Newsletter August

Dear EPINOR Friend, here comes the latest news from us. Be sure to read the article of current interest - Successful PhD outcome, by our International Advisor Professor Henrik Toft Sørensen. The newsletter starts with an introductory interview of Toft Sørensen:


Successful PhD outcome - Professor Henrik Toft Sørensen
- advice to supervisors, research group leaders and department chairs (but also upcoming PhD students and postdocs)

Funding Deadline EPINOR 15.September 
Do you know about a PhD cours ein Norway or abroad that you would like to join? Do you have a plan to go on a reserach stay? Do you have a innovative idea for an event for you and your fellow students? Apply for funding before 15.September

EPINOR Annual meeting 12 - 13 November 2018 and NOFE Conference
Topic of the Annual Meeting is - What are the Fundamentals of Stata for Epidemiologic Research? EPINOR covers the early bird conference fee for EPINOR students who participate at the NOFE Conference and the Annual Meeting. EPINOR also cover 50 % of the traveling expenses. Registre now!  

NORPEN - meeting 7 - 9 November in Oslo
EPINOR covers the conference fee for EPINOR students who wish to present their work at the NORPEN meeting. EPINOR will also cover fee for the Pre-meeting Course  - An Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology.

My story: Amalie Nilsen
From 11th-15th of June I attended the course “Introduction to multi-level modeling” at Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University (EPIC). The summer institute provides courses on a wide range of epidemiological topics for those interested in public health.

My story: Anders Årnes
On June 10 – June 16, 2018, I was lucky to attend the second course week of the annual summer school hosted by BiostatEpi, at a castle in northern Italy. My two select classes were ‘Longitudinal Data Analysis’ and ‘Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data’. The stay was made possible through funding by EPINOR.

EPINOR og CASE Sommerskole 2018
This years summer school took place in June at fantastic Senja. The topic of the year was research communication and critical review. Take a look at the pictures and be sure to join next year! 

International Advisory Board meeting
25th May the steering committee welcomed EPINORs International Advisory Board, Marie Reilley (Karolinska institut), Henrik Toft Sørensen (University in Aarhus), Anne Tjønneland (Danish Cancer Society), Elsebeth Lynge (Copenhagen University) and Paolo Vineis (Imperial College, London). The purpose was to learn what our international advisers had to say about EPINOR today and in the future. Professor Paolo Vineis also gave us an introduction to his perspective on Epidemiology in the future (picture). 

Funds for local activities
In order to increase the local engagement at the EPINOR partner instituitons, the student representatives together with the management (picture), have decided to make funds available for activities arranged by the local student groups in Trondheim, Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø. The local student representative must send an application containing a plan for the upcoming semester together with a budget (max. 10 000 NOK) to epinor@uit.no. Deadline this semester is 15th september.       

Congratulations on defending your thesis

Maria Garcia Lopez  “Risk of fracture: The importance of B-vitamins and self-reported memory loss.”

Recommended activities

Parametric Competing Risks and Multistate models 
NorPEN meeting
Statistical methods in epidemiology – beyond the Cox model
Parametric competing risk and multistate models
Folkehelsekonferansen 2018

Job opportunities

PlacePositionDeadline
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UiT - Arctic University of Norway Professor/Første amanuensis i samfunnsmedisin  26.08.2018
University in Bergen Post Doc  Epidemiology  30.08.2018
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp Professor of epidemiology and control of infectious diseases 24.08.2018

Karolinska Institutet

Senior Lecturers in Epidemiology (with focus on research) 30.08.2018

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

Postdoctoral Opportunity 15.08.2018

World Health Organization

Senior Research Assistant (Data management/Statistics) 23.08.2018

UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science

SBBS Research Scholarships Please see individual projects

Medicinoxy

Academic and research jobs and vacancies in schools of medicine, pharmacy and biomedical sciences