Astrid Blystad, sykepleier og sosialantropolog, er professor ved Senter for internasjonal helse (SIH), Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin (IGS), Universitetet i Bergen (UiB). Hennes primære forskningsinteresse ligger i dynamikken mellom globale helsepolitiske føringer og hvordan slike føringer / ‘policy’ kommer til uttrykk og erfares i lokale kontekster.

Arbeidet er basert på 35 års forskning i det østlige og sørlige Afrika. Metodisk er forskningen forankret i en etnografisk tradisjon, - de siste årene i kombinasjon med andre kvalitative metoder og mixed methods designs. Teoretisk fokus ligger i skjæringspunktet mellom sosiokulturell teori, kritisk teori, kjønnsteori og fenomenologi.

Blystad har ledet en rekke ekstern-finansierte tverrfaglige forskningsinitiativ.  De siste større prosjektene er : Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (2021-2026), et tverrfaglig initiativ (samfunnsfag, medisin, juss) som studerer problematiske sider ved generering av mødredødelighetstall, en sentral global indikator på ‘utvikling’. Prosjektet Competing discoursing impacting girls and women's rights: Fertility control and safe abort in Etiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (2016-19) undersøkte det komplekse forholdet mellom nasjonale abortlover og kvinners faktiske tilgang til trygge aborttjenester.

Blystad har publisert betydelig innen feltet global reproduktiv helse. Hun har veiledet 17 PhD- og over 70 masterstudenter. Hun leder forskningsgruppen Global Health Anthropology sammen med Professor Karen Marie Moland. 

Blystad teaches in the master program in Global Health at the Centre for International Health (CIH) and in the master program in Health and Society at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Health Care (IGS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen.

The prime topics taught include social science perspectives on health, illness and suffering; qualitative research methodology and the philosophy of science. She co-coordinates the MA/PhD course ‘Introduction to anthropology in global health’ with Professor Karen Marie Moland, CIH.  

Supervision:Blystad has supervised a total of 17 PhD candidates (8 as main supervisor, 9 as co-supervisor). PhD projects completed: name, short title, year, main supervisor (MS), co-supervisor (CS):

Marte Bygstad Landro: Experiences of shame among depressed, Norway, 2016-22 (CS)

Gloria Abena Ampim: Male involvement in maternal health initiatives, Ghana, 2018-22 (CS)

Marte ES Haaland: Negotiating the abortion law, Zambia, 2017- 21 (MS)

Janne Gjerde: Living with pelvic floor disorders, Ethiopia, 2013-18 (MS)

Bodil B Våga: Nursing care in a cultural perspective, Tanzania, 2009-15 (MS)

Elizabeth Shayo: Participation in health-related decision making, Tanzania, 2009-15 (MS) 

Huda Sharfi: Obstetric fistula and the challenge of reintegration, Sudan, 2008-13 (CS)

Getaneh Mehari: The Gamo gome institution and women’s sexual rights, 2009-13 (CS)

Marit Østebø: The export of gender policies in Norwegian foreign aid, 2009-13 (MS)

Karine Jansen: Politicisation of the 2005-07 Chikungunya epidemic, Reunion, 2008-13 (CS)

Nils G Songstad: Human resources for health, Tanzania, 2007-12 (MS)

Marte Jurgensen: Voluntary testing and counselling for HIV in Zambia, 2007-12 (CS)

Tine Eri:  Experiences of labour onset and early labour, 2008-11 (MS)

Mercy Njeru: Challenges of equity and adherence in HIV interventions, Kenya, 2007-11 (CS)

Torhild S Terkelsen: Gendered touch: experiences from physiotherapy, 2003-08 (CS)

Sebalda Leshabari: Infant feeding among HIV positive mothers, Tanzania, 2004-07 (CS)

Christopher Oleke: Local dynamics of the orphan challenge in Uganda, 2001-05 (MS)

Current PhD candidates (6): Nega Jibat 2017-2022 (CS); Emily McClean 2021-2024 (CS), Ane Straume 2014-2022 (MS), Asabneh Molla 2022-2025 (CS), Kaja Skoftedalen 2022-2026 (CS), Tezera Berheto 2023-2026 (CS).  

