Fjorida Llaha
Job description
PhD candidate in cancer epidemiology at the Department of Community Medicine. The aims of my PhD project are to describe the longitudinal patterns of alcohol consumption in Norwegian women, and to investigate the impact of their alcohol consumption on the risk of cancer and mortality.
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Publications outside Cristin
Castañeda J, Gil-Lespinard M, Almanza-Aguilera E, Llaha F, Gómez JM, Bondonno N, Tjønneland A, Overvad K, Katzke V, Schulze MB, Masala G, Claudia Agnoli, Santucci de Magistris M, Tumino R, Carlotta Sacerdote, Skeie G, Brustad M, Lasheras C, Molina-Montes E, Chirlaque MD, Barricarte A, Sonestedt E, da Silva M, Johansson I, Hultdin J, May AM, Forouhi NG, Heath AK, Freisling H, Weiderpass E, Scalbert A, Zamora-Ros R. Association between classes and subclasses of polyphenol intake and 5-year body weight changes in the EPIC-PANACEA study. Obesity. 2023. doi: 10.1002/oby.23689
Llaha F, Cayssials V, Farràs M, Agudo A, Sandström M, Eriksen AK, Tjønneland A, Boutron-Ruault MC, Laouali N, Truong T, Le Cornet C, Katzke V, Schulze M, Palli D, Krogh V, Signoriello S, Tumino R, Ricceri F, Skeie G, Jensen TME, Chen SLF, Lasheras C, Rodriguez-Barranco M, Amiano P, Huerta JM, Guevara M, Almquist M, Nilson LM, Hennings J, Papier K, Heath A, Weiderpass E, Rinaldi S, Zamora-Ros R. Adherence to mediterranean diet and the risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in a European cohort: The EPIC study. Front Nutr. 2022. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.982369
Llaha F, Gil-Lespinard M, Unal P, de Villasante I, Castañeda J, Zamora-Ros R. Consumption of Sweet Beverages and Cancer Risk. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies. Nutrients. 2021. doi: 10.3390/nu13020516
Llaha F, Ribalta A, Arribas L, Bellver M, Roura E, Guillén-Rey N, Megias-Rangil I, Alegret-Basora C, Tresserra-Rimbau A, Zamora-Ros R. A Review of Web-Based Nutrition Information in Spanish for Cancer Patients and Survivors. Nutrients. 2022. doi: 10.3390/nu14071441
Llaha F, Zamora-Ros R. The Effects of Polyphenol Supplementation in Addition to Calorie Restricted Diets and/or Physical Activity on Body Composition Parameters: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials. Front Nutr. 2020. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2020.00084
Almanza-Aguilera E, Bars-Cortina D, Llaha F, Zamora-Ros R. Blood and Urinary Flavonoids. In: Patel, V.B., Preedy, V.R. (eds) Biomarkers in Nutrition . Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications. Springer, Cham. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81304-8_6-1
Poncet G, Castañeda J, Llaha F, Gil-Lespinard M, Zamora-Ros R. Total Antioxidant Capacity Measurements in Food and Beverages. Food Chemistry and Analysis. Royal Scoiety of Chemistry. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781839165337-00178
Research interests
Areas: cancer epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, biomarkers of alcohol intake. Methods: causal inference, longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis.
Teaching
- Teaching assistant: Epidemiology in the Master of Public Health.
- Teaching assistant: Statistics and epidemiology in medical studies.
- Supervisor for student in the Master of Public Health.
- Intern examiner for thesis in the Master of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition.
- Invited lecturer on Alcohol Intake and Health risks - Western Balkan University, Tirana, Albania
Member of research group
CV
Education
2013 - Bachelor degree in Odontology, University of Medicine of Tirana.
2020 - Master degree in Nutrition and Chronic Disease, University of Barcelona.
Relevant training
2022 - Postgraduate certificate in Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
2022 - Epidemiology Deeper Understanding, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
2022 - Mixed models with Jos Twisk, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
2023 - Causal Inference in Epidemiology, Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Italy,
2023 - Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data, Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Italy,
2023 - Teaching in higher education, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
2025 - Peerspectives. A peer review training program by The Charité in collaboration with The BMJ editor/reviewer-mentors.
Other skills
Languages: Albanian (native), English, Spanish (advanced), Italian, Catalan (intermediate), Norwegian (B1 level).
Computer skills: Stata, R, SPSS.
Prizes, Honours
2020 - Award for Honours Degree of the MSc thesis from the University of Barcelona.
Conference presentations
2023 - Norwegian Epidemiological Association (NOFE) Conference, Trondheim, Norway (oral presentation)
2024 - Nordic Nutrition Conference, Bergen, Norway (oral presentation)
2024 - World Congress of Epidemiology, Cape Town, South Africa (oral and poster presentation)
2024 - EPIC Meetings, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (oral presentation)