Mandate
Establishing the Advisory Group on Gender Issues is in line with the basic values of the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision. The Advisory Group shall ensure that the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision regularly seeks advice from professionals about the importance of gender in areas we are working with and in the way we work. The Advisory Group shall have both an advisory role and a development role in relation to the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision.
During the period 2005-2007, the Advisory Group shall be a resource group for an evaluation project, for which one of the members of the Advisory Group is project leader.
In addition, the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision can consult the Advisory Group about different matters, as appropriate.
The Advisory Group shall:
- raise the level of understanding of what a gender perspective involves for health and social services
- ensure availability of current knowledge about gender differences in relation to need for, utilization of and access to health and social services.
- ensure that risk and vulnerability assessments have gender-sensitive approaches
- help to integrate a gender perspective in administrative procedures and other internal processes.
Establishing the Advisory Group
The members of the Advisory Group are appointed by the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision for a period of two years. Reappointment can be considered after two years.
The Advisory Group shall be a multi-disciplinary group of people with relevant experience and skills. The members shall have experience from research, teaching, administration and/or health and social services. The members shall be both men and women. An appropriate number of members is between seven and nine.
A meeting of the Advisory Group shall be held at least twice a year. The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision, in cooperation with the leader of the Advisory Group, has responsibility for arranging the meeting, inviting the members, preparing the agenda, writing the minutes of the meeting, and following up matters afterwards. The members can be asked to help to prepare items on the agenda, and can be given tasks to carry out between the meetings, related to the regular work of the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision or the evaluation project.
The minutes of the meetings are available on the internal website of the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision. The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision shall inform the Advisory Group about how matters have been followed up.
Members of the Advisory Group
Liv Haugen, leaderMedical Doctor, Chief Medical Planner, Helsebygg Midt-Norge
Address: 7488 Trondheim
Tel: 73 86 20 12
Qualifications: Medical doctor
Work experience: General medical practice, psychiatry, Chief Advisory Physician at the County Office of the National Insurance Service, Chief Medical Officer in the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision in Sør-Trøndelag
Areas of competence and interest: Need for competence in gender issues in health services. Particularly interested in disorders that affect women, that are not defined as specific medical diagnoses. Such disorders are therefore not encompassed by the regulations of the national insurance system.
Gunhild O. Hagestad
Senior Researcher (Professor II), Norwegian Social Research (NOVA)
Address: Serviceboks 422, 4604 Kristiansand
Tel: (+47) 38 14 10 00
E-mail: Gunhild.Hagestad@hia.no
Qualifications: Studies at the University of Oslo
Ph.D. in sociology and the philosophy of science, University of Minnesota.
Work experience: Academic posts at the University of Chicago, Pennsylvania State University, Northwestern University and University of Oslo.
Guest lecturer at universities in Canada, Germany and the Netherlands.
Advisor to the UN, in particular in the Population Unit in Geneva.
Norwegian Academy of Science, Member of the Board. (Det norske Vitenskapsakademi).
Areas of competence and interest: Study of generations, life course and family patterns in ageing societies. The importance of the combination age/gender, and that age also reflects historical foundation, that is to say cohort.
Alice Kjellevold Senior Lecturer, University of Stavanger, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for Health Professions
Address: PO Box 8002, 4068 Stavanger
Tel: (+47) 51 83 10 00
E-mail:
alice.kjellevold@uis.no
Qualifications: Lawyer, with special area: legislation related to women.
Work experience: Ministry of Social Affairs, Office of the County Governor in Nordland, Bodø University College, lawyer and researcher.
Area of competence and interest: Legislation in the areas of rights in health and social services, administrative legislation, client rights, client participation, human rights and values in health and social services. Harmonization of health and social legislation.
Jørgen Lorentzen Qualifications: Doctor of Arts. Researcher: men and gender
Work experience: Journalist and academic posts at the University of Oslo. Researcher: men and masculinity. Research leader for Norwegian and international research projects.
Areas of competence and interest: Issues related to understanding men and masculinity, fathers and care for children, men and equality, men and violence, men and sexuality, cultural, historic and literary representation of masculinity.
Pål Kristian Molin
Child protection adviser
Plan Norge
Address: Wesselsgate 8, 0130 Oslo
Tel: (+47) 22 00 79 96
E-mail: paal.molin@plan-norge.no
Qualification: psychologist
Areas of competence and interest: violence in close relationships, treatment of men and women who are violent in close relationships, psychotherapy adapted for men, masculine health behaviour, alcohol and drug abuse, personality studies of violent offenders, measures against violence and threats in the workplace, psychoeducative interventions.
Berit ScheiProfessor in Women’s medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Institute of Community Medicine
Address: University of Trondheim, 7489 Trondheim
Tel: (+47) 73 59 88 75
Qualifications: Medical doctor, specialist in obstetrics and women’s diseases
Work experience: Gynaecology. National and international experience with traumatized women and reproductive health. Leader of the rape centre, Women’s Clinic, St.Olavs hospital, Trondheim.
Previously:
Research Director, women’s health, Research Council of Norway
Guest professor, Center for Research in Women’s health, University of Toronto.
Areas of competence and interest: health consequences of physical and sexual abuse of children and adults, psychosocial factors and pregnancy, epidemiological research on women’s health.
Åge WifstadSenior researcher, University of Tromsø, Institute of Community Medicine
Address: University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø
Tel: (+47) 77 64 48 16
Qualifications: PhD (philosophy)
Work experience: has previously worked as an outreach therapist and project leader in psychiatry, and as a university lecturer and researcher in philosophy
Areas of competence and interest: medical ethics, medical philosophy of science, understanding of health and disease, normality, nonconformity, social philosophy and philosophy of language.
Updated 3 March 2007