How do we create a society with the best opportunities for a healthy life?

Within this focus area, we will look at causal factors and explore effective health promotion and prevention measures for the public health challenges with particularly large health losses: mental health, musculoskeletal disorders, obesity, cancer, and dementia. We need to understand how the physical and social environments contribute to disease and promote health, and which preventive and health-promoting measures will be effective at individual and community-level in Norway and globally.

Early efforts towards health promotion are important, as lifestyle and habits are established early in life. Sectors such as housing, kindergartens, schools, workplaces, cultural and activity facilities, infrastructure, in addition to physical and digital public spaces, represent important arenas for understanding causes, but also for facilitating measures that promote a healthy life span. This focus area also includes technology and activities that enables people to better cope and live good lives despite functional impairments or illnesses.

• Elderly readiness of Trondheim housing - a walking study. Pasi Aalto
• Olink Proteomics for cardiovascular disease risk prediction in the HUNT Study. Brooke Wolford, Eivind Almaas
• Cerebrospinal fluid motion and brain waste clearance in health and disease. Pål Erik Goa, Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi
• Growing up in digital Europe - Norwegian Pilot Study. Vera Skalicka, Kristine Viddal
• Human Fecal Metabolomes - standardization, tools, and advances in research. Matteo Sangermani, Maria Letizia Potenza
• Identifying novel mitochondrial DNA mutations as risk factors for dementia in delirium patients from the HUNT cohort. Ben Brumpton, Pål Sætrom
• Artificial Intelligence for understanding health risks in older adults. Kerstin Bach, Håvard Skjellegrind
• OptoPatch: Enabling healthy lives through next-generation wearable photonic sensors. Angelos Xomalis, Torjus Lines Steffensen
• Understanding mechanical properties of the brain using Brillouin microscopy. Inyoung Jeong, Thorsten Hamann
• Embodied agency and biopsychosocial integration in medicine. Miriam Kyselo, Sverre Myren
• Gut metabolomics - developing a streamlined protocol for fecal metabolites. Guro Giskeødegård, Per Bruheim
• Tenn gnisten hos barn og unge - hvordan bidra til at barn lykkes i livet. Hermundur Sigmundsson, Steinar Krokstad
• Plastic in the human brain - impact on Alzheimer’s disease? Tora Bonnevie, Alexandros Asimakopoulos
• Using Artificial Intelligence to develop a brain-computer interface based on infant brain data. Audrey van der Meer, Marta Molinas
• For tidlig fødte: Kjønnsrelatert helserisiko i ungdomsalderen. Kirsti Kvaløy, Silje Steinsbekk
• Device-measured physical activity and sleep in the HUNT5 survey: A pilot study. Paul Jarle Mork, Kerstin Bach
• Food additives, microbiome, and the gut–brain axis: A pilot study using human organoids and microbiome-relevant models. Magnar Bjørås, Trygve Brautaset
• Hidden hearing loss and auditory processing disorder in adolescents – two sides of a coin forged by a new sonic lifestyle? Markus Drexl, Sara R. Martin
• A faint heart. Lene Helland Rønningen, Charlotte Fiskum