External participants

External participants

The center has an academic board, currently comprising:

  • Emeritus Professor Bengt Lindström
  • Professor Arne Eide, SINTEF
  • Dr. Dorota Wlodarczyk, Warsaw Medical University, Poland
  • Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Professor Bjarne Bruun Jensen, Steno Research Centre, Copenhagen
  • Professor Dr. Steinar Krokstad, HUNT, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU

In addition, the center, with its four areas of focus (as described in the Research section), maintains various networks and ongoing and planned projects involving both national and international collaborators. Some examples include:

Networks

  • Norwegian Network for Education and Research in Health Promotion
  • European Forum for Health Promotion Research (HP Forum)
  • Global Network of Salutogenesis

Examples of selected collaborators and consortia

  • BAT Consortium (led by Professor Wilmar Schaufeli, Utrecht University, Netherlands, and Hans de Witte)
  • H-Work Consortium (https://h-work.eu/consortium/)
  • Center for Work, Health, and Well-being at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Professors Glorian Sorensen and Erika Sabbath)
  • Berkeley Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces (Dr. Cristina Banks and Prof. Christina Maslach)
  • Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (Prof. He Hong-Gu and Dr. Tam Wilson)
  • Medical University of Warsaw (Magdalena Łazarewicz, PhD and Dr. Dorota Włodarczyk)
  • CHRC - Comprehensive Health Research Center, NOVA Medical School (Professor Helena Canhao, Dr. Rute de Sousa, and Dr. Ana M. Rodrigues) 
  • INHERIT Consortium (Home - INHERIT)
  • Wageningen University (Assistant Professor Lenneke Van Drager)

Examples of ongoing projects

  • LOHHCS Study at Karolinska Institute, Sweden (Emma Brulin)
  • Hospital Study – New Technology and Health (STUNTH) (Dr. Sigmund Gismervik, Associate Professor, ISM, NTNU, Norway, and researcher Signe Lohmann-Lafrenz, ISM, NTNU, Norway)
  • NFR – Evidence for Action to Reduce Social Inequalities in Health (Prof. M. Lillefjell)

New projects/themes in "start-up" phase

  • Public Health among the Elderly (National University of Singapore, Universidade NOVA, Lisbon, Medical University of Warsaw, and NTNU)
  • Rural Health in partnership with the European Association of Public Health (https://eupha.org/)
  • Retention Evaluation – Teacher Attrition and Incentives in Norway, NFR, Welfare and Education (IPS, NTNU)
  • Sustainable Rural Communities – IMPACT INB Research Group, Health Promotion in Municipalities in partnership with NTNU Social Research, ISM HUNT, Wageningen University, and municipalities in the Public Health Program in Trøndelag.