Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

Position

Professor, Director BCEPS; Dep.dir. CISMAC,Centre for Int. Health

Affiliation

Research

Ingvild Sandøy is a Professor of global public health and Director of the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS; https://www.uib.no/en/bceps), a Centre of Excellence in research  established in 2023, and she is the Deputy director of the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC; https://www.cismac.org/), another Centre of Excellence established in 2013. She is also Co-Director of Development Learning Lab (DLL; https://www.devlearnlab.no/).

Her research fields are global public health, sexual and reproductive health (with a focus on low and middle income countries), and social epidemiology and prevention.

Teaching

Epidemiology

Public health, social medicine, preventive medicine  

Systematic literature review, evidence-based public health

Health effects of war and violence

HIV epidemiology

Norwegian health system

Data analysis in Stata and SPSS

 

Publications
2025
2015
2019
2008
2021
2006
2020
2022
2012
2013
2018
2024
2023
2016
2010
2009
2017
2014
2007
2011

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Edited

Salvage J, Rowson M, Melf K and Sandøy I (eds). The Medical Peace Work textbook, 2nd edition, Course 4: Structural violence and the underlying causes of violent conflict. London, Medact. Available at www.medicalpeacework.org.

Projects

Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS),

Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child health (CISMAC)

Effectiveness of peer counselling in addressing psychological distress and exposure to violence among LGBTI population in Nepal

Small Babies Trial 

Research Intitiative to Support the Empowerment of girls in Zambia (RISE)

NORHED Strengthening Health Systems through Primary Care leaders Education PRICE