Slides from Winter school 2021 and The Future of Epidemiology
Please find the slides from the Cancer Epidemiology Winter School 2021 and the Future of Epidemiology through this link.
Winter School in Cancer Epidemiology and seminar The Future of Epidemiology
We are looking forward to seeing you in Tromsø!
Newsletter June
Summer is finally here! But before signing out of all channels, don’t miss out on EPINOR’s latest newsletter.
April Newsletter
Hello dear EPINOR Friend! We are hoping that the Fall semester will grant us actual physical meetings with you.
27th April - EPINOR 2nd Online Conference
EPINOR will host a second national online conference for EPINOR members. Line Vold from the National Institute of Public Health will hold an opening speech – and senior researchers are assigned to comment in the parallel topic sessions.
Newsletter February 2021
Happy New Year! EPINOR has many events in 2021 - save the dates! See the list of the (free) events and we hope to see you all (live) soon.
December Newsletter from EPINOR
The year of 2020 is coming to an end, and it has been an unusual year in many ways. This was supposed to be the last year of EPINOR, but our funding has been prolonged for one more year. This means that there will be plenty of things happening in 2021!
Annual Meeting November 18th 2020 - Online
EPINOR welcomes you to this year’s annual meeting titled «Infectious disease epidemiology: Principles and Methods». Please see program and registration below
Newsletter June 2020
We hope you are safe and well! Unfortunately, most of the national activities this year have been postponed to 2021. This means that EPINOR will have activities in 2021. Meanwhile we encourage all EPINOR members to take part in your local EPINOR group and support eachothers work, and everyones well being.
My story: Sairah Lai Fa Chen
Being an active EPINOR member from the University of Tromsø made it possible for me to attend a one-week long course on new statistical methods for causal inference (MF9570) at the University of Oslo in November 2019. It was a fantastic, hefty teaching of counterfactuals and mediation analysis.
My story: Marianne Lønnebotn
This October I got the opportunity to go to Verona, Italy to work with collaborators at the University of Verona.
EPINOR Summer School is canceled
We regret to inform you that we have to cancel this year’s summer school because of the situation with the Corona virus. We will try organize the same summer school later. We will inform you about the dates as soon as possible.
My story: Eline Skirnisdottir Vik
I am a midwife, and a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen in collaboration with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. My thesis include three epidemiological studies, and the topic for my thesis is migration and adverse neonatal outcomes.
Newsletter February 2020
Happy new year! EPINOR distribute grants three times in 2020, remember to read the guidelines carefully. Make sure you hold the following 2020-dates:8th - 11th June - the EPINOR Summer School in beautiful Solstrand. 30th - 4th December 2020 EPINOR will invite all members to an exclusive course and workshop in Tromsø.
My story: Marie Hella Lindberg
I was fortunate enough to attend a short course in policy evaluation methods organised by the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (Cemmap) at the University College of London from the 14th to the 17th of January 2020. This was all thanks to a grant from Epinor.
Newsletter December 2019
“Statistical analysis with missing data using multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting”
On June 17 – June 16, 2019, I had the opportunity to visit London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and attend the Short Course “Statistical analysis with missing data using multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting”. This course was a nice birthday present from EPINOR.
One week’s course of the 32nd Residential 3-week Summer Course in Epidemiology
On July 1 – June 5, 2019, I was lucky to attend the third course week of the 32nd Residential 3-week Summer Course in Epidemiology in Centro Studi, Tuscany, Italy. My two select topics were ‘Causal methods in epidemiology: Mendelian randomization and triangulation’ and ‘Advanced topics in epidemiology’. Thank for EPINOR supporting me to attend the courses.
PSY-8006: Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling at NTNU, Trondheim.
From Monday 3rd to Friday 7th June I participated in the PhD-level course ‘Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling’ at NTNU, Trondheim, supported by a grant from EPINOR.
Good day mates!
