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Thomas Maribo is a new professor of public health at Aarhus University. His particular focus is on rehabilitation after heart disease, but he also works to lay bare inequality in healthcare throughout the entire rehabilitation area.
2021.01.08 |
Thomas Maribo from the Department of Public Health is the department’s new professor of public health with special focus on rehabilitation. Photo: Søren Sander, DEFACTUM.
Rehabilitation is much more than training. It also involves patient education and support to live with a disease or injury, and efforts must be targeted at those patients or citizens who have the greatest need. A few people need more help and some less than they currently receive.
Thomas Maribo's research into public health and rehabilitation is directed at cross-disciplinary efforts in the community healthcare system. Via his research, he seeks to develop the area of community healthcare, so that municipalities and general practice can continue to provide services of high and uniform quality with solutions that are closer to the citizen. This is necessary at a time when increasing numbers are developing chronic diseases, and patients in Denmark are being hospitalised for a shorter time.
The newly appointed professor gives high priority to research collaboration between the university, the regions and the municipalities, and he also holds a research manager position at DEFACTUM in the Central Denmark Region – in the Public Health and Rehabilitation Research Unit.
Professor, PhD & Physiotherapist Thomas Maribo
Aarhus University, Department of Public Health
Mobile: (+45) 21 45 24 70
Email: thomas.maribo@ph.au.dk