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Hans-Olov Adami

Hans-Olov Adami is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Hans-Olov Adami rather than just read about it. In short: Hans-Olov Adami (born July 14, 1942) is a Swedish physician, academic and public health researcher. He established the largest epidemiologic and biostatistics research unit in Sweden, the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet.

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Reference excerpt

Hans-Olov Adami (born July 14, 1942) is a Swedish physician, academic and public health researcher. He established the largest epidemiologic and biostatistics research unit in Sweden, the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet. He is a former chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, US.

Biography Adami was born in Solna, Sweden. He attended the Östra Real School in Stockholm, and then graduated from the secondary school in Skellefteå. He studied medicine at Uppsala University (M.D. in 1969), where he also defended his thesis in 1978 (surgery). In 1990, Adami became Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at Uppsala University, where he established a research group known as cancer epidemiology that became the newly established Department of Cancer Epidemiology at Uppsala University in 1994. In 1997 he and the entire department moved to Karolinska Institutet where he became Chair of a new department entitled Medical Epidemiology known as MEP. Beginning in 1999 he started to establish a biostatistics research facility and the department's name changed to Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) which grew to become the largest epidemiology and biostatistics research facility in the country. The department has since expanded to research areas outside of cancer epidemiology. At the Harvard School of Public Health, he was adjunct full professor between 1992 and 2007, after which he became chair at the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard until 2011. He is currently Emeritus Professor at Karolinska Institutet and at Harvard but employed part-time in the Clinical Effectiveness Research Group at the University of Oslo. Adami has received numerous awards including the Jubilee Prize from the Swedish Society of Medicine, the Karolinska Institutet Distinguished Professor Award and the Karolinska Institutet Big Silver Medal. He is also Honorary Doctor of Medicine at the University of Athens and the University of Iceland. For many years Adami was a member of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet. He was the editor for The European Journal of Epidemiology 2004–08, and also served on the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS Medicine and some 15 other scientific journals. Adami was elected a member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala 1996, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1997 and has served on the Governing Board of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences since it was established in 2009. In 2023, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea. As of 2018, he has published over 900 scientific articles, one popular science book on prostate cancer and been the editor of a Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology with a third edition published in 2018 (Adami HO, Hunter D, Lagiou P, Mucci L, editors. Textbook of cancer epidemiology 3rded. New York: Oxford University Press; 2018). He lives with his wife Barbro in Väddö, Sweden.

References

External links

Professional web page at Karolinska Institutet Professional web page at Harvard School of Public Health

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Hans-Olov Adami

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Hans-Olov Adami claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Hans-Olov Adami before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Hans-Olov Adami ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Hans-Olov Adami

In research: Hans-Olov Adami appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Hans-Olov Adami in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Hans-Olov Adami is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1942 births, Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute, Cancer epidemiologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Hans-Olov Adami outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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