Kerstin Almdal is a PhD candidate at the Centre for International Health (CIH), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen. She is a medical doctor (MD, 2016) and holds a Master’s degree in Global Health and Medicine from King’s College London (2021). 

Her PhD project, conducted within MATRISET, investigates how maternal deaths are identified, reviewed, and documented within the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system in Tanzania. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork and document analysis, her research examines how explanations for maternal deaths are constructed and translated into official reports and actions aimed at reducing future mortality. It explores how notions of avoidability, accountability and documentation practices, shape maternal death review processes.

She has worked clinically primarily in obstetrics, with additional experience in surgery, internal medicine in Denmark and Greenland. Her experience also includes an internship at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila (2015) in the unit for disaster risk management, and a one‑year student research fellowship at the Neurosurgical Unit at the University of Copenhagen.

Her teaching experience includes teaching maternal health and clinical examination skills, contributing to qualitative methods teaching in the Master’s programme in Global Health, master student supervision, and facilitating thesis seminars.

Almdal K, Hornum M, Almdal T. Posttransplant Diabetes Mellitus (PTDM) Following Solid Organ Transplantation - Systematic Analysis of Prevalence and Total Mortality and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Interventional Studies Aimed at Lowering Blood Glucose. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2023;19(7):e071122210692.
 

 Almdal K, Storkholm J, Bernth-Andersen S, Hansen CP. The results of pancreatic surgery in Inuit patients from Greenland 1999-2022. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023;82(1):2208392.
 

Brennum J, Maier CM, Almdal K, Engelmann CM, Gjerris M. Primo non nocere or maximum survival in grade 2 gliomas? A medical ethical question. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2015;157(2):155-64; discussion 64.
 

Brennum J, Maier CM, Almdal K, Engelmann CM, Gjerris M. What do we do when attenuation of cerebral function goes hand in hand with maximally effective surgery? Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2015;157(5):811-2.
 

PhD candidate in the research project Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (MATRISET)