Bilde av Jensen, Torill
Bilde av Jensen, Torill
Assistant professor in nutrition Department of Community Medicine torill.enget@uit.no +4777644813 Tromsø You can find me here

Torill Jensen


Job description

My teaching tasks are mainly related to the bachelor's program in nutrition within topics such as the composition of foods, their use and role in the diet, the connection between diet and health, knowledge of measures to promote healthy eating habits in the population, global nutrition, and nutritional epidemiology. The tasks include the development and implementation of teaching, examinations and censorship, as well as supervision of bachelor's and master's theses.

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Research interests

Nutritional epidemiology

Dietary pattern
Regional diets
Sustainable diet
Nordic foods
Food systems
Microbiota
Processed food
The relationship between diet and colorectal cancer
The connection between diet and inflammation

Teaching

Food science and food safety

Public health nutrition