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  • E-postastrid.blystad@uib.no
  • Telefon+47 55 58 61 61
  • Besøksadresse
    Alrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 17
    5009 Bergen
  • Postadresse
    Postboks 7804
    5020 Bergen

Astrid Blystad, sykepleier og sosialantropolog, er professor ved Senter for internasjonal helse (SIH), Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin (IGS), Universitetet i Bergen (UiB). Hennes primære forskningsinteresse ligger i dynamikken mellom globale helsepolitiske føringer og hvordan slike føringer / ‘policy’ kommer til uttrykk og erfares i lokale kontekster.

Arbeidet er basert på 35 års forskning i det østlige og sørlige Afrika. Metodisk er forskningen forankret i en etnografisk tradisjon, - de siste årene i kombinasjon med andre kvalitative metoder og mixed methods designs. Teoretisk fokus ligger i skjæringspunktet mellom sosiokulturell teori, kritisk teori, kjønnsteori og fenomenologi.

Blystad har ledet en rekke ekstern-finansierte tverrfaglige forskningsinitiativ.  De siste større prosjektene er : Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (2021-2026), et tverrfaglig initiativ (samfunnsfag, medisin, juss) som studerer problematiske sider ved generering av mødredødelighetstall, en sentral global indikator på ‘utvikling’. Prosjektet Competing discoursing impacting girls and women's rights: Fertility control and safe abort in Etiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (2016-19) undersøkte det komplekse forholdet mellom nasjonale abortlover og kvinners faktiske tilgang til trygge aborttjenester.

Blystad har publisert betydelig innen feltet global reproduktiv helse. Hun har veiledet 17 PhD- og over 70 masterstudenter. Hun leder forskningsgruppen Global Health Anthropology sammen med Professor Karen Marie Moland. 

Blystad teaches in the master program in Global Health at the Centre for International Health (CIH) and in the master program in Health and Society at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Health Care (IGS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen.

The prime topics taught include social science perspectives on health, illness and suffering; qualitative research methodology and the philosophy of science. She co-coordinates the MA/PhD course ‘Introduction to anthropology in global health’ with Professor Karen Marie Moland, CIH.  

Supervision:Blystad has supervised a total of 17 PhD candidates (8 as main supervisor, 9 as co-supervisor). PhD projects completed: name, short title, year, main supervisor (MS), co-supervisor (CS):

Marte Bygstad Landro: Experiences of shame among depressed, Norway, 2016-22 (CS)

Gloria Abena Ampim: Male involvement in maternal health initiatives, Ghana, 2018-22 (CS)

Marte ES Haaland: Negotiating the abortion law, Zambia, 2017- 21 (MS)

Janne Gjerde: Living with pelvic floor disorders, Ethiopia, 2013-18 (MS)

Bodil B Våga: Nursing care in a cultural perspective, Tanzania, 2009-15 (MS)

Elizabeth Shayo: Participation in health-related decision making, Tanzania, 2009-15 (MS) 

Huda Sharfi: Obstetric fistula and the challenge of reintegration, Sudan, 2008-13 (CS)

Getaneh Mehari: The Gamo gome institution and women’s sexual rights, 2009-13 (CS)

Marit Østebø: The export of gender policies in Norwegian foreign aid, 2009-13 (MS)

Karine Jansen: Politicisation of the 2005-07 Chikungunya epidemic, Reunion, 2008-13 (CS)

Nils G Songstad: Human resources for health, Tanzania, 2007-12 (MS)

Marte Jurgensen: Voluntary testing and counselling for HIV in Zambia, 2007-12 (CS)

Tine Eri:  Experiences of labour onset and early labour, 2008-11 (MS)

Mercy Njeru: Challenges of equity and adherence in HIV interventions, Kenya, 2007-11 (CS)

Torhild S Terkelsen: Gendered touch: experiences from physiotherapy, 2003-08 (CS)

Sebalda Leshabari: Infant feeding among HIV positive mothers, Tanzania, 2004-07 (CS)

Christopher Oleke: Local dynamics of the orphan challenge in Uganda, 2001-05 (MS)

Current PhD candidates (6): Nega Jibat 2017-2022 (CS); Emily McClean 2021-2024 (CS), Ane Straume 2014-2022 (MS), Asabneh Molla 2022-2025 (CS), Kaja Skoftedalen 2022-2026 (CS), Tezera Berheto 2023-2026 (CS).  

