Academic interests
• Translational ethics
• Public health challenges and ethics: social inequality in health, political, bureaucratic and professional determinants of health (governing determinants of health), accountability, power and trust
• Medical- and health-related ethics: priority setting in health, social inequality, professional judgment and discretion, research ethics, climate changes and artificial intelligence
• Philosophy of health sciences
Courses taught
- Medical and health related ethics, research ethics
Background
• Professor/associate professor in medical ethics and philosophy of science, University of Bergen, from 2013
• Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bergen (2013-2018)
• Postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics programme, UiO (2010-2012)
• PhD in medical ethics, University of Bergen (2009)
• Philosophy (1998)
Appointments
- Leader of medical ethics teaching
- Member of Norwegian Ethics Committees for Clinical Trials on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices (REK KULMU)