Academic interests:
- Heroin-assisted treatment
- Overdose prevention with take-home naloxone
- Implementation and evaluation research
- Opioid addiction
- Multi-disciplinary collaboration and research
- Safe consumption rooms
Teaching at the University of Oslo:
- GERSYK 4101 Advanced geriatric clinical nursing 1 (2013-2015)
- GERSYK 4102 Advanced geriatric clinical nursing 2 (2013-2017)
- GERSYK 4402 Pathophysiology, diseases and treatment (2013-2015)
- GERSYK 4403 Pharmacology (2014-2016)
- GERSYK 4404 Systematic clinical assessment (2015-2019)
Background:
Desiree Eide earned her PhD from the University of Oslo for her work relating to the implementation and evaluation of the take-home naloxone program in Norway (2017). She is trained as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Johns Hopkins University in the United States (2012). Her focus has been with vulnerable groups, and she has worked within the addiction field since 2011. Her primary research relates to people addicted to heroin. Additionally, she worked on the development of a geriatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Oslo, and was responsible for teaching several courses for the program (2013-2019).
Previous and ongoing collaborations:
Collaboration with Danish researchers at Aarhus University studying overdoses and outcomes related to opioid maintenance treatment
Collaboration with researchers from the Czech Republic at Charles University using registry data to explore and compare outcomes relating to opioid maintenance treatment
Collaboration with the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Oslo and Bergen municipalities for the evaluation of the distribution of take-home naloxone
Previous research collaboration with King’s College London on a European mixed methods study exploring the effectiveness of take-home naloxone (NalPORS)
Consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for an assessment of opioid overdose management in the Kenyan prison setting
Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) on indicators for monitoring city progress in the prevention of non-communicable diseases and injuries, with a focus on overdose prevention.
PhD supervision:
Ongoing PhD projects
Øystein Bruun Ericson: “Overdose prevention with take-home naloxone: exploring outcomes from a national harm reduction program”
Francesca Melis: “Quality of life in heroin-assisted treatment”
Siri Gurandsrud Karlsen: “A clinical study of surgery patients’ experience and drug use in Norway”