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

Masteroppgave

• Anne Berit Emmerhoff; Astrid Blystad (2009). Kontrakt - "spiseforstyrrelsens motstemme" Sykepleieres erfaringer med bruk av kontrakt som hjelpemiddel i behandling av pasienter med Anoreksia Nervosa. (ekstern lenke)
• Belinda thandizo Gombachika; Astrid Blystad (2004). Experiences of HIV-positive pregnant women: A qualitative study from Lilongwe urban, Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (1992). The pastoral Barabaig: Fertility, recycling and the social order. (ekstern lenke)
• Anne Karin Bygnes Burt; Astrid Blystad (2009). Erfaringer knyttet til å leve med type 1 diabetes fra et pasientperspektiv. (ekstern lenke)
• Kjell Haug; Astrid Blystad; Robert Solomon Mwandishi (2007). Assessing Women's Contraceptive Use. A Triangulation Study from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Neema Jimmy Kyamba; Astrid Blystad (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)
• Bodil Bø Våga; Astrid Blystad (2004). 'The Search for Care and Cure' - Exploring Health Seeking Behaviour in Mbulu District, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Elin Vestbøstad; Astrid Blystad (2012). Purified or mutilated? The discourse on female circumcision in Hargeysa, Somaliland. (ekstern lenke)
• Edith a. mroso Tarimo; Astrid Blystad (2004). Assessing the impact of HIV/AIDS on informal care: A qualitative study from an urban Tanzanian context. (ekstern lenke)
• Ragnhild Lome; Astrid Blystad; Astrid Klopstad 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)
• Mariann Hovland; Astrid Blystad (2009). Omsorg på sykehjem. Hva handler det om?. (ekstern lenke)
• Masresha Getahun Akalu; Johannes Haltbakk; Astrid Blystad (2006). Barriers to antiretroviral treatment adherence for patients living with HIV infections and AIDS in Arba Minch Hospital, Southern Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Absera Teshome Koricho; Astrid Blystad (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)
• John Njunga; Astrid Blystad (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)
• Karin Bell; Astrid Blystad (2004). Nursing care in an African context: A qualitative study from Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Marit Tolo Østebø (2007). Respected Women. A Study of Wayyuu and its Implications for Womens's Sexual Rights among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)

