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Marte E. S. Haaland

Postdoctoral Fellow
  • E-mailmarte.haaland@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 85 82
  • Visitor Address
    Alrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 17
    5009 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7804
    5020 Bergen

Marte E. S. Haaland is a medical anthropologist working with maternal health and sexual and reproductive health and rights.  She has research experience from Norway as well as from sub-Saharan Africa.

In Norway, Haaland has led a commissioned study on women's experiences with abortion boards for second trimester abortions. She has also examined  maternal health care for immigrants with a special focus on antenatal care, addressing an existing health equity gap.

In her Phd-research, she explored the politics of abortion in Zambia with a special interest in abortion policies as an element of reproductive governance. 

Haaland has extensive experience in research administration. She has served as administrative coordinator for the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child health (CISMAC).

Member of The Young Academy of Norway (2023-2027)

Report on Women's experiences with abortion boards can be accessed here.

Vi må verne om det norske helsevesenet - Bergens Tidende 27.9.2019

Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort - Bergens Tidende 8.3.2019

When abortions become public - a case from rural Zambia - Presentation at anniverisy seminar for Centre for International Health 10.12.2018

Mange millioner jenter blir uønsket gravide - Bergens Tidene 02.12.2018

Kvinnekropper i politisk spill, igjen (Female bodies in politics, again) - guest blogpost at Maddam.no, October 31, 2018

Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health: evidence of impact - panelist in panel during Bergen Exchanges 21.8.2018

La oss snakke litt om abort (Let's talk about abortion) - guest blogpost at Maddam.no, June 14, 2018

 

Culture and health, medical anthropology, qualitative research methods, sexual and reporductive health and rights, ethnography

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2021). From science to sustainable systems: Evidence based-decision making for adolescent fertility in Zambia. Health Policy OPEN. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2020). “The cord is the child”: meanings and practices related to umbilical cord care in Central Uganda. BMC Pediatrics. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2020). When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2018). "We shall count it as a part of kyogero": acceptability and considerations for scale up of single dose chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care in Central Uganda. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Krevende kommunikasjon om svangerskap og fødsel - Om veiledning av innvandrerkvinner på en norsk helsestasjon. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 191-208.
Report
  • Show author(s) (2023). Kvinners erfaringer med abortnemnder. .
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2024). Etikksalong - Hvorfor trenger vi en ny abortlov?
  • Show author(s) (2023). Beyond the law? Abortion policy and politics in Zambia.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Beyond legality – An ethnography of the Zambian abortion policy.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health: evidence of impact .
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2021). Panel debate: People we come across.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). Reproductive Justice and Democracy - Roundtable on Bergen Exchanges.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Kvinners erfaringer fra abortnemnder - presentasjon av en samfunnsvitenskapelig studie.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Beyond the law - polemics and controversy over Zambia's abortion policy.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Kultur over struktur i norsk innvandrerhelse? En studie av norsk helsepolitikk med fokuspå seksuell og kjønnsbasert vold blant flyktninger.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Shaping the abortion policy: Competing discourses on the Zambian Termination of Pregnancy Act.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Beyond legality - An ethnogrphy of the Zambian abortion law.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2019). Situating the Mexico City Policy: what shapes contraceptive access and abortion? The Lancet Global Health.
Masters thesis
  • Show author(s) (2015). Krevende kommunikasjon om svangerskap og fødsel. En studie av møtet mellom jordmødre og innvandrerkvinner på en norsk helsestasjon.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Abortlov til vurdering. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2021). Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics.
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2023). Å møte i abortnemnd virker meningsløst for mange.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Ny forskning på abortnemndene: - Lite forståelsesfullt system for kvinnene.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Forslag om å endre abortnemndene støttes av forskning .
Poster
  • Show author(s) (2017). We shall count it as a part of kyogero?. Acceptability of single dose 7.1% chlorhexidine di-gluconate solution for umbilical cord care among women in Kampala and Mukono district, central Uganda: A qualitative study.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

SAFEZT - Competing discourses impacting girls’ and women’s rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania

CISMAC - Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health

Women’s experiences with abortion boards in Norway (WAB)

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