大象传媒

Vision: Constitute an excellent qualitative research environment within global public health grounded in social anthropology and the medical humanities.

Aims

• Strengthen the quality and applicability of critical qualitative research for global health policy and practice with particular emphasis on reproductive health
• Strengthen the use of social sciences theory and methods in the analysis of global health problems
• Strengthen the visibility and sustainability of critical qualitative global health research within the UiB research environment and beyond

Conduct research on the socio-cultural and political听context of听health and healthcare

Investigate听normative messages and policies and their dynamics in healthcare programmes

Study inequalities in health related to听gender and power with听relevance to women's sexual and reproductive rights

• Centre for Gender 大象传媒 and Department of Sociology,听, Ethiopia
• School of Public Health,听, Zambia
• Department of Sociology,听, Tanzania
• , Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• , Tanzania听
• -research group, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo
• , Christian Michelsen Institute/University of Bergen
• 听(CORTH), University of Sussex, UK听
• Ethiopian Public Health Institute听
• Ethiopian Society of obstetricians and gynaecologists (ESOG)
• The Association of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (AGOTA), Tanzania

MATRISET: Through inter-disciplinary approaches, the project explores institutional reporting routines, legal frameworks and accountability processes in maternal health in Ethiopia and Tanzania. (Norwegian Research Council 2021-2026)

WAB: Women鈥檚 experiences with abortion boards in Norway. A study commissioned by the Ministry of Health, Jan-June 2023

SAFEZT: An interdisciplinary research project on fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania (Norwegian Research Council/NORGLOBAL, 2016-2019)

RISE: Formative qualitative research linked to a cluster randomised controlled trial aimed to increase age at first delivery in听Zambia (Norwegian Research Council/GLOBVAC, 2015-2020)

Here are some publications by the research group members from 2022 going forward:

Andrea Melberg Social Science & Medicine,Volume 361, 2024, 117383

Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam, Ingrid Miljeteig, Karen Marie Moland听and Andrea Melberg听听Health Policy and Planning, 00, 2024, 1鈥�15

Mulumebet Zenebe, Haldis Haukanes and Astrid Blystad Cult Health Sex. 2024 Feb 5:1-1

McLean, E., Blystad, A., Mirkuzie, A.H. et al. . Reprod Health 20, 154 (2023).

Ishola, F., Rosario, C., Griffin, S. et al. . Matern Child Health J 28, 587鈥�595 (2024).

Melberg, Andrea, Miljeteig Ingrid Tidsskr Nor Legeforen. DOI: 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0295

Mulu B. Kidanemariam (March 23, 2023) , CORTH (UoS) blog

Eyob A. Gebremariam & Mulu B. Kidanemariam, IN Handbook on Legal Cultures: A Selection of the World's Legal Cultures (Eds. S枚ren Koch &Marius Mikkel Kj酶lstad, Springer, 2023 ). pp. 419-462

Ali Said, Mats Malqvist, Siriel Massawe, Claudia Hanson, Andrea B. Pembe Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare 36 (2023) 100851

Rosario, C., Gianella, C. 听

Siri Lange and Dorcas Mfaume Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2022) 18:35

Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Kjelsvik, Marianne; Cetin, Kaya Sinem; Gjengedal, Eva; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Daltveit, Anne Kjersti Nesje; Bruvik, Fr酶ydis Kristine. (2023). Kvinners erfaringer med abortnemnder.

Debate article (Norwegian):

Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Bruvik, Fr酶ydis Kristine; Cetin, Kaya Sinem; Kjelsvik, Marianne. (2023). Abortlov til vurdering. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.

Media (in Norwegian):

Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik. (2023). .

Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik. (2023). . Lukket/Only available with subscription.

Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik. (2023). Forslag om 氓 endre abortnemndene st酶ttes av forskning听
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Master level elective courses

INTH323 E: Qualitative research methods for global public health (on campus)
INTH323O: Qualitative research methods for global public health (online)
INTH345: Introduction to Anthropology in Global Health (on campus)

PhD-level elective courses

INTH923:听Qualitative Research Methods for Global Public Health with essay
INTH945: Introduction to Anthropology in Global Health (on campus)

Find the group members from UiB listed at the bottom of the webpage.

