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Dagrun Slettebø Daltveit er førsteamanuensis i medisinsk statistikk ved , Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin, Universitetet i Bergen (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´). Hun er tilknyttet ,  og forskningsgruppen . Hun har en bachelorgrad i naturvitenskap (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´), en mastergrad i statistikk - dataanalyse (ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´), og ph.d. fra det medisinske fakultet, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ (2024).

Hennes nåværende forskning er primært innen registerepidemiologi, og inkluderer blant annet arbeid med kreft, medfødte misdannelser, migrene, samt benzen eksponering.

Som en del av sin doktorgrad var hun på forskningsopphold fra desember 2022 til desember 2023 ved Cancer Surveillance Branch (CSU) ved International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Verdens helseorganisasjon (WHO) i Lyon, Frankrike.

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

• Medfødte misdannelser gir økt risiko for kreft, Aftenposten (2020). 

Intervju

• Birth Defects Tied to Higher Cancer Risk, The New York Times (2020). 

Medieomtale

• Studie: Medfødte misdannelser gir økt risiko for kreft, Dagens Medisin (2020). 
• Medfødte misdannelser gir høyere risiko for Ã¥ fÃ¥ kreft, ogsÃ¥ som voksne, Forskning.no (2020) 
• Medfødte misdannelser øker risikoen for kreft ogsÃ¥ i voksen alder, FHI (2020). 

ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ nettsider

2026

¹ó²¹²µ±ôæ°ù±ð°ù Medisinsk statistikk (MEDSTA), vÃ¥r

¹ó²¹²µ±ôæ°ù±ð°ù statistikk Experimental Epidemiology (INTH321A), vÃ¥r

2025

Fagansvarlig statistikk Methods in Global Health Research (INTH315), høst

Ko-fasilitator Advanced Epidemiology (Indian Council of Medical Research- National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR - NIE) i samarbeid med Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC), ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. 16 - 24 januar, Chennai, India.

2024

Fagansvarlig statistikk Methods in Global Health Research (INTH315), høst

Ko-fasilitator Design and Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies for Causal Inference (Indian Council of Medical Research, National Institute of Epidemiology/ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ i Chennai, India), høst

Ko-fasilitator Experimental Epidemiology (INTH321A/INTH921), vår

Ko-fasilitator Design and analysis of epidemiologic studies for causal inference (CISMAC900-5 / CISMAC900A-5 ), vÃ¥r

2022

Fagansvarlig statistikk Methods in Global Health Research (INTH315), H22.

¹ó²¹²µ±ôæ°ù±ð°ù Epidemiologikurs i MED6, V22

¹ó²¹²µ±ôæ°ù±ð°ù Epidemiologi (MEDEPI), V22

2021

³Ò°ù³Ü±è±è±ð±ôæ°ù±ð°ù Analysis of longitudinal and correlated data (MEDSTA3), H21

¹ó²¹²µ±ôæ°ù±ð°ù Epidemiologikurs i MED6, V21

¹ó²¹²µ±ôæ°ù±ð°ù Epidemiologi (MEDEPI), V21

³Ò°ù³Ü±è±è±ð±ôæ°ù±ð°ù Regresjonsmodellar i medisinsk forsking (MEDSTA2), V21

2010

¹ó²¹²µ±ôæ°ù±ð°ù i matematikk, Sommerskolen Askøy vgs.

Undervisning i matematikk og fysikk for Vg1, Vg2 og Vg3 studiespesialisering, faglærer i matematikk for minoritetsspråklige og faglærer i matematikk for helse- og oppvekstfag, Olsvikåsen videregående

2009

Undervisning i matematikk og fysikk for Vg1, Vg2 og Vg3 studiespesialisering, Fana Gymnas.

Selected publications

[1] Daltveit, D. S., Morgan, E., Bardot, A., Steliarova-Foucher, E., Damie, A., Hagenimana, M., Khoubila, N., Moreno, F., & Soerjomataram, I. (2025). Childhood cancer survival in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, during 2008-2017 (SURVCAN-3): a population-based benchmarking study of 16 821 children. Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

[2] Daltveit, D. S., Morgan E, Colombet M, Steliarova-Foucher E, Bendahhou K, Marcos-Gragera R, Rongshou Z, Smith A, Wei H, Soerjomataram I. (2024). Global patterns of leukemia by subtype, age, and sex in 185 countries in 2022. Leukemia.

