Research centre

Last updated on: 05/08/2020

1. Contact details{View data sources/studies associated with this centre}

Name of organisation

1) Department/Research groupDepartment of Ageing and Chronic Diseases, Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Group,

2) Organisation/affiliationNorwegian Institute of Public Health

Short Name in the inventoryNIPH

Website/Homepagewww.fhi.no

Administrative Contact

Title Dr

Last name Furu

First name Kari

Address line 1P.O.Box 222 Skøyen

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Address line 3

CityOSLO

PostcodeNO-0213

CountryNorway

Phone number (incl. country code)4721078185

Alternative phone number4795221824

Fax number (incl. country code)

Email address kari.furu@fhi.no

Scientific Contact

Title Dr

Last name Furu

First name Kari

Address line 1P.O.Box 222 Skøyen

Address line 2

Address line 3

CityOSLO

PostcodeNO-0213

CountryNorway

Phone number (incl. country code)4721078185

Alternative phone number4795221824

Fax number (incl. country code)

Email address kari.furu@fhi.no

Alternative Scientific Contact

Title Dr

Last name Karlstad

First name Øystein

Address line 1P.O.Box 222 Skøyen

Address line 2

Address line 3

CityOSLO

PostcodeNO-0213

CountryNorway

Phone number (incl. country code)

Alternative phone number

Fax number (incl. country code)

Email address oystein.karlstad@fhi.no

2. Description

The Research Unit at the Dept Chronic Diseases and Ageing, at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) is the largest pharmacoepi research entity in Norway with 7 fulltime research scientists. We have long experience in using Norwegian and Nordic high-quality population-based health registers in our research. NIPH run the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD), a nationwide prescription database and also has other nationwide health registries in-house, i.e. the Norwegian Medical Birth Registry, Cause of death registry and large population-based health surveys.