Bilde av Farbu, Erlend Hoftun
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Bilde av Farbu, Erlend Hoftun
Postdoktor Department of Community Medicine erlend.h.farbu@uit.no +4777645523 You can find me here

Erlend Hoftun Farbu


Job description

Erlend is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Community Medicine, and a member of the Systems epidemiology research group. He is educated as physiotherapist and manufacturing engineer. He did his PhD on how the climatic environment might affect pain sensitivity and the risk of chronic pain. He his currently a part of the Healthy Choices and the social gradient project


  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Christoffer Lilja Terjesen, Nils Fleten, Anje Christina Höper :
    The level of health anxiety before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
    PLOS ONE 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lola Neufcourt, Raphaele Castagne, Tom Wilsgaard, Anne Sameline Grimsgaard, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Dragana Vuckovic et al.:
    Educational patterning in biological health seven years apart: Findings from the Tromsø Study
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Albin Stjernbrandt, Erlend Hoftun Farbu :
    Occupational cold exposure is associated with neck pain, low back pain, and lumbar radiculopathy
    Ergonomics 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Anje Christina Höper, Eirik Reierth, Tohr Nilsson, Morten Skandfer :
    Cold exposure and musculoskeletal conditions; A scoping review
    Frontiers in Physiology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Martin Rypdal, Morten Skandfer, Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir, Tormod Brenn, Audun Stubhaug et al.:
    To tolerate weather and to tolerate pain: two sides of the same coin? The Tromsø Study 7
    Pain 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Anje Christina Höper, Tormod Brenn, Morten Skandfer :
    Is working in a cold environment associated with musculoskeletal complaints 7–8 years later? A longitudinal analysis from the Tromsø Study
    International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Morten Skandfer, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Tormod Brenn, Audun Stubhaug, Anje Christina Höper :
    Working in a cold environment, feeling cold at work and chronic pain: a cross-sectional analysis of the Tromsø Study
    BMJ Open 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Boris V Balakin, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Pawel Jan Kosinski :
    Aerodynamic evaluation of the empty nose syndrome by means of computational fluid dynamics
    Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 2017 DOI
  • Sergey Alyaev, Alla Bogdanova, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Boris V Balakin :
    Elucidating empty nose syndrome with CFD
    Universitetet i Bergen 2016
  • Inger Haukenes, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Trond Riise, Grethe S Tell :
    Physical health-related quality of life predicts disability pension due to musculoskeletal disorders: seven years follow-up of the Hordaland Study Cohort
    BMC Public Health 2014 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Inger Haukenes, Trond Riise, Kjell Haug, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, John Gunnar Mæland :
    Smokers' increased risk for disability pension: social confounding or health-mediated effects? Gender-specific analyses of the Hordaland Health Study cohort
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2013 DOI
  • Daniel Ursin, André Henriksen, Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Erlend Hoftun Farbu :
    Towards Automatic Migraine-Event Prediction Using Continuous Sensor Data
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2024 DOI
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, André Henriksen, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Erlend Hoftun Farbu :
    Predicting Epileptic Seizures Using Biometric Sensors - A Pilot Study Protocol
    Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2024 DOI
  • Anja Margrete Davis Norbye, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Christoffer Lilja Terjesen, Nils Fleten, Anje Christina Höper :
    Health anxiety and COVID-19: Examining changes before and during the pandemic
    2023
  • Morten Skandfer, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Tormod Brenn, Anje Christina Höper :
    Associations between feeling cold at work and work performance in a cold-exposed working population from the Tromsø 6 study
    2021
  • Morten Skandfer, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Anje Christina Höper, Eirik Reierth, Tohr Nilsson :
    Cold working conditions and musculoskeletal pain.
    2021
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu :
    Times Radio with John Pienaar
    27. September 2021
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Anje Christina Höper, Tormod Brenn, Morten Skandfer :
    Working in cold environment and future musculoskeletal complaints
    2021
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Anje Christina Höper, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Tormod Brenn, Audun Stubhaug, Morten Skandfer :
    Working in cold environments and chronic pain lasting ≥ 3 months, a cross-sectional study from The Tromsø Study 6
    2019
  • Sergey Alyaev, Alla Bogdanova, Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Boris V Balakin :
    Elucidating empty nose syndrome with CFD
    2016
  • Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Grethe S Tell, Inger Haukenes :
    Kan helse-relatert livskvalitet predikere uførhet på grunn av muskel-skjelettlidelser? Helseundersøkelsen i Hordaland (HUSK)
    Universitetet i Bergen 2012

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    Research interests

    1)      Using theory about complex systems to understand epidemiological data

    2)      Socioeconomic inequalities in health

    3)      Temperature and health

    Teaching

    Erlend teaches epidemiology and statistics at bachelor and master level. He is the course leader of “ERN2001 Basic epidemiology, statistics and dietary assessment methods”.