Research director (Leave)
Nora Ahlberg

Attached to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo and the University of Helsinki. Previously Professor/Head of department at the University of Tromsø and the University of Trondheim, and formerly headed the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees.Competence in comparative cultural and religious studies and clinical psychology. Possesses broad interdisciplinary experience from research and teaching on immigrants, refugees and other minorities, also from the faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Acting Research Director
Karin Harsløf Hjelde

Hjelde also holds degrees in medical demography and social work. From 1991 she worked at the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees at Oslo University. She holds a doctorate on unaccompanied refugee children. At NAKMI she works on a post. doc.-project concerning Somalis´concepts of mental health. The project is financed by the Council for mental health (Rådet for psykisk helse) via Health and Rehabilitation (Helse og rehabilitering).

Acting Director
Arild Aambø

GP, qualified supervisor and Master Practitioner. Has 20 years of experience in clinical communication within family treatment, clinical hypnosis and individual therapy. Established in 1994 the Primary Healthcare Workshop (PMV) in Oslo, a project for developing health promoting means and dialogue for a multicultural setting.

M. Nutrition and M. Int. Community Health
Dawit Shawel Abebe

Master of Nutrition from Gent University, Belgium 2006 and Master in International Community Health from University of Oslo 2009. He has an international experience in teaching public health courses, conducting quantitative-research and projects on tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, nutrition and reproductive health. In NAKMI, Dawit is preparing a systematic review report on important public health problems related to migration in Norway. [tlf. 23016068]

On leave (from august 2009)
Elzbieta Czapka

Elzbieta Czapka, MA in Sociology (master thesis on causes of anorexia and bulimia). Holds a doctorate in Sociology from the Catholic University of Lublin. Her doctoral dissertation concerns a stereotype of a refugee functioning in selected European Countries. Since 1998 she has worked at the University of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn (Poland). Her main field is sociology of minorities, sociology of law and sociology of medicine.She specializes in field research. At NAKMI Ela works on her post.doc. project concerning Polish labour migrants health and is involved in COST ACTION (HOME) activities.

Researcher
Jennifer Gerwing

Gerwing has a Ph. D. in Psychology from University of Victoria, Canada (2008). Gerwing investigates conversation using microanalysis of communication. She focuses primarily on revealing the communicative resources people use to make themselves understood and the moment-by-moment collaborative processes they use to do so. At NAKMI, Gerwing is collaborating with AMK Ullevål to address and remediate communication difficulties in emergency medical telephone calls between operators and foreign language callers.

Research fellow/Epidemiologist
Ursula Georgine Småland Goth

Ursula G. Småland Goth is currently associated with the University of Oslo working on her Ph.D. in public health with the focus on migrant health. Initially trained as a registered nurse, Ms Goth also holds a M.Sc, a master degree. in management and administration and received a master degree in International Community Health from the University of Oslo. For over 25 years, Ms Goth managed health programs in various places around the world. She worked for the Red Cross, Caritas, MDA (Red Cross Israel) and Care Austria in war areas in the Middle East, Rwanda and Bosnia where she was responsible for establishing, directing and maintaining programs to provide primary and secondary health care. In addition to her organizational (general) management experience, Ms Goth has long experience with diversity management, health assessments and research in developed and undeveloped countries. At NAKMI she is working as project leader and a PhD research fellow. The project “”Distinguishing factors in the use of the “Norwegian GP scheme by immigrants versus Norwegian born residents” has been financed with the aid of EXTRA funds from the Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation.

Web editor/editorial secretary
Thor Indseth

Master in History from the University of Oslo (2006). Besides NAKMI he has been lecturer at Telemark University College, worked in UDI and as a research assistant at UiO. Thor Indseth is responsible for nakmi.no and is editor for Mighealthnet.

Project worker
Sara Kahsay

Kahsay works at the maternity ward at Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo. At NAKMI she conducts the project Pregnancy and Childbirth i a Multicultural Norway. [TEL. Tue, Fri: (+47) 23016071]

Project worker
Emine Kale

Kale has worked at the Psychiatric polyclinic in Oslo's southern suburb, Holmlia, where half of the population are immigrants or children of immigrants. Her main field is transcultural psycology. Kale has for many years had her own private practice where she works with immigrants and refugees. At Holmlia she has in recent years worked especially with women experienceng physical pain, both patients with a Norwegian and those with an immigrant or refugee background. At NAKMI she works alongside Dr. Hammad Raza Syed in creating our Resource group and running the research project on the use of interpreters in Norwegian health care.

Executive officer
Vera Minja

Master of Economics and Resource management from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Responsible for administrative tasks at NAKMI. Has previously worked as a project assistant at the institute of Transport Economics. [Tel: 23016060]

Research fellow
Torunn Arntsen Sajjad

Sørheim is conducting research on perceptions, dilemmas and challenges concerning consanguinity among parents and hereditary diseases. The project has a focus on the meeting between health care workers and Norwegian-Pakistanis. Sajjad has earlier worked for the Norwegian Red Cross on matters concerning refugees. She has also been employed at the Department of medical Anthropology at Oslo University, where she studied the interaction between health care personell and immigrants, Pakistani families with disabled children and disabled young adults with a minority background. Sørheim has worked considerably within education. Her special areas of interest are cross-cultural communication, the situation of women and disabled people's living conditions.