2026.07.06
Latest news from Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research - COPE
Spotlight
2026.06.08
Alexandra Blackwell: Building evidence for mental health and violence prevention among displaced youth
GLOBAL HEALTH, SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, DISASTER, ANTICIPATORY ACTION
2026.05.22
Ellie Edmond Shimmin on Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights in Anticipatory Action
At the World Health Summit in Nairobi, Africa's message was clear:
2026.05.12
A Continent of Innovation and Solutions: What the World Health Summit Regional Meeting Nairobi Said About Climate and Health
Spotlight
2026.05.04
Rukman Manapurath: Early-life determinants of cardiometabolic disease
Co-creation in global health
2026.04.20
How do you do co-creation in global health? Start with this kit.
CLIMATE, HEALTH, GLOBAL HEALTH, EDUCATION
2026.04.14
Olivier Rubin Publishes new Book: Chronic Crises: An Exploration of Crises with No End in Sight
Rethinking global health
2026.04.12
When the system cracks, what emerges?
Extreme heat
2026.03.09
Climate change, extreme heat and health: From evidence to action
Spotlight
2026.03.09
Gregor Schäfer: Migration, education, and the future of the global health workforce
Global health
2026.02.05
New Project: Pastoral Resilience and Sense of Place in Uganda (PreSense)
Kenya
2026.01.21
From data collection to innovation: Student perspectives on health challenges in Kibera
Conflict, climate change adaptation
2025.12.05
Nynke Schaap Interview: Adapting to Climate Change in Yemen
Global health, COPE
2025.10.30
Interview with Christos Tsampoulatidis
climate
2025.10.16
Paris Agreement could help world avoid 57 hot days each year, study finds
Planetary Health
2025.09.29
Planetary Boundaries show rising risks and urgency to protect Earth’s life-support systems
WEBINAR RECORDING
2025.07.28
Full Recording: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research webinar
RESEARCH
2025.07.23
Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave
INTERVIEW
2025.06.03
Interview with Rico Kongsager
RESEARCH
2025.04.16
Women and girls continue to bear disproportionate impacts of heatwaves in South Sudan that have become a constant threat
INTERVIEW
2025.02.05
Interview with Nick Baumgart
RESEARCH
2025.01.30
Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area
PERSPECTIVE
2024.12.16
Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas
PhD
2024.12.01
PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section
INTERVIEW
2024.11.18
Interview with Olivier Rubin
RESEARCH
2024.09.26
New study on September 2024 floods in Central Europe
RESEARCH
2024.09.06
Learning from memories and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the future
WEBINAR
2024.08.06
Webinar on CliCNord - the Main Findings: Full Recording
PERSPECTIVE
2024.08.05
We are all Storytellers: Art and Narrative as a tool for climate and humanitarian communication at the Red Cross Climate Centre
PERSPECTIVE
2024.08.05
The Influence of Cash Assistance on Disaster Response and the Humanitarian System
RESEARCH
2024.06.18
Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world
PERSPECTIVE
2024.06.11
Unravelling Water Scarcity and Pathogen Transmission: PhD Research Stay in Bangladesh
INTERVIEW
2024.06.11
Interview with Kristoffer Langkjær Albris
WORKSHOP
2024.06.05
"Translating climate science for international law": COPE hosts the second multidisciplinary workshop in Copenhagen
REPORT
2024.05.24
Borgernes forståelser af skybrud og andre beredskabshændelser samt forventninger til kommunikation i Frederiksberg Kommune
STUDENTS
2024.05.13
Student experience in the Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methods course, Chennai 2024
RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT
2024.04.30
Healthy Future exhibition features Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen
RESEARCH
2024.04.25
Social media and crowdsourcing in disaster risk management: Trends, gaps, and insights from the current state of research
2024.04.23
Rethinking Vulnerability in the Nordic countries: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
PERSPECTIVE
2024.04.23
Living and Working through Heatwaves in Urban Chennai- Field Reflections
INTERVIEW
2024.04.23
Interview with Marianne Bach Mosebo
PERSPECTIVE
2024.04.23
Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities in the Nordic Countries (CliCNord)
Inauguration
2024.03.11
Inaugural Lecture by Professor Olivier Rubin
LINKS EU Project
2024.02.08
Exploring the impacts of social media and crowdsourcing on disaster resilience
2023.12.29
Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark
Global Health Researcher Spotlight
2023.12.20
Jacob Lind: Everyday lives of migrants in vulnerable situations
Case challenge
2023.12.18
Unlocking solutions: Students shine in Global Health Case Challenge to combat infodemics
LINKS EU Project
2023.12.14
Leveraging Social Media and Crowdsourcing in Disaster Management Processes in Europe
RESEARCH
2023.11.29
The influence of cash assistance on the localisation agenda in Kenya’s humanitarian sector
Research
2023.11.29
Extreme poverty rendering Madagascar vulnerable to underreported extreme heat would not have occurred without climate change
Opinion editorial
2023.11.27
The patient is always right
Global Health Researcher Spotlight
2023.11.27
Lena Skovgaard Andersen: Mental health challenges of people living with chronic illness
Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2023
2023.11.23
Reflections on the Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2023
2023.11.22
‘Who Has Taken My Son?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India
2023.11.10
‘Our Society Works’: Disaster Solidarity and Models of Social Life in the Elbe River Valley
Global Health Research
2023.11.01
Maansi Parpiani: Urban communities in the context of urban floods
2023.10.31
Digital diaspora: The case of Farkhunda and Afghan women's resistance
LINKS EU Project
2023.10.27
Targeting communication in disasters
SOCIAL MEDIA
2023.10.26
COPE is on Linkedin!
