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Lecturers
Veslemøy Ask
Ask holds a MA in International and Comparative
Legal Studies (SOAS) on Human Rights. She is now the
Programme Coordinator for East Africa at the HQ of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) in Oslo.
As delegate for NCA and Norwegian Refugee Council she has gained work experiences in
violent-prone areas such as the West Bank and Northern
Uganda.
Caecilie Buhmann
MD, BSc in global health. Currently studying MPH and started specialization in psychiatry at Gentofte Hospital, 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.
Rachel
Issa Djesa
Head of information, North/South Coalition (UiTø)
Cand. Polit in social anthropology & filmmaker. Djesa is working with themes related
to communication, intercultural understanding, North/South relation and
cooperation, knowledge, power and dialog between cultures. Ongoing research:
The issue of "Female Genital Cuttings".
Thor Eirik Eriksen
Cand.polit/consultant, Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital North Norway
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.
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 trained in medicine and holds a doctorate 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 board member of IPPNW-Norway and is member
of the IAUP/UN Commission on Disarmament Education, Conflict Resolution
and Peace.
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. Since 2006 she has worked for the Norwegian Refugee Council, with assignments
in Darfur, Sudan, as Protection officer, and in Nepal, providing information and
legal assistance to internally displaced people.
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.
Mike Rowson
Mike Rowson is a senior teaching fellow at
the Centre for International Health and Development at University
College London. He was formerly executive director of UK international health charity Medact, and was a managing editor of Global Health Watch 2005-2006 - An Alternative World Health Report. He edited the textbook which accompanies the Medical Peace Work online course.
Morten Skandfer
MD, Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, UNN
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