Lederartikkel

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

Leserbrev

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

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Tine Schauer Eri; Astrid Blystad; Eva Gjengedal et al. (2010). Negotiating credibility: first-time mothers' experiences of contact with the labour ward before hospitalisation. (ekstern lenke)
• Gloria Abena Ampim; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad 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)
• Edith a. mroso Tarimo; Thecla W. Kohi; Anne Outwater et al. (2009). Gender roles and informal care for patients with AIDS A qualitative study from an urban area in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Guri Rørtveit; Janne Lillelid Gjerde et al. (2017). Strengthening validity in studies of pelvic floor disorders through qualitative research: an example from Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Christopher Oleke; Astrid Blystad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal (2005). "When the obvious brother is not there": Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Michael Aloyce Munga; Nils Gunnar Songstad; Astrid Blystad et al. (2009). The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Gloria Abena Ampim; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2020). Making Fathers: Masculinities and Social Change in the Ghanaian Context. (ekstern lenke)
• Emily Mclean; Dawit Desalegn Nima; Astrid Blystad et al. (2019). When the law makes doors slightly open: ethical dilemmas among abortion service providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• S C Leshabari; Astrid Blystad; M de Paoli et al. (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingrid Holm Solheim; Karen Marie Moland; Catherine Kahabuka et al. (2020). Beyond the law: Misoprostol and medical abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Elin Vestbøstad; Astrid Blystad (2014). Reflections on Female Circumcision Discourse in Hargeysa, Somaliland: Purified or Mutilated?. (ekstern lenke)
• Joar Svanemyr; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland; Astrid Blystad et al. (2021). Norms and sexual relations among adolescents in the context of an intervention trial in rural Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Joseph M. Zulu; Astrid Blystad; Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland et al. (2019). Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Richard Sambaiga; Haldis Haukanes; Karen Marie Moland et al. (2019). Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth H Shayo; Leonard E.G. Mboera; Astrid Blystad (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)
• Christopher Oleke; Astrid Blystad; Knut Fylkesnes et al. (2007). Constraints to educational opportunities of orphans: A community-based study from northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Joseph Zulu; Charles Cheembo Michelo; Carol Msoni et al. (2014). Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: The case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Marte Bygstad-Landro; Tove Giske; Astrid Blystad et al. (2021). «Skammen slår beina under meg» – om hvordan mennesker med depresjon erfarer skam. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland; Ecloss Munsaka et al. (2020). Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: Parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Christopher Oleke; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland et al. (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Haldis Haukanes; Getnet Tadele et al. (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Marina Manuela de Paoli; Karen Marie Moland; Daniel W Sellen et al. (2010). Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Haldis Haukanes; Joseph M. Zulu et al. (2019). Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act. (ekstern lenke)
• Emily Mclean; Astrid Blystad; Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie et al. (2023). Health workers’ experience of providing second-trimester abortion care in Ethiopia: a qualitative study. (ekstern lenke)
• Khadra Yasien Ahmed; Yeneabeba Sima; Astrid Lunde et al. (2025). Changes in health after a work-related intervention among highly educated migrants in Norway: a pilot study. (ekstern lenke)
• Sebalda Charles Leshabari; Astrid Blystad; Marina Manuela de Paoli et al. (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Absera Teshome Koricho; Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2010). Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Toril Borch Terkelsen; Astrid Blystad; Ida Hydle (2005). Article:Transforming extraordinary experiences into the concept of schizophrenia: a case-study of a Norwegian psychiatric unit. (ekstern lenke)
• Marit Tolo Østebø; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2013). Strong state policies on gender and aid: threats and opportunities for Norwegian faith-based organisations. (ekstern lenke)
• Målfrid Råheim; Liv Heide Magnussen; Ragnhild Johanne Tveit Sekse et al. (2016). Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability. (ekstern lenke)
• Nils Gunnar Songstad; Karen Marie Moland; Deodatus Amadeus Massay et al. (2012). Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?. (ekstern lenke)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Joseph Mumba Zulu; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2020). When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Jens Byskov; Stephen Maluka; Bruno Marchal et al. (2019). A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals. (ekstern lenke)
• Getnet Tadele; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad et al. (2019). ‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy; Mweetwa Mudenda; Hanne Keyser Hegdahl et al. (2024). Effectiveness of economic support, comprehensive sexuality education and community dialogue on early childbearing and sitting for grade nine exams among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: a cluster randomised trial. (ekstern lenke)
• Emily Mclean; Ingrid Miljeteig; Astrid Blystad et al. (2024). From political priority to service delivery: Complexities to real-life priority of abortion services in Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Marina Manuela de Paoli; Karen Marie Moland; Penny van Esterik et al. (2010). Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth H Shayo; Ole Frithjof Norheim; Leonard E.G. Mboera et al. (2012). Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2010). ?HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and the ways ahead? Thematic series. International Breastfeeding Journal 2010:5. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy; Mweetwa Mudenda; Joseph Zulu 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)
