Jonas Bergmann-Paulsen is a humanitarian and development professional with broad experience in innovation, energy, disaster preparedness, and emergency response. He is currently a project manaqger at NTNU’s Department of Energy and Process Engineering and Program Manager for RenewHydro’s “Future Hydropower Plants” initiative. He also serves on the Norwegian Red Emergency Response Unit, and have recently […]

Vikram is the Head of the Department of Design at NTNU, focusing on design-driven innovations. He has been instrumental in creating an innovation ecosystem at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Currently, he is involved in developing digital solutions for addressing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and integrating refugees into the Nordic-Baltic healthcare system. He has […]

Associate Professor of design. Master of technology in industrial design/ PhD in design methods. Specialist in the areas of design for humanitarian markets, service design, teaching design thinking to non-designers and design of sustainable energy communities. She has led many major collaborative and co-creation projects and cooperates with Makerere University for the last 10 years.

Background that includes serving as the president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Norway; extensive clinical and coordination experience gained through MSF missions in many humanitarian crisis contexts; led the Norwegian Ebola team during the West-African Ebola outbreak. Founder and chairperson of CapaCare, a non-governmental organization providing advanced surgical training to clinical officers and medical doctors […]

Guro F. Giskeødegård is a professor in biostatistics working at the HUNT Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology, NTNU. Her research is focused on metabolomics and other molecular -omics analysis of tissue samples and biofluids from patients and population biobanks, with a focus on data analysis of large biological datasets. The research goal is to […]

Kristine Pape is an associate professor in public health and a medical doctor at the Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU. She holds a PhD in community medicine, with research focusing on social epidemiology, health services research, and the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents. Her work combines academic research with clinical practice, […]

Marit Solbjør is professor in health science (health sociology). She has done extensive research on patient experiences in screening and cancer care, including breast, prostate and cervical cancer and screening, and the standardisation of cancer care. Currently research is about the introduction of AI into cancer diagnostics, and health literacy. Solbjør has published and contributed […]

Former programme leader of NTNU’s Master of Science program in Global Health, which ran from 2015-2025. Now scientific director for Human Response at NTNU. Educational background in social anthropology, with research expertise in global health and women’s health topics, particularly in gender-based violence and equitable access to reproductive health care in South Asian contexts. Previous […]

Registered Nurse, holding a Master’s degree and possessing professional experience in international development. Senior advisor for global health initiatives at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU. Recent former coordinator for the Norwegian Research School for Global Health education for PhD candidates; currently coordinating a capacity-building project between NTNU, the Malawi University of […]