Lecturers 2006

Leo van Bergen
Dr. Leo van Bergen is a Dutch historian specialized in the relationship between war and medicine. He is a member of the IPPNW-Netherlands and organises a course on Global Health Education at the Vrije Universiteit-Medical Centre Amsterdam. Amongst others he wrote two books on the history of the Red Cross and a medical history of World War One.

Nina Foss
Nurse, Cand. Polit in social anthropology
Project Manager at Centre for International Health, Assistant Professor at Visual Cultural Studies, UITø.
Foss is working with themes related to intercultural understanding, health and society, relations between the helper and the user, and with processes of stigmatization and normalization. She is developing participatory methods of reflection – and ways to work, in processes of analysis and change, incl. PLA (Participatory Learning and Action).

Toralf Hasvold
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and professor of general practice at the University of Tromsø.
Hasvold has broad experience from international health work. He worked as Regional Medical Officer in Botswana (NORAD) from 1978 to 1980 and participated in the 'National Health Institute Implementation Study in Botswana (1992)' for the African Development Bank. He also participated in the international study group for Ministry of Health in Botswana 'Feasibility Study on Establishment of a Medical School' (1995), and in the international working group revising the medical curriculum of The Medical College of Malawi (1999). From 1996 to 1998 Hasvold worked for WHO as Public Health Adviser to the Ministries of Health in Armenia and Georgia, and from 2004 he has been Advisor to the Ministry of Health’s Primary Health Working Group in Belarus. Hasvold has also been project manager of 'Collaboration between North -Norway and Archangelsk in Development of Primary Health Care' and he currently teaches 'International Health' in the School of Public Health in Tromsø.

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. He also has participated in 2001 on behalf of Landsforeningen for hjerte- og lungesyke in a WHO evaluation of the National Tb program of Senegal. Has published one epidemiological study from Cameroun, and several medical letters from Africa for the Norwegian Medical Journal. 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).

Kristin Alice Jakobsen
Jakobsen is currently a house officer at University hospital of North Norway in Tromsø. As medical student she wrote her 5th-year paper in form of a Teaching program on the health effects of nuclear weapons.

Stephan Kolb
MD and medical journalist. After a decade of working as a producer for major German broadcasting companies Kolb became Head of the Department of Education & Communication at the Nuremberg Clinic. He was chair of the German IPPNW-Board, and is currently coordinator of the first German "Peace through Health" course at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Ilse van Lingen
Van Lingen is a communicologist and physical therapist, and trained in conflict and project management. She is working as teacher in communication and conflict management, and as a coach. Van Lingen has experiences a mediator in the Conflict Counsil in Agder, as coordinator for family conferences in child protection, and works also as project manager at the Hospital for Rehabilitation in Kristiansand.

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). He wrote his thesis on Exploring Medical Peace Education and a Call for PEACE MEDICINE. 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 has co-founded The Norwegian Peace Film Award.

Hanna Mollan
Norwegian Red Cross / ICRC, 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. Her next assignment is 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.

Mike Rowson
Rowson is an honorary lecturer at the International Health and Medical Education Centre at University College London and a writer on international health and development issues. He was formerly director of international health charity Medact and was also a managing editor of Global Health Watch 2005-2006: An Alternative World Health Report.

Lars Småbrekke
Relis, UNN

Marshall Wallace
Wallace is the Director of the Do No Harm Project at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects in Boston, USA. He has worked with humanitarian relief and development organizations in more than twenty countries on the impacts of assistance on conflict and developing appropriate responses to those impacts. He co-authored the Do No Harm Trainer’s Manual and led the process that developed many of the tools used in the training course. Wallace also directs the Steps Toward Conflict Prevention Project, overseeing the collection of a series of case studies on communities in conflict zones who somehow exempt themselves from the conflict.