Meet Kasper: Leading the Charge to Vaccinate 415,000 Danes This Autumn

Meet Kasper Klint Larsen, our Head of Operations, who is currently busy planning the crucial task we will undertake this autumn: vaccinating 415,000 Danes against influenza and Covid-19!

Kasper is responsible for the preparations leading up to 1st October, when Danske Lægers Vaccinations Service will manage 185 locations across the country. We will be vaccinating nearly half of the expected total number of citizens over 65 years old, as well as particularly vulnerable individuals, who will be offered vaccination against influenza and Covid-19 this season.

Originally trained as a nurse – and later also serving as a head nurse in an intensive care unit – Kasper has alternated over the years between working in both the private and public sectors of the Life Science field, and in collaboration between them. Throughout, he has carried the awareness that at the end of his efforts, there is a patient or a citizen who benefits.

“It is my underlying drive that it is the citizens who ultimately benefit from what I do,” says Kasper Larsen, who joined Danske Lægers Vaccinations Service a year and a half ago.

According to Kasper, preventing disease through vaccination and being part of a preventive health effort is highly satisfying for him.

“Of course, it is a substantial task to vaccinate 415,000 Danes in three months, but it is also precisely the execution of vaccinations and everything surrounding it that we excel at – and have excelled at for 25 years. We have a solid foundation, and it gives us good conditions to upscale as we are now,” says Kasper Larsen.

The work involves ensuring the premises are ready, managing the vaccines themselves, and handling the logistics of potentially 830,000 vaccines (if everyone accepts the offer to be vaccinated against both influenza and Covid-19) across the country – and, of course, coordinating everything with our skilled healthcare personnel.

“Our healthcare personnel include nurses, medical students, and doctors. At the same time, we are very pleased to employ retired healthcare professionals. They bring extensive experience and high competence, and we find that they still wish to make a difference for others – and for society. It is actually a great pleasure to see how many are happy to do something useful again,” says Kasper Larsen.

He therefore does not hesitate to encourage anyone who recognises themselves in the above description to consider the opportunity to contribute to this autumn’s vaccination effort.

“We can always use additional personnel and good competencies,” he says.

Check out the many exciting opportunities here.