Melbye, Mads

Occupation: Head of Department, Executive Vice President, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark.

Statens Serum Institut is a public enterprise operating as a market-oriented production and service enterprise. Statens Serum Institut is an enterprise under the Danish Ministry of Health and Prevention, and the Institute’s duties are partly integrated in the national Danish health services.Statens Serum Institut prevents and controls infectious diseases, biological threats and congenital disorders.

Areas of responsibility: Division of Epidemiology.

Present employment: Head of Department (since 1992), Executive Vice President (since November 2004), Department of Epidemiology Research, Division of Epidemiology. Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Previous employment: Post-doc, Viral Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, USA (1985-86). Clinical employments (1986-88) and from 1990-91.Senior Investigator, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer Registry, Copenhagen (1988-91). State Epidemiologist, Dept of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut (1991-92). Research Professor (grant from the Danish Medical Research Council), Consultant and Head of Dept, Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut (1992-).

Education: Medical Diploma (MD), University of Aarhus, 1984, DMSc, 1988.