is Faculty Director at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen. She is a cand.odont. with specialization in community dentistry, practice as a chief dental officer in Trondheim, and as a teacher at Muhimbili University College, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. She has been head of department at the Research Council of Norway, a national delegate to the EU’s Life Science research programme and national representative in the Global Forum for Health Research in Geneva.
is head of the Global Health Unit at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, and associate professor at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo.
Conflicts of interest: None declared.
Global Health Unit
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services
is a professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, and a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at Haukeland University Hospital, in charge of the National Centre for Gynecological Fistula. He chairs the Global Reproductive Health Research Cluster
is a nurse. She studied Health Science at second degree level, focusing on health information activities for indigenous groups in Colombia and has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua. She is an assistant professor and her main field of work is internationalization.
is a senior adviser at the Research Council of Norway, where he has been the coordinator of the Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC) since 2006. He has an MSc and PhD in Biophysics, and an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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