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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so excited to present at the CDE Seminar at @yalesph.bsky.social on Tuesday, and meet with friends and colleagues at Yale.

And New Haven is really showing off on this sunny Sunday. Have missed it!

ysph.yale.edu/event/ysphcd...

YSPH/CDE 525 Seminar in Chronic Disease Epidemiology: "Climate Change and Maternal and Child Health"

10/07/2025 event at Yale School of Public Health

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Kai Chen @kaichenyale.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 NEW STUDY: Despite falling CA air pollution 1980-2022, relative racial disparities in short-term NO₂ exposure worsened.
➡️ Hispanic/Latino communities faced 3X MORE high-pollution days (>50µg/m³) than White residents in 2020.
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134211

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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social · May 15

NEW: A majority of registered voters want federal agencies like the CDC, NIH, and FEMA to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming. Learn more in our new climate note:

A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming

55% said federal agencies should do more to protect people from the health harms of global warming.

climatecommunication.yale.edu

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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · May 13

Whether developing a new test for malaria, exposing health risks of climate change, or highlighting the impact of stigma on LGBTQ+ population well-being, our faculty advanced science in impactful ways over the past year.

Their efforts were recognized with the annual faculty research awards ⬇️

Faculty Research Awards Showcase YSPH Strengths in Science

Whether developing a new test for malaria, exposing health risks associated with climate change, or highlighting the impact of stigma on LGBTQ+ population

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · May 13

Link to the paper:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

High ambient temperature in pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an observational study

Our findings suggest an association between high ambient temperature in early pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Further replication and investigation of mechanistic pathwa...

www.thelancet.com

Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · May 13

Grateful to see our research team's effort being recognized with the Yale University School of Public Health Team Science Prize! One of the most fruitful and synergistic research projects I have worked on.

@yalesph.bsky.social @cchyale.bsky.social

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Faculty Research Awards Showcase YSPH Strengths in Science

Whether developing a new test for malaria, exposing health risks associated with climate change, or highlighting the impact of stigma on LGBTQ+ population

ysph.yale.edu

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Apr 24

This seems to reflect a wider (and woefully misguided) shift in US health research strategy, away from well-designed studies and careful research questions, towards an attitude that we can get all the answers by just scraping various routine datasets and chucking some rushed analysis at them.

Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Feb 15

Helhjertet enig med @torewig.bsky.social i @morgenbladet.no : Vi må gjøre Norge til en attraktiv havn for de kloke hodene som nå flykter fra USA.

www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/kommen...

Vi kan bygge fremtidens Norge med hjernene som flykter fra Trump

For vitenskapen og verden er situasjonen i USA et stort tap. Men for lille, rike Norge er mulighetene enorme, skriver Tore Wig.

www.morgenbladet.no

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Feb 6

Gravide kvinner rammes særlig hardt av klimaendringene, men blir likevel ofte glemt. Veldig bra at Energi og Klima (@energiogklima.no @larsursin.bsky.social) lager sak om dette.

www.energiogklima.no/to-grader/ek...

Ekstremvarme øker risikoen for tidligfødsel og dødfødsel

Likevel regnes ofte ikke gravide kvinner som en sårbar gruppe under hetebølger, sier lege og forsker Tormod Rogne.

www.energiogklima.no

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Feb 5

Nå vil være et godt tidspunkt for den nye forskningsministeren å markere seg imot antiintellektualismen (dels Sp og definitivt den nye administrasjonen i USA) og lære av Sverige.

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Feb 1

Important work led by @pinwang.bsky.social

Pin Wang @pinwang.bsky.social · Feb 1

#ClimateChange causes more frequent and severe #drought events globally.

Our latest paper on PLOS Medicine shows that exposure to long-term severe drought (but not any drought) was associated with increased infant mortality risk in Africa.

