Trygve Ottersen

Academic interests

Research interests within global health policy:

• Health systems strengthening, including priority setting and public health interventions
• Global health security, including pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance
• Development assistance for health

Background

• MD, PhD
• Currently Executive Director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Associate Professor at the University of Oslo; and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa.
• Directs the Oslo Group on Global Health Policy
• Previously worked with the Norwegian Committee on Priority Setting in the Health Sector; the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage; the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and the UN Special Envoy on Ebola.

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Partners

• Department of International Public Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• Global Health Priorities Research Group, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen
• Global Strategy Lab, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania
• Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, US