Kåre Mølbak

Research area

My broad research interests falls within the epidemiology of infectious disease and public health, and includes methods of surveillance, the public health consequences of drug resistance, zoonotic infections, food borne infections and vaccinology

Prizes and honors

The Kauffmann Prize, 2001

PubMed link

Complet Publicationslist

Responsibilities

Executive vice-president and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases Preparedness at Statens Serum Institut. The Division consists of four Departments (navne på engelsk) and a secretariat for Data Integration- and Analysis. This secretariat is responsible for managing the national microbiology database MiBa and HAIBA for the surveillance of health care associated infections.

The division has about 250 employees.

Publications

• Bediako-Bowan AAA, Owusu E, Labi AK, Obeng-Nkrumah N, Sunkwa-Mills G, Bjerrum S, Opintan JA, Bannerman C, Mølbak K, Kurtzhals JAL, Newman MJ. Antibiotic use in surgical units of selected hospitals in Ghana: a multi-centre point prevalence survey. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jun 21;19(1):797. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7162-x. PubMed PMID: 31226974; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6588883. 

• Ward D, Thorsen NM, Frisch M, Valentiner-Branth P, Mølbak K, Hviid A. A cluster analysis of serious adverse event reports after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Danish girls and young women, September 2009 to August 2017. Euro Surveill. 2019 May;24(19). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.19.1800380. PubMed PMID: 31088598; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6518966. 

• Schartau S, Heering Holt D, Lützen T, Rytter D, Mølbak K. On the contextual nature of vaccine safety monitoring: Adverse events reporting after HPV-vaccination in Denmark, 2015. Vaccine. 2019 May 1;37(19):2580-2585. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.03.057. Epub 2019 Apr 6. PubMed PMID: 30967312. 

• Nielsen J, Vestergaard LS, Richter L, Schmid D, Bustos N, Asikainen T, Trebbien R, Denissov G, Innos K, Virtanen MJ, Fouillet A, Lytras T, Gkolfinopoulou K, Heiden MA, Grabenhenrich L, Uphoff H, Paldy A, Bobvos J, Domegan L, O'Donnell J, Scortichini M, de Martino A, Mossong J, England K, Melillo J, van Asten L, de Lange MM, Tønnessen R, White RA, da Silva SP, Rodrigues AP, Larrauri A, Mazagatos C, Farah A, Carnahan AD, Junker C, Sinnathamby M, Pebody RG, Andrews N, Reynolds A, McMenamin J, Brown CS, Adlhoch C, Penttinen P, Mølbak K, Krause TG. European all-cause excess and influenza-attributable mortality in the 2017/18 season: should the burden of influenza B be reconsidered?. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019 Feb 18;. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.02.011. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30790685. 

• Hansen ND, Mølbak K, Cox IJ, Lioma C. Relationship Between Media Coverage and Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccination Uptake in Denmark: Retrospective Study. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2019 Jan 23;5(1):e9544. doi: 10.2196/publichealth.9544. PubMed PMID: 30672743; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6364207.