• Christopher Oleke; Astrid Blystad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal et al. (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. (ekstern lenke)
• Janne Lillelid Gjerde; Guri Rørtveit; Mulu Muleta et al. (2013). Silently waiting to heal: Experiences among women living with urinary incontinence in northwest Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Joseph Zulu; Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy; Karen Marie Moland et al. (2019). The challenge of community engagement and informed consent in rural Zambia: an example from a pilot study. (ekstern lenke)
• Janne Lillelid Gjerde; Guri Rørtveit; Mulu Muleta et al. (2016). Living with pelvic organ prolapse: voices of women from Amhara region, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Jens Byskov; Bruno Marchal; Stephen Maluka 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)
• Jennifer Jean Infanti; Jessica Omija Korpela; Chloe Maria Stephenson et al. (2025). Student experiences and perspectives on decolonising global health education: a qualitative study across five Nordic countries. (ekstern lenke)
• Christopher Oleke; Astrid Blystad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal et al. (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. (ekstern lenke)
• Marte Jürgensen; Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy; Charles Cheembo Michelo et al. (2013). The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: Results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Joseph M. Zulu; Isabel Goicolea; John Kinsman 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)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Haldis Haukanes; Joseph Zulu et al. (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy; Astrid Blystad; Elizabeth H Shayo et al. (2012). Condom availability in high risk places and condom use: a study at district level in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (2004). On HIV, sex and respect: Local-global discourse encounters among the Datoga of Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Bodil Bø Våga; Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2016). Boundaries of confidentiality in nursing care for mother and child in HIV programmes. (ekstern lenke)
• Gregory Corosky; Astrid Blystad (2016). Staying healthy “under the sheets”: Inuit youth experiences of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada. (ekstern lenke)
• Jens Byskov; Paul Bloch; Astrid Blystad 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)
• B Megabiaw; M Adefris; Guri Rørtveit et al. (2013). Pelvic floor disorders among women in Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia: a pilot study. (ekstern lenke)
• S C Leshabari; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Bodil Bø Våga; Karen Marie Moland; Bjørg Evjen-Olsen 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)
• Christopher Oleke; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland et al. (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Mulumebet Zenebe; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2024). Between ‘block course relationships’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal; Herman Malleyeck (2007). Seclusion, protection and avoidance: Exploring the metida complex among the datoga of northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Mercy Karimi Njeru; Astrid Blystad; Isaac K Nyamongo et al. (2009). A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya. (ekstern lenke)
• John Njunga; Astrid Blystad (2010). 'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi. (ekstern lenke)
• Marte Jürgensen; Mary Tuba; Knut Fylkesnes et al. (2012). The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Bodil Bø Våga; Karen Marie Moland; Bjørg Evjen-Olsen et al. (2014). Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: The case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal; Herman Malleyeck (2007). Seclusion, protection and avoidance: Exploring the metida complex among the datoga of northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Haldis Haukanes; Mulumebet Zenebe (2014). Mediating development? Exchanges on gender policies and development practices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Kaja Mari Medås; Astrid Blystad; Tove Giske (2017). Åndelighet i psykisk helseomsorg: et sammensatt og vanskelig tema. (ekstern lenke)
• Gloria Abena Ampim; Astrid Blystad; Albert Kpoor et al. (2021). "I came to escort someone": Men's experiences of antenatal care services in Urban Ghana. A qualitative study. (ekstern lenke)
• Sebalda Charles Leshabari; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Mercy Karimi Njeru; Astrid Blystad; Elizabeth H Shayo et al. (2011). Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities. (ekstern lenke)
• Anja Taugl; Astrid Blystad (2024). Et møte mellom familieomsorg og institusjonsomsorg? Migranters erfaringer med omsorgsarbeid i norske sykehjem. (ekstern lenke)
• Christopher Oleke; Ole Bjørn Rekdal; Astrid Blystad (2005). "When the obvious brother is not there": Political and cultural context of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Janne Lillelid Gjerde; Guri Rørtveit; Mulat Adefris et al. (2018). The lucky ones get cured: Health care seeking among women with pelvic organ prolapse in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.. (ekstern lenke)
• Tine Schauer Eri; Astrid Blystad; Eva Gjengedal 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)
• Carina Ribe Fernee; Siv Torvik; Målfrid Råheim et al. (2024). Et sted å puste: En utforskende studie av et naturbasert dagtilbud for ungdom. (ekstern lenke)
• Nega Jibat; Getnet Tadele; Haldis Haukanes 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)
• Astrid Blystad; Penny van Esterik; Marina Manuela de Paoli et al. (2010). Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt. (ekstern lenke)
• Janne Lillelid Gjerde; Guri Rørtveit; Mulat Adefris et al. (2018). Life after pelvic organ prolapse surgery: A qualitative study in Amhara region, Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Elizabeth Henry Shayo; Bodil Bø Våga; Karen Marie Moland 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)
• Berihun Megabiaw; Mulat Adefris; Guri Rørtveit et al. (2012). Prevalence of pelvic floor disorders among women in northwest Ethiopia: the DABINCOP pilot study. (ekstern lenke)
• Tine Schauer Eri; Astrid Blystad; Eva Gjengedal et al. (2010). ‘The waiting mode’: First-time mothers’ experiences of waiting for labour onset. (ekstern lenke)
• Nils Gunnar Songstad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal; Deodatus Amadeus Massay et al. (2011). Perceived unfairness in working conditions: The case of public health services in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

