Marte E. S. Haaland is a medical anthropologist working with maternal health and sexual and reproductive health and rights.  She has research experience from Norway as well as from sub-Saharan Africa.

In Norway, Haaland has led a commissioned study on women's experiences with abortion boards for second trimester abortions. She has also examined  maternal health care for immigrants with a special focus on antenatal care, addressing an existing health equity gap.

In her Phd-research, she explored the politics of abortion in Zambia with a special interest in abortion policies as an element of reproductive governance. 

Haaland has extensive experience in research administration. She has served as administrative coordinator for the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child health (CISMAC).

Member of The Young Academy of Norway (2023-2027)

Report on Women's experiences with abortion boards can be accessed here.

Vi må verne om det norske helsevesenet - Bergens Tidende 27.9.2019

Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort - Bergens Tidende 8.3.2019

When abortions become public - a case from rural Zambia - Presentation at anniverisy seminar for Centre for International Health 10.12.2018

Mange millioner jenter blir uønsket gravide - Bergens Tidene 02.12.2018

Kvinnekropper i politisk spill, igjen (Female bodies in politics, again) - guest blogpost at Maddam.no, October 31, 2018

Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health: evidence of impact - panelist in panel during Bergen Exchanges 21.8.2018

La oss snakke litt om abort (Let's talk about abortion) - guest blogpost at Maddam.no, June 14, 2018

 

Culture and health, medical anthropology, qualitative research methods, sexual and reporductive health and rights, ethnography

Lecture

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2024). Etikksalong - Hvorfor trenger vi en ny abortlov?. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2023). Beyond the law? Abortion policy and politics in Zambia. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2019). Beyond legality – An ethnography of the Zambian abortion policy. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2018). Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health: evidence of impact . (external link)

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)
• Munakampe, Margarate N.; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Zulu, Joseph M. et al. (2021). From science to sustainable systems: Evidence based-decision making for adolescent fertility in Zambia. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Haukanes, Haldis; Zulu, Joseph et al. (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. (external link)
• Mukunya, David; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Tumwine, James K et al. (2020). “The cord is the child”: meanings and practices related to umbilical cord care in Central Uganda. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Zulu, Joseph Mumba; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg et al. (2020). When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia. (external link)
• Blystad, Astrid; Haukanes, Haldis; Tadele, Getnet et al. (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. (external link)
• Zulu, Joseph M.; Blystad, Astrid; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik et al. (2019). Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Haukanes, Haldis; Zulu, Joseph M. et al. (2019). Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act. (external link)
• Mukunya, David; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Tumwine, James K. et al. (2018). "We shall count it as a part of kyogero": acceptability and considerations for scale up of single dose chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care in Central Uganda. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2016). Krevende kommunikasjon om svangerskap og fødsel - Om veiledning av innvandrerkvinner på en norsk helsestasjon. (external link)

Feature article

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Bruvik, Frøydis Kristine et al. (2023). Abortlov til vurdering. (external link)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Haukanes, Haldis et al. (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. (external link)
• Karine Aasgaard, Jansen; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg et al. (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. (external link)

Interview

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2023). Forslag om å endre abortnemndene støttes av forskning . (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2023). Å møte i abortnemnd virker meningsløst for mange. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2023). Ny forskning på abortnemndene: - Lite forståelsesfullt system for kvinnene. (external link)

Report

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Kjelsvik, Marianne; Cetin, Kaya Sinem et al. (2023). Kvinners erfaringer med abortnemnder. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Kjelsvik, Marianne (2023). Kvinners erfaringer fra abortnemnder - presentasjon av en samfunnsvitenskapelig studie. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2023). Reproductive Justice and Democracy - Roundtable on Bergen Exchanges. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2022). Beyond the law - polemics and controversy over Zambia's abortion policy. (external link)
• Onarheim, Kristine Husøy; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Hawkes, Sarah (2020). Kultur over struktur i norsk innvandrerhelse? En studie av norsk helsepolitikk med fokuspå seksuell og kjønnsbasert vold blant flyktninger. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2019). Shaping the abortion policy: Competing discourses on the Zambian Termination of Pregnancy Act. (external link)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2018). Beyond legality - An ethnogrphy of the Zambian abortion law. (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2021). Panel debate: People we come across. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg et al. (2021). Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics. (external link)

Book review

• Zulu, Joseph M.; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik (2019). Situating the Mexico City Policy: what shapes contraceptive access and abortion?. (external link)

Poster

• Mukunya, David; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Tylleskär, Thorkild et al. (2017). We shall count it as a part of kyogero?. Acceptability of single dose 7.1% chlorhexidine di-gluconate solution for umbilical cord care among women in Kampala and Mukono district, central Uganda: A qualitative study. (external link)

Masters thesis

• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Bjelland, Anne Karen (2015). Krevende kommunikasjon om svangerskap og fødsel. En studie av møtet mellom jordmødre og innvandrerkvinner på en norsk helsestasjon. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

SAFEZT - Competing discourses impacting girls’ and women’s rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania

CISMAC - Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health

Women’s experiences with abortion boards in Norway (WAB)