Lecturers 2007

Caecilie Buhmann
MD, BSc in global health. Currently studying MPH and a resident at university hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. Buhmann is board member of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), co-founder of the NWIP project (Nuclear Weapons Inheritans Project), and has 10 years experience on war prevention work. She has run several trainings and has published on issues of global health, nuclear weapons and peace through health.

Sam Engelstad
Engelstad is a graduate of the New York University School of Public Administration. In the 1990s he worked for the World Bank's East Africa Department, and in Somalia for the UN. At Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Center he trained the management of complex emergencies, and was as feedback instructor involved in the Do No Harm project.
Until recently he served as Research Administrator at the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

Ida Hydle
Hydle is a mediator and facilitator in the Mediation and Reconciliation Council in Agder, South Norway. At the time being she works as senior researcher at NOVA, Norwegian Social Research in Oslo, in the group Youth research. She is educated as a medical doctor and a social anthropologist and has a PhD in both fields.
Her teaching- and research issues are e.g. restorative justice, legal anthropology, ethics, cultural awareness, violence and abuse.

Knut A. Holtedahl
Professor of general practice at the University of Tromsø.
Holtedahl holds a Diploma of Tropical Medicine from the University of Paris. His African medical experience consists of medical work in Niger in 1970 and in Cameroun in 1984 and again for one long and several shorter periods during the years 1997 and 2000-2004. Lately Holtedahl has concentrated on questions concerning barring the way for hiv/aids. He was head of the Board of the University of Tromsø Centre for Environment and Development Studies 1999-2003.

Tordis Sørensen Høifødt
M.D. Psychiatrist
Høifødt works at the University Hospital of Northern Norway, Department of Psychiatric Research and Development. She chairs Norske leger mot atomvåpen (NLA), the Norwegian affiliate of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).

Anna Luise Kirkengen
Specialist in Family Medicine /General Practice
Kirkengen did a Ph.D. on the topic of health impact of childhood sexual abuse. She is professor in Family Medicine, Dept. of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø.

Klaus Melf
Peace-Health Project Manager at the Centre for International Health
Melf is a German medical doctor with PhD in Occupational Medicine and a Masters Degree in Peace and Conflict Transformation (CPS, UiTø). Currently he is coordinating the EU-funded pilot project Medical Peace Work. - A new European field of expertise in health work, violence prevention and peace building. Melf is vice chair of IPPNW-Norway and is a member of the IAUP/UN Commission on Disarmament Education, Conflict Resolution and Peace.

Pascale Molho
MD and certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication, France

Hanna Mollan
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Oslo
MSc in Science, Society and Technology, on human rights and internet technologies; PhD candidate in International Development, currently on hold. Since 1999 she has worked with the ICRC in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Azerbaidjan, and later with the Norwegian Red Cross in Haiti, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, mainly on International Humanitarian Law and the provision of humanitarian assistance. In 2006 she worked as Protection Officer for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Darfur, Sudan.

Kirsten Myhr
MScPharm, MPH and specialisation in hospital pharmacy.
Myhr has international experience from drug supply management in Africa and Eastern Europe on assignments from NORAD, WHO and UNICEF. She is member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel for Drug Policies and Management. Principal author of the manual 'Medicine Prices: A new approach to management' and part-time technical consultant to national projects using the manual. Currently head of a regional drug information and adverse drug reactions monitoring centre in Oslo.

Jon Ø. Odland
Scientific director, Centre for International Health, University of Tromsø.
Odland is specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics and holds a PhD on the topic of “Environmental exposure and pregnancy outcome in Norway and Russland”. He works with network building and projects across disciplines, and geographical or cultural divides. His main interests are in reproductive health and gobal environmental health problems, infectious diseases and public health, development of pregnancy care programs in different cultures. Professor in International Health since 2007.

Pierre Perrin
MD, MPH, University of Geneva, Schwitzerland.
Former Chief Medical Officer of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); academic positions at the University of Geneva, the School of Law and Political Sciences in Aix-Marseille, France, and at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States.

Thambipillai Varagunam
Chancellor of the Eastern University in Sri Lanka.
Qualified as an MD and later Professor of Medicine at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Varagunam has had ten years of international experience promoting health research and research training in the developing countries while working with the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.