The Department of Public Health and General Practice is involved in education and research within general practice, community medicine with social medisine, epidemiology and medical statistics, women's health, medical conduct and medical history.
The research activity is organised in three research groups:
The Epidemiology Research Group
The Community Medicine Research Group
The Primary- and Social Medicine Research Group
The institute is a part of the Red Cross building by St. Olavs Hospital, and will move to the new Øya Nursing Home in january 2008.
The Institute aims to:
participate internationally in research
offer studies on an advanced level
Research
The main areas of research are:
Epidemiology
Community medicine
General practice
Women's health
The institute cooperates extensively with the Nord Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT), which is the main supplier of research data for the research groups.
The institute aims to be a national senter and strategic resource for studies in epidemiology.