Blystad has supervised more than 70 master projects and three (3) medical research track candidates. Present MA students: 4. Present research track students:1

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Zenebe, Mulumebet; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (2024). Between ‘block course relationships’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University. (ekstern lenke)
• Jibat, Nega; Tadele, Getnet; Haukanes, Haldis et al. (2024). “We need to confirm at least from two or three”: Healthcare workers’ discretion as gatekeepers in the context of the Ethiopian abortion law. (ekstern lenke)
• 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 . (ekstern lenke)
• Mclean, Emily; Blystad, Astrid; Mirkuzie, Alemnesh Hailemariam et al. (2023). Health workers’ experience of providing second-trimester abortion care in Ethiopia: a qualitative study. (ekstern lenke)
• Ampim, Gloria Abena; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2022). ‘I Do Not Want Her to be Doing Anything Stressful’: Men’s Involvement in Domestic Work during pregnancy in Ghana. (ekstern lenke)
• Bygstad-Landro, Marte; Giske, Tove; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2021). «Skammen slår beina under meg» – om hvordan mennesker med depresjon erfarer skam. (ekstern lenke)
• Svanemyr, Joar; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2021). Norms and sexual relations among adolescents in the context of an intervention trial in rural Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Ampim, Gloria Abena; Blystad, Astrid; Kpoor, Albert et al. (2021). "I came to escort someone": Men's experiences of antenatal care services in Urban Ghana. A qualitative study. (ekstern lenke)
• Ampim, Gloria Abena; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (2020). Making Fathers: Masculinities and Social Change in the Ghanaian Context. (ekstern lenke)
• Solheim, Ingrid Holm; Moland, Karen Marie; Kahabuka, Catherine et al. (2020). Beyond the law: Misoprostol and medical abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Haukanes, Haldis; Zulu, Joseph et al. (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Munsaka, Ecloss et al. (2020). Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: Parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• 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. (ekstern lenke)
• Byskov, Jens; Maluka, Stephen; Marchal, Bruno et al. (2019). A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals. (ekstern lenke)
• 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. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Haukanes, Haldis; Tadele, Getnet et al. (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Sambaiga, Richard; Haukanes, Haldis; Moland, Karen Marie et al. (2019). Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Tadele, Getnet; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2019). ‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• 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. (ekstern lenke)
• Zulu, Joseph; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Moland, Karen Marie et al. (2019). The challenge of community engagement and informed consent in rural Zambia: an example from a pilot study. (ekstern lenke)
• 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. (ekstern lenke)
• Gjerde, Janne Lillelid; Rørtveit, Guri; Adefris, Mulat et al. (2018). Life after pelvic organ prolapse surgery: A qualitative study in Amhara region, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Zulu, Joseph M.; Goicolea, Isabel; Kinsman, John et al. (2018). Community based interventions for strengthening adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights: how can they be integrated and sustained? A realist evaluation protocol from Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Gjerde, Janne Lillelid; Rørtveit, Guri; Adefris, Mulat et al. (2018). The lucky ones get cured: Health care seeking among women with pelvic organ prolapse in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. . (ekstern lenke)
• Medås, Kaja Mari; Blystad, Astrid; Giske, Tove (2017). Åndelighet i psykisk helseomsorg: et sammensatt og vanskelig tema. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Rørtveit, Guri; Gjerde, Janne Lillelid et al. (2017). Strengthening validity in studies of pelvic floor disorders through qualitative research: an example from Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Mudenda, Mweetwa; Zulu, Joseph et al. (2016). Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial. (ekstern lenke)
• Corosky, Gregory; Blystad, Astrid (2016). Staying healthy “under the sheets”: Inuit youth experiences of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada. (ekstern lenke)
• Råheim, Målfrid; Magnussen, Liv Heide; Sekse, Ragnhild Johanne Tveit et al. (2016). Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability. (ekstern lenke)
• Gjerde, Janne Lillelid; Rørtveit, Guri; Muleta, Mulu et al. (2016). Living with pelvic organ prolapse: voices of women from Amhara region, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2016). Boundaries of confidentiality in nursing care for mother and child in HIV programmes. (ekstern lenke)
• Byskov, Jens; Marchal, Bruno; Maluka, Stephen et al. (2014). The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources - findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Moland, Karen Marie; Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg et al. (2014). Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: The case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Haukanes, Haldis; Zenebe, Mulumebet (2014). Mediating development? Exchanges on gender policies and development practices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Zulu, Joseph; Michelo, Charles Cheembo; Msoni, Carol et al. (2014). Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: The case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Vestbøstad, Elin; Blystad, Astrid (2014). Reflections on Female Circumcision Discourse in Hargeysa, Somaliland: Purified or Mutilated?. (ekstern lenke)
• Shayo, Elizabeth Henry; Våga, Bodil Bø; Moland, Karen Marie et al. (2014). Challenges of disseminating clinical practice guidelines in a weak health system: the case of HIV and infant feeding recommendations in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Gjerde, Janne Lillelid; Rørtveit, Guri; Muleta, Mulu et al. (2013). Silently waiting to heal: Experiences among women living with urinary incontinence in northwest Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Megabiaw, B; Adefris, M; Rørtveit, Guri et al. (2013). Pelvic floor disorders among women in Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia: a pilot study. (ekstern lenke)
