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Kerstin Almdal is a PhD candidate at the Centre for International Health (CIH), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen. She is a medical doctor (MD, 2016) and holds a Master’s degree in Global Health and Surgery from King’s College London (2021). 

Her PhD project, conducted within MATRISET, investigates how maternal deaths are identified, reviewed, and documented within the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system in Tanzania. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork and document analysis, her research examines how explanations for maternal deaths are constructed and translated into official reports and actions aimed at reducing future maternal mortality. It explores how notions of avoidability and accountability, as well as documentation practices, shape maternal death review processes.

She has worked clinically primarily in obstetrics and gynaecology, with additional experience in general surgery and other medical specialties in Denmark and Greenland. Her experience also includes an internship at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila (2015) in the unit for disaster risk management, and a one‑year student research fellowship at the Neurosurgical Unit at the University of Copenhagen.

Her teaching experience includes maternal health and qualitative methods teaching across medical and global health programmes, clinical examination skills training for medical students, and supervision and facilitation of master’s thesis seminars. She has also contributed to assessment at master’s level.

Kerstin Almdal, Ali Said, Karen Marie Moland, Andrea Melberg, Identifying the ‘real cause of death’: the complexities of maternal death reviews in Tanzania, Health Policy and Planning, 2026;, czag053,

Almdal K, Hornum M, Almdal T. Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus (PTDM) Following Solid Organ Transplantation - Systematic Analysis of Prevalence and Total Mortality and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Interventional Studies Aimed at Lowering Blood Glucose. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2023;19(7):e071122210692.
 

 Almdal K, Storkholm J, Bernth-Andersen S, Hansen CP. The results of pancreatic surgery in Inuit patients from Greenland 1999-2022. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023;82(1):2208392.
 

Brennum J, Maier CM, Almdal K, Engelmann CM, Gjerris M. Primo non nocere or maximum survival in grade 2 gliomas? A medical ethical question. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2015;157(2):155-64; discussion 64.
 

Brennum J, Maier CM, Almdal K, Engelmann CM, Gjerris M. What do we do when attenuation of cerebral function goes hand in hand with maximally effective surgery? Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2015;157(5):811-2.
 

PhD candidate in the research project )