Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Joensson

Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson is a medical anthropologist whose research explores health inequities with a focus onoverdiagnosis, aging, multimorbidity, and the experiences of marginalized patients. She investigates how care, uncertainty, and exclusion are negotiated in everyday clinical encounters and through health technologies. Jønsson is Associate Professor of Health and Society at Roskilde University and Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at The Arctic University of Norway. She is Principal Investigator of the research project The Syndemics of Loneliness in Old Age (SOLO), funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark, an ethnographic study of the causes and management of loneliness among older adults. She holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen (PhD 2018) and was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University (2016–2017). Jønsson has published widely in journals such as Medical Anthropology, BMJ Open, Social Science & Medicine, and Ethos. Her co-authored textbook on preventive healthcare received the Danish Lærebogsprisen, and her work has informed national GP agreements and international policy debates. She frequently delivers keynotes and has received several research awards, including the Kirsten Avlund Prize. She is currently Vice President of The Danish Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Policy Brief: “Empowering Elderly with Chronic Diseases can Optimize their Treatment”