Oddvar Oppegaard, PhD (EU-Framework Programme 7), K2, UiB, December 2017. Main supervisor: Bård R. Kittang, co-supervisors: Steinar Skrede and Haima Mylvaganam. Thesis: Trends of Streptococcus dysgalactiae subs equisimilis infections in Western Norway. Dissertation 08.12.2017.
Trond Bruun, PhD (UiB-scholarship), K2, UiB, June 2016. Main supervisor: Steinar Skrede, co-supervisors: Nina Langeland and Haima Mylvaganam. Thesis: Clinical and bacterial diversity in streptococcal skin and soft tissue disease.
Bård Reiakvam Kittang, PhD (UiB-scholarship), IFI, UiB, December 2010. Main supervisor: Haima Mylvaganam, co-supervisors: Nina Langeland and Steinar Skrede. Thesis : Group A, C and G streptococcal infections in western Norway: virulence gene characteristics and clinical features.
Haima Mylvaganam, PhD, UiB 2001, June 2001. Main supervisor: Prof. Tor Hofstad, co-supervisors: Prof. Bjarne Bjorvatn and Arve Osland.. Thesis: Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pyogenes.