Lise Bjerke

Image of Lise Bjerke
Norwegian version of this page
Phone +47 22858929
Mobile phone +47 41659754
Room 172
Username
Visiting address Kirkeveien 166 Fredrik Holsts hus 0450 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1130 Blindern 0318 Oslo
Other affiliations Senter for utvikling og miljø

Background

Lise Bjerke holds an M.Phil. degree in Culture, Environment and Sustainability and a bachelor's degree in India area studies from the University of Oslo, including exchange to SOAS, University of London. Her master's thesis explored food security and access to public food security programmes among low-income, internal migrants in Bangalore, India. In 2018, she received the University of Oslo's award for best master's thesis on sustainability.

As a Ph.D. fellow in global health and medical anthropology in the FAR project, she studies the production, regulation and export of Indian antibiotics for African markets. Lise has also worked as an adviser at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH/FHI).

Academic interests

  • Medical anthropology
  • Medical history
  • Global Health
  • Social science and antimicrobial resistance
  • India and South Asia studies
  • Environment and development studies
  • Food security
Tags: Medical anthropology, India, South Asia, AMR, Global Health

Selected publications

Bjerke, Lise. 2023. ‘Antibiotika på reisefot’. [Kronikk] Michael - Tiddskrift for samfunnsmedisin og medisinsk historie, Infeksjonshistorie, no. 3. https://www.michaeljournal.no/journal/2023/3

Zhang, Mingyuan, and Lise Bjerke. 2023. 'Antibiotics "Dumped": Negotiating Pharmaceutical Identities, Properties, and Interests in China–India Trade Disputes.' Medical Anthropology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12757

Bjerke, Lise. 2022. ‘Antibiotic Geographies and Access to Medicines: Tracing the Role of India’s Pharmaceutical Industry in Global Trade’. Social Science & Medicine 312 (November): 115386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115386

Fjeld, Heidi, Sine Grude, Amanda Hylland Spjeldnæs, Davina Kaur Patel, Lise Bjerke, Anne Kveim Lie. 2021. 'Fra Asia til Afrika: antibiotikas reiser over det indiske havet'. Michael - Tiddskrift for samfunnsmedisin og medisinsk historie 18: Supplement 28: 148- 56. https://www.michaeljournal.no/asset/pdf/1000/supplements/2021-28/Suppl28-148-156.pdf

Bjerke, Lise. 2018. 'Targeting food insecurity of Indians on the move: Access to food security entitlements among internal migrants in Bangalore' [Master thesis, University of Oslo]. http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-66539

Published Oct. 1, 2019 11:03 AM - Last modified Nov. 13, 2023 3:24 PM