Katerini Storeng

• Daire, Judith; Kloster, Maren Olene & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2018). Political Priority for Abortion Law Reform in Malawi: Transnational and National Influences. Health and Human Rights: An International Journal.  ISSN 1079-0969.  20(1), s 225- 236 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  In July 2015, Malawi’s Special Law Commission on the Review of the Law on Abortion released a draft Termination of Pregnancy bill. If approved by Parliament, it will liberalize Malawi’s strict abortion law, expanding the grounds for safe abortion and representing an important step toward safer abortion in Malawi. Drawing on prospective policy analysis (2013–2017), we identify factors that helped generate political will to address unsafe abortion. Notably, we show that transnational influences and domestic advocacy converged to make unsafe abortion a political issue in Malawi and to make abortion law reform a possibility. Since the 1980s, international actors have promoted global norms and provided financial and technical resources to advance ideas about women’s reproductive health and rights and to support research on unsafe abortion. Meanwhile, domestic coalitions of actors and policy champions have mobilized new national evidence on the magnitude, costs, and public health impacts of unsafe abortion, framing action on unsafe abortion as part of a broader imperative to address Malawi’s high level of maternal mortality. Although these efforts have generated substantial support for abortion law reform, an ongoing backlash from the international anti-choice movement has gained momentum by appealing to religious and nationalist values. Passage of the bill also antagonizes the United States’ development work in Malawi due to US policies prohibiting the funding of safe abortion. This threatens existing political will and renders the outcome of the legal review uncertain.

