Research Group Public Health (PULL) 

Duration: 2023 -

Participants: Merete Kolberg Tennfjord, Associate Professor (leader), Marianne Molin, Professor, Miroslava Tokovska, Associate Professor (co-leader), Adnan Kisa, Professor, Lars Erik Braaum, College Lecturer, Ane Westerberg, Post doc, Jorunn Githmark, College Lecturer, Carine Aukner, College Lecturer, Ditta Valsdottir, PhD Research Fellow and College Lecturer, Souad El Mghari, PhD Research Fellow, Anette Sørensen, Assistent Professor; Hilde Skjerve, Assistant Professor, Simen Christensen Grøgaard, Assistant Professor; Fredrik Svartdal Færevaag, PhD candidate; Magde Mohamed Nour, PhD candidate.

For more information about each participant's background and research, click on the participant's name above, and you will be taken to the person's staff page.

The Research Group Public Health is an interdisciplinary group that focuses on a wide range of topics related to public health. Public health work deals with all measures that society implements that can affect the state of health in the population. It can, for example, be about facilitating healthy habits, regulations or bans on substances harmful to health, prevention of mental and somatic illness, injury or suffering and measures to equalize social inequalities in health. The members of the Research Group use both quantitative and qualitative methods in their projects. The research in the group is relevant for several bachelor's and master's studies at the college, in the fields of public health, physical activity and exercise, nutrition, psychology, pedagogy and osteopathy. 

Topics of special interest for the Research Group are Health Literacy, Critical Thinking, Social Media, Ageing and Health, Public Health Nutrition, Sports Sciences and Management, Physical Activity, Women`s Health, Migration Health, Health Policy and Economy, Global Health and Educational Research.  

The members of the Research Group have both national, e.g.:

• OsloMet
• Institute of Public Health
• University of Oslo
• NTNU
• VID Scientific College University
• Akershus University Hospital
• Oslo University Hospital

and international partners, e.g.:

• Alma Mater Europaea – ECM, Slovenia
• Matej Bel University, Slovakia
• University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Slovakia
• Constantine The Philosopher University, Slovakia
• University of Melbourne, Australia
• Jorge University, Brazil; Tulane University, USA
• The University of Georgia, USA
• Harvard University, USA
• TH Chan School of Public Health, USA
• University of Washington, USA
• University of Houston, USA