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Erlend Hoftun Farbu
Job description
Erlend is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Community Medicine, and a member of the Systems epidemiology research group. He is educated as physiotherapist and manufacturing engineer. He did his PhD on how the climatic environment might affect pain sensitivity and the risk of chronic pain. He his currently a part of the Healthy Choices and the social gradient project
Christoffer Lilja Terjesen,
Anje Christina Höper,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Jan Abel Olsen,
Nils Fleten
:
Impact of an intersectoral universal workplace intervention on health related quality of life and wellbeing in a pragmatic cluster randomised trial | Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports 29. July 2025 DOI
André Henriksen,
Daniel Ursin,
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
Gunnar Hartvigsen,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Towards Migraine-Event Prediction Using Continuous Long-Term Biometric Sensor Data
André Henriksen,
Daniel Ursin,
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
Gunnar Hartvigsen,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Towards Migraine-Event Prediction Using Continuous Long-Term Biometric Sensor Data
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2025 DOI
Mojdeh Rafieian,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Anje Christina Höper,
Rasmus Valtonen,
Henna Hyrkäs-Palmu,
Juha Perkiömäki
et al.:
Blunted cardiovascular responses in individuals with type 2 diabetes and hypertension during cold and heat exposure
Frontiers in Physiology 2025 DOI
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Christoffer Lilja Terjesen,
Nils Fleten,
Anje Christina Höper
:
The level of health anxiety before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lola Neufcourt,
Raphaele Castagne,
Tom Wilsgaard,
Anne Sameline Grimsgaard,
Marc Chadeau-Hyam,
Dragana Vuckovic
et al.:
Educational patterning in biological health seven years apart: Findings from the Tromsø Study
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Anje Christina Höper,
Eirik Reierth,
Tohr Nilsson,
Morten Skandfer
:
Cold exposure and musculoskeletal conditions; A scoping review
Albin Stjernbrandt,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Occupational cold exposure is associated with neck pain, low back pain, and lumbar radiculopathy
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Martin Rypdal,
Morten Skandfer,
Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir,
Tormod Brenn,
Audun Stubhaug
et al.:
To tolerate weather and to tolerate pain: two sides of the same coin? The Tromsø Study 7
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Anje Christina Höper,
Tormod Brenn,
Morten Skandfer
:
Is working in a cold environment associated with musculoskeletal complaints 7–8 years later? A longitudinal analysis from the Tromsø Study
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Morten Skandfer,
Christopher Sivert Nielsen,
Tormod Brenn,
Audun Stubhaug,
Anje Christina Höper
:
Working in a cold environment, feeling cold at work and chronic pain: a cross-sectional analysis of the Tromsø Study
Boris V Balakin,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Pawel Jan Kosinski
:
Aerodynamic evaluation of the empty nose syndrome by means of computational fluid dynamics
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 2017 DOI
Sergey Alyaev,
Alla Bogdanova,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Boris V Balakin
:
Elucidating empty nose syndrome with CFD
2016
Inger Haukenes,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Trond Riise,
Grethe S Tell
:
Physical health-related quality of life predicts disability pension due to musculoskeletal disorders: seven years follow-up of the Hordaland Study Cohort
Inger Haukenes,
Trond Riise,
Kjell Haug,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
John Gunnar Mæland
:
Smokers' increased risk for disability pension: social confounding or health-mediated effects? Gender-specific analyses of the Hordaland Health Study cohort
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2013 DOI
André Henriksen,
Daniel Ursin,
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
Gunnar Hartvigsen,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Towards migraine-event prediction using continuous long-term biometric sensor data
2025
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
André Henriksen,
Gunnar Hartvigsen,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Predicting Epileptic Seizures Using Biometric Sensors - A Pilot Study Protocol
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2024 DOI
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
André Henriksen,
Gunnar Hartvigsen,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Predicting epileptic seizures using biometric sensors - a pilot study protocol
2024
Daniel Ursin,
André Henriksen,
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Towards Automatic Migraine-Event Prediction Using Continuous Sensor Data
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2024 DOI
Anja Margrete Davis Norbye,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Christoffer Lilja Terjesen,
Nils Fleten,
Anje Christina Höper
:
Health anxiety and COVID-19: Examining changes before and during the pandemic
2023
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Anje Christina Höper,
Tormod Brenn,
Morten Skandfer
:
Working in cold environment and future musculoskeletal complaints
2021
Erlend Hoftun Farbu
:
Times Radio with John Pienaar
27. September 2021
Morten Skandfer,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Tormod Brenn,
Anje Christina Höper
:
Associations between feeling cold at work and work performance in a cold-exposed working population from the Tromsø 6 study
2021
Morten Skandfer,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Anje Christina Höper,
Eirik Reierth,
Tohr Nilsson
:
Cold working conditions and musculoskeletal pain.
2021
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Anje Christina Höper,
Christopher Sivert Nielsen,
Tormod Brenn,
Audun Stubhaug,
Morten Skandfer
:
Working in cold environments and chronic pain lasting ≥ 3 months, a cross-sectional study from The Tromsø Study 6
2019
Sergey Alyaev,
Alla Bogdanova,
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Boris V Balakin
:
Elucidating empty nose syndrome with CFD
2016
Erlend Hoftun Farbu,
Grethe S Tell,
Inger Haukenes
:
Kan helse-relatert livskvalitet predikere uførhet på grunn av muskel-skjelettlidelser? Helseundersøkelsen i Hordaland (HUSK)
Universitetet i Bergen 2012
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Research interests
1) Using theory about complex systems to understand epidemiological data
2) Socioeconomic inequalities in health
3) Temperature and health
Teaching
Erlend teaches epidemiology and statistics at bachelor and master level. He is the course leader of “ERN2001 Basic epidemiology, statistics and dietary assessment methods”.
