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VIDEO: Meet the new department head

On 1 January 2018, Ole Bækgaard Nielsen will begin as department head at the Department of Public Health. Hear him talk about his ambitions for the department, the type of manager that employees can expect to meet and which task he will begin with.

VIDEO: Three questions for the new department head (in Danish only)

With Ole Bækgaard as its head, the Department of Public Health is getting a person who is both an ‘outsider' and has in-depth knowledge of Health’s culture and managerial work. He comes from a position as professor of medical physiology at the Department of Biomedicine, and at the same time he also runs a pharmaceutical company that he co-founded. 56-year-old Ole Bækgaard Nielsen graduated as a biologist and has a PhD from Aarhus University.

Read more in the article “Ole Bækgaard is the new head of the Department of Public Health”