@kaichenyale.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Long-term drought and risk of infant mortality in Africa: A cross-sectional study

Author summary Why was this done? Climate change is projected to result in a higher frequency and intensity of drought events. Previous studies have found rainfall anomaly to be associated with i...

journals.plos.org

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Jan 21

Here’s a piece in TCTMD where I commented on our recent publication on adverse pregnancy outcomes and future cardiovascular disease risk.

www.tctmd.com/news/genes-m...

Genes May Help Explain Link Between Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes, Later CVD

A study comparing men and women suggests much of the association arises from genetic propensity to both conditions.

www.tctmd.com

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CardioOB @cardioob.bsky.social · Jan 14

Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes & CAD Risk: Negative Control Mendelian Randomization Study

#CardioObstetrics #CardioSky #Circulation
www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
@ahajournals.bsky.social @drklindley.bsky.social @garimasharmamd.bsky.social @erinmichos.bsky.social @isabellemalhame.bsky.social

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Jan 14

In brief, our findings suggest that the link between adverse pregnancy outcomes and future maternal cardiovascular disease risk may largely be due to shared genetic liabilities.

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Jan 14

What started out as a teaching case in my Perinatal Epi class at @yalesph.bsky.social has now been published in Circulation (@americanheart.bsky.social). Very happy to work with Dipender Gill on this!

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www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

American Heart Association Journals

www.ahajournals.org

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Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg @thinderberg.bsky.social · Jan 3

Her har vi (dessverre) en sterk kontrast til Norges såkalte "satsning" på forskning i nåværende periode: Sverige ser ut til å gjøre en reell innsats. Det er vanskelig å forstå hvorfor Norge sakker akterut i denne konkurransen - tilsynelatende en villet politikk.

Sveriges forskningssatsing vekker oppsikt: — Vi skal ikke være det «passe bra» landet

— Vi skal konkurrere med de beste i verden, sier Sveriges minister for forskning og høyere utdanning, som øker forskningsbudsjettet med 6,5 milliarder svenske kroner.

www.khrono.no

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · Nov 17

Explore our research on the complexities of turning evidence into action, especially during crises and in tackling 'wicked problems' such as sustainability #AcademicSky @monabaker11.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

www.med.uio.no/sustainit/en...

Researcher on Centre Stage with Eivind Engebretsen - SUSTAINIT – Sustainable Health Unit

Meet Eivind Engebretsen, Professor and Head of the Sustainable Health Unit and Dean of the Circle U.- Open Campus at the University of Oslo.

www.med.uio.no

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Aashish Gupta @aashishg.bsky.social · Nov 18

Cool paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Anders @andersskyrud.bsky.social · Nov 15

Dette er faktisk så ille at det er vanskelig å ta innover seg. Hvis dette betyr slutten på alle de måtene den amerikanske regjeringa støtter vaksinering i eget og andre land kan jo det bokstavelig talt bety hundrevis av millioner av dødsfall i åra som kommer. www.nrk.no/urix/vil-ha-...

Vil ha Robert F. Kennedy jr. som helseminister

Donald Trumps val av helseminister har vekt sterke reaksjonar, nysgjerrigheit og eit aksjefall hos vaksineprodusentar.

www.nrk.no

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Nov 13

Much the same! Recently moved (back) to Oslo, Norway, and trying to create and implement a curriculum on climate change and health for the medical students here.

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Nov 13

Interesting. A topic ripe for some diff-in-diffs analyses. In Norway, «we» had a divisive public discourse on this in the 1950s-60s, landing on no fluoridation. Would be interesting to consider the counterfactual scenario. Fig 4 in the review shows Norway to have a high prevalence of dental caries.

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Nov 13

For a public health initiative of this proportion, there is a surprising lack of high-quality studies to guide policy. A Cochrane review from Oct found that water fluoridation may lead to slightly less dental caries in children, but no studies on adults.

www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries - Iheozor-Ejiofor, Z - 2024 | Cochrane Library

Select your preferred language for Cochrane Reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

www.cochranelibrary.com

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Tormod Rogne @tormodrogne.bsky.social · Nov 12

Superb! Great initiative with the starter pack!

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