The Danish Health Authority, in collaboration with AU Cetera (Continuing Education Program at Aarhus University), offers a free ambassador course in organizational health literacy. Next course is in Aarhus og will be held in autumn 2026. You can read more about the course here and register using the link below:
cetera.dk/kurser/sundhedskompetence-aarhus/
The course is delivered by REACH.
The ambassador course in organizational health literacy equips health professionals and managers to work strategically and practically with organizational health literacy. Participants gain knowledge and concrete tools to identify resources and barriers in their organization and to turn these into targeted actions that make a difference for citizens.
The ambassador role involves being a frontrunner in promoting equality in health equity through a health literacy. As an ambassador, you help transform knowledge into action within your organization and will be invited after the course to join in a national network for ambassadors in organizational health literacy.
Note: The course is only offered in Danish.
REACH offers annual PhD courses on the development and evaluation of complex interventions in public health.
See the currently available courses in the catalogue here: Course Catalogue
The courses target students with a university degree in public health, sport science, medicine, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students). Prior knowledge on complex interventions can be beneficial, but is not required.
The courses introduce a framework to guide decisions in how to develop or evaluate public health interventions targeting health behavior. The courses include quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods designs and system approaches. The MRC model for complex interventions in health forms the basis of the courses. To some extent, the courses are linked in content, but they can be attended separately.
REACH helps run a monthly journal club focusing on equity‑promoting complex interventions. The journal club is open to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working with the development, implementation, or evaluation of complex health interventions.
Taking off from studies on equity-promoting interventions (from our own research or external sources), this journal club aims to critically review and discuss frameworks, theories, and methodologies used in the development, implementation, and evaluation of complex health interventions. A central focus is equity not only as an outcome, but as a guiding principle embedded in the processes through which interventions are designed, adapted, and implemented across diverse contexts.
We apply a broad definition of interventions, including programs, trainings, treatments, policies, actions, and implementation strategies that support adoption, uptake, and sustainment – consistent with the definition used in implementation science literature (e.g., Jolles et al., 2024). Drawing on a systems perspective, we explore how complex interventions – characterized by multiple interacting components and the need for coordinated action – interact with dynamic local contexts, and how attention to inclusion, stakeholder engagement, and co-creation across all phases may help prevent interventions from unintentionally reproducing or exacerbating health inequities.
The journal club is held on the last Monday of each month from 9:00–10:00 at Bartholins Allé 2, room 1261-118. Approximately 10 meetings are held per year. Meetings require in-person attendance and active participation is expected. Senior researchers are invited at least every second meeting, depending on programme focus and needs.
To know more or sign up to join please contact us using the above contact form or send an e-mail to: Isabella Gringer Jakobsen (isabellagr@ph.au.dk) or Anne Aggerholm Jønsson (anj@ph.au.dk).