I am on a joint PhD program between Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU and the Australian National University, ANU. As a mandatory part of the program, I spent close to 8 months in Canberra, from July 2018 – February 2019.
My research stay in North Carolina, USA
In the summer of 2018 my family and I moved to North Carolina, USA for me to have a research stay at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Durham, North Carolina for the fall 2018.
Attending course at UiO
From 3rd to 7th of December 2018, I attended the course «Introduction to statistics and bioinformatics for the analysis of large-scale biological data (MF9155) » at the University of Oslo (UiO).
Annual Meeting 2019 - Oslo
EPINOR is delighted to welcome our members to the Annual Meeting 12. November 2019 in Oslo! As usual the NOFE Conference is back to back with our course and will start the next day, 13. - 14.November. You have to register through this page if you want to attend the Annual Meeting! EPINOR will reimburse your travel expenses and the seminar is free for our members.
Research stay at the University of York, Centre for Health Economics
I had the opportunity to visit the renowned Center for Health Economics (CHE) at the University ofYork, UK, from the 1st of January to the 30th of June, 2018. CHE is for more than three decades still regarded the best place in Europe for health economics research.
Newsletter January 2019
Happy New Year! This time we present some of our students stories about their travels funded by EPINOR. Next deadline for applying is 15th February! If you are an alumni, please be sure to take a look at the Job Opportunities! Happy reading.
EPINOR Summer School 2019 - save the date!
The EPINOR Summer School 2019 will be arranged by NTNU at Teveltunet Fjellstue in Meråker from 3rd to 6th June (Monday to Thursday). The topic for this year’s summer school is Survival Analyses, and the course lecturer will be Dr David Carslake, University of Bristol, UK.
Annual Meeting 2018
It is time for the sixth EPINOR Annual Meeting. This time in Trondheim 12 - 13 November 2018 Topic of the year: What are the fundamentals of Stata for epidemiologic research?
Newsletter August
Dear EPINOR Friend, here comes the latest news from us. Be sure to read the article of current interest - Successful PhD outcome, by our International Advisor Professor Henrik Toft Sørensen. The newsletter starts with an introductory interview of Toft Sørensen.
BiostatEpi’s summer school on modern methods in biostatistics and epidemiology, in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso, Italy
On June 10 – June 16, 2018, I was lucky to attend the second course week of the annual summer school hosted by BiostatEpi, at a castle in northern Italy. My two select classes were ‘Longitudinal Data Analysis’ and ‘Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data’. The stay was made possible through funding by EPINOR.
My story from attending summer institute at Columbia University
From 11th-15th of June I attended the course “Introduction to multi-level modeling” at Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University (EPIC). The summer institute provides courses on a wide range of epidemiological topics for those interested in public health.
Research Stay at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia
By Carl Baravelli (UiB/ Haukeland University Hospital)
Newsletter April
Dear EPINOR Friend, here comes the latest news from us. We start with the pictures from Bergen (above) and Oslo semester start meetings. Be inspired by the recent stories from our members who have attended courses or had a research stay abroad. Happy reading!
The Swiss Epidemiology Winter School in Wengen
On January 15th – 17 th, 2018, I attended the Swiss Epidemiology Winter School in Wengen, Switzerland. I took the course ‘Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Using Multiple Imputation and Inverse Probability Weighting’ taught by professors from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University of Bern.
Research stay at Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
This year from 5th to 28th of January I had an opportunity to visit Australia and took part in collaborative research between Arctic University of Norway and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (Melbourne). EPINOR funded this relevant for me scientific activity. My Ph.D research focused on an understanding of the underlying aetiology of high cardiovascular mortality in Russia and its comparison with Norway.
Newsletter March
Dear EPINOR Friend, here comes the latest news from us. We start with the pictures from Bergen (above) and Oslo semester start meetings. Be inspired by the recent stories from our members who have attended courses or had a research stay abroad. Happy reading!
Newsletter January
Happy New Year Folks! It is time for the first newsletter from EPINOR in 2018. This time we have som interesting job oportunities, some recommended events and one new course in register epidemiology.
