Contact
For questions about admission, funding and registration contact your local administrative or scientific contact person from your home institution.
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
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Bente Evjen Schøning |
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Torkjel M. Sandanger |
NTNU, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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May Karin Dyrendahl |
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Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen |
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Johan Håkon Bjørngaard |
The University of Bergen
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Trond Riise |
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Daniel Gundersen |
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Anne Kjersti Daltveit |
The University of Oslo
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Ester Mæland |
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Per Nafstad |
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Magne Thoresen |
National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo
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Karl-Christian Nordby |
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo
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Magne Nylenna |
The Cancer Registry of Norway
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Trude Robsahm |
Presentations of the student representatives
EPINOR has four student representatives, and it is about time that they are properly introduced to the EPINOR network.

Atle Austnes Kongsvold (NTNU)
I have a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in human movement science from NTNU in Trondheim. For my master’s, I conducted a validation study of objective measurements of physical activity. Since I completed my master’s in 2016, I have continued working with this topic, and from August 2017 to February 2019 I was co-responsible for the data collection of objective physical activity measurements in The Trøndelag Health Study, where we collected data of approximately 38,000 individuals. I will be analysing these data during my PhD, that I started in September this year, at the Department of Public Health and Nursing at NTNU. The main goal is to identify determinants of physical activity – why are some people active, while others are not? I feel a lot of ownership to the data material and I look forward to work with it. In my spare time, I like to go for a run, and I’m also a fan of climbing.

Dagrun Slettebø Daltveit (UiB)
I am a statistician and a PhD candidate at UiB. In my project «Cancer risk in families with children with birth defects», I am studying associations between congenital birth defects and risk of cancer in children, as well as their siblings and parents. The project involves register data from four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The project is part of a larger Nordic collaboration project: “Nordic Countries Linked Birth and Cancer Registries Cohort Project”. The first paper has recently been published: Cancer risk in individuals with major birth defects: large Nordic population based case-control study among children, adolescents, and adults.

Mats Kirkeby Fjeld (UiO)
My name is Mats Fjeld and I’m a student representative from the University of Oslo. I am based at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, where I write about physical activity and chronic pain. I have started the second half of my project and I’m looking forward to continuing in EPINOR. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Erlend Hoftun Farbu (UiT)
I am a physiotherapist and I have a master’s degree from the University of Bergen. Before I started as a PhD student at UiT, I worked as a rope access technician in the petroleum industry and studied to become an engineer. In my PhD project, I am investigating whether working in cold environments (e.g., outdoors or at a cold store), increases the risk of chronic pain. Additionally, I am trying to find out if the weather, e.g., temperature or barometric pressure, affects pain tolerance. To study these relationships, I’m using data from the Tromsø Study.
EPINOR International Advisory Board
Professor Paolo Vineis Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health |
Professor David Leon London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
Professor Marie Reilly Karolinska Institutet |
Professor Elsebeth Lynge University of Copenhagen |
Professor Henrik Toft Sørensen Aarhus University |
Professor Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen |
The EPINOR consortium
Address:
UiT – Norges Arktiske UniversitetDet helsevitenskapelige fakultet
Institutt for samfunnsmedisin v/Bente Evjen Schøning
Breivika, 9019 Tromsø