Andrea Melberg
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
- andrea.melberg@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55586119
- Visitor address
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Alrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 17
5009 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7804NO-5020 BergenNorway
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Andrea Melberg
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Research
I am a Medical doctor and postdoctoral fellow at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority setting in Health (BCEPS) University of Bergen https://www.uib.no/en/bceps. I hold a PhD in medical anthropology focusing on the implementation of global maternal health care policies in Burkina Faso. My main fieldwork experience comes from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Norway.
Currently, I am mainly working in two different research projects:
-Priorities in practice: A study of meso-level priorities within a Norwegian hospital trust. This is a long-term ethnographic study that aims to apture the ways in which priorities come into practice at the hospital management team in a Norwegian hospial trust.
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-An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (MATRISET) funded by the Research Council of Norway. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of maternal mortality reporting to strengthen the knowledge on which to base remedial action to reduce maternal deaths. More information about the project may be found here: https://www.uib.no/en/cih/144414/facilitating-«real-life»-implementation-mdsr
Learn more about Andrea's work: Exploring the interphases between global policies and local practices
Teaching
I am engaged in teaching the following themes: Health priorities; Qualitative methods; Theory of Science; Global health governance; Global maternal health; Health systems; Metrics.
Publications
2020
- Jakob Brustugun Ekre; Erlend Elverhaug Mongstad; Lars T. Fadnes et al. (2020). Helse blant papirløse migranter i Norge. En kvalitativ studie av papirløses tilgang til helsetjenester i Norge.. (external link)
- Andrea Melberg; Lidiya Teklemariam; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2020). Juridification of maternal deaths in Ethiopia: A study of the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system. (external link)
2016
- Andrea Melberg; Abdoulaye Hama Diallo; Thorkild Tylleskär et al. (2016). 'We saw she was in danger, but couldn't do anything': Missed opportunities and health worker disempowerment during birth care in rural Burkina Faso. (external link)
- Andrea Melberg; Kristine Husøy Onarheim; Esperanza Diaz et al. (2016). Møtet med den papirløse pasient –en etisk analyse. (external link)
- Andrea Melberg; Abdoulaye Hama Diallo; Ana Lorena Ruano et al. (2016). Reflections on the unintended consequences of the promotion of institutional pregnancy and birth care in Burkina Faso. (external link)
- Andrea Melberg; Abdoulaye Hama Diallo; Ana Lorena Ruano et al. (2016). Reflections on the Unintended Consequencesof the Promotion of Institutional Pregnancyand Birth Care in Burkina Faso. (external link)
2025
- Kaya Sinem Cetin; Andrea Melberg (2025). Priority Setting in Norwegian Hospitals – An Overview of Available Research. (external link)
- Audun Brendbekken; Ole Frithjof Norheim; Frode Lindemark et al. (2025). Negotiating clinical practice guidelines: Doctors’ experiences with implementing and rationing high-cost cystic fibrosis treatment. (external link)
- Audun Brendbekken; Andrea Melberg; Gunnar Douzgos Houge (2025). Kostnadseffektivitet må avgjøre behandling. (external link)
2024
- Stine Steen Nøttveit; Anna Aarseth Kristiansen; Inger Lise Teig et al. (2024). Fag og ledelse - som fot i hose? Sykepleielederes forståelse av deres rolle som sykepleieleder og deres opplevelser med å forene fag og ledelse. (external link)
- Ezekiel Emanuel; Ole Frithjof Norheim; Mizan Kiros et al. (2024). "Principles for priority setting under resource scarcity" - Keynote and Panel Debate - Centre of Excellence DCP4 and Rationing Lab Workstreams. (external link)
- Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam; Ingrid Miljeteig; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2024). Legal issues in the implementation of Maternal Death Surveillance and Response: a scoping review. (external link)
- Andrea Melberg (2024). Open and opaque? The performativity of open priorities in a Norwegian hospital. (external link)
2023
- Andrea Melberg; Ingrid Miljeteig (2023). Den gylne regel for prioritering av rusbehandling og psykisk helsevern – en kvalitativ studie. (external link)
- Urd Hege Loftesnes; Inger Lise Teig; Andrea Melberg (2023). Å lære av feil: En kvalitativ studie av læringsmøter i en psykiatrisk klinikk Hvordan påvirker gjennomføring av faste læringsmøter etter alvorlige og/eller uønskede hendelser kommunikasjon, samhandling og håndtering av risiko?. (external link)
- Inger Lise Teig; Kristine Bærøe; Andrea Melberg et al. (2023). Governance determinants of health: exploring the structural impact of politicalization, bureaucratization and medical standardization on health inequity. (external link)
2012
- Andrea Melberg; Abdoulaye Hama Diallo; Nicolas Meda et al. (2012). Obstetric care in primary health centres in rural Burkina Faso from a health worker perspective. (external link)
- Andrea Melberg; Abdoulaye Hama Diallo; Nicolas Meda et al. (2012). Referral as relief: Health workers' experience of obstetric referrals from primary health care facilities in rural Burkina Faso. (external link)
2018
- Kristine Husøy Onarheim; Andrea Melberg; Benjamin Masion Meier et al. (2018). Towards universal health coverage: including undocumented migrants. (external link)
- Andrea Melberg; Abdoulaye Hama Diallo; Katerini Tagmatarchi Storeng et al. (2018). Policy, paperwork and 'postographs': Global indicators and maternity care documentation in rural Burkina Faso. (external link)
2022
- Katja Isaksen; Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy; Joseph Zulu et al. (2022). Interviewing adolescent girls about sexual and reproductive health: a qualitative study exploring how best to ask questions in structured follow-up interviews in a randomized controlled trial in Zambia. (external link)
- Kaya Cetin; Dawit Worku; Asrat Demtse et al. (2022). “Death audit is a fight” – provider perspectives on the ethics of the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system in Ethiopia. (external link)