• de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine; Kittelsen, Sonja & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2018). Krise! Hvordan beredskapslogikk endrer global helsepolitikk. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.  ISSN 0029-2001.  138(16), s 1- 7 . doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.18.0572
• Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Tylleskär, Thorkild & Moland, Karen Marie (2018). Policy, paperwork and 'postographs': Global indicators and maternity care documentation in rural Burkina Faso. Social Science and Medicine.  ISSN 0277-9536.  215, s 28- 35 . doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.001 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Scott, Rachel H.; Filippi, Veronique; Moore, Ann M.; Acharya, Rajib; Bankole, Akinrinola; Calvert, Clara; Church, Kathryn; Cresswell, Jenny A.; Footman, Katharine; Gleason, Joanne; Machiyama, Kazuyo; Marston, Cicely; Mbizvo, Mike; Musheke, Maurice; Owolabi, Onikepe; Palmer, Jennifer; Smith, Christopher; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Yeung, Felicia (2018). Setting the research agenda for induced abortion in Africa and Asia. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics.  ISSN 0020-7292.  142(2), s 241- 247 . doi: 10.1002/ijgo.12525 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Provision of safe abortion is widely recognized as vital to addressing the health and wellbeing of populations. Research on abortion is essential to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Researchers in population health from university, policy, and practitioner contexts working on two multidisciplinary projects on family planning and safe abortion in Africa and Asia were brought together for a workshop to discuss the future research agenda on induced abortion. Research on care‐seeking behavior, supply of abortion care services, and the global and national policy context will help improve access to and experiences of safe abortion services. A number of areas have potential in designing intervention strategies, including clinical innovations, quality improvement mechanisms, community involvement, and task sharing. Research on specific groups, including adolescents and young people, men, populations affected by conflict, marginalized groups, and providers could increase understanding of provision, access to and experiences of induced abortion. Methodological and conceptual advances, for example in the measurement of induced abortion incidence, complications, and client satisfaction, conceptualizations of induced abortion access and care, and methods for follow‐up of patients who have induced abortions, will improve the accuracy of measurements of induced abortion, and add to understanding of women's experiences of induced abortions and abortion care.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Civil society participation in global public-private partnerships for health. Health Policy and Planning.  ISSN 0268-1080.  33(8), s 928- 936 . doi: 10.1093/heapol/czy070 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Abstract The growth of global public-private partnerships for health has opened up new spaces for civil society participation in global health governance. Such participation is often justified by the claim that civil society organizations, because of their independence and links to communities, can help address democratic deficits in global-level decision-making processes. This article examines the notion of ‘civil society engagement’ within major public–private partnerships for health, where civil society is often said to play a particularly important role in mediating between public and private spheres. How do major global health partnerships actually define ‘civil society’, who represents civil society within their global-level decision-making bodies, and what formal power do civil society representatives hold relative to other public and private-sector partners? Based on a structured analysis of publicly available documents of 18 of the largest global public–private partnerships for health, we show that many of them make laudatory claims about the value of their ‘civil society engagement’. Most use the term ‘civil society’ to refer to non-governmental organizations and communities affected by particular health issues, and state that they expect these actors to represent the needs and interests of specific populations in global-level decisions about strategies, funding models and policies. Yet, such civil society actors have a relatively low level of representation within the partnerships’ boards and steering committees, especially compared with private-sector actors (10.3 vs 23.7%). Moreover, there is little evidence of civil society representatives’ direct and substantial influence within the partnerships’ global-level governing bodies, where many decisions affecting country-level programmes are made. Rather, their main role within these partnerships seems to be to implement projects and advocate and raise funds, despite common discourses that emphasise civil society's watchdog function and transformative power. The findings suggest the need for in-depth research into the formal and informal power of civil society within global health governance processes.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Palmer, Jennifer J; Daire, Judith & Kloster, Maren Olene (2018). Behind the scenes: International NGOs’ influence on reproductive health policy in Malawi and South Sudan. Global Public Health.  ISSN 1744-1692.  14(4), s 555- 569 . doi: 10.1080/17441692.2018.1446545 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Global health donors increasingly embrace international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) as partners, often relying on them to conduct political advocacy in recipient countries, especially in controversial policy domains like reproductive health. Although INGOs are the primary recipients of donor funding, they are expected to work through national affiliates or counterparts to enable ‘locally-led’ change. Using prospective policy analysis and ethnographic evidence, this paper examines how donor-funded INGOs have influenced the restrictive policy environments for safe abortion and family planning in South Sudan and Malawi. While external actors themselves emphasise the technical nature of their involvement, the paper analyses them as instrumental political actors who strategically broker alliances and resources to shape policy, often working ‘behind the scenes’ to manage the challenging circumstances they operate under. Consequently, their agency and power are hidden through various practices of effacement or concealment. These practices may be necessary to rationalise the tensions inherent in delivering a global programme with the goal of inducing locally-led change in a highly controversial policy domain, but they also risk inciting suspicion and foreign-national tensions.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Prince, Ruth Jane & Mishra, Arima (2018). The politics of health systems strengthening, In Richard Parker & Garcia Jonathan (ed.),  Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health.  Routledge.  ISBN 131529723X.  10.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2017). “Guilty until proven innocent”: the contested use of maternal mortality indicators in global health. Critical Public Health.  ISSN 0958-1596.  27(2), s 163- 176 . doi: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1259459 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  The MMR – maternal mortality ratio – has risen from obscurity to become a major global health indicator, even appearing as an indicator of progress towards the global Sustainable Development Goals. This has happened despite intractable challenges relating to the measurement of maternal mortality. Even after three decades of measurement innovation, maternal mortality data are widely presumed to be of poor quality, or, as one leading measurement expert has put it, ‘guilty until proven innocent’. This paper explores how and why leading epidemiologists, demographers and statisticians have devoted the better part of the last three decades to producing ever more sophisticated and expensive surveys and mathematical models of globally comparable MMR estimates. The development of better metrics is publicly justified by the need to know which interventions save lives and at what cost. We show, however, that measurement experts’ work has also been driven by the need to secure political priority for safe motherhood and by donors’ need to justify and monitor the results of investment flows. We explore the many effects and consequences of this measurement work, including the eclipsing of attention to strengthening much-needed national health information systems. We analyse this measurement work in relation to broader political and economic changes affecting the global health field, not least the incursion of neoliberal, business-oriented donors such as the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation whose institutional structures have introduced new forms of administrative oversight and accountability that depend on indicators.