Summer School 2018 - registration open!
the 5th EPINOR Summer School has opened for registration.
Newsletter December
Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for December. This time we can report from the EPINOR Annual Meeting, two local student meetings and more. We hope you will enjoy it! Keep us and your fellow reserachers up to date by sending an email to epinor@uit.no!
Junior Supervisor Seminar 27th November Tromsø
In November EPINOR held a pilot junior supervisor seminar in collaboration with BioCat (national research school in biocatalysis). The attandants at the seminar were senior Phd-students (with academic ambitions), post docs and assistant professors. In total we were 20 attandants from EPINOR, BioCat and the Dept of Chemistry (UiT).
PhD course in register epidemiology and data management with a global health profile
The course “HEL-8032” is scheduled for April 24-27 2018. 3 ECTS at completion. The application deadline is February 1. 2018 for external applicants. We have room for 25 students, first come, first served.
My Story: Workshop on Causal Inference in Health Registry Research
Jeg deltok på Workshop on Causal Inference in Health Registry Research på UiO. Denne workshopen var spredt ut over to halve dager, slik at man kunne reise til Oslo første kursdag, og hjem igjen andre kursdag.
Newsletter November
Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for November. This time we can report from the EPINOR Annual Meeting, two local student meetings and more. We hope you will enjoy it!
My Story: Introduction to Epidemiology in Rome
- An Italian story from a Norwegian ginger In October I attended the course “Introduction to Epidemiology”. The course was held at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome and covered important epidemiologic topics with the aim to provide participants with insight into the principles and techniques used to produce and interpret epidemiologic data. The course was held by Kenneth J. Rothman and Vera Ehrenstein.
My Story: Project 69
In October 2017, a group of six Phd students set out with the ambitious goal of writing a publishable paper in 9 days. The group consisted of both experienced and novel students from various research-groups. We consider this pilot project to be a success, both because we achieved what we set out to do, and due to the learning experience of planning, delegating tasks, applying for money and working as a team.
Newsletter October
Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for October. We hope you will enjoy it! Please remember to send us useful tips if you have something to share with your fellow researches. Keep us up to date and send an email to epinor@uit.no!
My Story: The BioStatEpi Summer School
The BioStatEpi Summer School is situated beautifully at Castel Brando, a castle gazing over the small village Cison di Valmarino, an hour north of Venice. Transfer to/from the airport is organized by the school.
My Story: Statistical Practice in Epidemiology using R
June 2017 I attended the course “Statistical practice in Epidemiology using R”. The course was held in Tartu, Estonia, which is roughly a 2.5 hour bus ride from Tallinn airport. Tartu is a beautiful and almost mediaeval town and sort of the Estonian equivalent to Oxford. Moreover, Estonia will most likely become one of the most interesting countries in the world for epidemiology as they have excellent patient registries and have genotyped a high share of the population.
Newsletter September 2017
Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for June. We hope you will enjoy it! Please remember to send us useful tips if you have something to share with your fellow researches. Keep us up to date and send an email to epinor@uit.no!
Semesterstart Meeting in Oslo
We met for the autumn semester start meeting Wednesday 30/8. This is a summary from the Oslo meeting.
Nor Doc Nordic PhD Summit
August 21.-22. I attended the newly established NorDoc Conference at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, as an adminsitrative spy on behalf of EPINOR. It is possible that EPINOR will join the NorDoc collaboration in the future.
Newsletter June 2017
Hi! Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for June. We hope you will enjoy it! Please remember to send us useful tips if you have something to share with your fellow researches. Keep us up to date and send an email to epinor@uit.no!
Newsletter May/June
Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for May and early June. We hope you will enjoy it! Please remember to send us useful tips if you have something to share with your fellow researches. Keep us up to date and send an email to epinor@uit.no!
Epidemiological methods, beyond the basics
In the beginning of March 2017, I attended the one-week course “Epidemiological methods, beyond the basics” at University of Oslo. The course is recommended by EPINOR. It was an informative and challenging experience with engaging and experienced lecturers within different topics.
