Emily Mclean
Position
PhD candidate
Affiliation
Work
Emily McLean is a PhD Research Fellow at Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS), at the Department for Global Health and Primary Care and an affiliate researcher at Global Health Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She is a medical doctor by training.
Her PhD project aims to explore the ethical complexities and priority dilemmas related to the implementation of safe abortion care in Ethiopia. The goal is to produce evidence for policy makers and medical ethics training programs.
Outreach
Helsevesenet er klimaversting. NRK radio Nyhetsmorgen og NRK Vestlandsrevyen. 8.oktober 2021.
Helsesektoren er klimaversting:Bergen satser på solceller. NRK. 8.oktober 2021.
Dahl EH, McLean E. Norge kan redde tusenvis av liv ved å støtte patentfritak. Aftenposten. 30.april 2021.
McLean E, Skagen KM, Mikkelsen ME, Larsen L, Ulveseter K. Ta steget for en grønnere helsesektor. Dagens Medisin. 19.april 2021.
Leiten E, McLean E, Appelbäck M. En folkemordstrategi. Bergens Tidene. 8.februar 2014
Publications
Selected publications:
Bhopal A, McLean E, Nordrum OL, Eriksen SS. Eit klimanøytralt helsevesen: på tide å ta grep! Tidsskriftet Den Norske Legeforening. 2020, Dec.
- McLean E. When the law makes doors slightly open: ethical dilemmas among abortion service providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BMC Medical Ethics. 2019, Aug.
Academic article
- Mclean, Emily; Miljeteig, Ingrid; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2024). From political priority to service delivery: Complexities to real-life priority of abortion services in Ethiopia. (external link)
- Mclean, Emily; Blystad, Astrid; Mirkuzie, Alemnesh Hailemariam et al. (2023). Health workers’ experience of providing second-trimester abortion care in Ethiopia: a qualitative study. (external link)
- Mclean, Emily; Onarheim, Kristine Husøy; Schanche, Elisabeth et al. (2022). Etiske dilemmaer for sykehjemsleger under covid-19-pandemien. (external link)
- Bhopal, Anand; Mclean, Emily; Nordrum, Ola Løkken et al. (2020). Eit klimanøytralt helsevesen: På tide å ta grep!. (external link)
- Mclean, Emily; Nima, Dawit Desalegn; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2019). When the law makes doors slightly open: ethical dilemmas among abortion service providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (external link)
Projects
Grønt Helsevesen ('Decarbonising Healthcare'): Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation CET accelerator funded project (January-October 2021) which aims to build a coalition of researchers, clinicians and policy makers working towards decarbonising Norwegian health care while maintaining and improving health outcomes.
Priority-setting dilemmas, moral distress and support experienced by employees at nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: The aim of the project is to explore and describe the ethical dilemmas that employees at nursing homes in Norway have experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic with a special focus on priority dilemmas and experiences of support.
Former project
SAFEZT: Competing discourses impacting girls’ and women’s rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania