Fartein Ask Torvik
Senior researcher
Responsibilities
Fartein Ask Torvik is a researcher at the Centre for Fertility and Health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and is affiliated with the University of Oslo. His research focuses on mental health, social inequality, and the interaction between genetic and environmental influences across development and the life course. Torvik uses large-scale population and registry data to investigate how family relationships, educational background, and social context shape mental health, behavior, and developmental outcomes.
His work includes studies of patterns in partner and family formation, educational and health disparities, and the interplay between biological and social factors in the population. Torvik has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals and collaborates with research groups in Norway and abroad.
In addition to his research, he is actively engaged in science communication. He frequently contributes to academic seminars, public outreach, and dialogue with sectors such as health and education, with the aim of making evidence-based knowledge on mental health and social inequality accessible to policymakers and the general public.
Projects and publications
- Alcohol drinking patterns among parents and long-term health and social consequences among their children
- Fee-for-service funding of primary care: Adverse side effects for patients and society?
- Health Gap: Health, maturity, and gender gap in education
- Intergenerational Transmission of Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathological Spectra: A Genome-Wide Complex Trait Study
- Long term outcomes of alcohol use and use disorders: a prospective twin study
- Lost in Transition? Uncovering Social and Health Consequences of Sub-Optimal Transitions in the Education System
- Pardannelse blant unge voksne i Norge: et dyadisk perspektiv på verdier og barneønsker
- Parenthood, childlessness and mental health in times of falling fertility
- Personality, Personality Dysfunction and Symptoms of Substance Use and Use Disorders in Norwegian Twins
- Reproduction of socioeconomic differences and mental health across generations (REMENTA)
- Reproduksjon av helseulikheter
- Sickness in the family (SickFam) : A register study on the short- and long-term effects of severe sickness on family members
- YoungPsych: The interplay between social media and mental health in adolescents and young adults
- YoungWork: Young adults’ mental health and labor market exclusion – causes, consequences and trends