{"id":1193,"date":"2024-07-24T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/?page_id=1193"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:37:00","slug":"frerik-smit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/?page_id=1193","title":{"rendered":"Frerik Smit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2><strong>Frerik Smit<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Frerik Smit is a PhD student and research assistant within the #PopHealthLab at the University of Fribourg. He holds a BSc in Economics and Politics from Queen Mary University of London (UK), an MA in Community Development and Planning with a concentration in Health Equity from Clark University (USA), and a Master of Public Health specialising in Research Methods from the University of Sydney (Australia). Prior to joining the lab, he has conducted research on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and on the relationship between socioeconomic position and falls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His PhD project focuses on low-value cancer screening, that is, screening whose benefits do not outweigh its harms at a reasonable cost. More specifically, his PhD aims to describe the frequency of low-value cancer screening in Switzerland and across Europe, and to better understand the patterning of screening among older adults for whom screening is generally not recommended within evidence-based guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frerik also conducts methodological research on overadjustment bias and bias in cancer epidemiology that arises from the scrutiny-dependent nature of cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/final-PhD-Protocol_Frerik-Smit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>PhD protocol<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Epidemiology, population health, older adults, cancer screening, low-value care<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ORCID: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-6034-2300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">0009-0007-6034-2300<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> frerik.smit@unifr.ch <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"949\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PHL_PORTRAITS_2024-083-scaled-e1726150989385-1024x949.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PHL_PORTRAITS_2024-083-scaled-e1726150989385-1024x949.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PHL_PORTRAITS_2024-083-scaled-e1726150989385-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PHL_PORTRAITS_2024-083-scaled-e1726150989385-768x712.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PHL_PORTRAITS_2024-083-scaled-e1726150989385-1536x1423.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PHL_PORTRAITS_2024-083-scaled-e1726150989385.jpg 1843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frerik Smit Frerik Smit is a PhD student and research assistant within the #PopHealthLab at the University of Fribourg. He holds a BSc in Economics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}