Blystad has supervised more than 70 master projects and three (3) medical research track candidates. Present MA students: 4. Present research track students:1

Lærebok
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Helse i tid og rom. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2024). Between ‘block course relationships’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University. Culture, Health and Sexuality.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Health workers’ experience of providing second-trimester abortion care in Ethiopia: a qualitative study. Reproductive Health. 8 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). ‘I Do Not Want Her to be Doing Anything Stressful’: Men’s Involvement in Domestic Work during pregnancy in Ghana. Progress in Development Studies. 319-334.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). «Skammen slår beina under meg» – om hvordan mennesker med depresjon erfarer skam. Nordisk sygeplejeforskning. 155-166.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Norms and sexual relations among adolescents in the context of an intervention trial in rural Zambia. Global Public Health. 14 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). "I came to escort someone": Men's experiences of antenatal care services in Urban Ghana. A qualitative study. Reproductive Health. 12 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: Parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia. BMC Public Health. 11 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Making Fathers: Masculinities and Social Change in the Ghanaian Context. Africa Today. 24-47.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Beyond the law: Misoprostol and medical abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine. 9 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). ‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (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.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). When the law makes doors slightly open: ethical dilemmas among abortion service providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BMC Medical Ethics. 10 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). The challenge of community engagement and informed consent in rural Zambia: an example from a pilot study. BMC Medical Ethics. 45.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-11.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals. Health Policy and Planning. 635-645.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). The lucky ones get cured: Health care seeking among women with pelvic organ prolapse in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. . PLOS ONE. 1-17.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Life after pelvic organ prolapse surgery: A qualitative study in Amhara region, Ethiopia. BMC Women's Health. 8 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Community based interventions for strengthening adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights: how can they be integrated and sustained? A realist evaluation protocol from Zambia. Reproductive Health.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Åndelighet i psykisk helseomsorg: et sammensatt og vanskelig tema. Klinisk Sygepleje. 273-286.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Strengthening validity in studies of pelvic floor disorders through qualitative research: an example from Ethiopia. International Urogynecology Journal. 1-6.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Staying healthy “under the sheets”: Inuit youth experiences of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. 12 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Living with pelvic organ prolapse: voices of women from Amhara region, Ethiopia. International Urogynecology Journal. 361-366.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial. Trials. 15 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Boundaries of confidentiality in nursing care for mother and child in HIV programmes. Nursing Ethics. 576-586.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources - findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. Health Research Policy and Systems.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: The case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine. 22-29.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Reflections on Female Circumcision Discourse in Hargeysa, Somaliland: Purified or Mutilated? African Journal of Reproductive Health.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Mediating development? Exchanges on gender policies and development practices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Africa Today. 25-45.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: The case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia. BMC Health Services Research.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Challenges of disseminating clinical practice guidelines in a weak health system: the case of HIV and infant feeding recommendations in Tanzania. International Breastfeeding Journal. 13 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: Results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia. Social Science and Medicine. 210-219.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Strong state policies on gender and aid: threats and opportunities for Norwegian faith-based organisations. Forum for Development Studies. 193-216.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 12 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Silently waiting to heal: Experiences among women living with urinary incontinence in northwest Ethiopia. International Urogynecology Journal. 953-958.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Rethinking nursing care: An ethnographic approach to nurse-patient interaction in the context of a HIV preventive programme in rural Tanzania. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 1045-1053.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Pelvic floor disorders among women in Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia: a pilot study. International Urogynecology Journal. 1135-1143.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment? BMC Health Services Research. 12 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia. BMC Health Services Research. 11 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Prevalence of pelvic floor disorders among women in northwest Ethiopia: the DABINCOP pilot study. International Urogynecology Journal. 1135-1143.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Condom availability in high risk places and condom use: a study at district level in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. BMC Public Health. 1030.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania. International Journal for Equity in Health. 12 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities. BMC Health Services Research. 14 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Perceived unfairness in working conditions: The case of public health services in Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 15 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). 'Stay home for as long as possible': Midwives' priorities and strategies in communicating with first-time mothers in early labour. Midwifery. E286-E292.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). ‘The waiting mode’: First-time mothers’ experiences of waiting for labour onset. Sexual & Reproductive HealthCare. 169-173.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Negotiating credibility: first-time mothers' experiences of contact with the labour ward before hospitalisation. Midwifery. E25-E30.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). ?HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and the ways ahead? Thematic series. International Breastfeeding Journal 2010:5. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). 'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 11 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. Anthropology & Medicine. 105-118.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. Anthropology & Medicine. 105-118.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Gender roles and informal care for patients with AIDS A qualitative study from an urban area in Tanzania. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 61-68.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2-11.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya. BMC Health Services Research.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Seclusion, protection and avoidance: Exploring the metida complex among the datoga of northern Tanzania. Africa. 331-350.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Seclusion, protection and avoidance: Exploring the metida complex among the datoga of northern Tanzania. Africa. 331-350.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. Human Resources for Health. 18-29.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. Human Resources for Health.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 532-543.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 532-543.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 544-555.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 544-555.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Constraints to educational opportunities of orphans: A community-based study from northern Uganda. AIDS Care. 361-368.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. Childhood.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. Childhood. 267-284.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Article:Transforming extraordinary experiences into the concept of schizophrenia: a case-study of a Norwegian psychiatric unit. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry : an International Journal of Critical Inquiry. 229-252.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). "When the obvious brother is not there": Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. Social Science and Medicine. 2628-2638.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). "When the obvious brother is not there": Political and cultural context of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. Social Science and Medicine. 2628-2638.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). On HIV, sex and respect: Local-global discourse encounters among the Datoga of Tanzania. African Sociological Review. 47-66.
Faglig foredrag
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). The access paradox in safe abortion care.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Global-national-local dynamics in studies of gender, health and the body. Examples of research collaboration between anthropologists on the margins.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). North South Partnerships in Higher Education.
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1998). The paradigm of embodiment and its utility for the anthropological endeavour.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1998). Samarbeid mellom lege og antropolog: Eksempler fra studier av spebarns- og mødredødelighet i Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1998). Kulturbundet sykdomsopplevelse og -uttrykk: medisinsk antropologiske betraktninger i afrikansk kontekst.
Vitenskapelig foredrag
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). The Access Paradox in Safe Abortion Care. The cases of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Helse- og sosial politikk/medisinsk antropologi.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Mediators of development? Experiences with gender and aid among gender experts in Ethiopia.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Handling PMTCT guidelines in non-choice contexts: The case of infant feeding counselling and decision making in PMTCT programmes, Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Beyond Culture? Commitment and Structural Critique among Gender experts in Ethiopia.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). The politics of mother to child transmission of HIV: global discourse and local lives.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). The illusion of informed choie in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: Global politics in local worlds.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Hope, faith and holy water: Resistance in PMTCT programs in Addis Ababa.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Counting on mother's love: The global politics of mother to child transmission in eastern Africa.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). A note on applied locally grounded research and the challenging dynamics between health related research and policy making.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Women and Datoga pastoralists of Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Voldsutøvelse blant øst-afrikanske pastoralister: liv-død dynamikk i ny kontekst.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Vanishing tombs, barren wombs': Gendered confrontations between state forces and Datoga women, Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Staff and community experience with HIV-related interventions: The case of prevention, treatment and care programmes at Haydom, Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). On sex, seclusion, fecundity and fate: The dynamics of sexual prohibitions within the metida/meeta complex among peoples in Hanang/Mbulu, Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2003). Sex and power: Experiences from an HIV intervention project in Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2003). Kropp, seksualitet og AIDS.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2002). Film as intervention.
Leder
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. International Breastfeeding Journal.
Leserinnlegg
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Reproductive health and the politics of abortion. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-4.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. International Breastfeeding Journal.
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Helse i rom og tid. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Fagbok
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Gender, generation and communication in times of AIDS: The potential of 'modern' and 'traditional' institutions. Proceedings from a workshop held in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, 23-25 November 2004. Centre for International Health.
Kompendium
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1996). Kroppen i sosialantropologi.
Hovedfagsoppgave
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). 'The Search for Care and Cure' - Exploring Health Seeking Behaviour in Mbulu District, Tanzania. 8.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). "Nursing Care in an African Context"; A qualitative study from Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania. 9.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1992). The pastoral Barabaig: Fertility, recycling and the social order.
Mastergradsoppgave
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Purified or mutilated? The discourse on female circumcision In Hargeysa, Somaliland.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Omsorg på sykehjem. Hva handler det om?
