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Postdoktor Department of Community Medicine sairah.chen@uit.no +4777644786 You can find me here

Sairah Lai Fa Chen

Job description

Sairah L. F. Chen is currently a postdoctoral research fellow within the Healthy Choices project at the Department of Community Medicine (ISM). As a part of Healthy Choices and based in the Systems Epidemiology research group, Sairah's research is focused on health inequalities and the social gradient. In their PhD project, they were interested in the combined impact of healthy lifestyle behaviours and changes in these behaviours on cancer incidence and survival. Sairah has been involved in the planning, data collection, and authorship of several other research projects, including the Norwegian national seroprevalence study of SARS-CoV-2 and a randomised controlled trial here at UiT, which studied the effect of coffee intake on cholesterol levels. Sairah has also been heavily involved in teaching and supervision within the subjects of epidemiology and statistics in the UiT medical programme, Master of Public Health, and nutrition (bachelor and master). 

 

  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Edoardo Botteri, Pietro Ferrari, Tonje Braaten, Torkjel M Sandanger et al.:
    Overall lifestyle changes in adulthood are associated with cancer incidence in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC) - a prospective cohort study
    BMC Public Health 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Celina Janene Cathro, Tormod Brenn, Sairah Lai Fa Chen :
    Education Level and Self-Reported Cardiovascular Disease in Norway—The Tromsø Study, 1994–2016
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erik Eik Anda, Tonje Bjørndal Braaten, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Marko Lukic et al.:
    Seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in the adult population during the pre-vaccination period, Norway, winter 2020/21
    Eurosurveillance 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Fjorida Llaha, Valerie Cayssials, Marta Farràs, Antonio Agudo, Maria Sandström, Anne Kirstine Eriksen et al.:
    Adherence to mediterranean diet and the risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in a European cohort: The EPIC study
    Frontiers in Nutrition 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Edoardo Botteri, Giulia Peveri, Paula Berstad, Vincenzo Bagnardi, Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Torkjel M Sandanger et al.:
    Changes in Lifestyle and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition
    American Journal of Gastroenterology 2022 DOI
  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Tonje Bjørndal Braaten, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Pietro Ferrari, Torkjel M Sandanger, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Combined Lifestyle Behaviors and the Incidence of Common Cancer Types in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC)
    Clinical Epidemiology 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sabine Naudin, Marta Solans Margalef, Fatemeh Saberi Hosnijeh, Alexandra Nieters, Cecilie Kyrø, Anne Tjønneland et al.:
    Healthy lifestyle and the risk of lymphoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study
    International Journal of Cancer 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Cecilie Dahl, Haakon E Meyer, Ahmed Ali Madar :
    Estimation of Salt Intake Assessed by 24-Hour Urinary Sodium Excretion among Somali Adults in Oslo, Norway
    Nutrients 2018 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen :
    Radio NRK P1 morgensending - intervju om livstil og kreft på verdens kreftdag.
    04. February 2022
  • Marko Lukic, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Guri Skeie, Ann Iren Solli, Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Patrik Hansson et al.:
    Slik introduserer vi forskning til studentene våre!
    31. March 2022 DATA
  • Ann Iren Solli, Marko Lukic, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Guri Skeie, Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Patrik Hansson et al.:
    Bioingeniørstudenter bidrar i forskningsprosjekt om kaffe og kolesterol
    08. January 2022 DATA
  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Tonje Braaten, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Pietro Ferrari, Torkjel M Sandanger, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Combined lifestyle behaviours and the incidence of common cancers in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC)
    2021
  • Ørjan Roland Hansen, Torkjel M Sandanger, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Tonje Braaten, Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Erik Eik Anda :
    Lite skjult smitte
    25. March 2021 DATA
  • Ellen Kathrine Bludd, Torkjel M Sandanger, Erik Eik Anda, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Tonje Braaten, Sairah Lai Fa Chen :
    Smittesporerne har vært flinke!
    25. March 2021 DATA

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    Research interests

    1. Investigating the effects of changes in overall lifestyle behaviours on cancer incidence/mortality in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC)
    2. Seroprevalence of Covid-19 in Norway (Korona og immunitet i Norge-project)
    3. Randomised trial to assess the effect of espresso coffee intake on cholesterol levels (local project performed with the UiT community) 

    Teaching

    • Master of Public Health
    • Statistics and epidemiology in Medicine Programme 
    • Bachelor and Master in Clinical Nutrition
    • Supervisor for students in Master of Public Health and Medicine Programme 
    • Internal examinor - Master of Public Health and Master in Clinical Nutrition
    Researcher profile in Cristin
    ResearchGate
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5774-7058

    Member of research group

    Systemepidemiologi   Norsk innhold Systems Epidemiology   English content

    Member of project

    Korona og immunitet i Norge    Norsk innhold The covid-19 virus and immunity in Norway    English content