I received PhD in the measurement and valuation of health-related quality of life and subjective wellbeing from the Institute of Community Medicine (ISM), UiT The Arctic University of Norway and postdoc in health economics from the Department of Global Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen.
I am health economist. My main research interest includes economic evaluation, patient-reported outcome measures, socioeconomic inequality in health and wellbeing. I have a widespread experience in conducting quasi-experimental as well as randomized evaluations of diverse interventions, including mental health interventions. I also engaged in model-based cost-effectiveness analyses of various (public) health interventions.
My broad area of research primarily focuses on health economics, and I continuously made substantial contributions to the field of utility measures for economic evaluation and health preference research. I am particularly interested in conducting methods research including applied econometrics, mapping studies, valuation methods, (extended) cost-effectiveness analyses (ECEA) that models equity concerns and non-health outcomes in economic evaluation.
I have co-authored several peer-reviewed papers and my research outputs have been published in leading journals such as Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, Quality of Life Research, Value in Health, BMC Public Health, BMC Psychiatry, Aging and Mental Health, and European Journal of Health Economics.
Currently, I am a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Research Centre, NORCE AS, Health Services and Health Economics Research Group. Our group involves in a wide range of research including health and welfare services, the labour market and social security sector using register data, survey and interview data. It has extensive experience in spearheading research initiatives together with industry and other R&D institutes.