• Jürgensen, Marte; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Michelo, Charles Cheembo et al. (2013). The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: Results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Moland, Karen Marie; Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg et al. (2013). Rethinking nursing care: An ethnographic approach to nurse-patient interaction in the context of a HIV preventive programme in rural Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Østebø, Marit Tolo; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (2013). Strong state policies on gender and aid: threats and opportunities for Norwegian faith-based organisations. (ekstern lenke)
• Shayo, Elizabeth H; Mboera, Leonard E.G.; Blystad, Astrid (2013). Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Moland, Karen Marie; Massay, Deodatus Amadeus et al. (2012). Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?. (ekstern lenke)
• Jürgensen, Marte; Tuba, Mary; Fylkesnes, Knut et al. (2012). The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Shayo, Elizabeth H; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Mboera, Leonard E.G. et al. (2012). Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Megabiaw, Berihun; Adefris, Mulat; Rørtveit, Guri et al. (2012). Prevalence of pelvic floor disorders among women in northwest Ethiopia: the DABINCOP pilot study. (ekstern lenke)
• Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Blystad, Astrid; Shayo, Elizabeth H et al. (2012). Condom availability in high risk places and condom use: a study at district level in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Eri, Tine Schauer; Blystad, Astrid; Gjengedal, Eva et al. (2011). 'Stay home for as long as possible': Midwives' priorities and strategies in communicating with first-time mothers in early labour. (ekstern lenke)
• Njeru, Mercy Karimi; Blystad, Astrid; Shayo, Elizabeth H et al. (2011). Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities. (ekstern lenke)
• Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Massay, Deodatus Amadeus et al. (2011). Perceived unfairness in working conditions: The case of public health services in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Eri, Tine Schauer; Blystad, Astrid; Gjengedal, Eva et al. (2010). ‘The waiting mode’: First-time mothers’ experiences of waiting for labour onset. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; van Esterik, Penny; Paoli, Marina Manuela de et al. (2010). Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt. (ekstern lenke)
• Paoli, Marina Manuela de; Moland, Karen Marie; van Esterik, Penny et al. (2010). Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. (ekstern lenke)
• Paoli, Marina Manuela de; Moland, Karen Marie; Sellen, Daniel W et al. (2010). Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Njunga, John; Blystad, Astrid (2010). 'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2010). ?HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and the ways ahead? Thematic series. International Breastfeeding Journal 2010:5. (ekstern lenke)
• Koricho, Absera Teshome; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2010). Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Eri, Tine Schauer; Blystad, Astrid; Gjengedal, Eva et al. (2010). Negotiating credibility: first-time mothers' experiences of contact with the labour ward before hospitalisation. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Tarimo, Edith a. mroso; Kohi, Thecla W.; Outwater, Anne et al. (2009). Gender roles and informal care for patients with AIDS A qualitative study from an urban area in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Njeru, Mercy Karimi; Blystad, Astrid; Nyamongo, Isaac K et al. (2009). A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya. (ekstern lenke)
• Munga, Michael Aloyce; Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2009). The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Byskov, Jens; Bloch, Paul; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2009). Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Malleyeck, Herman (2007). Seclusion, protection and avoidance: Exploring the metida complex among the datoga of northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Blystad, Astrid; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn et al. (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. (ekstern lenke)
• Leshabari, S C; Blystad, Astrid; de Paoli, M et al. (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Leshabari, S C; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Leshabari, Sebalda Charles; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Blystad, Astrid; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn et al. (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. (ekstern lenke)
• Leshabari, Sebalda Charles; Blystad, Astrid; de Paoli, Marina Manuela et al. (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Blystad, Astrid; Fylkesnes, Knut et al. (2007). Constraints to educational opportunities of orphans: A community-based study from northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Malleyeck, Herman (2007). Seclusion, protection and avoidance: Exploring the metida complex among the datoga of northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie et al. (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie et al. (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Terkelsen, Toril Borch; Blystad, Astrid; Hydle, Ida (2005). Article:Transforming extraordinary experiences into the concept of schizophrenia: a case-study of a Norwegian psychiatric unit. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid (2005). "When the obvious brother is not there": Political and cultural context of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Blystad, Astrid; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn (2005). "When the obvious brother is not there": Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2004). On HIV, sex and respect: Local-global discourse encounters among the Datoga of Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

