Aarhus University’s new director Arnold Boom invites dialogue. He encourages the university’s staff and students to ask him any questions they’d like him to answer.

There are many promising initiatives in the field of welfare technology underway in Denmark, but we will benefit from them most if these initiatives work closer together, so each can focus on its own particular core competence.

Legislation must both safeguard demands for confidentiality from citizens and ensure that researchers can reap the benefits of access to health-related data, writes Allan Flyvberg, Dean of the Faculty of Health at Aarhus University. He points out that we save lives by being the most extensively registered nation in the world.

After eleven-and-a-half-years in the position, department head Søren K. Kjærgaard from the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University has taken the decision to return to research and teaching. This will officially take place on 1 June 2016.

From 20 January the out of hours primary care telephone service in the Central Denmark Region tests an "emergency access"-button that can get people quickly through on the telephone – even though the line has a queue. A PhD student from Aarhus University is behind the idea.

The graduate schools of Health in Aarhus and Helsinki Universities have agreed on a partnership in doctoral training. The new partnership expands the existing strong collaboration between the two graduate schools.