Field of work
My academic interests are in the field of global health, rehabilitation, health promotion, reproductive health, universal access to heath services, social inequality, and gender, age and other social determinants of health. I hold a PhD in Social anthropology (critical medical anthropology), a MPhil in Health promotion and a BSc in physiotherapy. I have clinical experience from Belgium, Tanzania and Norway, and I have taught and done research in Norway, Tanzania and Sudan. I mostly apply qualitative research approaches but I have also supervised mixed methods projects.
I am employed at the Dept. for Health and Functioning, Section for Global Health and Rehabilitation, where I have developed three new courses for the online international Master in Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation. I am also part of the BSc & MSc in Physiotherapy sections where I am international exchange coordinator for clinical placements in Africa.
I am actively pursuing international research- and educational project collaboration with African partners and beyond.
I lead the HVL research group in "Rehabilitation and Health Promotion" where several of the researchers have international research projects.
- Global health
- Social sciences (social anthropology & sociology)
- Philosophy of science and research methodology & methods
- Health promotion
- Rehabilitation
- Reproductive health/ women's health
- Ageing and Health
- Global health
- Re/habilitation
- Health promotion
- Health services and -systems research
- Ageing and health
- Gender and health
- Reproductive health
- Rehabilitation and Health Promotion, HVL
- Reproductive Health and Health Promotion, HVL
- Global Health Anthropology, UiB
Publications
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“We Are Just Supposed to Be an NGO Helping”: A Qualitative Case Study of Health Workers’ and Volunteers’ Perceptions of the Government and Civil Society’s Role in Fighting Jiggers in Bungoma County, Kenya
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International and interprofessional online learning: Three challenges in implementation of Master in Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation
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A qualitative case study of community experiences with Tungiasis in high prevalence villages of Bungoma County, Kenya: “The whole body aches and the jiggers are torturing me!”
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Borten Moe, løft blikket!
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Understanding trauma care in Ghana: the use of traditional bone setting practices: a narrative literature review.
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Disability Support in Tanzanian Primary Schools
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Disability and Rehabilitation in Global Health: Introductory Keynote Session
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Comprehensive Rehabilitation NGOs: Public-Private Partnerships in Surgery and Rehabilitation: Potentials and Challenges
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ECTMIH 2021: Track 8: Program for 29.09.2021 on Rehabilitation: See: https://ectmih2021.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Track-8-24.9.21.pdf
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Oral poster: Exploring Disability Support in Primary Schools in Tanzania. A Case Study of Inclusive Education.
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Track 8: Disasters, accidents, injuries, global surgery and rehabilitation: 12th European Congress for Tropical Medicine and International Health.
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Physiotherapists´ experiences with older adults´ rehabilitation trajectory after hip fracture: A qualitative study in Western Norway.
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Webinar: Paneldebatt: "Hva er rehabilitering? Noen kritiske blikk på rehabiliteringsforskning"
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Norwegian Innovations in a Tanzanian context. Stakeholder meeting Vision2030, Dodoma, Tanzania. November 2019. Report.
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"the midwife helped me. otherwise i could have died": Women's experience of professional midwifery services in rural Afghanistan - A qualitative study in the provinces Kunar and Laghman
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Betrayal of Trust? The Impact of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic on Older Persons
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Evaluating the feasibility of the expansion of Community-Based Rehabilitation into the Physiotherapy Curriculum in Ahfad University for Women
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Master`s Programme in Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation
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Three critical decisions for designing an online Master’s program for a global audience
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The need for demand and local anchoring of innovations
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Disability and Rural Development in Tanzania: Some reflections and examples on research intersections
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Assistive Technology Services for Children With Disabilities and Inclusive Education in Tanzania: the need for intersectoral collaboration
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Disability, rehabilitation and assistive technology: potential and challenges in a Tanzanian context.
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Osteoporose: Kvinners erfaringer med helsefremmende tiltak, behandling og fysisk aktivitet
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Osteoporose og kvinners erfaringer med helsefremmende tiltak, behandling og fysisk aktivitet: «…Jeg blandet ikke fysioterapeuten inn i osteoporosedelen…»
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Socio-cultural Perspectives on Mental Health in a Global Setting. Implications for Physiotherapy
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"To become independent and remain independent". Living with mobility impairments in rural Peru
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Physical Disability and the Use of Assistive Devices in Pakistan: A case study on users’ perspectives in three rehabilitation centres of Peshawar and Islamabad
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The role of NGOs and civil society in providing rehabilitation services for children with disabilities. Case studies from Tanzania and Sudan
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Fysioterapeutar sine erfaringar kring rehabiliteringsforløp etter hoftebrot: «Ei kompleks pasientgruppe med ulike behov»
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Conference guide : Disability and global health : Implications for rehabilitation : Bergen 23-25 June 2016
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Disability and Global Health: Implications for rehabilitation. Innovative practices and human resources for equitable enablement. Conference June 23rd-25th, 2016. Bergen University College
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Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research. 10 years anniversary. "To make a difference in the world"
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“To become independent and be independent” – Experiences of persons with mobility impairments in Juanjuí, Peru
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Profile of individuals with physical disabilities to assist the development and implementation of appropriate services in Khartoum State, Sudan.
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Chair of Scientific Conference Programme of "Disability and Global Health: Implications for Rehabilitation". Coordinator of Scientific Committee.
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Variations in Student Experiences and Outcomes in an International and Interprofessional Gerontology Course by Country
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Setting the Stage for International and Interprofessional Education: Why are Global Perspectives So Important?
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Éducation internationale et interprofessionnelle en matière de vieillissement et de santé : théorie et pratique dans un contexte de frontières étendues/International and Interprofessional Education in Aging and Health: Theory and Practice in Expanding Boundaries
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Longstanding pain and social strain: patients’ and health care providers’ experiences with fracture management by skeletal traction; a qualitative study from Malawi
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Clinician's Commentary on Clarke et al.
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Musculoskeletal symptoms among hospital cleaners
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Gerontology Across the Professions and the Atlantic: Development and Evaluation of an Interprofessional and International Course on Aging and Health
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Narrative perspectives on education and children with disabilities: Unpacking children’s stories and personal experiences in a boarding school in Tanzania
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Transatlantic Internationalisation in the Digital Age Gerontology Across the Professions and the Atlantic (GAPA): An Interprofessional and International Hybrid Graduate Course on Aging and Health
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Har renholdere som er innvandrere mer håndeksem?
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The role of NGOs and civil society in promoting rehabilitation services for children and youths with disabilities: Integrating facility-based and community based Rehabilitation (CBR) in Tanzania and Sudan
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Management of Clubfoot in Tanzania: Physiotherapists' experiences and challenges
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Aerobic Training and Cardio-Respiratory Endurance among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Northern Tanzania
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Fracture Management in Malawi: Patients' and professionals' experiences with skeletal traction
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Research Methodology in Global Health and Rehabilitation: Mixed Methods approaches and context sensitive research.
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Use of healthcare services by injured people in Khartoum State, Sudan
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Socioeconomic and disability consequences of injuries in the Sudan: a community-based survey in Khartoum State
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Public and private rehabilitation services and the role of NGOs in service provision for children with disabilities. Case studies from Tanzania and beyond
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The role of global and local civil society in promoting rehabilitation services for children with disabilities. Comparative perspectives from Tanzania, Sudan, Malawi and beyond
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The role of civil society and NGO’s in providing specialized and community based rehabilitation services for children: case studies in Tanzania and Sudan.
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Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Research in Global Health: Examples and Reflections
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Aerobic Training and Cardio-respiratory Endurance among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Northern Tanzania: A Pilot Study
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Fracture management in Malawi: Patients´ and professionals´ experiences with skeletal traction.
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Hand Eczema and Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Cleaners. Prevalence and immigrant status: a cross-sectional study in a Norwegian city
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Injuries in Khartoum State, Sudan. Magnitude, consequences and healthcare utilization: a community-based survey
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Injuries in Khartoum state, the Sudan: a household survey of incidence and risk factors
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"Getting rid of the plague": Jiggers Removal Program in Bungoma, Kenya. Community and health workers`perspectives on tungiasis in a high prevalence area
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Dilemmas in Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR): Professional health care and voluntary work hand-in-hand? Cases studies from Sudan and Tanzania
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Utilization of formal healthcare services by the injured in Khartoum state, Sudan: a household survey
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“Getting rid of the plague”: Jiggers Removal Program in Bungoma, Kenya. Community and health workers’ perspectives on tungiasis in a high prevalence area
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Management of Clubfoot in Tanzania: Physiotherapists’ experiences and challenges
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Physical disability and the use of assistive devices in Pakistan. A case study on users' perspectives in three rehabilitation centers in Azad Kashmir, Peshawar and Islamabad
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“Getting rid of the plague”: jiggers removal program in Bungoma, Kenya. Community and health workers perspectives on tungiasis in a high prevalence area
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Injuries in Khartoum state, the Sudan: a household survey of incidence and risk factors
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Å leve med skoliose. Behandlingserfaringer, informasjonsbehov, livskvalitet og mestring blant skolioserammede
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Consequences of injuries: a community based survey in Khartoum State, the Sudan
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Consequences of injuries: a community based survey in Khartoum State, the Sudan
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Health as foreign policy
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Å leve med skoliose. Informasjonsbehov, behandlingserfaringer og livskvalitet blant skolioserammede
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Helse som utenrikspolitikk: Den globale helsearenaen kan synes å være dominert av bistandsorganisasjoner, filantroper som Bill Gates og farmasøytisk industri. Hvilken rolle kan helse- og utenriksministeriene spille?
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'I wanted to deliver at the hospital'. Narratives of Ugandan women who almost died during childbirth
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Exploring rehabilitation systems for children and youths with disabilities: integrating specialised health services and community based rehabilitation in Tanzania and Sudan
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Disability, Mental illness and Old-age frailty
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Building a Physiotherapy Bachelor program (BSc) in Sudan: A model for North-South collaboration between two universities
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Global profession, local contexts: The role of physiotherapists in Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania and Sudan
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Disability, health services and local and international collaboration: comparing comprehensive and community based rehabilitation approaches in Tanzania and the Sudan
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Disability, health services and Community Based Rehabilitation approaches in Tanzania and the Sudan. Reflections about the "right to health" in low-income countries
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The violence of silence: Tanzanian girls, poverty and illegal abortion in times of HIV Gender-based violence and unsafe abortion: public health issues
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The violence of silence: Adolescent girls, poverty and illegal abortion in times of HIV Gender-based violence and unsafe abortion: public health issues
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To Risk or not to Risk? Is it a Question? Sexual Debut, Poverty and Vulnerability in times of HIV
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From Initiation Rituals to AIDS Education: Entering Adulthood at the Turn of the Millennium
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From Blessing to Burden: Coping with the fertile body in times of AIDS. Adolescent girls in Western Tanzania at the turn of the millennium
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To risk or not to risk: Is it a question? Coming of age in times of AIDS: primary school-children in Western Tanzania Gender and Child Poverty: Rights, Ethics and Care
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"Going native" in anthropological health research - Is it that wrong? Transferring anthropological methods, theory and experience to applied health research
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To risk or not to risk: Is it a question? Coming of age in times of AIDS: the case of primary school-pupils in Western Tanzania
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Preventing unwanted pregnancy, preventing HIV infection? The challenges of contraceptive technology, illegal abortion and youth-friendly services in Tanzania
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Contextual aspects in relation to reproductive health information among school youth in Rombo District, Tanzania
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Community based health promotion: The potential of tradtional and modern institutions. Proceedings from a workshop