Bilde av Llaha, Fjorida
Bilde av Llaha, Fjorida
Stipendiat Department of Community Medicine fjorida.llaha@uit.no Tromsø

Fjorida Llaha


Job description

PhD candidate in cancer epidemiology at the Department of Community Medicine. The aims of my PhD project are to describe the longitudinal patterns of alcohol cosnumption in Norwegian women, and to investiagte the impact of their alcohol consumption on the risk of cancer and mortality. 

 

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Publications outside Cristin

Castañeda J, Gil-Lespinard M, Almanza-Aguilera E, Llaha F, Gómez JM, Bondonno N, Tjønneland A, Overvad K, Katzke V, Schulze MB, Masala G, Claudia Agnoli, Santucci de Magistris M, Tumino R, Carlotta Sacerdote, Skeie G, Brustad M, Lasheras C, Molina-Montes E, Chirlaque MD, Barricarte A, Sonestedt E, da Silva M, Johansson I, Hultdin J, May AM, Forouhi NG, Heath AK, Freisling H, Weiderpass E, Scalbert A, Zamora-Ros R. Association between classes and subclasses of polyphenol intake and 5-year body weight changes in the EPIC-PANACEA study. Obesity. 2023. doi: 10.1002/oby.23689

Llaha F, Cayssials V, Farràs M, Agudo A, Sandström M, Eriksen AK, Tjønneland A, Boutron-Ruault MC, Laouali N, Truong T, Le Cornet C, Katzke V, Schulze M, Palli D, Krogh V, Signoriello S, Tumino R, Ricceri F, Skeie G, Jensen TME, Chen SLF, Lasheras C, Rodriguez-Barranco M, Amiano P, Huerta JM, Guevara M, Almquist M, Nilson LM, Hennings J, Papier K, Heath A, Weiderpass E, Rinaldi S, Zamora-Ros R. Adherence to mediterranean diet and the risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in a European cohort: The EPIC study. Front Nutr. 2022. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.982369

Llaha F, Gil-Lespinard M, Unal P, de Villasante I, Castañeda J, Zamora-Ros R. Consumption of Sweet Beverages and Cancer Risk. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies. Nutrients. 2021. doi: 10.3390/nu13020516

Llaha F, Ribalta A, Arribas L, Bellver M, Roura E, Guillén-Rey N, Megias-Rangil I, Alegret-Basora C, Tresserra-Rimbau A, Zamora-Ros R. A Review of Web-Based Nutrition Information in Spanish for Cancer Patients and Survivors. Nutrients. 2022. doi: 10.3390/nu14071441

Llaha F, Zamora-Ros R. The Effects of Polyphenol Supplementation in Addition to Calorie Restricted Diets and/or Physical Activity on Body Composition Parameters: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials. Front Nutr. 2020. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2020.00084

Almanza-Aguilera E, Bars-Cortina D, Llaha F, Zamora-Ros R. Blood and Urinary Flavonoids. In: Patel, V.B., Preedy, V.R. (eds) Biomarkers in Nutrition . Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications. Springer, Cham. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81304-8_6-1

Poncet G, Castañeda J, Llaha F, Gil-Lespinard M, Zamora-Ros R. Total Antioxidant Capacity Measurements in Food and Beverages. Food Chemistry and Analysis. Royal Scoiety of Chemistry. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781839165337-00178

 


Research interests

Areas: cancer epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, biomarkers of alcohol intake. Methods: causal inference, longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis.                                               

Teaching

  • Teaching assistant: Epidemiology in the Master of Public Health.                                   
  • Teaching assistant: Statistics and epidemiology in medical studies.                                                             
  • Supervisor for student in the Master of Public Health. 
  • Intern examiner for thesis in the Master of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition.                                                                                             

 



CV

Education

2013 - Bachelor degree in Odontology, University of Medicine of Tirana. 

2020 - Master degree in Nutrition and Chronic Disease, University of Barcelona. 

2022 - Postgraduate diploma in Biostatistics, Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

April 2022 to April 2026 - PhD in Cancer Epidemiology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. 

Relevant training

2022 - Epidemiology Deeper Understanding, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. 

2022 - Mixed models with Jos Twisk, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. 

2023 - Causal Inference in Epidemiology, Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Italy, 

2023 - Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data, Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Italy, 

2023 - Teaching in higher education, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

November 2024 to March 2025 - Peerspectives. A peer review training program by The Charité in collaboration with The BMJ editor/reviewer-mentors. 

Other skills

Languages: Albanian (native), English, Spanish (advanced), Italian, Catalan (intermediate), Norwegian (B1 level). 

Computer skills: Stata, R, SPSS. 

Prizes, Honours

2020 - Award for Honours Degree of the MSc thesis from the University of Barcelona.