Curriculum Vitae for Espen Dahl

Name:

Espen Dahl

Date of birth:

1953

Title/Research programme:

Professor and research director of Health, Care and Welfare (HOV)

E-Mail:

espen.dahl@hio.no

Phone:

+47 22 45 35 19 / 959 07 248

Fax:

+47 22 45 30 05

Visiting Address:

Pilestredet 46, 0167 Oslo

Espen Dahl

Education/Background

Dr. Polit, sociology 1994
Cand. Sociol. 1981

Research interests

Health inequality research, health and welfare policies in comparative perspective, active labour market policies, research on social assistance dynamics and social exclusion.

Work experience

2005-

Professor and Research Director at Oslo University College

2002-2005

Researcher at Oslo University College

2001-2005

Senior Researcher at Norwegian Health Services Research Centre

1994-2002

Research Director at Fafo - Institute for Applied Social Science

1992-1994

Researcher at Fafo - Institute for Applied Social Science

1987-1992

Scholarship holder at National Institute of Public Health

1986-1987

Advisor at Statistics Norway

1981-1986

Advisor at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

Research Projects

2005-

NEWS, Nordic project

2004-

Eurothine, European project

2003-2004

Gender, Retirement, and Active Aging: Implications for Social Security in Long-Life Societies. International Social Security Association

2003-

Social variations in health, Scandinavian Project headed by the Centre for Health Equity Research, University of Stockholm, Sweden

2002-2004

Work Environment, Health Inequalities and Social Class, “The Winner Project”, European project

2002-2003

Social Inequalities in Smoking Behaviour, European project

1999-2003

Socio-economic determinants of healthy aging in Europe: from description to explanation. European project

1998-2003

Social Variations in Healthy Life Expectancy, International Network funded by European Science Foundation

1998-2001

Social integration through obligation to work: Current European “workfare” initiatives and future directions”, European project. I served as coordinator for work-package on effect evaluation of workfare

1998-2000

Interventions and policies to reduce inequalities in health. EU network

1996-2003

Social variations in health: Nordic comparisons and changes over time. Nordic network