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Kontrakt - "spiseforstyrrelsens motstemme" Sykepleieres erfaringer med bruk av kontrakt som hjelpemiddel i behandling av pasienter med Anoreksia Nervosa.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Erfaringer knyttet til å leve med type 1 diabetes fra et pasientperspektiv.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). The fear of mother's milk in the era of HIV: A qualitative study among HIV positive mothers and health prefessionals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Kommunikasjon i internasjonale katastrofesituasjoner: Norsk helsepersonells opplevelse av informasjonsutveksling under flodbølgekatastrofen i Sør-Asia i 2004. "Informasjonsflyt i norsk helsevesen under katastrofehåndtering i internasjonal sammenheng".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Infant feeding experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programs - The case for rural Malawi.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Challenges of living with diabetes in resource poor settings: Experiences of diabetes patients, community members and health care providers, Mbulu, northern Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Respected Women. A Study of Wayyuu and its Implications for Womens's Sexual Rights among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Assessing Women's Contraceptive Use. A Triangulation Study from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2006). Barriers to antiretroviral treatment adherence for patients living with HIV infections and AIDS in Arba Minch Hospital, Southern Ethiopia.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Experiences of HIV-positive pregnant women: A qualitative study from Lilongwe urban, Malawi. 5.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Assessing the impact of HIV/AIDS on informal care: A qualitative study from an urban Tanzanian context. 6.
Kronikk
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1-6.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Apartheid i forskning. Bergens Tidende. 11.
Doktorgradsavhandling
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Vendepunktet er den andre En kvalitativ studie av pasienters erfaring med depresjon, skam og profesjonell relasjon i psykisk helsevern . 46.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Chronic disease among women in a resource-constrained setting. The case of pelvic organ prolapse in rural Ethiopia.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Stakeholder engagement in health-related decision making. The Case of Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Scrutinizing care in nursing practice: An ethnographic study of nurse-mother interaction in programmes to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child in Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). The challenge of orphans in the era of AIDS : assessing community experience in Uganda.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2000). Precarious Procreation. Datoga Pastoralists at the Late 20th Century.
Intervju
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Intervju om kulturelle faktorers invirkning på spredning av HIV i Øst-Afrika i "Magasinet".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Intervju om et kulturspesifikt HIV-forebyggende filmprosjekt i Øst-Afrika.
Dokumentar
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Datoga aeshegeda UKIMWI! (Datoga, let's beware AIDS!): A culture specific HIV prevention film targeting Datoga communities in Tanzania (58 min.).
Programdeltagelse
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Intervju om kultur og AIDS i Kenya/Tanzania.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2024). Anthropology of abortion. 16 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Globally designed accountability and local social inequality. A case study of two maternal deaths in Tanzania. 19 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Counting on Mother's Love: The Global Politics of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa. 33 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). On HIV, sex and respect: Local-global discourse encounters among Datoga in Tanzania. 23 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Noen tanker om positivisme i kvalitativ forskning. 17 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Fertile mortal links: Reconsidering Datoga violence. 19 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Employing film in HIV prevention: a culture specific film from Mbulu/Hanang, Tanzania. 6 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2004). Datoga. 10 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2000). Challenging encounters: Datoga lives in independent Tanzania. 24 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2000). Challenging encounters: Datoga lives in independent Tanzania. 24 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1999). "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure, and the future. 22 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1999). "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure and the future. 22 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1999). "We are as sheep and goats": Iraqw and Datooga discourses on fortune, failure and the future. 22 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1999). "Dealing with men's spears": Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility. 37 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1999). "Dealing with men's spears": Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility. 37 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1996). La Chant qui Revielle la Terre.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1996). La Chant qui Reveille la Terre. 4 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1996). "Do Give us Children": The Problem of Fertility among the Pastoral Barbayiig of Tanzania'.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1996). "Do Give us Children": The Problem of Fertility among the Pastoral Barbayiig of Tanzania. 23 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1995). Peril or penalty: AIDS in the context of social change among the Barabaig. 21 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1995). Peril or Penalty: AIDS in the context of social change among the Barabaig. 21 sider.
Annet
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Employing film in HIV prevention: a culture specific film from Mbulu/Hanang. 85-90.
Sammendrag/abstract
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). SUCCESSFUL USE OF PLERIXAFOR IN HARD TO MOBILIZE PATIENTS - FOLLOWING HIGH DOSE THERAPY ALL PATIENTS DEVELOPED FAST AND SUSTAINED ENGRAFTMENT WITH DURABLE CLINICAL RESPONSES. Cytotherapy. S24-S24.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania. Tropical medicine & international health. 89-89.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Financial incentives for health worker motivation: the case of health services in Tanzania. Tropical medicine & international health. 341-341.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). 'What counts': health workers' preferences for public health facilities or church-run health facilities in Tanzania. Tropical medicine & international health. 340-340.
Poster
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). High participation in cluster randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme in rural Zambia .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). 'There is no choice in this area'. Nurse counselling in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmes in Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). 'There is no choice in this area'. Nurse counselling in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmes in Tanzania.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary testing and counselling for HIV in Kenya.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Choice and adherence to choice of infant feeding method among HIV positive mothers in northern Tanzania.
Visuell kunst
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2006). Eshageada UKIMWI Datoga (Datoga let's beware AIDS!). 2nd version.
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania. Globalization and Health. 13 sider.
Intervju tidsskrift
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Hindrer hiv fra grasrota. Hubro. Magasin for Universitetet i Bergen. 13-14.

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Blystad has been PI for a number of externally funded research projects:  

PI for the project: Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (MATRISET). Research Council of Norway, 2021-26.  Brief description: The objective of the project is to improve the quality of maternal mortality reporting and reviewing to strengthen the knowledge on which to base remedial action to reduce maternal deaths.

PI for the project:  Competing discourses impacting girls' and women's rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (SAFEZT). Research Council of Norway, 2016-18. Brief description:  This comparative, inter disciplinary project investigated the articulation between national abortion laws and women and girl’s access to safe abortion services in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia.

Co-PI for the project: Gender in poverty reduction: Critical explorations of Norwegian aid policy on gender equality and women’s rights.  Research Council of Norway, 2012-16. PI: Professor H. Haukanes, UoB. Brief description: The project explored the concepts of ‘gender equality’ and ‘women’s rights’ in Ethiopia through a focus on the gender paradigms that have characterized Norwegian development aid since the mid-1990s. A collaborative venture between the University of Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute and Haraldsplass Deaconess University College, Norway and Addis Ababa University.

PI for the project: Gender, generation and social mobilisation: Challenges of reproductive health and rights among vulnerable groups in Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia’ (GESOMO NUFU). Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFU), 2007-12. Brief description: This interdisciplinary and multi-country competence-building project had a research focus on a series of particularly challenging reproductive health challenges; female genital mutilation, infertility, mother to child transmission of HIV, obstetric fistulae and women’s sexual rights in Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia.

PI for the project: Strengthening Human Resources for Health: A study of health worker availability and performance in Tanzania.  Research Council of Norway, 2006-12. Brief description: The project was a strategic initiative to address the what has been coined the problem of ‘shortage of health personnel and poor health worker performance’. It was a collaborative effort between Centre for International Health and Department of Economics, UoB, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Bergen University College.

PI for the project: ‘Gender, Generation and Communication in Times of AIDS: The Potential of ’Modern’ and ’Traditional’ Institutions’ (GEACA). Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFU), 2002-07. Brief description: The dramatic HIV/AIDS situation in Tanzania.

Coordinator for work package V and all qualitative project components: Health Related Priority Setting in Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya’ (REACT). EU funding, 2005-10. PI: Dr. J. Byskov. Brief description: With deliberative public involvement as a starting point the project explored decision making- and priority setting processes with a particular focus on the District health systems in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Coordinator for work package III: ‘Searching for effective HIV-prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa: focusing on local contexts’. Norwegian Research Council, 2004-10. PI: Professor K. Fylkesnes. Brief description: A key research focus was on the dynamics between global WHO so-called PMTCT guidelines, calling for breast milk substitutes as first choice for mothers in contexts where a limited segment of the population can afford breast milk substitutes. 

2000  PhD:  Doctor Politicarum in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (UoB)  

1995-96: Visiting Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology, Dep. of Social Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

1992 Master: Candidatus Politicarum in Social Anthropology and Health and Social Policy  (Subsidiary Fields: Comparative Religion and Nursing, UoB)

1981-84 Registered Nurse (RN): Aust-Agder Nursing College, Aren­dal, Norway

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