2025

From November 20-21st, Alexis Carson and Hedvig Nordeng attended the Nordic PharmacoEpidemiological Network conference in Uppsala, Sweden. 

Last week several members of PharmaSafe represented the Department of Pharmacy at Pharmacy Days (Farmasidagene), a yearly meeting organized by the Norwegian pharmaceutical society (Norsk Farmasøytisk Selskap). 

Emmanuel Adewuyi is visiting Oslo as an iAPOGEE visiting scholar from Curtin University, Australia! Read below to hear about him and his background. 

On October 24-27, Hedvig Nordeng and Nhung Trinh traveled to Cairo, Egypt to attend the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance. 

On October 9th, PharmaSafe's Life Science Students presented their work at the Life Science Summer Student Symposium.

Hedvig Nordeng and Marleen van Gelder visited Japan to participate in the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Real-World Evidence Summit in Tokyo, as well as visit collaborators.

Erika Björkström Gram, a PhD student from the University of Southern Denmark, is visiting PharmaSafe during the month of October. Read below to hear about her background:

Anne Gerd Granås and one of her master's students, Kim Tran, visited Nesbyen, Norway last week as a part of their project on innovation of eDosett in home nursing.

Last week PharmaSafe members hosted a seminar on the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model, with international colleagues. 

From September 17th-19th, PharmaSafe hosted a course titled "Causal Inference For Time-varying Exposures In Pregnancy Outcomes Research" led by Louisa H. Smith.

PharmaSafe members attended the 3rd European Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology Conference (EPPEC) last week.

This week, Oslo served as a hub for international research collaboration, welcoming esteemed guests from the iAPOGEE consortium and beyond. The week included meetings, presentations, and an opportunity to explore the synergies between innovative research projects such as iAPOGEE and the UiO:RealArt convergence environment.

The PharmaSafe research group was proudly represented by Hedvig Nordeng and Marleen van Gelder at the European Network of Teratology Information Services (ENTIS) Annual Meeting from September 11-14, 2025, in the historic city of Thessaloniki, Greece. With a focus on medication safety in reproductive health, our researchers were actively engaged in discussions and presentations addressing key issues in our field.

Professors Hedvig Nordeng and Anne Gerd Granås from PharmaSafe attended Arendalsuka 2025, and made notable contributions, engaging in discussions that emphasized the intersectionality of health with other crucial domains such as business, climate, and technology.

On September 9, 2025, PharmaSafe research group hosted a seminar on Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health. The event featured presentations from three guests from Kyoto University, Japan, each bringing insights into their respective fields.

In August 2025, Anteneh Desalegn visited Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and attended the Annual International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) meeting in Washington, DC. 

Anne Gerd Granås recently attended the EURODURG (European Drug Utilization Conference 2025) held in Uppsala, Sweden, from July 1-4, 2025.

On June 12th, The Norwegian Women's Public Health Association (Sanitetskvinnene) hosted the event “Women’s health evening (Kvinnehelseaften)”, dedicated to discussions and topics on women's health.

This summer, our research group has produced several notable publications that underscore the hard work and international collaboration we partake in. Here, we highlight a selection of our most significant contributions:

This June, researcher Nhung Trinh visited an iAPOGEE partner at the University of Bordeaux to strengthen collaboration and attend a course.

We are proud to celebrate Alexis Carson, a dedicated PhD student in the PharmaSafe research group on publishing her first paper of her PhD. Since joining the program in Fall 2023, Alexis has been actively exploring the topic of maternal antidepressant use during pregnancy and its potential effects on child health, with a particular focus on metabolic outcomes such as childhood type 1 diabetes. 

In the academic year of 2024-2025, we had 16 local master students who completed their Master's in Pharmacy with our research group. Read more about their projects and accomplishments below:

We are excited to share that our research, co-authored by our own Hedvig Nordeng and Marleen van Gelder, has been featured in an article on forskning.no!

This summer, PharmaSafe is excited to introduce our five outstanding UiO:Life Science summer students who will be joining us to contribute to various projects in pharmacoepidemiology. Read below to hear about them!

iAPOGEE scholar Nguyen Tran Nam Tien is visiting PharmaSafe this summer! Read below to hear about his research interests and project.