Sarah Wadmann

Ph.D. student

Department of Public Health, Section of Health Services Research
Øster Farimagsgade 5 opg. B, Lok. 15.0.01
1014 København K

Office: 15, 15.0.01
Phone: +45 353-27493
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-26250
E-mail: sala@sund.ku.dk

Primary research areas

My primary research interest concerns how the organization of healthcare systems affects the delivering of healthcare services and thereby public health. I am especially interested in quality and audit systems, coordination of healthcare service delivery, public-private collaboration and EU regulation.

In my ph.d. project, I investigate organizational conditions of possibility for knowledge formation about blood pressure lowering drugs. What drives me is a desire to understand what comes to counts as true knowledge (facts) about drugs in various clinical settings, and how this may influence drug prescription. The project is undertaken as a multi-sited, ethnographic study in general practice and research intensive hospital wards in Denmark.

Teaching

My teaching centers on courses about the organization of healthcare systems – mainly introductory courses focusing on understanding and critically analyzing modes of organization. I teach public health and medicine students at undergraduate and graduate level. Besides, I’ve done guest lecturing for graduate public health students on STS-perspectives in public health analysis.

I am co-supervising undergraduate and graduate public health students in projects about quality management and governance in the Danish healthcare system.