Councils, committees and advisers
The Danish Health Authority consults with various advisers, committees and councils whose members are experts in their respective fields or represent various interest groups.
Expert councils on:
- communicable diseases
- thesis planning
- educational programmes for doctors, dentists, nurses
- the elderly – through the knowledge centre for dignified elderly care.
Committees and task forces
The committees and task forces offers professional advice to the Danish Health Authority on:
- cardiovascular disease and cancer
- educational programmes
- environment
- experimental treatments
- immunisation and vaccination
- national clinical guidelines
- psychiatry
- rational pharmacotherapy
- screening
- suicide prevention
- speciality planning
Expert advisers
Experts are employed for a period of three years and advise on:
- child and adolescent psychiatry
- clinical physiology and nuclear medicine
- drug abuse
- general practice
- gynecology and obstetrics
- internal medicine: cardiology
- internal medicine: infectious disease medicine
- midwifery
- paediatrics
- psychiatry
- urology
Updated 23 JUN 2020