[3] Daltveit, D. S., Klungsoyr, K., Engeland, A., Ekbom, A., Gissler, M., Glimelius, I., Grotmol, T., Madanat-Harjuoja, L., Ording, A. G., Saether, S. M. M., Sorensen, H. T., Troisi, R., & Bjorge, T. (2020). Cancer risk in individuals with major birth defects: large Nordic population based case-control study among children, adolescents, and adults. BMJ, 371, m4060.

[4] Daltveit, D. S., Klungsoyr, K., Engeland, A., Ekbom, A., Gissler, M., Glimelius, I., Grotmol, T., Madanat-Harjuoja, L., Ording, A. G., Sorensen, H. T., Troisi, R., & Bjorge, T. (2023). Sex differences in childhood cancer risk among children with major birth defects: a Nordic population-based nested case-control study. Int J Epidemiol, 52(2), 450-465.

[5] Daltveit, D. S., Klungsoyr, K., Engeland, A., Ekbom, A., Gissler, M., Glimelius, I., Grotmol, T., Madanat-Harjuoja, L., Ording, A. G., Sorensen, H. T., Troisi, R., & Bjorge, T. (2023). Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study. Int J Epidemiol.

[6] Kitahara, C. M., Slettebø Daltveit, D., Ekbom, A., Engeland, A., Gissler, M., Glimelius, I., Grotmol, T., Trolle Lagerros, Y., Madanat-Harjuoja, L., Männistö, T., Sørensen, H. T., Troisi, R., & Bjørge, T. (2021). Maternal health, in-utero, and perinatal exposures and risk of thyroid cancer in offspring: a Nordic population-based nested case-control study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 9(2), 94-105.

[7] Kitahara, C. M., Slettebø Daltveit, D., Ekbom, A., Engeland, A., Gissler, M., Glimelius, I., Grotmol, T., Trolle Lagerros, Y., Madanat-Harjuoja, L., Männistö, T., Sørensen, H. T., Troisi, R., & Bjørge, T. (2023). Maternal Health, Pregnancy and Offspring Factors, and Maternal Thyroid Cancer Risk: A Nordic Population-Based Registry Study. Am J Epidemiol, 192(1), 70-83.

[8] Ridderseth, Hilde; Daltveit, Dagrun Slettebø; Hollund, Bjørg Eli; Kirkeleit, Jorunn; Kromhout, H; Kruger, K; Austgulen, LT; BrÃ¥tveit, Magne. (2022). Occupational Benzene Exposure in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Industry, 2002-2018. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 895-906.

[9] Ridderseth, Hilde; Daltveit , Dagrun Slettebø; Hollund, Bjørg Eli; Kirkeleit, Jorunn; Kromhout, Hans; Krüger, Kirsti; Aasbø, Kari; Bråtveit, Magne. (2023). Benzene Exposure From Selected Work Tasks on Offshore Petroleum Installations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, 2002-2018. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 228-240.

[10] Husebø, Bettina; Ballard, Clive; Aarsland, Dag; Selbæk, Geir; Slettebø, Dagrun Daltveit; Gulla, Christine; Aasmul, Irene; Habiger, Torstein Frugård; Elvegaard, Tony Matias; Testad, Ingelin; Flo, Elisabeth. (2019). The effect of a multicomponent intervention on quality of Life in residents of nursing homes: A randomized controlled trial (COSMOS). Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 330-339.

Ongoing projects

KLAR – Women’s Health, Menopause and Working Life (2026-d.d.)

Role: Researcher. 

Impact of a Cryptosporidiosis Point-of-Care Test-and-Treat Strategy in Children with Diarrhoea (CryptoT&T): A Multi-Center Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial (2025-d.d.)

Role: Co-investigator. 

