Bjørn Gunnar Iversen
Senior Medical Officer
Responsibilities
Global health, global preparedness, Infection prevention and control, public health institutional strengthening, international collaboration in health.
Background
Medical Doctor with master’s in communicable disease epidemiology from LSH&TM and a PhD from Medical Faculty at UiO in outbreak epidemiology. Worked most of the career at NIPH with infection control, surveillance, guidance, pandemic preparedness and planning, and infection prevention and control (IPC). In recent years, worked more in global health and strengthening of public health institute functions in low- and middle-income countries, and in particular with organizational building, infection control and emergency preparedness.?