2023.10.25
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education
CONFERENCE
2023.10.23
NEEDS Conference 2023
Symposium
2023.10.04
A research agenda for continuity of chronic health care for forcibly displaced persons
Global Health Researcher Spotlight
2023.10.02
Vladimir Ariza-Montañez: Social disease and humanitarian interventions in Colombia
COVID-19
2023.09.29
Network on Transboundary Pandemic Crises Governance
Case Challenge
2023.09.19
Call for young innovators: Urban Health Case Challenge in Warsaw, Poland
Global Health Researcher Spotlight
2023.09.04
Suchismita Goswami: Disaster-induced resettlement in India
Research
2023.08.29
Emergency management in small remote communities in the Nordic countries
Award
2023.08.28
Michele di Marco, Disaster Management Alumni part of Design for Healthcare SURGE: A Toolkit for the African Region
Research
2023.08.25
Critical questions on learning from the COVID-19 disaster in India
2023.08.10
Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia
2023.08.10
‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube
Malaria
2023.08.08
Children born from mothers with malaria have a higher risk of developing diabetes
Global Health Researcher Spotlight
2023.07.31
Stefanie Harsch: Improving cancer literacy in Kenya
2023.06.27
Reading Desires: Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy
Mental health
2023.06.20
Research priorities for mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings for the years to come
2023.06.20
The “Transnational Business of Death” Among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens
2023.06.19
Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration
Award
2023.06.09
Florence Nightingale Medal awarded to Master of Disaster Management alumni
Symposium
2023.06.08
Research achievements of the Building Stronger Universities programme at State University of Zanzibar
2023.06.07
Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy
New study
2023.05.26
Climate Change made heatwave in Asia 30 times more likely
Arctic health
2023.05.16
New affiliated professor in arctic health at University of Copenhagen
2023.04.26
Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers
Livestreams
2023.04.25
Did you miss Global Health Film Days? Watch the panels here
Anniversary
2023.04.25
From Danish to international and global health: 10-year anniversary of the MSc in Global Health
Case Competition
2023.04.24
Global Health Case Competition 2023 in Atlanta
Blind spots
2023.04.14
The global health sector depends on women but favours men
New Director
2023.03.17
Lena Skovgaard Andersen is the new Director of University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health
2023.03.16
Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown
COVID-19
2023.03.07
Do rules at folk high schools make sense for young people - What we learned from COVID-19
2023.03.06
Complex Intimacies
2023.02.22
Global Art in Local Art Worlds
2023.02.20
This Land Is Not For Sale
2023.02.14
The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting
Climate Change
2023.02.13
Barriers to interdisciplinarity: an early career researchers’ perspective on urban climate governance
Disaster risk
2023.02.08
COPE researchers at the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality
Global health research
2023.02.01
New global health research projects about climate change and health in 2023
NEEDS 2022
2023.01.24
Disasters, Climate Change and Law: Reflections from the NEEDS conference and COPE stay
New research
2023.01.09
What characterises emergency response to slowly developing crises and disasters?
COVID-19
2022.12.07
Risk and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Obituary
2022.11.30
Obituary: Siri Tellier (2 April 1946 – 19 October 2022)
New research
2022.11.29
Improving the efforts to support families in humanitarian crises
Podcast
2022.11.21
New podcast about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar
Antibiotics
2022.10.13
Myths about antibiotics are a much bigger problem than you think
Mexico
2022.10.03
Mexicans should consume less ultra-processed products – especially pregnant women
Summer courses
2022.09.13
Global health summer courses: 150 students are ready to tackle future global health challenges
Air Quality
2022.09.07
Not all kinds of lockdown measures for COVID-19 subsequently improved air quality
HIV
2022.07.13
Inadequate access to harm reduction services may cause higher HIV prevalence among women who use drugs in Tanzania
Innovation in global health
2022.07.12
Updated educational resources about innovation in global health
Case challenge
2022.06.17
Student innovations to improve the health of indigenous peoples
Launch event
2022.05.25
The crisis of unintended pregnancies and the shortcomings of modern contraception
EAST AFRICA CASE CHALLENGE 2022
2022.04.01
Battle of the brains
PhD Project
2022.03.01
‘We feel like one big village’: A study on social relations among social housing residents in Denmark
PhD Project
2022.02.10
Improving delivery and care for mothers and newborns in Zanzibar
New position
2022.01.25