Research
Physical activity epidemiology - the importance of physical activity/sedentary time for risk of morbidity and mortality.
Public health.
Teaching
Measurement of physical activity, introduction to statistics, physical activity and public health.
Short biography
Jakob Tarp completed his PhD in Physical Activity Epidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark in 2018. As part of the Obesity: Biological, socio-Cultural, and environmental risk Trajectories (OBCT) project, his research at NIH is aiming to understand how physical physical activity/sedentary time may prevent development of obesity