Kristine Sørensen

Researcher

Project coordinator of HLS-EU

The European Health Literacy Survey

Department of International Health. FHML.

Maastricht University

Duboisdomein 30, room 0.107, 6229 GT Maastricht, the Nederlands

P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Nederlands

Tel:  +31 43 38 81717

E-mail:  k.sorensen@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Kristine Sørensen is researcher and project coordinator for the Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU) in Europe hosted by the department of International Health at Maastricht University. Her research and teaching interests are health literacy, European and global health, child health, health inequalities, cross-border health care and life skills.

 
She has since 2007 been involved in the bachelor and master of European Public Health in various functions. Furthermore she is a visiting lecturer at Centre for European Studies in Maastricht and at Copenhagen University in Denmark.

Being Danish of origin her educational background is in medicine and public health with a bachelor/master degree in Public Health Science from Copenhagen University. She is currently a Ph.D. fellow at research school CAPHRI on the topic of health literacy.

Kristine Sørensen has held several organizational honorary positions at national, regional and world level. Currently she is member of the board of commissioners of Kindante - an umbrella organization of approximately fifty primary schools in the Limburg region of the Netherlands embracing 1000 staff members and 10.000 pupils.