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E-mail: aamsk@sdu.dk​

Anne Mette has worked as a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry for many years, and it is experience from clinical work that underlies her exploration of opportunities to prevent mental illness early in life.

Anne Mette initiated CCC2000 to fill a gap in our knowledge of how mental disabilities arise and develop. Focusing on the first three years of life, Anne Mette has been able to identify markers of developmental vulnerability, which she has explored further in later developmental periods in CCC2000 and in other cohorts. Anne Mette has been researching and developing reliable methods for detecting and intervening in psychological vulnerability in young children, and together with health nurses and public health researchers, she has developed and tested a standardized journal for health nurses' systematic registrations, and developed, tested and implemented a method where health nurses in dialogue with parents can detect and manage developmental vulnerability in children from 9-10 months. Anne Mette is head of Infant Health/ Små Børns Sundhed where her research group, in collaboration with Dutch researchers, is testing an intensified parent-based intervention for toddlers with developmental difficulties within municipal health care in 16 municipalities (www.sdu.dk/da/sif/forskning/projekter/smaa_boerns_sundhed)