Bilde av Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Alexandra
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Bilde av Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Alexandra
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. 


  • 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
  • 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, 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
  • 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
  • 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
    BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies 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
  • Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, John Brodersen :
    Klimaaftryk af overdiagnostik
    Ugeskrift for Læger 2023 ARKIV
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Camilla Hoffman Merrild, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson, Sanne Rasmussen, Amanda Sandbæk :
    Social ulighed i sundhed
    Ugeskrift for Læger 2022
  • 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, 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. 



    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