Bjarne Koster Jacobsen
Stillingsbeskrivelse
Undervisning og forskning innen epidemiologi
Vitenskapelige arbeidsområder
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Forskningsinteresser
Forskningen gjennom de siste 40 årene har vært konsentrert omkring de kroniske sykdommers epidemiologi, særlig hjerte-karsykdommer og kreft. Dette har resultert i om lag 200 publikasjoner i PubMed. I en lang periode hadde han vitenskapelig samarbeid med Loma Linda University, California, USA.
Se vedlegg for en oppdatert oversikt over vitenskapelig aktivitet de siste 25 årene.
Undervisning
Bjarne K. Jacobsen har undervist epidemiologi på alle nivåer (medisin grunnfag, masterkurs, PhD-kurs), mest ved Universitetet i Tromsø. Han har også veiledet masterstudenter og PhD-studenter. Han har vært hovedveileder for 6 PhD-studenter og biveileder for 8 andre som har forsvart sin dr.grad. I tillegg har han tatt aktivt del i velledningen av flere andre PhD-studenter.
PhD veiledning:
Siri Forsmo: (1997) Aspects and consequences of opportunistic screening for cervical cancer: Results based on data from three Norwegian counties (en av to veiledere)
Tove Riise (2001) Rheumatoid arthritis in Northern Norway: a clinical and epidemiological survey (en av to veiledere)
Kulbir Singh (2005) Abdominal aortic aneurysms: diagnosis and epidemiology : the Tromsø Study (hovedveileder)
Lone Jørgensen (2001) Fragile bones in patients with stroke? Bone mineral density in acute stroke patients and changes during one year of follow up (hovedveileder)
Signe Forsdahl (2010) Abdominal aortic aneurysms: Risk factors and cardiovascular consequences. The Tromsø Study. (hovedveileder)
Jan-Magnus Kvamme (2011) Body mass index and risk of malnutrition in community-living elderly men and women: relationships with morbidity, mortality and health- related quality of life. The Tromsø and HUNT studies (hovedveileder)
Sweta Tiwari (2018) Atrial Fibrillation: A prospective population study of risk factors and complications. The Tromsø Study (biveileder)
Ina Heiberg (2019) Mortality, substance use disorder and cardiovascular health care in persons with severe mental illness (biveileder)
Rune Hermansen (2020) Physical activity, cardiovascular risk factors, and mortality in ethnic groups in the Arctic region of Norway. Results from two population-based studies: The Finnmark 3 study 1987-1988 and SAMINOR 1 2003-2004 biveileder)
Nils Abel Aars (2021) Physical Activity and Body Composition in Norwegian Adolescents. Results from The Tromsø Study: Fit Futures (biveileder)
Susanna Ragnhild Andersdatter Siri (2021) Cardiovascular risk factors and incidence of acute myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke in Sami and non-Sami populations — The SAMINOR Study (biveileder)
Marie Wasmuth Lundblad (2021) The obesity epidemic; population levels of visceral adipose tissue and trends in body composition. Insights from The Tromsø Study (biveileder)
Frank Olsen (2022) Geographic and socioeconomic variation in the utilisation of specialist health care services in Norway – Three selected health care services (biveileder)
Torill M. Enget Jensen (2024) Healthy Nordic Diet and mortality (biveileder)
Medlem i forskningsgruppe
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Bjarne K. Jacobsen
Born 1956,
Professor in community medicine (epidemiology). Full time position
Senior researcher. Part time (20 %) position
Education and degrees
1988: PhD (epidemiology) University of Tromsø
Thesis: “The use of self-administered questionnaires about food habits. Relationships
with risk factors for coronary heart disease and associations between coffee drinking
and mortality and cancer incidence”.
1981: MSc (nutrition) University of Oslo
1979: Nutritionist, University of Oslo
Research positions held
1992 to present: Professor in community medicine (epidemiology) (full time), Department of Community Medicine (ISM), University of Tromsø (during 1995-1996 Head of Department)
2009 to present: Senior researcher (part time), Center of Clinical Documentation and Evaluation, Regional Health Authority of Northern Norway, Tromsø
1996-97, 2011-12 & 2016-17 : Visiting professor, Loma Linda University, California, USA.
1989-91 : Senior researcher, ISM, University of Tromsø
1988 : Associate professor, ISM, University of Tromsø
1985-87 : Research fellow, ISM, University of Tromsø
1984 : Research assistant, ISM, University of Tromsø
1981-83 : Research assistant, University of Bergen
Vedlegg:
- Research interests_2023 (pdf)