Education
Medical Doctor, PhD in public health epidemiology, social
worker
Country experience
Kosovo (3 y), Serbia (1y) 100 short term missions to 45
countries
Languages
Danish (mother tongue), English, Spanish, basic level of German and
French
Key qualifications
Health and human rights, Post-conflict rehabilitation,
Quantitative Research metodology, Project management and
international development
Selected Publications
Modvig J, Jaranson J: A Global Perspective of Torture,
Political Violence, and Health. In: Broken Spirits: The Treatment
of PTSD in Asylum Seekers and Refugees with PTSD. Wilson JP and
Drozdek B, eds. New York: Brunner-Routledge Press 2004
Modvig J. Examination and treatment of torture victims (In
Danish). In: Klinisk Socialmedicin, 3. ed. Jensen BT, Nielsen CV
Michelsen N, eds. Copenhagen: FADLs forlag, 2004:281-304
Due P, Lynch J, Holstein B, Modvig J. Socioeconomic health
inequalities among a nationally representative sample of Danish
adolescents: the role of different types of social relations. J
Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57(9):692-8
Dymi K, Rasmussen OV, Modvig J, Rushiti F, Emini M, Myftari F,
Rushiti Y, Isaku B. Survey on frequency of types of trauma, and
prevalence of PTSD symptomatology among Kosovo Albanian refugees,
in the Tirana area refugee camps in Albania, June 1999. Torture
2003;Suppl. 2: 13-18
Modvig J, Jørgensen CK. The international network of
rehabilitation centres for torture victims: A survey study of
treatment capacity and development priorities. Torture 2003;Suppl
2: 7-11
Modvig J, Amris K. Diagnostic imaging in the examination of
torture victims (In Danish) Ugeskr Laeger 2001;163(33):4328-32.
Reproduced in "Radiografen
Modvig J, Rodenburg J, Lopez J, Salud CMD, Panelo CIA, Da Costa
MCS, Ribeiro F, Marcal J. Nationwide psychosocial needs assessment
in East Timor. Dili, East Timor: IRCT, 2000
Modvig J, Pagaduan-Lopez J, Rodenburg J, Salud CM, Cabigon RV,
Panelo CI.
Torture and trauma in post-conflict East Timor. Lancet
2000;356(9243):1763
Due P, Holstein B, Lund R, Modvig J, Avlund K. Social relations:
network, support and relational strain. Soc Sci Med
1999;48(5):661-73
Behrendt N, Modvig J. The lethal paraphiliac syndrome.
Accidental autoerotic deaths in Denmark 1933-1990. Am J Forensic
Med Pathol 1995;16(3):232-7.
Modvig J. Failure of Reproduction in Denmark: An Epidemiologic
Study of Geographical Variations in the Risk of Spontaneous
Abortion, Malformation and other Reproduction Failures in Denmark
1978-1984 (in Danish). PhD dissertation. Copenhagen: Institute of
Public Health, University of Copenhagen, 1991
Modvig J, Schmidt L, Damsgaard MT. Measurement of total risk of
spontaneous abortion: the virtue of conditional risk estimation. Am
J Epidemiol 1990;132(6):1021-38.