Rikke Lund is head of the course in Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Sociology at MSc Medicine and course leader of elective course in Lifecourse epidemiology MSc in Public Health Science. She supervises bachelor- and masterprojects  on the BSc and MSC Public Health as well as  BSc and MSc in Medicine.

Her research is focused on social inequalities in aging with a life course perspective. Specifically they have a major interest in studying how socioeconomic factors across the life course is associated with midlife cognitive and physical performance as well as inflammatory levels. They use large cohorts studies for these analyses primarily Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (CAMB).