• Unnithan, Maya; De Zordo, Silvia; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2024). Anthropology of abortion. (ekstern lenke)
• Lange, Siri; Blystad, Astrid; Mfaume, Dorcas (2018). Globally designed accountability and local social inequality. A case study of two maternal deaths in Tanzania.. (ekstern lenke)
• Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2009). Counting on Mother's Love: The Global Politics of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2007). On HIV, sex and respect: Local-global discourse encounters among Datoga in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2005). Noen tanker om positivisme i kvalitativ forskning. (ekstern lenke)
• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid; Gasheka, Petro et al. (2005). Employing film in HIV prevention: a culture specific film from Mbulu/Hanang, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2005). Fertile mortal links: Reconsidering Datoga violence. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn (2004). Datoga. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2000). Challenging encounters: Datoga lives in independent Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2000). Challenging encounters: Datoga lives in independent Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid (1999). "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure and the future. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1999). "Dealing with men's spears": Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility. (ekstern lenke)
• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid (1999). "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure and the future. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1999). "Dealing with men's spears": Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility. (ekstern lenke)
• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid (1999). "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure, and the future. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1996). "Do Give us Children": The Problem of Fertility among the Pastoral Barbayiig of Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1996). La Chant qui Reveille la Terre. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1996). La Chant qui Revielle la Terre. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1996). "Do Give us Children": The Problem of Fertility among the Pastoral Barbayiig of Tanzania'. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1995). Peril or Penalty: AIDS in the context of social change among the Barabaig. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1995). Peril or penalty: AIDS in the context of social change among the Barabaig. (ekstern lenke)

Faglig foredrag

• Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Blystad, Astrid (2023). The access paradox in safe abortion care. (ekstern lenke)
• Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (2017). Global-national-local dynamics in studies of gender, health and the body. Examples of research collaboration between anthropologists on the margins. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie; Haukanes, Haldis (2015). North South Partnerships in Higher Education. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Bygstad-Landro, Marte; Giske, Tove; Martinsen, Kari Marie et al. (2022). Vendepunktet er den andre En kvalitativ studie av pasienters erfaring med depresjon, skam og profesjonell relasjon i psykisk helsevern . (ekstern lenke)
• Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg et al. (2021). Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics. (ekstern lenke)
• Gjerde, Janne Lillelid; Blystad, Astrid (2018). Chronic disease among women in a resource-constrained setting. The case of pelvic organ prolapse in rural Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Shayo, Elizabeth Henry; Blystad, Astrid (2015). Stakeholder engagement in health-related decision making. The Case of Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Blystad, Astrid (2015). Scrutinizing care in nursing practice: An ethnographic study of nurse-mother interaction in programmes to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Oleke, Christopher; Blystad, Astrid (2005). The challenge of orphans in the era of AIDS : assessing community experience in Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf (2000). Precarious Procreation. Datoga Pastoralists at the Late 20th Century. (ekstern lenke)

