Academic interests
Davina joined the Department for Community Medicine & Global Health as a Doctoral Research Fellow in August 2023. Davina's doctoral project is a part of the transdisciplinary NFR-project 'Anthropogenic Soils - Recuperating Human-Soil Relationships on a Troubled Planet'.
Drawing on ethnographic work with small-scale farmers in Punjab (India), Davina's doctoral project proposes to reveal new ways of rethinking and understanding the turn to experimental and alternative forms of agriculture that are emerging in Punjab (India) on a backdrop of socioecological crisis, and what they can offer for reimagining human-soil relationships and more-than-human health. Inspiration has been drawn from several scientific fields including medical anthropology and its methodological strength in navigating fields of epistemic uncertainty and giving voice to disadvantaged groups in the study of intersectional health injustices; feminist science and technology studies and its insights into knots of companion species, care, ethics and accountability in human and nonhuman attachments; environmental humanities and its turn to multispecies relations; and finally, planetary health and calls for a stronger voice of public health and medicine in studying health and the environment in the Anthropocene.
Davina's research interests also include migration, racism and health inequities, and she in 2018 she obtained her MPhil in International Community Health at the University of Oslo. Her Masters thesis was an ethnography of the health situation of migrating street-workers in Oslo.
Davina is a medical doctor trained at University College London, and has worked clinically for seven years in general/ internal medicine, emergency medicine and sexual and community health. Davina is currently a volunteer doctor at the Health Centre for Undocumented Migrants in Oslo.
Davina works 25% as part of her doctoral position, teaching medical students social medicine including migration & health, racism, discrimination & health, social medicine aspects of drug addiction; and climate change & health, amongst others.
Teaching
I have taught in the following courses for both medical students and Masters students in International Community Health at the Faculty of Medicine:
- MED1100 - Medical Studies, module 1
- MED4500 - Medical Studies, module 5
- MED5700 - Medisin Studies, module 7
- MED6800 - Medical Studies, module 8
- MED3002 - Qualitative Methods in Health Research
- INTHE4122 - Migration and Health
- MED3066 - Climate Change & Health
- ISSMF4206 - International Community Health
Background
- University Lecturer, Department for Community Medicine and Global Health (full-time), University of Oslo (2021-2022)
- Medical doctor (general practice), Oslo Emergency Department (2020- 2022)
- University Lecturer, Department for Community Medicine and Global Health (part-time), University of Oslo (2020)
- Medical doctor (sexual health), Olafiaklinikken, Oslo University Hospital (2020)
- Medical doctor (internal medicine), Notodden hospital, Hamar hospital, Vesterålen hospital (2018-2020)
- MPhil in International Community Health, University of Oslo (2018)
- Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Royal College of Physicians, U.K (2016)
- Medical doctor in sexual & reproductive health, Homerton Hospital, U.K. (2015)
- Junior medical doctor, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Wycombe Hospital, U.K (2013-2015)
- MBBS Medicine, University College London (2013)
- Intercalated BSc in International Health, University College London (2009)
Other positions
- Volunteer Doctor, Health Centre for Undocumented Migrants, Oslo (2020 - present)
- Member, Racism, Discrimination & Health Working Group
Media Dissemination
- Lege - vi kan ikke lenger skille menneskenes helse fra jordas helse (We can no longer separate human health and soil health)
- Rasisme er en trussel mot folkehelsa (Racism is a threat to public health)
- Et løft for mangfold, likestilling og inkludering ved MED (A lift for diversity, equality and inclusion at the Faculty of Medicine)
Awards
- Research Stay Abroad Grant, Norwegian Research Council, 2024/5
- Research Grant, Oslo Church City Mission, 2017