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

Fremhevet artikkel i media

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

Konferanseposter

• MK Njeru; Astrid Blystad; Knut Fylkesnes (2008). Assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary testing and counselling for HIV in Kenya. (ekstern lenke)
• Bodil Bø Våga; Karen Marie Moland; 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)
• Bodil Bø Våga; Karen Marie Moland; 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)
• Sebalda Charles Leshabari; Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2007). Choice and adherence to choice of infant feeding method among HIV positive mothers in northern Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy; Mweetwa Mudenda; Joseph M. Zulu et al. (2017). High participation in cluster randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme in rural Zambia. (ekstern lenke)

Konferanseforedrag

• Astrid Blystad (2005). Vanishing tombs, barren wombs': Gendered confrontations between state forces and Datoga women, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2013). Mediators of development? Experiences with gender and aid among gender experts in Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (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)
• Astrid Blystad (2005). Staff and community experience with HIV-related interventions: The case of prevention, treatment and care programmes at Haydom, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2007). The illusion of informed choie in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: Global politics in local worlds. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (2003). Sex and power: Experiences from an HIV intervention project in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Ane Straume; Anne Karen Bjelland; Astrid Blystad et al. (2015). Helse- og sosial politikk/medisinsk antropologi. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland (2007). Counting on mother's love: The global politics of mother to child transmission in eastern Africa. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland (2007). The politics of mother to child transmission of HIV: global discourse and local lives. (ekstern lenke)
• Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2007). Hope, faith and holy water: Resistance in PMTCT programs in Addis Ababa. (ekstern lenke)
• Bodil Bø Våga; Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2013). Handling PMTCT guidelines in non-choice contexts: The case of infant feeding counselling and decision making in PMTCT programmes, Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (2002). Film as intervention. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (2003). Kropp, seksualitet og AIDS. (ekstern lenke)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2011). Beyond Culture? Commitment and Structural Critique among Gender experts in Ethiopia. (ekstern lenke)
• Haldis Haukanes; Getnet Tadele; Karen Marie Moland et al. (2018). The Access Paradox in Safe Abortion Care. The cases of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland (2007). A note on applied locally grounded research and the challenging dynamics between health related research and policy making. (ekstern lenke)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2024). MDSR in Ethiopia- Field insights from leading voices’. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (2005). Voldsutøvelse blant øst-afrikanske pastoralister: liv-død dynamikk i ny kontekst. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (2005). Women and Datoga pastoralists of Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Medieintervju

• Ole Bjørn Rekdal; Astrid Blystad (2004). Intervju om et kulturspesifikt HIV-forebyggende filmprosjekt i Øst-Afrika. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal (2004). Intervju om kulturelle faktorers invirkning på spredning av HIV i Øst-Afrika i "Magasinet". (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (2007). Hindrer hiv fra grasrota. (ekstern lenke)

Forelesning

• Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland; Astrid Blystad (2023). The access paradox in safe abortion care. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland; Haldis Haukanes (2015). North South Partnerships in Higher Education. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (1998). Samarbeid mellom lege og antropolog: Eksempler fra studier av spebarns- og mødredødelighet i Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2017). Global-national-local dynamics in studies of gender, health and the body. Examples of research collaboration between anthropologists on the margins. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (1998). Kulturbundet sykdomsopplevelse og -uttrykk: medisinsk antropologiske betraktninger i afrikansk kontekst. (ekstern lenke)
• Astrid Blystad (1998). The paradigm of embodiment and its utility for the anthropological endeavour. (ekstern lenke)

Konferanseabstrakt

• Dag Josefsen; Geir Hetland; Astrid Blystad 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)
• Nils Gunnar Songstad; Ole Bjørn Rekdal; Deodatus Amadeus Massay et al. (2011). Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Nils Gunnar Songstad; Karen Marie Moland; Astrid Blystad (2011). Financial incentives for health worker motivation: the case of health services in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)
• Nils Gunnar Songstad; Karen Marie Moland; DA Massy et al. (2011). 'What counts': health workers' preferences for public health facilities or church-run health facilities in Tanzania. (ekstern lenke)

Fagbok

• Karen Marie Moland; Nils Gunnar Songstad; Astrid Blystad (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)

Visuell kunst

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

Doktorgradsavhandling

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

Antologi

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

Arbeidsnotat

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

Vitenskapelig litteraturgjennomgang

• Nils Gunnar Songstad; Ida Lindkvist; Karen Marie Moland 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)

Deltakelse i radio eller TV

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

Lærebok

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