Associated members of the Research group from outside of UiB

• Agnete Str酶m听
• Alem Mirkuzie听听听听听听听听听听听听
• Asabneh Molla
• Bodil B酶 V氓g氓听听听听听听听听听听
• Carmeliza Rosario听听
• Getnet Tadele听听听听听听听听听听听听听
• Graziella Van den Bergh听听听听听听听
• James Wintrup
• Janne Lillelid Gjerde听听听听听
• Katrine Jansen听听听听听听听听听听
• Jovita Kakia听听听听听
• Julia Irani
• Latifa Mohamed听听听听
• Malin Kleppe
• Mbewe Wilson听听
• Tezera Berheto
• Richard Sambaiga听听听听听
• Ali Saidi听听听听听听听
• Sarah Svege听听听听
• Thera Mj氓land听听听听听听听

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Associated master students听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

• Zainab Adedamola听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
• Veena Joshi听
• Anna Terese Spang听听听听听听听听
• Fernando Jerez
• Gemma Agata听听听听
• Grace Doppler听听听听听听听听听听听听听

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Research track students

Ongoing:

• Kornelia Herstad

Completed:

• Ingrid Solheim
• Ragnhild Halv氓g

Current PhD candidates MATRISET

• Latifa Mohamed
• Kaja Skoftedalen
• Kerstin Almdal
• Asabneh Molla
• Tezera Berheto
• Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam

Post docs MATRISET

• Ali Saidi
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland
• Andrea Melberg

Completed PhD's

The list below shows completed Phd-degrees where the candidates were given either main - or co-supervision by Professor Moland or Professor Blystad.听

2022

Marte Bygstad Landro VID vitenskapelige h酶gskole. Oslo

Gloria Abena Ampim University of Bergen

2021

Marte E. S. Haaland University of Bergen

2020

Andrea Melberg University of Bergen

2018

Janne Lillelid Gjerde University of Bergen

2017

Leila Katirayi Experiences of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV program in Southern Africa: A three country qualitative study University of Bergen

2016

Victor Chimhutu University of Bergen

2015

Bodil B酶 V氓ga University of Bergen

Selia Nganjo Maternal health care services in Zambia: Access barriers to facility childbirth and unmet obstetric need University of Bergen

Elizabeth H. Shayo , University of Bergen

Hallgeir Kismul , University of Bergen

2014

Rahwa Mussie Weldemichael Negotiating disrupted lives 鈥� living with obstetric fistulae in Ethiopia University of Oslo

Duong Cong Thanh People Living with HIV in Viet Nam: Individual and Contextual factors Affecting Risk Taking, Health and Help Seeking Behaviour University of Bergen

2013

Cathrine Kahabuka University of Bergen

Huda Sharfi Obstetric fistula and the challenge of reintegration Sudan

Marit 脴steb酶 University of Bergen

Karine Jansen Otherness and Disease in R茅union: The Politicisation of the 2005 to 2007 Chikungunya Epidemic University of Bergen

Ingrid Onarheim Spjeldn忙s , University of Bergen

2012

Eli Fjeld , University of Bergen

Nils Gunnar Songstad , University of Bergen

Marte Jurgensen HIV testing and HIV-related stigma in Zambia University of Bergen

Eva Fredriksen Pregnant: Healthy or sick? 鈥淣ormal pregnancy complaints鈥� and eligibility to protection University of Oslo

Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie University of Bergen

Lillian Mselle Obstetric fistulae Tanzania, psycho-social challenges Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)

2011

Tine Eri听 University of Bergen

Mercy Njeru , University of Bergen

2008

Tobba Sudmann Therkildsen University of Bergen

Sebalda Leshabari University of Bergen

2005

Christopher Oleke The challenge of orphans in the era of AIDS: Assessing community experience in Uganda University of Bergen

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Solstrand Sep 24-25 2023: Global health policy and practice in the context of decolonization debates

Rosendal Sept 7-8 2022: Global health policy and practice in the context of decolonization debates

Rosendal Sept 1-2 2021: Social studies of quantification

Vatnahalsen April 24-25 2019: Reproductive governance in maternal health

Vatnahalsen April 25-26 2017 : Policy and technologies in global health听听

Vatnahalsen April 28-29 2016: Working in the interface between the social-, health- and biomedical sciences听

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For questions, you can contact Research group leader: Karen Marie Moland