Elections were held in May to the departmental forums at Health's five departments. The results of the election are now complete, and the newly elected members will take up their seats on the respective forums on 1 July 2017.

2017.06.15 | Sabina Bjerre Hansen

New members have been chosen for the departmental forums. Find the list of members in the article below.

The election to the departmental forums at Health included only one contested election. This was among the PhD students at the Department of Biomedicine. Alice Knudsen won the election here after almost 18% of eligible voters had voted.

Employees at Health elected a total of 38 new members to the five departmental forums:

To see the members of the new departmental forum at your department, please click on the relevant link below or contact your secretariat manager.

• Department of Biomedicine
• Department of Clinical Medicine
• Department of Dentistry and Oral Health
• Department of Public Health
• Department of Forensic Medicine – please contact Secretariat Manager Lis Dupont Birkler.

What is a department forum?

The most important task of a department forum is to create idea generation, quality, transparency and legitimacy in all decisions on academic issues. A department forum must also safeguard the department's academic and social identity and coherence.

Through continuous and timely involvement, the department head should ensure co-determination in respect of academic issues. He or she must therefore discuss important issues within research, talent development, knowledge exchange and education with his or her department forum.

Additional facts

• A department forum can have no more than 25 members.
• The department head is chair.
• The forum must comprise representatives from among the academic staff, including PhD students and pre-graduate students, together with members of the technical and administrative staff.
• Newly elected members of academic staff and technical and administrative staff members are elected for a three-year period, while newly elected PhD students and pre-graduate students are elected for one year at a time.