Leserinnlegg

• Blystad, Astrid; Haukanes, Haldis; Tadele, Getnet et al. (2020). Reproductive health and the politics of abortion. (ekstern lenke)
• Moland, Karen Marie; van Esterik, Penny; Sellen, Daniel W et al. (2010). Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. (ekstern lenke)

Kronikk

• Karine Aasgaard, Jansen; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg et al. (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Haukanes, Haldis et al. (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. (ekstern lenke)
• Moland, Karen Marie; Haukanes, Haldis; Tadele, Getnet et al. (2017). The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol. (ekstern lenke)
• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid (2007). Apartheid i forskning. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig foredrag

• Haukanes, Haldis; Tadele, Getnet; Moland, Karen Marie et al. (2018). The Access Paradox in Safe Abortion Care. The cases of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia . (ekstern lenke)
• Straume, Ane; Bjelland, Anne Karen; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2015). Helse- og sosial politikk/medisinsk antropologi. (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2013). Handling PMTCT guidelines in non-choice contexts: The case of infant feeding counselling and decision making in PMTCT programmes, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (2013). Mediators of development? Experiences with gender and aid among gender experts in Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (2011). Beyond Culture? Commitment and Structural Critique among Gender experts in Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2007). The illusion of informed choie in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: Global politics in local worlds. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (2007). A note on applied locally grounded research and the challenging dynamics between health related research and policy making. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (2007). Counting on mother's love: The global politics of mother to child transmission in eastern Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2007). Hope, faith and holy water: Resistance in PMTCT programs in Addis Ababa. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (2007). The politics of mother to child transmission of HIV: global discourse and local lives. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2005). Staff and community experience with HIV-related interventions: The case of prevention, treatment and care programmes at Haydom, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2005). On sex, seclusion, fecundity and fate: The dynamics of sexual prohibitions within the metida/meeta complex among peoples in Hanang/Mbulu, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2005). Voldsutøvelse blant øst-afrikanske pastoralister: liv-død dynamikk i ny kontekst. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2005). Women and Datoga pastoralists of Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2005). Vanishing tombs, barren wombs': Gendered confrontations between state forces and Datoga women, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2003). Kropp, seksualitet og AIDS. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2003). Sex and power: Experiences from an HIV intervention project in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (2002). Film as intervention. (ekstern lenke)

Poster

• Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Mudenda, Mweetwa; Zulu, Joseph M. et al. (2017). High participation in cluster randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme in rural Zambia . (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Moland, Karen Marie; Bjørg, Evjen-Olsen et al. (2013). 'There is no choice in this area'. Nurse counselling in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmes in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Moland, Karen Marie; Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg et al. (2013). 'There is no choice in this area'. Nurse counselling in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmes in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Njeru, MK; Blystad, Astrid; Fylkesnes, Knut (2008). Assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary testing and counselling for HIV in Kenya. (ekstern lenke)
• Leshabari, Sebalda Charles; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2007). Choice and adherence to choice of infant feeding method among HIV positive mothers in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Sammendrag/abstract

• Josefsen, Dag; Hetland, Geir; Blystad, Astrid et al. (2013). SUCCESSFUL USE OF PLERIXAFOR IN HARD TO MOBILIZE PATIENTS - FOLLOWING HIGH DOSE THERAPY ALL PATIENTS DEVELOPED FAST AND SUSTAINED ENGRAFTMENT WITH DURABLE CLINICAL RESPONSES. (ekstern lenke)
• Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Massay, Deodatus Amadeus et al. (2011). Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Moland, Karen Marie; Massy, DA et al. (2011). 'What counts': health workers' preferences for public health facilities or church-run health facilities in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (2011). Financial incentives for health worker motivation: the case of health services in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review

• Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Lindkvist, Ida; Moland, Karen Marie et al. (2012). Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Mastergradsoppgave

