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Morten Skovdal is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans several interconnected disciplines, with a primary focus on social sciences, psychology, and medicine. Skovdal's work extensively covers subfields such as clinical psychology, sociology and political science, general health professions, education, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's research topics include migration, health and trauma, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, education and experiences of immigrants and refugees, global maternal and child health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, racial and ethnic identity research, and sex work and related issues.

Frequent co-authors in Skovdal's collaborations include Ilse Derluyn, An Verelst, Constance Nyamukapa, Simon Gregson, and Rufurwokuda Maswera, contributing collectively to a significant portion of their work.

Skovdal's recent publications highlight various public health and social issues:

  • Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Experienced Discrimination and Daily Stressors (2021) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • 'Standing together - at a distance': Documenting changes in mental-health indicators in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Mental Health of Refugee and Non-refugee Migrant Young People in European Secondary Education: The Role of Family Separation, Daily Material Stress and Perceived Discrimination in Resettlement (2021) published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • 'It's difficult to help when I am not sitting next to them': How COVID-19 school closures interrupted teachers' care for newly arrived migrant and refugee learners in Denmark (2020) published in Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
  • Experience of discrimination during COVID-19 pandemic: the impact of public health measures and psychological distress among refugees and other migrants in Europe (2022) published in BMC Public Health

The venues where Skovdal frequently publishes include Global Health Action, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, and BMC Infectious Diseases.

They have contributed to several book publications with Policy Press, Springer International Publishing, and Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks. Titles include Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention (2025), Remaking HIV Prevention in the 21st Century (2021), and How are young refugees doing in the Nordic welfare societies? Coming of Age in Exile - CAGE (2021).

Best Publications

  • Masculinity as a barrier to men's use of HIV services in Zimbabwe.

    Morten Skovdal;Catherine Campbell;Claudius Madanhire;Zivai Mupambireyi

  • Young carers as social actors: coping strategies of children caring for ailing or ageing guardians in Western Kenya

    Morten Skovdal;Vincent O. Ogutu;Cellestine Aoro;Catherine Campbell

  • Social capital and HIV Competent Communities: The role of community groups in managing HIV/AIDS in rural Zimbabwe

    Catherine Campbell;Kerry Scott;Mercy Nhamo;Constance Nyamukapa

  • Assessing participation in a community-based health planning and services programme in Ghana

    Leonard Baatiema;Morten Skovdal;Morten Skovdal;Susan Rifkin;Catherine Campbell

  • "We, the AIDS people. . .": how antiretroviral therapy enables Zimbabweans living with HIV/AIDS to cope with stigma

    Catherine Campbell;Morten Skovdal;Claudius Madanhire;Owen Mugurungi

  • Qualitative Research for Development: A guide for practitioners

    Morten Skovdal;Flora Cornish

  • Intersectionality of HIV stigma and masculinity in eastern Uganda: implications for involving men in HIV programmes

    Gitau Mburu;Gitau Mburu;Mala Ram;Godfrey Siu;David Bitira

  • Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Experienced Discrimination and Daily Stressors.

    Eva Spiritus-Beerden;An Verelst;Ines Devlieger;Nina Langer Primdahl

  • Resilience through participation and coping-enabling social environments: the case of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Morten Skovdal;Marguerite Daniel

  • Exploring children's stigmatisation of AIDS-affected children in Zimbabwe through drawings and stories

    Catherine Campbell;Morten Skovdal;Zivai Mupambireyi;Simon Gregson

  • Creating Social Spaces to Tackle AIDS-Related Stigma: Reviewing the Role of Church Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Catherine Campbell;Morten Skovdal;Andy Gibbs

  • When masculinity interferes with women's treatment of HIV infection: a qualitative study about adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe

    Morten Skovdal;Catherine Campbell;Constance Nyamukapa;Simon Gregson

  • Resisting and challenging stigma in Uganda: the role of support groups of people living with HIV

    Gitau Mburu;Gitau Mburu;Mala Ram;Morten Skovdal;David Bitira

  • How disclosure and antiretroviral therapy help HIV-infected adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa cope with stigma

    Vivian Midtbø;Violeth Shirima;Morten Skovdal;Marguerite Daniel

  • Contextual and psychosocial influences on antiretroviral therapy adherence in rural Zimbabwe: towards a systematic framework for programme planners

    Morten Skovdal;Catherine Campbell;Kundai Nhongo;Constance Nyamukapa;Constance Nyamukapa

  • Traditional healers, faith healers and medical practitioners: the contribution of medical pluralism to bottlenecks along the cascade of care for HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa.

    Mosa Moshabela;Dominic Bukenya;Gabriel Darong;Joyce Wamoyi

  • Social Capital and Women's Reduced Vulnerability to HIV Infection in Rural Zimbabwe

    Simon Gregson;Phyllis Mushati;Harry Grusin;Mercy N. Nhamo

  • The role of community conversations in facilitating local HIV competence: case study from rural Zimbabwe

    Catherine Campbell;Mercy Nhamo;Kerry Scott;Claudius Madanhire

  • Challenges faced by elderly guardians in sustaining the adherence to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected children in Zimbabwe.

    Morten Skovdal;Catherine Campbell;Claudius Madanhire;Constance Nyamukapa

  • Children caring for their "caregivers": exploring the caring arrangements in households affected by AIDS in Western Kenya.

    Morten Skovdal

  • Building adherence-competent communities: factors promoting children's adherence to anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS treatment in rural Zimbabwe.

    Catherine Campbell;Morten Skovdal;Morten Skovdal;Zivai Mupambireyi;Claudius Madanhire

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Gregson
Simon Gregson Imperial College London
Constance Nyamukapa
Constance Nyamukapa Imperial College London
Catherine Campbell
Catherine Campbell London School of Economics and Political Science
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lorraine Sherr
Lorraine Sherr University College London
Marie Norredam
Marie Norredam University of Copenhagen
Joyce Wamoyi
Joyce Wamoyi Medical Research Council
Allan Krasnik
Allan Krasnik University of Copenhagen
Victoria Hosegood
Victoria Hosegood University of Southampton

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