Department of Chronic Diseases, Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Group, Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)

The Pharmacoepi Research Unit at the Dept Chronic Diseases,at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) is the largest pharmacoepi research entity in Norway with 8 fulltime research scientists. We have long experience in using Norwegian and Nordic high-quality population-based health registers in our research. NIPH run the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD),a nationwide prescription database and also has 10 other nationwide health registers in-house,i.e. the Norwegian Medical Birth Registry,Cause of death registry and large population-based health surveys.