• Palmer, Jennifer J & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Building the nation's body: The contested role of abortion and family planning in post-war South Sudan. Social Science and Medicine.  ISSN 0277-9536.  168, s 84- 92 . doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.09.011
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2016). “Lives in the balance”: The politics of integration in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. Health Policy and Planning.  ISSN 0268-1080.  31(8), s 992- 1000 . doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw023 Vis sammendrag

  A decade ago, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) was established to combat the growing fragmentation of global health action into uncoordinated, issue-specific efforts. Inspired by dominant global public-private partnerships for health, the PMNCH brought together previously competing advocacy coalitions for safe motherhood and child survival and attracted support from major donors, foundations and professional bodies. Today, its founders highlight its achievements in generating priority for ‘MNCH’, encouraging integrated health systems thinking and demonstrating the value of collaboration in global health endeavours. Against this dominant discourse on the success of the PMNCH, this article shows that rhetoric in support of partnership and integration often masks continued structural drivers and political dynamics that bias the global health field towards vertical goals. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines the Safe Motherhood Initiative’s evolution into the PMNCH as a response to the competitive forces shaping the current global health field. Despite many successes, the PMNCH has struggled to resolve historically entrenched programmatic and ideological divisions between the maternal and child health advocacy coalitions. For the Safe Motherhood Initiative, the cost of operating within an extremely competitive policy arena has involved a partial renouncement of ambitions to broader social transformations in favour of narrower, but feasible and ‘sellable’ interventions. A widespread perception that maternal health remains subordinated to child health even within the Partnership has elicited self-protective responses from the safe motherhood contingent. Ironically, however, such responses may accentuate the kind of fragmentation to global health governance, financing and policy solutions that the Partnership was intended to challenge. The article contributes to the emerging critical ethnographic literature on global health initiatives by highlighting how integration may only be possible with a more radical conceptualization of global health governance.

• Filippi, Veronique; Ganaba, Rasmane; Calvert, Clara; Murray, Susan F. & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2015). After surgery: the effects of life-saving caesarean sections in Burkina Faso. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.  ISSN 1471-2393.  15(1) . doi: 10.1186/s12884-015-0778-7 Vis sammendrag

  Background: In African countries, caesarean sections are usually performed to save mothers and babies’ lives, sometimes in extremis and at considerable costs. Little is known about the health and lives of women once discharged after such surgery. We investigated the long-term effects of life-saving caesarean section on health, economic and social outcomes in Burkina Faso. Methods: We conducted a four-year prospective cohort study of women and their babies using mixed methods. The quantitative sample was selected in 7 hospitals and included 950 women: 100 women with a caesarean section associated with near-miss complication (life-saving caesareans); 173 women with a vaginal birth associated with near-miss complication; and 677 women with uncomplicated vaginal childbirth. Structured interviews were conducted at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 3 and 4 years postpartum. These were supplemented by medical record data on delivery and physical examinations at 6 and 12 months postpartum. The lives and experiences of 21 women were documented ethnographically. Data were analysed with multivariable logistic regressions, using survival analysis and thematic analysis. Results: The physical effects of life-saving caesareans appeared to be similar to women who had an uncomplicated childbirth, although 55% of women with life-saving caesareans had another caesarean in their next pregnancy. The negative effects were generally economic, social and reproductive when compared to vaginal births, including increased debts (AOR=3.91 (1.46-10.48) and sexual violence (AOR=4.71 (1.04-21.3)) and lower fertility (AOR= 0.44 (0.24-0.80)) four years after life-saving caesareans. In the short and medium term, women with life-saving caesareans appeared to suffer increased psychological distress compared to uncomplicated births. They were more likely to use contraceptives (AOR=5.95 (1.53-23.06); 3 months). Mortality of the index child was increased in both near-miss groups, independent of delivery mode. Ethnographic data suggest that these consequences are significant for Burkinabe women, whose well-being and social standing are mostly determined by their fertility, marriage strength and family links. Conclusions: Life-saving caesareans have broad consequences beyond clinical sequelae. The recent policy to subsidise emergency obstetric care costs implemented in Burkina Faso should help avoid the majority of catastrophic costs, shown to be problematic for women undergoing emergency caesarean section.

