Date: 2 June 2026
Time: 13:00–17:00
Location: MH2 U.10.311, Floor 10, MH2 building, UiT- The Arctic University of Norway
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Session Responsibles:
Leader(s): Karina Standahl Olsen
Co-leader(s): Marko Lukic and Nhung Trinh
Speaker(s): Marko Lukic, Karina Standahl Olsen, Anick Berard, Ursula Berger
Short Description: This seminar brings together university teachers to share practical, evidence-informed strategies for teaching epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and biostatistics in a post‑2020 landscape. We’ll examine shifts in learner needs, hybrid delivery, assessment integrity, and the role of generative AI. Sessions spotlight a digital teaching platform for pharmacoepidemiology and approaches to teaching biostatistics that cultivate critical reasoning over rote computation. We conclude with a panel discussion to exchange resources, pitfalls, and next steps.
Learning Outcome(s): By the end of the session, participants will gain increased awareness and competency in:
- Post-2020 changes providing new frameworks that affect pedagogy, assessment, and student engagement in quantitative health sciences, including the opportunities and risks introduced by generative AI. A birds-eye view of the landscape starts off the session.
- The design and use of digital platforms for teaching which have become increasingly popular, promising flexible learning and resource efficient teaching. The Canadian platform for transdisciplinary training in perinatal research on medications complementary to university trainings will be showcased, and experiences will be shared.
- The increasing availability of statistical software, automated data analysis procedures, and artificial intelligence tools which has fundamentally changed the landscape of empirical research while easy access to powerful methods does not automatically translate into sound statistical reasoning. Teaching strategies will be highlighted, that center interpretation, uncertainty, and critical appraisal in biostatistics education, generalizable to other fields of teaching.
Program
| Time | Presenter | Title |
| 13:00-13:45 | Associate prof. Marko Lukic, Resource center for teaching, learning and technology (RESULT), UiT & Associate prof. Karina Standahl Olsen, Dept. of Community medicine, UiT | Introduction: Teaching and learning post 2020 – changes and challenges |
| 14:00-14:45 | Prof. Anick Berard, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montreal | A digital teaching platform for pharmacoepidemiology: why, what and how |
| 15:00-15:45 | Prof. Ursula Berger, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München | Empowering Students in Epidemiology: Teaching Biostatistics for Critical Reasoning |
| 16:00-16:30 | Moderator: Associate prof. Nhung Trinh, Dept. of Pharmacy, UiT & Associate prof. Karina Standahl Olsen, Dept. of Community medicine, UiT | Panel discussion with all presenters |