Berit Eika became Prorector for Education at Aarhus University on 1 June 2014, and works with the University´s strategy and policies for education and chairs the committee of education. Before moving to this position, she was vice-dean at the Faculty of Health, a position held since 2011. As vice-dean, she attained the responsibility of developing medical teaching and education, which e.g. led to the establishment of the AU Centre for Health Sciences Education.
She graduated as a medical doctor (MD) in 1986 and received her PhD degree in 1994 from Aarhus University. From 1996 Berit Eika took on the position to revise the AU degree programme in Medicine. In 2005 she became the first Danish medical professor of Health Education and has supervised numerous successful PhD students in Aarhus, and has been an external examiner on PhDs at various universities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.