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Originally from Brazil, Ingrid Cardoso Couto de Azevedo came to Bergen back in early 2021. She has background as a medical doctor working with topics such as tropical diseases and infection prevention and control..

– I came to Norway together with my husband. He wanted to do a PhD in shipping finance and got a position here, explains the 37 year old. At the same time, she applied for a at UiB.

Only few weeks ago, she started working as a PhD at the Pandemic Centre. There she will form part of the Climate Health-initiative.

– I’ve always been interested in the connections between environment and health. Working as an infectious disease specialist made me understand how the environment affects human health. But I would also like to explore the positive effects of nature and the overall sustainability, she explains.

Her PhD-work will consist of several papers where the first paper will explore how climate goals can be integrated when doing health care allocations on a national level. The 2^nd paper will focus on climate mitigation and trade-offs between human health and environmental outcomes in Norway. Finally, she is planning to look into how Norwegian hospital stakeholders are balancing emission reductions and carbon quotas.

The topics are preliminary and might be adjusted, as the new PhD-candidate still needs to be formally admitted into the program. There is however no doubt that the questions she will explore are highly relevant.Ìý

–ÌýNorway has committed on a Health Ministry level that they will go net zero by 2045 in the health care sector. You can commit, but how are you going to achieve this, she asks.

Ingrid’s supervisors from UiB and the Pandemic Centre will be professor in health economics, , and professor from the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET).

Click on the link to read more about the Climate Health Initiative: /en/pandemic/172793/climate-health-initiative-chi

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