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
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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”.
