I am a medical doctor and jurist working as an associate professor in public health at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-centres/bergen-centre-for-ethics-and-priority-setting-in-health-bceps. 

I hold a PhD in medical anthropology focusing on the implementation of global maternal health care policies in Burkina Faso. Currently, my research interests can broadly be divided into 3 main topics of interest: 

• Real-life priority-setting in Norway
• Implementation of the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system in Ethiopia and Tanzania
• Studies of medico-legal practices in the Norwegian welfare state

Together with Marte Haaland, I am leading the Global Health Anthropology research group : https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-groups/global-health-anthropology 

I am also affiliated to the Clinical and Health Care Ethics Research group: https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-groups/cher-clinical-and-health-care-ethics-research-group 

 

I am teaching health law, priority setting and health care governance in medical school. 

 

2026

• Kerstin Almdal; Ali Said; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2026). Identifying the ‘real cause of death’: the complexities of maternal death reviews in Tanzania. (external link)
• Andrea Melberg; Ingrid Miljeteig (2026). Grey priority-setting: an ethnographic study of hospital budgeting in Norway. (external link)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Andrea Melberg; Kristine Husøy Onarheim (2026). Global helse - en innføring | Cappelen Damm. (external link)

2025

• 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)
• Kaya Sinem Cetin; Andrea Melberg (2025). Priority Setting in Norwegian Hospitals – An Overview of Available Research. (external link)

2024

• 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)
• 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)

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)

2020

• 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)

2019

• Andrea Melberg; Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie; Tesfamichael Awoke Sisay et al. (2019). 'Maternal deaths should simply be 0': Politicization of maternal death reporting and review processes in Ethiopia. (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)

2016

• 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)
• 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; 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)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.