsson ABR (2022) Conceptualisation of a measurement framework for Needs-based Quality of Life among patients with multimorbidity. J Patient Rep Outcomes 6, 83 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-022-00489-0

    Jønsson, ABR., Kristensen, BM, & Brodersen, JB (2022). Informationens ironi: Patienters frie adgang til sundhedsdata. Tidsskrift for Forskning I Sygdom Og Samfund, 19(36), 39–57. https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v19i36.133049

    Kristensen, B., Brodersen, J., & Joensson, A. (2022). The Tyranny of Numbers: How e-Health Record Transparency Affects Patients’ Health Perceptions and Conversations with Physicians. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 9(2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.9.2.5529

    Jønsson, ABR,  I. Christensen, S. Reventlow & M.B. Risør (2022) Responsibilities of Risk: Living with Mental Illness During COVID-19, Medical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2045288

    Steno, AM, & Jønsson, ABR (2022) Spaces out of reach? Service user involvement in residents’ meetings at recovery-oriented social housing facilities for young people with mental health disorders. Health. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593221075950

     

     

     

     

     

    Research interests

    My research lies within medical anthropology and cross-disciplinary health studies, with a particular focus on health inequities, overdiagnosis, overshadowing (underdiagnosis), medicalization, health institutions and patient experiences. I am often invited for keynote speeches on my research, eg. NCGP (Stavanger) 2022, WONCA Europe (Brussels) June 2023, EuroPrev (Porto) April 2023, KL sundhedspolitiske konference (Odense) april 2023. 

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-8383

    Member of project

    Allmennmedisinsk Forskningsenhet i Tromsø    Norsk innhold

    CV

    Awards and Fellowships

    · Honorable Mention, The Lisa M. Ashe price (2022) for the paper “The Tyranny of Numbers” in Medical Anthropology Theory

    · Member of The Young Academy, under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 2022-2027

    · Kirsten Avlund Prize 2019 (Award for substantial contribution to cross-scientific aging research including considerable publications)

    · Lærebogsprisen (The Textbook Prize) (together with Prof. John Brodersen for "Snart er vi alle patienter" (2022))

    · Fox International Fellow, Yale University 2016-2017 (Fully funded scholarship for young researchers with the potential to become world leaders within their areas)

    · Student Fellow, Global Justice in Health, Yale Law School, 2016-2017 (Association for students, junior and senior researchers across disciplines engaged in health inequity projects)

    · 1st prize PhD-cup 2018, Region Sjælland

    · 1st prize, PhD-cup 2017, Dansk Selskab for Almen Medicin 

    · 2nd prize, Industrial PhD & Postdoc Association Communication Prize 2017 (popular science article published on Videnskab.dk and sciencenordic.com)

     

    Current and most recent positions held: 

    2022-tenured Associate Professor of Health and Society, Dept. of People and Technology,         Roskilde University

    2022-2025    Visiting associate professorship , Dept. of Public Health, Arctic University of Norway (UiT)

    2022-2025    Associated researcher, Center for General Practice, University of Copenhagen

    2020-2021    Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

    2018-2020    Postdoc and leader of work package 2 “Participatory co-design” and 5 “RCT preparation – coordination and support” in The Phy-Psy Trial, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

    2016-2017    Fox International Fellow, MacMillan Center for Area and International Studies, Yale University