Researchers´ Profiles - Arild Vaktskjold

Arild Vaktskjold is a Norwegian who is currently an assistant professor at the Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg, Sweden. He studied in California, receiving the B.S. degree in nutritional science from the University of California, Berkeley and the MPH from Loma Linda University. He received the Dr.Sci degree from the University of Tromsø in Norway. Much of his research and health project work has been carried out in Northwest Russia, including establishing registries of birth and cancer and studying pregnancy outcomes associated with nickel exposure. At the Nordic School of Public Health he is responsible for two of the modules in the new Master of Public Health programme in Arkhangelsk, Russia. He is also involved in the AMAP Human Health Group and a board member in the International Union of Public Health.

Publications

  • Vaktskjold A, Talykova LV, Chashchin VP, Odland JØ, Nieboer E. Spontaneous abortions among nickel-exposed female refinery workers. Int J Environ Health Research 2007.
     
  • Talykova LV, Vaktskjold A, Serebrjakova NG, Khokhlov TG, Strelkovskaja NJ, Chashschin VP, Nikanov AN, Odland JØ, Bykov V, Nieboer E. 2007. Pregnancy health and outcome in two cities in the Kola Peninsula, north-western Russia. Int J Circumpolar Health 2007;66(2)
     
  • Vaktskjold A, Talykova L, Chashchin V, Nieboer E, Thomassen Y, Romanova N, Odland JØ. Genital malformations among newborns of female nickel refinery workers. Scan J Work Env Health 2006;32(1):12-21
     
  • Vaktskjold A, Lebedintseva JA, Korotov DS, Tkatsjov AV, Podjakova TS, Lund E. Cancer incidence in Arkhangelskaja Oblast in northwestern Russia. The Arkhangelsk Cancer Registry. BMC Cancer 2005; 5:82.
     
  • Vaktskjold A, Lebedintseva J, Korotov D, Tkatsjov A, Podjakova T, Lund E. Arkhangelsk kreftregister. En sammenligning av kreftforekomst i Norge og Arkhangelsk oblast. ISM Skriftserie nr 75. 2004 [http://uit.no/samfmed/forskning/28]
     
  • Vaktskjold Arild, Paulsen Erna Elise , Talykova Ljudmila, Nieboer Evert, Odland Jon Øyvind. The prevalence of selected pregnancy outcome risk factors in the life style and medical history of the delivering population in Montsjegorsk, north-western Russia. Int J Circumpolar Health 2004;63:39-60.
     
  • Vaktskjold A, Talykova L, Chashchin V, Nieboer E, Odland JØ. The Kola Birth Registry and perinatal mortality in Montsjegorsk, Russia. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 2004; 83:58-69
     
 
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