Selected publications from the past five years

  • Lahelma E, Kivelä K, Roos E, Tuominen T, Dahl Espen, Diderichsen Finn, Elstad Jon Ivar, Lissau I, Lundberg O, Rahkonen O, Rasmussen N Kr & Yngwe M. Åberg (2002). Analysing changes of health inequalities in the Nordic welfare states. Social Science & Medicine, 55: 609-625.
  • Dahl, Espen (2002). Health Inequalities and Health Policy: The Norwegian Case. Norsk Epidemiologi, 12 (1): 69-75.
  • Dahl Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2003). Dynamics of social assistance: the Norwegian experience in comparative perspective. International Journal of Social Welfare, 12 (4): 289-301.
  • Dahl Espen (2003). Does “workfare” work? The Norwegian experience. International Journal of Social Welfare 12 (4) 274-288.
  • Dahl Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2003). Explaining Exit to Work among Social Assistance Recipients in Norway: Heterogeneity or Dependency? In European Sociological Review, 19 (5): 519-536.
  • Dahl, Espen & Ivar Lødemel (2003). Tiltaksplan mot fattigdom – en vurdering. Tidsskrift for Velferdsforskning, 6 (2): 107-124.
  • Johan P Mackenbach, Martijntje J Bakker, for the European Network on Intervention and Policies to Reduce Inequalities in Health (2003). Tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health: analysis of European experiences. The Lancet 362:1409-14.
  • Dahl, Espen (2004). Social Assistance Dynamics in Sociological Perspective - Evidence, Interpretations and Policy Implications. HiO-report no 12. Oslo: Oslo University College.
  • Dahl Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2005). What works for whom? An effect evaluation of Active Labour Market Programs in Norway. International Journal of Social Welfare, 14: 86-98.
  • Lorentzen, Thomas, & Espen Dahl (2005). Active Labour Market Programmes in Norway: Are they helpful for social assistance recipients? Journal of European Social Policy, 15: 27-45.
  • Dahl, Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2005). Mot selvforsørgelse? Evaluering av arbeidsretta tiltak for sosialhjelpsmottakere. Embla.
  • Giskes, Katrina et al. (2005) Trends in smoking behaviour between 1985 and 2000 in nine European countries by education. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 59: 395-40.
  • Elstad, Jon Ivar, Dahl, Espen & Dag Hofoss (2005). Skjev inntektsfordeling og geografiske forskjeller i dødelighet. Tidsskrift for den norske Lægeforening 125: 3082-4.
  • Dahl, Espen, Jon Ivar Elstad & Dag Hofoss (2006). Associations between relative income and mortality in Norway: a register-based study. In European Journal of Public Health. Advance access February 13.
  • Dahl, Espen & Axel West Pedersen (2006). Gender, Employment and Social Security in Norway. In Gilbert, N. (ed.), Gender and Social Security Reform. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
  • Dahl, Espen, Fritzell Johan, Lahelma Eero, Martikainen, Pekka, Kunst, Anton & Johan P. Mackenbach (2006). Welfare Regimes and Health Inequalities. In Marmot, Michael & Johannes Siegrist (eds), Social inequalities in health: new evidence and policy implications. Oxford University Press.
  • Dahl, Espen, Elstad Jon Ivar, Hofoss, Dag and Melissa Martin-Mollard (2006). For whom is income inequality most harmful? A multi-level analysis of income inequality and mortality in Norway. Social Science & Medicine, (10): 2562-2574.
  • Dahl, Espen & John Ivar Elstad (2007). Class, Work and Health – Norwegian Country Chapter. In Lundberg et al. (eds.), Health inequalities and working conditions. The Winner project. Forthcoming.
  • Dahl, Espen, Jon Ivar Elstad & Dag Hofoss (2007). Educational gradients in avoidable deaths in Norway: A population based study. Health Sociology Review. 16 (2).
  • Grøholt Else-Karin, Espen Dahl and Jon Ivar Elstad (2007) Health inequalities and the welfare state. Norsk epidemologi 17 (1): 3-8
  • Ohrem Naper, Sille og Espen Dahl (2007) Sosialhjelpsmottakeres dødelighet: I hvilken grad kan overdødeligheten tilskrives deres sosiale status? Norsk Epidemiologi 17 (1): 21-28
  • Elstad, Jon Ivar, Dag Hofoss og Espen Dahl (2007) Hva betyr de enkelte dødsårsaksgrupper for utdanningsforskjellene i dødelighet? Norsk Epidemiologi 17 (1): 37-42
  • Dahl Espen og Lorentzen Thomas (2007) Virker tiltak for sosialhjelpsmottakere: Seleksjon, effekter og politiske implikasjoner. Søkelys på arbeidslivet 2/07, 149-158
  • Dahl, E. and Elstad, JI. (2007) Norway. In Lundberg, I., Hemmingson, T. Hogstedt, C. (eds) Work and Social Inequalities in Health in Europe. Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang
  • Dahl, Espen og Lorentzen, Thomas & Tone Fløtten (2008). Poverty Dynamics and Social Exclusion in Norway. Journal of Social Policy, forthcoming
  • Dahl, Espen og Lorentzen, Thomas (2008) Norway: Social Security, Active Labour Market Policies and Economic Progress. In Jim Midgley (ed): Social Security, the Economy and Development, forthcoming.
  • Borgeraas, Elling og Dahl, Espen (2008) Low income and "poverty lines" in Norway - A comparison of three Concepts. Submitted to International Journal of Social Welfare.
  • Dahl, Espen et al (2008) Are socioeconomic inequalities in mortality smaller in the Nordic countries than elsewhere? A systematic review. Submitted to Social Science and Medicine.