Meet the jury: Understanding and improving rational antibiotic use in primary care – Examples from Denmark and Central Asia by Prof Dr. Rune Munck Abenhus

You are kindly invited to the meet the jury lecture of  Prof Dr. Rune Munck Abenhus on Understanding and improving rational antibiotic use in primary care – Examples from Denmark and Central Asia.

Date & Venue

📍Campus Gasthuisberg – Auditorium ON&4

📆 27 January 2026, 14:30 – 15:30

or via Teams: meeting link on request, see contact info below

About the lecture

The lecture will try to answer the deceptively simple question: How can evidence be generated and applied to support forward-looking clinical decision-making that reduces antibiotic prescribing without compromising patient safety?
Drawing on both intervention and qualitative research from Denmark and Kyrgyzstan, the talk will show how data, diagnostics, and professional judgement interact—and sometimes collide—in real-world primary care and discuss possible next steps to improve rational prescribing of antibiotics

About the speaker

Rune Munck Aabenhus is a Danish general practitioner and professor of primary care medicine at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on antibiotic consumption in primary care and on methods to safely reduce inappropriate antibiotic use, including the use of biomarkers of inflammation and infection. His work is primarily based on register-based research, epidemiology, and systematic reviews, and aims to support evidence-based antimicrobial stewardship in everyday clinical practice.

Contact info: erinn<dot>dhulster<at>kuleuven<dot>be

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PRACTICAL INFO

  • DATE
    27 January, 2026
  • LOCATION
    icon ON4
    Herestraat 9
    3000 Leuven
    Auditorium     icon Meet the jury
  • TARGET GROUP
    PhD postdoc ZAP
  • LANGUAGE EVENT
    ENGLISH

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