23rd Essentials Seminar of the European Nutrition Leadership Platform
I was granted money from EPINOR to participate in the ENLP seminar 2017 a bit outside Luxemburg city. I can highly recommend this 8 days seminar, the teaching is of a very high level and the things you learn at this seminar you will be able to use afterwards both professionally and private.
Newsletter March
Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for March. We hope you will enjoy it! Please remember to send us useful tips if you have something to share with your fellow researches. Keep us up to date and send an email to epinor@uit.no!
Case Study: Defending your Thesis
Your doctoral defense is like a freight train: There’s no stopping it, and the train seems to speed up the closer you get to the defense. Which makes it all the more important to prepare well for when it’s your turn!
Newsletter February
Dear students, supervisors and EPINOR friends. Here is the EPINOR newsletter for February.
Course on Information Design and Data Visualization
Bigger and more complex data-sets have led to an increased interest in the field of data visualization, or graphic representation of data. To accurately present data visually is a powerful way to communicate to a more general audience.
Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis
In September 2016, I attended the two-weeks „Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis“ at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The school is a worldwide leading institution and involved some of their best researchers and experts for the teaching.
Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
I recently attended the annual Summer school arranged by BiostatEpi – Association for information and training in biostatistics and epidemiology, including professors and researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, and other European academic and public institutions.
Machine Learning Methods in Visualization for Big Data tutorial
This June I attended the Machine Learning Methods in Visualization for Big Data tutorial at the EuroVIS conference in Groningen, Netherlands.
Research stay at University of Verona
Recently EPINOR offered me the amazing opportunity for a research stay at the University of Verona. The goal of this stay was to intensify an existing collaboration and transfer practical know-how to Bergen.
STATA course in handling missing data
Every year Metrika organizes a Stata Summer School in Stockholm, this year they also organized a Winter School in February. The Winter school lasted one week, I participated in a two day course in how to handle missing data. The instructor was Paul Allison, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Advanced Stata Course at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Since I use Stata daily and have to handle large amounts of data conducting elaborate statistical analyses I thought it would be useful to attend a course to learn about more sophisticated and effective ways of using Stata.
28th Residential Summer Course – European Educational Programme in Epidemiology
From my own point of view, this residential course was a wonderful and useful learning experience that provided me with a once in a life-time opportunity of combining education, social, and cultural life in Florence.
Linear and logistic regression analysis of epidemiologic data
In June 2015 Marte Petersen-Øverleir had the opportunity to attend the course “Linear and logistic regression analysis of epidemiologic data” in Rome, Italy. The course was organised by the Institute of Public Health at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Advanced Stata – Bristol University
I can recommend this short course to anyone who uses Stata statistical software package for their analyses. The aim of the course is to make the students more efficient users of Stata. The course is well organised, with high quality tutoring and computer exercises to practice after each session.
Theoretical frameworks in studies on sickness absence and disability pensions
In October 2015, I went to a seminar on theoretical frameworks in studies on sickness absence and disability pensions in Milan, together with one of my colleagues.
Structural equation modelling courses in Oslo
It had been some years since I used the structural equation modelling (SEM) framework in Mplus to analyse my data set, so I decided to take some courses in Oslo and refresh my self.
About time to advance in Stata?
Silje L. Kaspersen, PhD candidate at NTNU, and her supervisor, Professor Johan Håkon Bjørngaard, were granted funding from EPINOR to participate at a course in advanced Stata at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine. The course lasted for three days (18 hours), consisting of tutorials and practical sessions.
Research stay at the Danish Statens Serum Insitut
Collaboration is a vital part of good research activity. As researchers, we are obliged to identity opportunities for collaboration both within Norway and between countries. This is also an important part of network building. I was given a great opportunity to have a two week research stay at the Danish Statens Serum Insitut based on funding from EPINOR.
