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Professor of epidemiology Department of Community Medicine bjarne.koster.jacobsen@uit.no 992 55 645 Tromsø You can find me here

Bjarne Koster Jacobsen

Job description

Bjarne K. Jacobsen is a professor of epidemiology at the Department of Community Medicine. This includes research and teaching of descriptive and analytical epidemiology. 

 

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Research interests

The research is within the descriptive and analytical epidemiology of chronic diseases with some emphasis on cardiovascular diseases, but also many other non-communicable diseases (e.g., cancer, osteoporosis, mental distress and disorders). He has approximately 200 publications registered in PubMed.  

See the attachment for a description of the research activity during the last 25 years.

Teaching

Bjarne K. Jacobsen has taught epidemiology in various graduate and post-graduate study programs, mainly at the University of Tromsø and supervised MPH-students and PhD-students (main supervisor for six PhD students and co-supervisor for another 8 PhD students who have defended their thesis and have also taken active part in supervision of several other PhD-students).

PhD student supervision (formal assignments):

Siri Forsmo: (1997) Aspects and consequences of opportunistic screening for cervical cancer: Results based on data from three Norwegian counties (One of two supervisors)

Tove Riise (2001) Rheumatoid arthritis in Northern Norway: a clinical and epidemiological survey (One of two supervisors)

Kulbir Singh (2005) Abdominal aortic aneurysms: diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study (main supervisor)

Lone Jørgensen (2001) Fragile bones in patients with stroke? Bone mineral density in acute stroke patients and changes during one year of follow up (main supervisor)

Signe Forsdahl (2010) Abdominal aortic aneurysms: Risk factors and cardiovascular consequences. The Tromsø Study. (main supervisor)

Jan-Magnus Kvamme (2011) Body mass index and risk of malnutrition in community-living elderly men and women: relationships with morbidity, mortality and health- related quality of life. The Tromsø and HUNT studies (main supervisor)

Sweta Tiwari (2018) Atrial Fibrillation: A prospective population study of risk factors and complications. The Tromsø Study (co-supervisor)

Ina Heiberg (2019) Mortality, substance use disorder and cardiovascular health care in persons with severe mental illness (co-supervisor)

Rune Hermansen (2020) Physical activity, cardiovascular risk factors, and mortality in ethnic groups in the Arctic region of Norway. Results from two population-based studies: The Finnmark 3 study 1987-1988 and SAMINOR 1 2003-2004 (co-supervisor)

Nils Abel Aars (2021) Physical Activity and Body Composition in Norwegian Adolescents. Results from The Tromsø Study: Fit Futures (co-supervisor)

Susanna Ragnhild Andersdatter Siri (2021) Cardiovascular risk factors and incidence of acute myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke in Sami and non-Sami populations — The SAMINOR Study (co-supervisor)

Marie Wasmuth Lundblad (2021) The obesity epidemic; population levels of visceral adipose tissue and trends in body composition. Insights from The Tromsø Study (co-supervisor)

Frank Olsen (2022) Geographic and socioeconomic variation in the utilisation of specialist health care services in Norway – Three selected health care services (co-supervisor)

Torill M. Enget Jensen (2024) Healthy Nordic Diet and mortality (co-supervisor)

 


Member of research group / centre

Kroniske sykdommers epidemiologi    Norsk innhold Epidemiology of chronic diseases    English content

Member of project

Perspectives on COVID-19 in Sami communities in Norway    English content Perspektiv på covid-19 i samiske samfunn i Noreg    Norsk innhold Perspektijve COVID-19-pandemijese saemien seabradahkine Nöörjesne    Norsk innhold

CV

Bjarne K. Jacobsen
Born 1956,
Professor in community medicine (epidemiology). Full time position
Senior researcher. Part time (20 %) position

Education and degrees
1988: PhD (epidemiology) University of Tromsø
Thesis: “The use of self-administered questionnaires about food habits. Relationships
with risk factors for coronary heart disease and associations between coffee drinking
and mortality and cancer incidence”.
1981: MSc (nutrition) University of Oslo
1979: Nutritionist, University of Oslo

Research positions held
1992 to present: Professor in community medicine (epidemiology) (full time), Department of Community Medicine (ISM), University of Tromsø (during 1995-1996 Head of Department)

2009 to present: Senior researcher (part time), Center of Clinical Documentation and Evaluation, Regional Health Authority of Northern Norway, Tromsø

1996-97, 2011-12 & 2016-17 : Visiting professor, Loma Linda University, California, USA.
1989-91 :           Senior researcher, ISM, University of Tromsø
1988 :                Associate professor, ISM, University of Tromsø
1985-87 :           Research fellow, ISM, University of Tromsø
1984 :                 Research assistant, ISM, University of Tromsø
1981-83 :            Research assistant, University of Bergen

 

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