PhD-candidates, PostDocs & Research track students

Overview of past and current PhD-candidates, PostDocs & Research track students in the group

Name list

Research track students

Ongoing:

  • Kornelia Herstad

Completed:

  • Ingrid Solheim
  • Ragnhild Halvåg

Current PhD candidates MATRISET

  • Latifa Mohamed
  • Kaja Skoftedalen
  • Kerstin Almdal
  • Asabneh Molla
  • Tezera Berheto
  • Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam

Post docs MATRISET

  • Ali Saidi
  • Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland
  • Andrea Melberg

Completed PhD's

The list below shows completed Phd-degrees where the candidates were given either main - or co-supervision by Professor Moland or Professor Blystad. 

2022

Marte Bygstad Landro Vendepunktet er den andre; En kvalitativ studie av pasienters erfaring med depresjon, skam og profesjonell relasjon   psykisk helsevern (external link) VID vitenskapelige høgskole. Oslo

Gloria Abena Ampim Transforming gender relations? Men’s involvement in care for their partners and households at the time of pregnancy in rural and urban Ghana – a qualitative study (external link) University of Bergen

2021

Marte E. S. Haaland Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics (external link) University of Bergen

2020

Andrea Melberg Global policies and the provision of birth care in Burkina Faso (external link) University of Bergen

2018

Janne Lillelid Gjerde Chronic disease among women in a resource-constrained setting. The case of pelvic organ prolapse in rural Ethiopia (external link) University of Bergen

2017

Leila Katirayi Experiences of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV program in Southern Africa: A three country qualitative study University of Bergen

2016

Victor Chimhutu Results-Based Financing (RBF) in the health sector of a low-income country; from agenda setting to implementation: The case of Tanzania (external link) University of Bergen

2015

Bodil Bø Våga Scrutinizing care in nursing practice. An ethnographic study of nurse-mother interaction in programmes to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child in Tanzania (external link) University of Bergen

Selia Nganjo Maternal health care services in Zambia: Access barriers to facility childbirth and unmet obstetric need University of Bergen

Elizabeth H. Shayo Stakeholder engagement in health-related decision making. The Case of Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Tanzania (external link), University of Bergen

Hallgeir Kismul Determinants of severe child malnutrition. Studies from a rural area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (external link), University of Bergen

2014

Rahwa Mussie Weldemichael Negotiating disrupted lives – living with obstetric fistulae in Ethiopia University of Oslo

Duong Cong Thanh People Living with HIV in Viet Nam: Individual and Contextual factors Affecting Risk Taking, Health and Help Seeking Behaviour University of Bergen

2013

Cathrine Kahabuka Care seeking and management of common childhood illnesses in Tanzania: Questioning the quality of primary care services (external link) University of Bergen

Huda Sharfi Obstetric fistula and the challenge of reintegration Sudan

Marit Østebø Translations of Gender Equality in International Aid. Perspectives from Norway and Ethiopia (external link) University of Bergen

Karine Jansen Otherness and Disease in Réunion: The Politicisation of the 2005 to 2007 Chikungunya Epidemic University of Bergen

Ingrid Onarheim Spjeldnæs Family values in Limpopo, South Africa. A socio-cultural psychological study on perceptions and experiences of reproduction and Parenthood (external link), University of Bergen

2012

Eli Fjeld The mother, her confidants and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services in the Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania (external link), University of Bergen

Nils Gunnar Songstad Health worker motivation in a low-income context. The case of rural health services in Tanzania (external link), University of Bergen

Marte Jurgensen HIV testing and HIV-related stigma in Zambia University of Bergen

Eva Fredriksen Pregnant: Healthy or sick? “Normal pregnancy complaints” and eligibility to protection University of Oslo

Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie Successes and challenges of the national programme for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (external link) University of Bergen

Lillian Mselle Obstetric fistulae Tanzania, psycho-social challenges Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)

2011

Tine Eri Labour onset and early labour. An exploration of first-time mothers’ and midwives’ experiences (external link) University of Bergen

Mercy Njeru HIV testing services in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia: Determinants, experiences and responsiveness, Kenya (external link), University of Bergen

2008

Tobba Sudmann Therkildsen (En)gendering body politics. Physiotherapy as a window on health and illness (external link) University of Bergen

Sebalda Leshabari Infant feeding in the context of HIV infection: Mothers’ experiences and programme implications for maternal and child health services in Tanzania (external link) University of Bergen

2005

Christopher Oleke The challenge of orphans in the era of AIDS: Assessing community experience in Uganda University of Bergen

Last updated: 17.11.2025