Ten Day International Teaching Seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention
Late spring, from 25th of May to 5th of June 2014, I had an opportunity (many thanks to EPINOR!) to take part in the 46th Ten Day International Teaching Seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention held in Coorg, India. This seminar is organized by International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention (ISCEP) and taking place annually in different countries.
Research stay at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
I was granted money from EPINOR to stay three months at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in North Carolina. The aim of the stay was to work on the first study in my PhD on maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in offspring.
Survival analysis for clinicians
I took a course in “Survival analysis for clinicians” in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which was part of the Erasmus Winter Programme in 2015. The majority of the around 30 students taking the course were PhD and master students from Holland, but there were also a couple of Germans, plus two from Norway.
Visiting academic at the University of Auckland in New Zealand
I recently was a visiting academic at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. My research stay lasted for one month, and EPINOR helped me with the funding.
Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis
The first two weeks of September I attended the Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, funded by EPINOR. I have previously taken part in some courses on statistical methods, but this was just something else.
Stat-XP (Statistical approaches to characterize the exposome from “-omics” platforms)
We were granted money from EPINOR to participate in the Stat-XP (Statistical approaches tocharacterize the exposome from “-omics” platforms) in London 8–12, December 2014. With nobackground in biology, statistics or epidemiology we had an interesting few days in London!
Research stay at: “Melbourne School of Population and Global Health”
Recently EPINOR offered me the amazing opportunity for a research stay at the “Melbourne School of Population and Global Health”. The goal of this stay was to merge data of three world-‐class databases, start analyses and draft a paper of a big dataset, using advanced statistical approaches.
Modern methods for (causal) modeling in health and medical science: Uses, cautions, limits
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Statistics Sander Greenland at the University of California, Los Angeles gave a presentation in March at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The title of his presentation was “Modern methods for (causal) modeling in health and medical science: Uses, cautions, limits “.
The 27th Residential Summer Course in Epidemiology in Florence
The course covered different topics in epidemiology included but not limited to methods and principles of epidemiology such as measurement, confounding, rates, risk and sampling surveys.
The International Congress of behavioral medicine.
We were granted money from EPINOR to partake at the 13th International Congress of behavioral medicine. The conference was held in Groningen (or, as the locals say; ckhckkhckhkhhråningen), the Netherlands.
Residential Summer Course in Epidemiology, Florence
Researchers are truly privileged. I recently experienced this when spending three weeks in beautiful Tuscany (right outside the city of Florence) taking an intensive summer course in epidemiology and biostatistics. There were lecturers from multiple British, Danish, Deutch, Spanish and Italian universities.
Residential summer course in epidemiology
I was granted funding from EPINOR to participate in the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology residential summer course in epidemiology which takes place every year in Florence, Italy.
The International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem
In June 2014 I attended The 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem in Nara, Japan. The conference was organized by ICBEN (International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise). I travelled together with my supervisor Gunn Marit Aasvang and another PhD student at my department, Kjell Vegard Weyde.
Epidemiologic Principles and Methods
In May 2014 I had a pleasure to participate in the Rothman’s course “Epidemiologic Principles and Methods”. When I saw the EPINOR announcement of the course on Facebook in March I applied for it immediately. Although I had already taken several epidemiology courses by that time, I couldn’t resist taking this one.
EPINOR Annual Meeting 2016
This year’s annual meeting is in Bergen on September 28th, the day after the annual NOFE Conference, which is arranged in Bergen September 26th and 27th. If you also attend the NOFE conference, you must register to that conference separately.
Summer School on modern methods in biostatistics and epidemiology, Italy
This Summer School is organized by an international faculty, which includes professors and researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Karolinska Insitutet in Stockholm, and other European academic and public institutions. The venue is the picturesque Castello Brandolini Colomban , located in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso in Italy.
Causal inference in epidemiology – Recent methodological developments
I can recommend this course to everyone who is doing research on observational data as it can provide you with many practical tools for methods on how to make causal inference in epidemiology.