Ulrik Bak Kirk

Ulrik Bak Kirk has worked in the Danish Healthcare Sector for 10+ years, ultimately gaining his experience and expertise in Digital Public Health - facilitating Public-Private Partnerships to improve Research and Innovation - in the European Primary Health Care setting. He takes pride in ensuring that Digital Public Health projects and processes create value for all involved at the strategic and the practice-based level.

From 2021-2024 (50%), Ulrik Bak Kirk functions as FEMaLe's Coordinator and Program Manager as part of the Program Management Office at Department of Public Health at Aarhus University.

The 'Finding Endometriosis using Machine Learning' (FEMaLe) program will develop and demonstrate a Scalable Multi-Omics Platform (SMOP) that converts multi-omic person population datasets into a personalised predictive model to improve intervention along the continuum of care for people with endometriosis. The FEMaLe project has been granted € 5.944.134,5 by the European Commission. Read more: https://findingendometriosis.eu/

From 2022-2028 (50%), he has been offered a fully financed PhD fellowship by the Graduate School of Health at Aarhus University. His next up to six years will be all about video consultations in General Practice. The perfect combination of media studies and primary care research. He will be taking up a position as PhD Fellow at the Research Unit for General Practice in Aarhus. His research will rely on a realist approach about how, why and under what circumstances video consultations work in general practice. He is beyond excited to start this new academic chapter, to generate useful new insights and hopefully push this world in a more digitally sustainable direction.

In addition to this, Ulrik Bak Kirk has co-led and managed other interesting Digital Public Health co-production projects since 2019:

"Transparent Together": In November 2019, we were granted DKK 5.2 million by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The project will study how new media platforms can be used for research communication about health and the use of technology. I will be the Project Manager, rooted in the Research Unit for Mental Public Health at Aarhus University: https://newsroom.au.dk/en/news/show/artikel/grant-how-can-research-communication-create-value-in-young-peoples-lives/

"ReMoTe: Refining Remote Assessment in Primary Care during Covid-19": In May 2020, Ulrik Bak Kirk - as the Principal Investigator - was granted DKK 4.3 million by the Innovation Fund Denmark to research into different aspects of video consultations in General Practice. The grant was the first major investment in corona-related research in the primary healthcare sector: https://remoteguide.dk/ (in Danish)

"CoronaLytics: A 360 degree mobile/wearable data household approach to guide shared precision health and decision-making during the COVID-19 epidemic": In June 2020, we were granted DKK 3.9 million by the Innovation Fund Denmark to combine and analyse health data obtained from citizens and their general practitioners during the first wave of the corona crisis: http://coronaviden.dk/ (in Danish)