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Day 1: Wednesday 3 June 2026

TimeSessionLocation
07:30 – 08:30Registration
08:30 – 08:35


08:35 – 09:35		Opening

Keynote session: Walter Riccardi
The Need for Courageous Leadership in Science and Health in Challenging Times 
Margarinfabrikken 1&2
09:35 – 10:35Panel discussion: What Nordic cohorts bring to world-leading health research today
Sameline Grimsgaard (moderator, Norway)
Anita Berglund (Sweden)
Lau Caspar Thygesen (Denmark)
Mika Gissler (Finland)
Thor Aspelund (Iceland)		Margarinfabrikken 1&2
10:35 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00Parallel 1: Cancer IArbeidskontoret 1
Parallel 2: Perinatal pharmacoepidemiologyArbeidskontoret 2
Parallel 3: Children/AdolescentsMargarinfabrikken 1&2
12:00 – 13:00Poster Viewing IMargarinfabrikken 3
13:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:00Keynote session: Anton Pottegård
Making transparency and reproducibility a hallmark of Nordic real-world evidence		Margarinfabrikken 1&2

15:00 – 15:30Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30Parallel 4: Cancer IIMargarinfabrikken 1&2
Parallel 5: NOFE: Special issue COVIDArbeidskontoret 1
Parallel 6: Environmental epidemiologyArbeidskontoret 2
16:30 – 16:40Break
16:40 – 17:40Parallel 7: Big data/OMICs/MLArbeidskontoret 1
Parallel 8: COVIDMargarinfabrikken 1&2
Parallel 9: ComorbidityArbeidskontoret 2
17:40 – 18:00Break
18:00 – 18:50Welcome gatheringRestaurant on second floor
19:00-Arctic Networking (Social events)

Day 2: Thursday 4 June 2026

TimeSessionLocation
08:00 – 09:00Keynote session: Frode Forland
Between Research and Public Health Practice, what can we learn from the Covid-19 pandemic, related to Research before, during and after?		Margarinfabrikken 1&2


09:00 – 10:00Parallel 10: Pharmacoepidemiological methodsMargarinfabrikken 1&2
Parallel 11: InequalitiesArbeidskontoret 1
Parallel 12: Maternal/Reproductive healthArbeidskontoret 2
10:00 – 10:30Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30Keynote session: Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir
The contribution of Nordic data to the knowledgebase on trauma-illness links.		Margarinfabrikken 1&2

11:30 – 12:30Parallel session 13: Nordic collaborationArbeidskontoret 1
Parallel session 14: Nutrition/Bone healthArbeidskontoret 2
Parallel session 15: Infectious diseasesMargarinfabrikken 1&2
12:30 – 14:00Poster Viewing II + LunchMargarinfabrikken 3
14:00 – 15:00Keynote session: Yu-Han Chiu
Improving Causal Inference by Design: Target Trial Emulation for Complex Public Health Questions.
Margarinfabrikken 1&2

15:00 – 16:00Parallel session 16: MethodsMargarinfabrikken 1&2
Parallel session 17: Mental health IArbeidskontoret 1
Parallel session 18: Obesity/DiabetesArbeidskontoret 2
16:00 – 16:15Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15Symposium plenary: Use of Burden of Disease Estimates for knowledge production and public health policy in the Nordic regionMargarinfabrikken 1&2
17:15 – 17:40Break
17:40 – 18:30Board meetings
19:00-DinnerMargarinfabrikken 1&2

Day 3: Friday 5 June 2026

TimeSessionLocation

09:00 – 10:00		Symposium parallel 1: Lessons learnt from comparative studies of Nordic countries in the field of psychiatric epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiologyMargarinfabrikken 1&2


Symposium parallel 2: Purposeful Career Building in EpidemiologyArbeidskontoret 1
Symposium parallel 3: Advancing Vaccine Effectiveness Studies: Methods and ApplicationsArbeidskontoret 2
10:00 – 10:30Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30Parallel 19: Mental health IIMargarinfabrikken 1&2
Parallel 20: Occupational healthArbeidskontoret 1
Parallel 21: Cardiovascular diseasesArbeidskontoret 2
11:30 – 12:00Closing/Awards
13:00 – 14:00Lunch

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