• Vestbøstad, Elin; Blystad, Astrid (2012). Purified or mutilated? The discourse on female circumcision In Hargeysa, Somaliland. (ekstern lenke)
• Burt, Anne Karin Bygnes; Blystad, Astrid (2009). Erfaringer knyttet til å leve med type 1 diabetes fra et pasientperspektiv. (ekstern lenke)
• Emmerhoff, Anne Berit; Blystad, Astrid (2009). Kontrakt - "spiseforstyrrelsens motstemme" Sykepleieres erfaringer med bruk av kontrakt som hjelpemiddel i behandling av pasienter med Anoreksia Nervosa. (ekstern lenke)
• Hovland, Mariann; Blystad, Astrid (2009). Omsorg på sykehjem. Hva handler det om?. (ekstern lenke)
• Lome, Ragnhild; Blystad, Astrid; Klopstad, Astrid et al. (2008). Kommunikasjon i internasjonale katastrofesituasjoner: Norsk helsepersonells opplevelse av informasjonsutveksling under flodbølgekatastrofen i Sør-Asia i 2004. "Informasjonsflyt i norsk helsevesen under katastrofehåndtering i internasjonal sammenheng". (ekstern lenke)
• Kyamba, Neema Jimmy; Blystad, Astrid (2008). Challenges of living with diabetes in resource poor settings: Experiences of diabetes patients, community members and health care providers, Mbulu, northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Koricho, Absera Teshome; Blystad, Astrid (2008). The fear of mother's milk in the era of HIV: A qualitative study among HIV positive mothers and health prefessionals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Njunga, John; Blystad, Astrid (2008). Infant feeding experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programs - The case for rural Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Haug, Kjell; Blystad, Astrid; Mwandishi, Robert Solomon (2007). Assessing Women's Contraceptive Use. A Triangulation Study from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid; Østebø, Marit Tolo (2007). Respected Women. A Study of Wayyuu and its Implications for Womens's Sexual Rights among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Akalu, Masresha Getahun; Haltbakk, Johannes; Blystad, Astrid (2006). Barriers to antiretroviral treatment adherence for patients living with HIV infections and AIDS in Arba Minch Hospital, Southern Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Tarimo, Edith a. mroso; Blystad, Astrid (2004). Assessing the impact of HIV/AIDS on informal care: A qualitative study from an urban Tanzanian context. (ekstern lenke)
• Gombachika, Belinda thandizo; Blystad, Astrid (2004). Experiences of HIV-positive pregnant women: A qualitative study from Lilongwe urban, Malawi. (ekstern lenke)

Leder

• Moland, Karen Marie; Paoli, Marina Manuela de; Sellen, Daniel W et al. (2010). Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. (ekstern lenke)

Lærebok

• Gjengedal, Eva; Schiøtz, Aina; Blystad, Astrid (2008). Helse i tid og rom. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

• Gjengedal, Eva; Schiøtz, Aina; Blystad, Astrid (2008). Helse i rom og tid. (ekstern lenke)

Intervju tidsskrift

• Blystad, Astrid (2007). Hindrer hiv fra grasrota. (ekstern lenke)

Visuell kunst

• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid; Malleyeck, Herman et al. (2006). Eshageada UKIMWI Datoga (Datoga let's beware AIDS!). 2nd version. (ekstern lenke)

Annet

• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid; Malleyeck, Herman et al. (2005). Employing film in HIV prevention: a culture specific film from Mbulu/Hanang. (ekstern lenke)

Fagbok

• Moland, Karen Marie; Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Blystad, Astrid (2005). Gender, generation and communication in times of AIDS: The potential of 'modern' and 'traditional' institutions. Proceedings from a workshop held in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, 23-25 November 2004. (ekstern lenke)

Hovedfagsoppgave

• Bell, Karin; Blystad, Astrid (2004). "Nursing Care in an African Context"; A qualitative study from Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Våga, Bodil Bø; Blystad, Astrid (2004). 'The Search for Care and Cure' - Exploring Health Seeking Behaviour in Mbulu District, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1992). The pastoral Barabaig: Fertility, recycling and the social order. (ekstern lenke)

Intervju

• Blystad, Astrid; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn (2004). Intervju om kulturelle faktorers invirkning på spredning av HIV i Øst-Afrika i "Magasinet". (ekstern lenke)
• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid (2004). Intervju om et kulturspesifikt HIV-forebyggende filmprosjekt i Øst-Afrika. (ekstern lenke)

