Job description

Inger Torhild Gram is a medical doctor, professor of Preventive Medicine and a member of the Systems Epidemiology research group. She primarily does research on the relationship between smoking and cancer, premature death, and the benefits of quitting smoking. Gram works with this in five population studies, (the Tromsø Study, Norwegian Women and Cancer study (NOWAC), Smoking and Cancer, UiT the European EPIC study, the American Multi-Ethnic Cohort (MEC) study, and in several global collaborative projects. Gram also works with changing lifestyles and preventing deaths from non-communicable diseases. She has disseminated research results world-wide to the scientific community through talks at international conferences and press conferences, scientific publications, and to the health authorites, politicians and general public in TV, radio and other media. Gram has worked with tobacco prevention and smoke free policies since the 1990's , locally at UiT, UNN, Tromsø Municipality and as a member of the National Council for Tobacco Prevention.  Gram has spent four years on the scientific council of IARC [the cancer research agency of the World Health Organization (WHO)]. She teaches in the first five years of the professional study in medicine. Gram has a 20% position as a professor at the National Centre for E-Health Research, University Hospital of North Norway (UNN), WHO Collaborating Centre for Telemedicine