Aarhus Diabetes Demography Symposium 2025

Authors

Daniel Witte

Tinne Laurberg

Henrik Støvring

Published

May 22, 2025

1 Welcome!

✍ Registration is now open!

Please follow this link to register for the symposium. During registration, you can indicate whether you would like to give a short, 10 minute presentation on your work related to diabetes registers, demography, or related methods.

If it turns out that you will not be able to attend after you have registered, please do not forget to cancel your registration.

1.1 Date and time

Note

🗓 13 June 2025

🕰️ 09:30 - 16:30

1.2 Location

🏛️ Aarhus University

Eduard Biermann Auditorium (Building 1252, Room 204)

Bartholins Allé 3

8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Figure 1.1: Lakeside Auditoriums at Aarhus University. Image from WikiMedia

1.3 Background

As diabetes prevalence increases globally, there is an increasing need to have up to date insights into the key numbers that define the direction of our public health policies and setup of clinical attention.

Demographic analyses based on routinely registered data with population-wide coverage have provided an excellent way of obtaining these important insights. However, even amongst countries with well-developed register systems there are differences that make it difficult to generate direct comparisons.

Furthermore, as new specific areas of attention develop and new data sources become available, coordination and joint development of methods and expertise is necessary. This 1-day symposium aims to explore some of these themes by presenting the experiences of some of the global experts in the field. The expectation is that the discussions that emerge from the symposium will serve to define a roadmap for standardization, development of methods, education and joint research in the field.

1.3.1 The target audience

Researchers (including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) working with register-based and epidemiological studies of diabetes, its causes and consequences at the population level.

1.4 Programme

Draft Program
Start	End	Title	Speaker
09:30	10:00	Coffee	-
10:00	10:05	Welcome and Introduction	Daniel Witte
10:05	10:35		Dianna Magliano
10:35	11:05	Needed evolution of registries to accommodate the changing epidemiology	Edward Gregg
11:05	11:10	Very short break	-
11:10	11:20	Short Presentation 1	Young researcher 1
11:20	11:30	Short Presentation 2	Young researcher 2
11:30	12:00	Linking clinical practice and diabetes epidemiology – the Scottish experience	Sarah Wild
12:00	13:00	Lunch	-
13:00	13:30		Hanne Løvdal Gulseth
13:30	13:40	Short Presentation 3	Young researcher 3
13:40	13:50	Short Presentation 4	Young researcher 4
13:50	14:00	Short Presentation 5	Young researcher 5
13:50	14:00	Short Presentation 6	Young researcher 6
14:00	14:05	Very short break	-
14:05	14:20	Population-wide diabetes risk prediction: Plans for the DP-Next study	Daniel Witte
14:20	14:35	Methodological challenges of risk prediction for population screening	Henrik Støvring
14:35	15:00	Coffee	-
15:00	15:30		Bendix Carstensen
15:30	16:15	Discussion: What is the roadmap for future collaboration on this work?	All
16:15		Final words and end of seminar

1.4.1 Speakers

Speaker list
Name	Affiliation
Prof. Sarah Wild	University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Dianna Magliano	Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia (and visiting professor in Denmark in 2025)
Dr. Hanne Løvdal Gulseth	Norwegian Institute of Public Health / Oslo University Hospital
Prof. Edward Gregg	Imperial College London, UK and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Mr. Bendix Carstensen	Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
Prof. Henrik Støvring	Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus
Prof. Daniel Witte	Aarhus University / Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus