The board of the Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research 2025-2027
According to the statutes, The Board of the Forum is responsible for all activities of the Forum and is accountable to the General Assembly. It consists of nine members and two substitute members, recruited among members of the Forum with a view of securing continuity, spread, geographically as well as according to institutions and scientific fields. It is an ambition to have gender balance in the election of board members.
Board members
Camilla Grøver Aukrust, OUS
Mats Blakstad, SINTEF
Kjersti Mørkrid Blom-Bakke, FHI
Hans Hadders, NTNU
Melf-Jakob Kühl, UiB
Kåre Moen, UiO
Berit Mortensen, OsloMet
Davina Kaur Patel, UiO
Thorkild Tylleskär, UiB
Substitute members
1. Maria Lisa Odland, NTNU
2. Tove Giske, VID
3. Ingvild Hersoug Nedberg, UiT
4. Ana Lorena Ruano, UiB
5. Konstantinos Antypas, SINTEF
Election committee 2025-2027
Members:
Graziella Van den Bergh, HVL
Heidi Fjeld, UiO
Simon Nygaard Øverland, UiB
Substitute members:
Elodie Anne Suzanne Besnier, NTNU
Jacinta Victoria Syombua Muinde, UiO
Michael Sarfo, University of Huddersfield
Thorkild Tylleskär
Thorkild Tylleskär is a paediatrician and professor at the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen with extensive experience with cooperation with African universities. He has led and participated in a number of large Afro-European research consortia with a focus on health and health services especially for mothers and children with publications in the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine with funding from the Research Council of Norway, EDCTP, etc. He has supervised a large number of PhD candidates, the majority from Africa.
Kjersti Mørkrid Blom-Bakke
Kjersti Mørkrid Blom-Bakke is a senior scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Global Health Department, heading the Global NCD team. Her research focuses mainly on hyperglycemia in pregnancy, the integration of NCD prevention and control in maternal and child health services, and how to close the “know-do” gap between research discovery and program delivery for health systems strengthening. She has research/work experience from Palestine, Bangladesh, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, and is currently involved in several research projects in Nepal, including as the principal investigator.
Camilla Grøver Aukrust
Mats Blakstad
Hans Hadders
Hans Hadders is associate professor at Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU. He has a background in nursing and his PhD is in social anthropology. He has done research on the mortuary rituals performed by the Jadopatias in the Santal villages of Bengal and Jharkhand, India. Besides his focus on mortuary rituals and standardisation of death in Norwegian health care and South Asia, his field of specialisation is medical anthropology. Hadders is involved in the collaboration with Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences; Dhulikhel Hospital and Kathmandu Medical College; Sinamangal Hospital in Nepal.
Berit Mortensen
Berit Mortensen, midwife and associate professor in Midwifery at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). She is the PI and manager of the NORHEDII project Midwifery Research and Education Development (MIDRED), a six-year (2021 -2026) collaboration between OsloMet, University of Ghana, Legon and Birzeit University, Palestine, funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad. Mortensen has managed various public funded humanitarian health projects in the Middle East, mainly in Palestine and Lebanon since 1987. Since 2006 she conducted implementation research while introducing a midwife-led continuity model of care within the Palestinian public health system. She holds a master's degree from 2011 and a Phd from 2020.
Melf-Jakob Kühl
Kåre Moen
Davina Kaur Patel