• Behague, Dominique & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2014). Reflexive relations and the contested creation of epistemic diversity in the Safe Motherhood Initiative, In Laura Camfield (ed.),  Methodological Challenges and New Approaches to Research in International Development.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-1-137-29361-9.  13.
• Ouattara, Fatoumata & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2014). A chain of family and domestic violence: Extramarital pregnancy and social rupture in Burkina Faso, In Bouju Jacky & de Bruijn Mirjam (ed.),  Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa.  Brill Academic Publishers.  ISBN 978-90-04-27155-5.  3.  s 27 - 41
• Ouattara, Fatoumata & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2014). Ouattara, F.; Storeng, K.T. Les soins après avortement, une politique pour éviter de traiter l’avortement en public. Autrepart.  ISSN 1278-3986.  2(70)
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2014). The GAVI Alliance and the ‘Gates approach’ to health system strengthening. Global Public Health.  ISSN 1744-1692.  9(8) . doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.940362
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2014). “Playing the Numbers Game”: Evidence-based Advocacy and the Technocratic Narrowing of the Safe Motherhood Initiative. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.  ISSN 0745-5194.  28(2), s 260- 279 . doi: 10.1111/maq.12072 Vis sammendrag

  Based on an ethnography of the international Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI), this article charts the rise of evidence-based advocacy (EBA), a term global-level maternal health advocates have used to indicate the use of scientific evidence to bolster the SMI's authority in the global health arena. EBA represents a shift in the SMI's priorities and tactics over the past two decades, from a call to promote poor women's health on the grounds of feminism and social justice (entailing broad-scale action) to the enumeration of much more narrowly defined practices to avert maternal deaths whose outcomes and cost effectiveness can be measured and evaluated. Though linked to the growth of an audit- and business-oriented ethos, we draw from anthropological theory of global forms to argue that EBA-or "playing the numbers game"-profoundly affects nearly every facet of evidence production, bringing about ambivalent reactions and a contested technocratic narrowing of the SMI's policy agenda.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Mishra, Arima (2014). Politics and practices of global health: critical ethnographies of health systems in context. Global Public Health.  ISSN 1744-1692.  9(8), s 858- 864 . doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.941901
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Ouattara, Fatoumata (2014). The politics of unsafe abortion in Burkina Faso: The interface of local norms and global public health. Global Public Health.  ISSN 1744-1692.  9(8), s 858- 864 . doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.937828
• Behague, Dominique & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). Pragmatic politics and epistemological diversity: the contested and authoritative uses of historical evidence in the Safe Motherhood Initiative. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice.  ISSN 1744-2648.  9(1), s 65- 85 Vis sammendrag

  In recent years, the demand for cost-effective evidence of health impact has grown exponentially, often to the exclusion of other disciplines and of epidemiology's longstanding interest in the multivariate determinants of health. Drawing on an ethnography of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, this paper focuses on experts who, in producing historical case-study evidence, exceptionally inhabit a stigmatising epistemological position while still successfully commanding the respect of policy makers. To theorise the sources and effects of this epistemic diversity, we draw on the anthropology and sociology of science, and specifically on Holmes and Marcus' analyses of 'para-ethnographic' modes of reasoning.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2013). Evidence-based advocacy and the reconfiguration of rights language in safe motherhood discourse, In Alex Mold & David Reubi (ed.),  Assembling Health Rights in Global Context: Genealogies and Anthropologies.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-415-53011-8.  8.  s 149 - 168
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Drabo, Seydou & Filippi, Veronique (2013). Too poor to live? A case study of vulnerability and maternal mortality in Burkina Faso. Global Health Promotion.  ISSN 1757-9759.  20, s 33- 38 . doi: 10.1177/1757975912462420 Vis sammendrag

