Hello
Håkon A. Bolkan
Human Response lecturer
https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/hakon.a.bolkan
About Me
(Humanitarian Action Practitioner; Course coordinator in Advancing Public Health Perspectives, Supervisor of dissertations)
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 in Sierra Leone since 2011 and in Liberia since 2021. Research focus on scalable solutions to enhance access to quality surgical care in low-income countries.
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 in Sierra Leone since 2011 and in Liberia since 2021. Research focus on scalable solutions to enhance access to quality surgical care in low-income countries.