MH U7.126AU10 Monday Thuesday Wednesday

09.15 – 10.00 How to submit a successful paper (for publication)

Conducting epidemiological studies - logistical, ethical and design issues

Student seminar on cardiovascular issues and changes in resting heart rate in The Tromsø Study

10.15 – 11.00 Global overview of non- communicable diseases

Population disease rates: When are they determined?

11.15 – 12.00 Developmental and life course origins of NCDs

Premature mortality in Russia: a challenge to epidemiology and public health

“The widespread decline in cardiovascular mortality: a poorly understood triumph”

Joint lunch

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

National research school in population based epidemiology

Stories and news from our EPINOR-studentsEirin Haug: Since I use Stata daily and have to han dle large amounts of data con duct ing elab o rate sta tis ti cal analy ses I thought it would be use ful to attend a course to learn about more sophis ti cated and effec tive ways of using Stata.

Melanie Rae Simpson participated in “Forsker Grand Prix - Finals”! Here is an interview about her research (in Norwegian)

Sweta Tiwari recently published her first paper. Togetherwith her supervisor she also made a video abstract of the paper: Association between diastolic dysfunction and future atrial fibrillation in the Tromsø Study from 1994 to 2010.Is this the future of publishing?

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Nobel Prize of MedicineScientific Leader Elisabete Weiderpass challenged us to nominate epidemiologists to the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine. If you have a suggestion please send it to Bente and Elisabete will consider to nominate. It is time for an epidemiologist to win the prize. It has never happend before!

Job opportunitiesDid you know that we keep you updated on relevant job opportunities? We have gath ered some career oppor tu ni ties within the field of pop u la tion based epi demi ol ogy. If you have a tip please share it with us!

2 Postdoctoral Scientists

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Assistant / Associate Research Professor - Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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To Explain or to predictAt the annual meeting 24.September Dr. Kathrine Frey Frøslie gave a very comprehensive lecture called -To explain or to predict. We hope you found the meeting useful and hope to see all of you next year in September in Bergen!

In November all EPINOR students will receive a survey from EPINOR. We hope that you will spare a few minutes to answer! It will be very much appreciated!

Newsletter: October 2015

Hi friends!Professor David Leon, from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, will visit Tromsø and give lectures, including the same talk as he recently did at the NordicEPI meeting in Oslo; “The widespread decline in cardiovascular mortality: a poorly understood triumph”. He is an very good lecturer so please use this oppurtunity 23 –25th of November.

For those of you who want to take the trip to Tromsø to attend: EPINOR will cover your traveling expences, but not accomodation. Please send us a funding application.