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Professor of epidemiology, Deputy Head of Department (Education) Department of Community Medicine charlotta.rylander@uit.no +4777644831 +4741643404 Tromsø You can find me here

Charlotta Rylander

Job description

Charlotta Rylander is a professor of epidemiology at the Department of Community Medicine, and a member of the Systems epidemiology research group. Charlotta is also serving as the deputy head of education at the department. Her research is mainly in the field of global and environmental health, and cancer epidemiology. Charlotta also teaches epidemiology at bachelor, master and PhD level.

Professor at the research group in Systems Epidemiology

 

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Research interests

Charlotta Rylander is a professor of epidemiology at the Department of Community Medicine, and a member of the Systems epidemiology research group. Charlotta is also serving as the deputy head of research at the department. Her research is mainly in the field of global and environmental health, and cancer epidemiology. 

Charlotta's research interests include:

1.) Lead exposure of children and pregnant women globally. Identification of exposure sources, health effects of exposure, timetrends and surveillance systems for biomonitoring.

2.) Persistent organic pollutants in relation to lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. Are elavated POPs in people with the disease a cause or a consequence of the disease?

3.) Life-course changes in body fatness and subsequent cancer risk.

4.) Regsitry-based maternal and child health studies, including quality and validity of registrations.

5.) Environmental impact of food and lifestyle

 PhD student supervision: 

1. 2015-2020: Main supervisor of PhD Marisa da Silva. PhD thesis: Weight change and cancer. The Norwegian Women and Cancer study

2. 2017- 2020: Co-supervisor of PhD Tinatin Manjavidze. PhD thesis: Perinatal mortality and its associationwith antenatal care utilization in the Republic of Georgia

3. 2017-2021: Co-supervisor of PhD Ingvild Hersoug Nedberg. PhD thesis: Cesarean sections in Georgia and Norway - What contributes to too much, too little, or just right? The role of maternal risk factors and efforts to reduce high cesarean section rates

4. 2017-ongoing: Co-supervisor of Natia Skhvitaridze. Topic: Maternal mortality and morbidity in the Republic of Georgia

5. 2017-2023: Main supervisor of PhD Dolley Charles. PhD thesis: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Addressing causality with repeated measurements using novel study designs.

6. 2019-2023: Co-supervisor of PhD Giovanni Allaoui. PhD thesis: Blood biomarkers and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Repeated measurements of blood biomarkers in Type 2 diabetes Mellitus cases adn controls; longitudinal assessements and associations

7. 2021- ongoing: Main supervisor of Nia Khachidze. Topic: Teenage pregnancies in the Republic of Georgia

8. 2021- ongoing: Co-supervisor of Ana Aslanikashvili. Topic: Hepatitis C in the Republic of Georgia. 

9. 2021-ongoing: Co-supervisor of Marie Hauan. Topic: Sweet beverage consumption and adverse health outcomes

10. 2022-ongoing: Main supervisor of Marit Busund. Topic: Female sex hormones and molecular subtypes of breast cancer

11. 2022- ongoing: Co-supervisor of Mia Mathisen. Topic: Persistent Organic Pollutants, inflammation markers and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

12. 2022-ongoing: Shared main supervisor of Bahar Kucuk. Topic: In-depth investigation into the environmental sustainability aspects of the northern Norwegian diet:
understanding the sociodemographic associations, co-benefits, and beneficial transformations

13. 2022- ongoing: Co-supervisor of Sophio Sikharulidze, enrolled at the PhD program at University of Georgia. Topic: Lead exposure of pregnant women in Georgia

Teaching

Charlotta has been, or is currently involved in teaching the following courses:

  • ERN-2001: Basic epidemiology, statistics and dietary assessment methods
  • HEL-3006: Introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics
  • ERN-2025: Bachelor thesis in nutrition
  • ERN-3950: Master thesis in clinical nutrition
  • BACE: Building Academic Capacity in Global Health in the Eastern Europe - Central Asia Region, funded by ERASMUS+

Member of research group

Systemepidemiologi   Norsk innhold Systems Epidemiology   English content Changing Arctic   English content Global and Environmental Health   English content

Member of project

Food, environmental impact, and health Overvekt gjennom livsløpet og kreft    Norsk innhold Lead exposure of pregnant women and children in Georgia Teenage pregnancies in Georgia Maternal mortality and morbidity in Georgia Hepatitis C in Georgia

CV

2021-Present: Professor of Epidemiology

2016-2021: Associate Professor of Epidemiology

2011-2016: Post doc in Epidemiology (including 2 maternity leaves and 2 research stays abroad), UiT, Norway

2012: Educational Theory and Practice, 1-year degree in Teaching

2010-2011: 50% Researcher (UiT), 63% high school teacher, Målselv, Norway

2010: PhD in Environmental Epidemiology, UiT, Norway

2004: MSc in Chemical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden