Home  About FNI  Research  Publications  Staff  News & events  Contact		FNI STAFF Kristin Ingstad Sandberg Position at FNI: Senior Research Fellow (20% position) Academic background   PhD, University of Oslo, 2009   Master, International Relations & Post-war Recovery Studies, University of York (UK) Professional experience   Post doc research fellow, Section for International Health & Center for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo (since 2009)   Board member, Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research (since 2010)   Lecturer in evaluation methodology (2000-2008)   Academic coordinator, Section for International Health, UiO (1998-2000)   Junior Researcher, Oslo Peace Research Insitute, PRIO (1994-1996). Main research interests Main focus is on global health governance and its interfaces with national decision-making, with empirical research in Norway, India and Malawi. Overall interests include the emergence of international health as a foreign policy issue; institutional design and effectiveness of global public-private partnerships in health, global innovative financing mechanisms as well as the interlinkages of global institutions on biotechnological innovation/transfers and public health. Major publications Sandberg, Kristin I., Steinar Andresen and Gunnar Bjune, 'A New Approach to Global Health Institutions? A Case Study of New Vaccine Introduction and the Formation of the GAVI Alliance'. Social Science and Medicine, Vol 71, No 7, 2010, pp 1349-1356. Sandberg, Kristin I. and Steinar Andresen, 'From Development Aid to Foreign Policy: Global Immunization Efforts as a Turning Point for Norwegian Engagement in Global Health'. Forum for Development Studies, Vol 37, No 3, 2010, pp. 301-325. Sandberg, K.I., International Health Policies: The Institutional Dimension of Global Child Immunization. PhD Thesis, University of Oslo, 2009. Sandberg, K.I. and G. Bjune, 'The Politics of Global Immunization Initiatives: Can We Learn from Research on Global Environmental Issues?'. Health Policy, Vol 84, No 1, 2007, pp. 89-101. Sandberg, K.I., 'Has GAVI Changed Aid Donor Responses? The Case of Norway'. European Journal of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Vol 12, Suppl 1, 2007, p. 117. Samset, K. and K.I. Sandberg, OECD Working Party on Aid Evaluation: Review of Current Terminology in Evaluation and Results-Based Management. Paris, OECD, 2000. Sandberg, K.I., Evaluation of the Health Programme of the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee. 2000. Sandberg, K.I., State Capacity: a Review of Literature on Environmental Degradation and Poverty as Causal Pathways to Conflict. Unpublished paper, International Peace Research Institute, 1996. Recent commentary articles: Sandberg, Kristin Ingstad, Steinar Andresen, Sissel Hodne Steen, Sigrun Møgedal, Kristine Husøy Onarheim and Graziella Van der Bergh, 'Helse som utenrikspolitikk' (English version: 'Health as Foreign Policy'), Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, No 18, 20.09.2011. Sandberg, K.I., 'Kommer flere barn til å overleve? Stoltenbergs plan for verdens kvinner og barn, hva skal til for å lykkes?' ('Will More Children Survive? Stoltenberg's Plan for the Women and Children of the World: What Is Needed to Succeed?'). Dagsavisen, 29.09.2007. In Norwegian. Top		Contact details    (+47) 91792201   k.i.sandberg (+@medisin.uio.no) Related focal points of research Global governance and sustainable development Important projects International Health as Foreign Policy Recent media coverage 'Samarbeid om global helse' ('Cooperation on Global Health'), Firda, 07.12.2010. In Norwegian. 'Norge lanserer forskningssamarbeid på utenrikspolitikk og global helse ' ('Norway Launches Research Cooperation on Foreign Policy and Global Health'). Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release. 06.12.2010. In Norwegian.
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