Global health anthropology
The Global Health Anthropology research group is an interdisciplinary group applying critical social science theory and methodology to the study of global health care policy and programmes and their impact on patient and health worker experiences in high and low welfare settings.
About the research group
The research group is led by Associate professor Marte E. S. Haaland together with Associate professor Andrea Melberg at the Centre for International Health.
The group has about 20 active members including PhD, Ma and research track students, post docs and staff from different departments at 黑料吃瓜资源, Chr Michelsen Institute (CMI) and Bergen University College.
The research group activities are 1) monthly meetings with presentation of group member鈥檚 research papers 2) a student led medical anthropology reading group 3) a yearly 2-days seminar on selected topics 4) research project development and 5) development of courses.
Vision
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 黑料吃瓜资源 research environment and beyond
What we do
Conduct research on the socio-cultural and political context of health and healthcare
Investigate normative messages and policies and their dynamics in healthcare programmes
Study inequalities in health related to gender and power with relevance to women's sexual and reproductive rights
Partner institutions
- Centre for Gender Studies and Department of Sociology,聽, Ethiopia
- School of Public Health,聽, Zambia
- Department of Sociology,聽, Tanzania
- , Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- , Tanzania
- -research group, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo
- , Christian Michelsen Institute/University of Bergen
- 聽(CORTH), University of Sussex, UK
- Ethiopian Public Health Institute
- Ethiopian Society of obstetricians and gynaecologists (ESOG)
- The Association of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (AGOTA), Tanzania
Elective courses
Master level elective courses
: Qualitative research methods for global public health (on campus)
: Qualitative research methods for global public health (online)
: Introduction to Anthropology in Global Health (on campus)
PhD-level elective courses
:聽Qualitative Research Methods for Global Public Health with essay
: Introduction to Anthropology in Global Health (on campus)
More information
Projects
Projects
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 Zambia (Norwegian Research Council/GLOBVAC, 2015-2020)
Publications
People
Group manager
Marte E. S. Haaland Group leader, Associate professor
Andrea Melberg Group leader, Associate professor
Group members
Researcher
Postdoctoral fellow
Associate professor
Project manager
PhD candidate
Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Professor
Professor
PhD candidate
PhD candidate
PhD candidate
Researcher
Associate professor
Associate professor
PhD candidate
Professor
Associated members of the Research group from outside of 黑料吃瓜资源
Agnete Str酶m
Alem Mirkuzie
Asabneh Molla
Bodil B酶 V氓g氓
Carmeliza Rosario
Getnet Tadele
Graziella Van den Bergh
James Wintrup
Janne Lillelid Gjerde
Katrine Jansen
Jovita Kakia
Julia Irani
Latifa Mohamed
Malin Kleppe
Mbewe Wilson
Tezera Berheto
Richard Sambaiga
Ali Saidi
Sarah Svege
Thera Mj氓land
Associated master students
Zainab Adedamola Associated master student
Veena Joshi Associated master student
Anna Terese Spang Associated master student
Fernando Jerez Associated master student
Gemma Agata Associated master student
Grace Doppler Associated master student
Contact
For questions, you can contact research group leader: Marte Haaland
- Emails
- marte.haaland@uib.no