Understanding Headache Through Registry Data - A NorHEAD MiHEAD project (2024-d.d)

The aim of the is to improve the understanding and treatment of primary headache disorders by using multiple linked Norwegian registries and health surveys.

Role: Researcher. 

The role of pregnancy and perinatal factors in maternal and offspring cancer risk: The impact of women’s complete reproductive histories (CORECA) (2025-d.d)

The CORECA projects aims to identify patterns and risk factors for maternal and offspring cancer in relation to full maternal reproductive histories, in addition to in utero exposures for the offspring.

Role: Supervisor.

KidImmune, a study of autoimmunity in pediatric cancer patients (2025-d.d)

The KidImmune project at Bergen University’s Department for clinical science has identified a number of autoantibodies, antibodies directed to the body’s own proteins, that are significantly more frequent in serum from children with cancer of various kinds.

Role: Supervisor.

Exposure Assessment and Prevention of Death, Disease, and Injuries among Offshore Petroleum Workers (2024-d.d)

The aim of the work package in the is to update job-exposure matrices for benzene and oil mist/vapour.

Role: Statistician. 

Cancer risk in families with children with birth defects (2017-d.d) 

In this project, we take advantage of large population-based registries in four Nordic countries to explore the relationship between birth defects and cancer risk in more detail, and more extensively, than previously done. Whether birth defect(s) is associated with cancer risk in the affected individual and their families is important for the understanding of the etiology of specific cancers and could possibly allow for identification of individuals at elevated risk who would benefit from more regular follow-up or subsequent clinical intervention (, , and ).

Role: Statistician 2017-2021, PhD student 2021-2024, Researcher 2025-d.d.

Past projects

Childhood cancer survival in countries in transition (2023-2025)

In this project, we aim to produce survival estimates for childhood cancer in countries in transition. The work is carried out at the Cancer Surveillance Unit at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization (WHO), Lyon.

Role: Principal Investigator, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. ()

Global incidences  of leukemia (2023-2024)

In this project, we aim to estimate the global, regional, and national burden of leukemia by subtype and age. The work is carried out at the Cancer Surveillance Unit at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization (WHO), Lyon.

Role: Principal Investigator, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. ()

Development of job-exposure-models for risk assessment of benzene exposure (2017-2023)

The primary objective is to develop task- and job-exposure models to estimate benzene exposure by inhalation among the five job categories assumed to have the highest exposure at oil and gas processing installations (, , and ).

Role: Statistician. 

Perinatal characteristics and thyroid cancer risk in mothers and offspring: a Nordic registry linkage study (2018-2022)

A Nordic birth and cancer registry linkage study to prospectively evaluate the associations of pregnancy complications and other perinatal characteristics with subsequent risk of thyroid cancer in women (subproject 1) and their offspring (subproject 2).  We hypothesize that benign thyroid disorders during pregnancy, particularly hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) and perinatal characteristics related to or a consequence of underactive thyroid (e.g., preterm birth, gestational hypertension/preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, placental abruption) and/or altered sex steroid hormones during pregnancy (e.g., extreme birth weight, preterm birth, twin pregnancy, low birth order, hyperemesis, gestational hypertension/preeclampsia, pre-pregnancy and pregnancy weight and weight gain) are associated with increased risk of thyroid cancer in both mothers and their offspring (, and ). 

Role: Statistician. 

The COSMOS intervention for improving the quality of life in nursing home patients study  (2016-2019)

The project (COmmunication, Systematic pain assessment and treatment, Medication review, Organization of activities, and Safety) is a multicenter, cluster-randomized controlled trial aimed at improving the quality of life in nursing home patients. 545 patients from 67 nursing home units from the eastern and western parts of Norway were included in the study (, and ).

Role: Statistician. 

The DEP.PAIN.DEM study - pain treatment and depression in nursing home patients (2016-2018)

The  project is a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial which aims to determine whether pain treatment reduces symptoms of depression in nursing home patients with dementia and depression. 165 patients from 47 nursing homes in different regions of Norway were included in the study (, , and ).

Role: Statistician.