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).