MD, PhD, Deputy Director General, Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Camilla Stoltenberg is trained as a medical doctor and epidemiologist, and will be appointed as adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Bergen in 2012. In January 2002 she was appointed director of the Division of Epidemiology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), and since November 2007 she has served as deputy director general of the NIPH with responsibility for strategic development of national health registries. The NIPH runs most of the centralized national health registries in Norway, large population-based cohorts including the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), and a research biobank. Camilla Stoltenberg has had a leadership role in the MoBa cohort since 2002, and is currently responsible for several projects based on MoBa, with a focus on autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Her scientific work is mainly in the fields of neurodevelopmental disorders, perinatal epidemiology, health in immigrant populations, social inequality in health, and genetic epidemiology.
Stoltenberg is involved in a number of projects aimed at development of biobanks, health registries and population based cohorts. She is principal investigator of Biobanks for Health in Norway (BioHealth), a functional genomics platform based on a network of population based biobanks and health studies in Norway, which by 2010 comprises health data and blood samples from about 500,000 individuals. This is a consortium of regional health studies run by the medical faculties and the NIPH, and funded by the Research Council in Norway (RCN). A new national consortium, Biobank Norway, was established in 2011 as a follow-up to BioHealth. Biobank Norway includes the four regional health authorities with all university hospitals, in addition to the original partners in Biohealth. Camilla Stoltenberg is co-PI of Biobank Norway. She is also active in Nordic and international collaborations on biobanks, registries and cohorts.
Speaker Tuesday May 8th 2012
