Celebrating Our Master’s Students of 2025!

We are happy to celebrate the successful completion of master’s projects by our dedicated students in June! Their hard work and research contribute significantly to the field of social pharmacy and pharmacoepidemiology. Below is a summary of their projects:

1. Jelena Popov - Psychotropic treatment history and correlates of self-harm ideation around pregnancy and childbirth among women with pre-existing mental illness.

   • Main Supervisor: Nhung Trinh

2. Noura Fanadi - Understanding women’s perceptions and attitudes towards respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in pregnancy.

   • Main Supervisors: Hedvig Nordeng, Angela Lupattelli

3. Zaklina Siminovic - Understanding women and healthcare personnel perceptions and attitudes towards respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in pregnancy: a mixed-method study.

   • Main Supervisors: Hedvig Nordeng, Angela Lupattelli

4. Ivana Antic - Psychiatric safety of semaglutide and liraglutide in young adults and adolescents: a pharmacovigilance disproportionality analysis.

   • Main Supervisors: Angela Lupattelli, Nhung Trinh

5. Alesia Finstad & Natasa Milojevic - Patients’ perspectives on polypharmacy in children with mental illnesses.

   • Main Supervisor: Nhung Trinh, Co-supervisor: Angela Lupattelli

6. Sara Bazaz - Legemiddelbruk blant morsmelkdonorer på OUS - en klinisk kartleggingsstudie.

   • Main Supervisor: Hedvig Nordeng

7. Nacima Hashi Adan & Jelena Topalovic - ADHD i svangerskap og ammeperiode.

   • Main Supervisor: Hedvig Nordeng

8. Yara Raffea - Klimahelse - kan legemiddelbruk brukes som indikator I klimaanalyser.

   • Main Supervisor: Hedvig Nordeng

9. Salwa Abdelaziz Murad & Marija Maljkovic - Ingen forskning uten meg! Pasientinvolvering i farmasøytisk forskning - hvordan og hvorfor?

   • Main Supervisor: Hedvig Nordeng

10. Kristina Knisenko & Aleksandar Julija Kokorina - Hva er kulturen for legemiddelbruken I utvalgte idretter? - kvantitativ studie.

    • Main Supervisor: Ingunn Björnsdottir

11. Maja Kokorina - Utvikling av en ny astmamedisin-tjeneste, hvor vekten blir på å kommunisere om viktigheten av forebyggende.
    • Main Supervisor: Ingunn Björnsdottir
12. Thien-Kim Trinh - Somatic and psychiatric comorbidity and complex medication use patterns among pregnant subjects with pre-existing mental illness.
    • Main Supervisors: Angela Lupattelli, Nhung Trinh

We additionally had four external master students who worked on their thesis projects with us:

1. Beatrice Cosentino (University of Milano-Bicocca) - Natural history of difficult-to-treat depression in adolescents from the first antidepressant trial (registry data in Norway).

   • Main Supervisor: Angela Lupattelli (Finished January 2025)

2. Petrică Ioan Olteanu (University of Oslo, Department of Health Economics and Management) - Impact of socioeconomic and regional factors on gestational diabetes prevalence in Norway, 2018 – 2023: A nationwide linked registry study.

   • Main Supervisors: Hedvig Nordeng, Saeed Hayati (Finished Spring 2025)

3. Milinkovic, Marija (University of Bergen) - Forskrivning av potensielt uhensiktsmessige legemidler hos personer med et antidemenslegemiddel.

   • Main Supervisors: Ragnhild Djønne Østerhus, Anne Gerd Granås (Finished Spring 2025)

4. Alessandro Riva (University of Milano, Italy) - Effect of antidepressant exposure during the early life-course on pubertal timing.

   • Main Supervisor: Nhung Trinh (Finished Summer 2025)

Congratulations to all our graduates for their hard work and contributions to their fields! We look forward to seeing the positive impact they will have in the future.