- Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Health and Society in the project From Asia to Africa: Antibiotic trajectories across the Indian Ocean
- Communications Adviser at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), UiO (25% position), with responsibility for research news, newsletter and social media
- Researcher in the project Strategic solidarity: Scandinavian countries' COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy (SCANVAX) at SUM
Background
Lise Bjerke holds an M.Phil. degree in Culture, Environment and Sustainability and a bachelor's degree in India area studies from the University of Oslo, including exchange to SOAS, University of London. Her master's thesis explored food security and access to public food security programmes among low-income, internal migrants in Bangalore, India. In 2018, she received the University of Oslo's award for best master's thesis on sustainability.
As a Ph.D. fellow in global health and medical anthropology in the FAR project, she studies the production, regulation and export of Indian antibiotics for African markets. Lise has also worked as an adviser at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH/FHI).
Academic interests
- Medical anthropology
- Medical history
- Global Health
- Social science and antimicrobial resistance
- India and South Asia studies
- Environment and development studies
- Food security