Newsletter EPINOR january 2016

1. National research school in population based epidemiology
Deadline funding applications spring 2016: 15.FEBRUARY!!
Please notice that the deadline for funding applications this spring is coming
up very soon! Next opportunity for you to apply is 15. September 2016.
You can apply for funds to go to both national and international courses
and seminars. For more funding guidelines please see our website.
This is a link to the application form. Questions? Contact Bente
Newsletter: January 2016
Photo: Tommy Hansen
Recommended activities
Regression Models as a Tool in Medical Research (2016)
Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for Can­cer Research — Annual Meet­ing 2016
Good quality courses, seminars recommended by EPINOR
Job opportunities
PostDoc Position -Harvard University · Center for the Environment
PostDoc Position -Karolinska Institutet · Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty Position - Biostatistics (Temple University)
15FEBRUARY
Deadline:
EPINOR Summer School 2016
This year’s summer school takes place at Refsnes Gods outside of Oslo
6. June – 10. June. The topic of the course is Causal Inference and the
lecturers will be Professor Paolo Vineis from Imperial College London
and Professor Stijn Vanstelaandt from Ghent University.
• Course in Causal Inference
• Poster Competition
• TOP 5 student posters present their project
• “The Philosophy of Epidemiology – Theory and Practice”
• Social activities
• For more information, see program
6. June – 10. June
Local EPINOR meeting at your campus
University of Oslo February with a short lecture on the topic “Propensity Score”.
Contactperson: Line Løw
University of Bergen 28. January from 13.15
(Elisabeth Ljunggrensrom, Kalfarveien 31)
NTNU 16. February from 11.00 to 13.00
UiT – Arctic University of Norway 25. February from 12.00 to 12.45 in room 11.202. Professor Elisabete
Weiderpass, latest observations in the field of epidemiology
The Uni­ver­sity of Stavanger Will send more information about time
and place within a few weeks. Contactperson: Ingrid Tjoflåt
STAMI Will send more information about time and place within a few weeks.