Programdeltagelse

• Blystad, Astrid (2004). Intervju om kultur og AIDS i Kenya/Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Dokumentar

• Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Blystad, Astrid; Gasheka, Peter et al. (2004). Datoga aeshegeda UKIMWI! (Datoga, let's beware AIDS!): A culture specific HIV prevention film targeting Datoga communities in Tanzania (58 min.). (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

• Blystad, Astrid (1998). Samarbeid mellom lege og antropolog: Eksempler fra studier av spebarns- og mødredødelighet i Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1998). The paradigm of embodiment and its utility for the anthropological endeavour. (ekstern lenke)
• Blystad, Astrid (1998). Kulturbundet sykdomsopplevelse og -uttrykk: medisinsk antropologiske betraktninger i afrikansk kontekst. (ekstern lenke)

Kompendium

• Bjelland, Anne Karen; Blystad, Astrid (1996). Kroppen i sosialantropologi. (ekstern lenke)

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Blystad has been PI for a number of externally funded research projects:  

PI for the project: Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (MATRISET). Research Council of Norway, 2021-26.  Brief description: The objective of the project is to improve the quality of maternal mortality reporting and reviewing to strengthen the knowledge on which to base remedial action to reduce maternal deaths.

PI for the project:  Competing discourses impacting girls' and women's rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (SAFEZT). Research Council of Norway, 2016-18. Brief description:  This comparative, inter disciplinary project investigated the articulation between national abortion laws and women and girl’s access to safe abortion services in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia.

Co-PI for the project: Gender in poverty reduction: Critical explorations of Norwegian aid policy on gender equality and women’s rights.  Research Council of Norway, 2012-16. PI: Professor H. Haukanes, UoB. Brief description: The project explored the concepts of ‘gender equality’ and ‘women’s rights’ in Ethiopia through a focus on the gender paradigms that have characterized Norwegian development aid since the mid-1990s. A collaborative venture between the University of Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute and Haraldsplass Deaconess University College, Norway and Addis Ababa University.

PI for the project: Gender, generation and social mobilisation: Challenges of reproductive health and rights among vulnerable groups in Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia’ (GESOMO NUFU). Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFU), 2007-12. Brief description: This interdisciplinary and multi-country competence-building project had a research focus on a series of particularly challenging reproductive health challenges; female genital mutilation, infertility, mother to child transmission of HIV, obstetric fistulae and women’s sexual rights in Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia.

PI for the project: Strengthening Human Resources for Health: A study of health worker availability and performance in Tanzania.  Research Council of Norway, 2006-12. Brief description: The project was a strategic initiative to address the what has been coined the problem of ‘shortage of health personnel and poor health worker performance’. It was a collaborative effort between Centre for International Health and Department of Economics, UoB, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Bergen University College.

PI for the project: ‘Gender, Generation and Communication in Times of AIDS: The Potential of ’Modern’ and ’Traditional’ Institutions’ (GEACA). Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFU), 2002-07. Brief description: The dramatic HIV/AIDS situation in Tanzania.

Coordinator for work package V and all qualitative project components: Health Related Priority Setting in Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya’ (REACT). EU funding, 2005-10. PI: Dr. J. Byskov. Brief description: With deliberative public involvement as a starting point the project explored decision making- and priority setting processes with a particular focus on the District health systems in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Coordinator for work package III: ‘Searching for effective HIV-prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa: focusing on local contexts’. Norwegian Research Council, 2004-10. PI: Professor K. Fylkesnes. Brief description: A key research focus was on the dynamics between global WHO so-called PMTCT guidelines, calling for breast milk substitutes as first choice for mothers in contexts where a limited segment of the population can afford breast milk substitutes. 

2000  PhD:  Doctor Politicarum in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (UoB)  

1995-96: Visiting Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology, Dep. of Social Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

1992 Master: Candidatus Politicarum in Social Anthropology and Health and Social Policy  (Subsidiary Fields: Comparative Religion and Nursing, UoB)

1981-84 Registered Nurse (RN): Aust-Agder Nursing College, Aren­dal, Norway