ProfessorBodil Rasmussen

Professor Bodil Rasmussen is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Bodil held a Chair of Nursing position in the Western Health and Deakin University partnership (2016-2024). Bodil has extensive academic experience and was previously the Course Director of the Graduate Certificate of Diabetes Education and Management and Master of Nursing Practice at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University. She also has extensive experience in curriculum development and has held numerous Unit Chair positions in the Master of Nursing Practice and the Bachelor of Nursing. Bodil supervises Honours, Masters and Doctoral students in her research field. She works in partnership with professional national and international organisations and with world-renowned researchers in the field of self-management in chronic and multimorbidity conditions. Professor Rasmussen leads numerous projects in Australia and Denmark, including developing online platforms and the use of other technologies to manage diabetes and multimorbidity conditions. Bodil has been awarded Affiliated Professorial appointments at the Universities of Copenhagen and Southern Denmark and Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) in India.