Terese Høj Jørgensen is an associate professor at the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen, where she heads the Social Epidemiology research group. Her research focuses on social inequality in health, ageing and intergenerational relationships, and she also studies familial patterns in mental illness. She is one of the researchers behind KiSO (Women in Healthy Transition), Denmark's national research effort on menopause.
A nationwide KiSO questionnaire survey, which Terese Høj Jørgensen contributed to, shows that 97 percent of women in Denmark experience symptoms during menopause.
The KiSO study, of which Terese Høj Jørgensen is a co-author, was published in European Journal of Epidemiology with data from 153,800 women.
In 2025, Terese Høj Jørgensen has contributed as a co-author to several studies on familial patterns in mental illness, including in Journal of Affective Disorders and European Psychiatry.
She has written opinion pieces on health research on Videnskab.dk.
