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
2024
- Kidanemariam, Mulu Beyene; Miljeteig, Ingrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg et al. (2024). Legal issues in the implementation of Maternal Death Surveillance and Response: a scoping review. (external link)
- Melberg, Andrea (2024). Open and opaque? The performativity of open priorities in a Norwegian hospital. (external link)
2023
- Melberg, Andrea; Miljeteig, Ingrid (2023). Den gylne regel for prioritering av rusbehandling og psykisk helsevern – en kvalitativ studie. (external link)
- Teig, Inger Lise; Bærøe, Kristine; Melberg, Andrea et al. (2023). Governance determinants of health: exploring the structural impact of politicalization, bureaucratization and medical standardization on health inequity. (external link)
2022
- Isaksen, Katja; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Zulu, Joseph 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)
- Cetin, Kaya; Worku, Dawit; Demtse, Asrat 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)
2018
- Onarheim, Kristine Husøy; Melberg, Andrea; Meier, Benjamin Masion et al. (2018). Towards universal health coverage: including undocumented migrants. (external link)
- Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi et al. (2018). Policy, paperwork and 'postographs': Global indicators and maternity care documentation in rural Burkina Faso. (external link)
2016
- Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Ruano, Ana Lorena et al. (2016). Reflections on the Unintended Consequencesof the Promotion of Institutional Pregnancyand Birth Care in Burkina Faso. (external link)
- Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Ruano, Ana Lorena et al. (2016). Reflections on the unintended consequences of the promotion of institutional pregnancy and birth care in Burkina Faso. (external link)
- Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Tylleskär, Thorkild 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)