  This paper examines the concept of vulnerability in the context of maternal morbidity and mortality in Burkina Faso, an impoverished country in West Africa. Drawing on a longitudinal cohort study into the consequences of life-threatening or ‘near miss’ obstetric complications, we provide an in-depth case study of one woman’s experience of such morbidity and its aftermath. We follow Kalizeta’s trajectory from her near miss and the stillbirth of her child to her death from pregnancy-related hypertension after a subsequent delivery less than two years later, in order to examine the impact of severe and persistent illness and catastrophic health expenditure on her health and on her family’s everyday life. Kalizeta’s case illustrates how vulnerability in health emerges and is maintained or exacerbated over time. Even where social arrangements are supportive, structural impediments, including unaffordable and inadequate healthcare, can severely limit individual resilience to mitigate the negative social and economic consequences of ill health.

• Murray, Susan F.; Akoum, Melanie & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2012). Capitals diminished, denied, mustered and deployed. A qualitative longitudinal study of women's four year trajectories after acute health crisis, Burkina Faso. Social Science and Medicine.  ISSN 0277-9536.  75(12), s 2455- 2462 . doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.025 Vis sammendrag

  Accumulating evidence indicates that health crises can play a key role in precipitating or exacerbating poverty. For women of reproductive age in low-income countries, the complications of pregnancy are a common cause of acute health crisis, yet investigation of longer-term dynamics set in motion by such events, and their interactions with other aspects of social life, is rare. This article presents findings from longitudinal qualitative research conducted in Burkina Faso over 2004-2010. Guided by an analytic focus on patterns of continuity and change, and drawing on recent discussions on the notion of 'resilience', and the concepts of 'social capital' and 'bodily capital', we explore the trajectories of 16 women in the aftermath of costly acute healthcare episodes. The synthesis of case studies shows that, in conditions of structural inequity and great insecurity, an individual's social capital ebbs and flow over time, resulting in a trajectory of multiple adaptations. Women's capacity to harness or exploit bodily capital in its various forms (beauty, youthfulness, physical strength, fertility) to some extent determines their ability to confront and overcome adversities. With this, they are able to further mobilise social capital without incurring excessive debt, or to access and accumulate significant new social capital. Temporary self-displacement, often to the parental home, is also used as a weapon of negotiation in intra-household conflict and to remind others of the value of one's productive and domestic labour. Conversely, diminished bodily capital due to the physiological impact of an obstetric event or its complications can lead to reduced opportunities, and to further disadvantage.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Akoum, Melanie & Murray, Susan F. (2012). 'This year I will not put her to work': the production/reproduction nexus in Burkina Faso. Anthropology & Medicine.  ISSN 1364-8470. Vis sammendrag

  Global advocacy campaigns increasingly highlight the negative impact of reproductive morbidity on economic productivity and development in order to justify donor investment in maternal health. Anthropological approaches nuance such narrow economic estimations of reproductive health. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from Burkina Faso in West Africa, this paper analyses the dynamic, and sometimes contradictory, relationship between women's work and reproductive health in impoverished communities. Specifically, it examines the consequences of life-threatening 'near-miss' obstetric complications for women's work across domestic, agricultural and economic spheres over a four-year period. Such events provide a window onto the diverse ways in which production and reproduction are intimately linked within women's everyday lives. Reproduction and production entail sources of potential empowerment and enhancement, as well as potential threats, to health and well-being. In the aftermath of 'near-miss' events, the realms of reproduction and production sometimes jeopardise each other and at other times reinforce each other, while strength in one domain can compensate for weakness in the other. Women's experiences thus reveal how 'production' and 'reproduction' are mutually constituted, challenging the purely instrumental accounts of pregnancy-related 'productivity loss' that dominate current global health discourse.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Drabo, Seydou; Ganaba, Rasmane; Sundby, Johanne; Calvert, Clara & Filippi, Veronique (2012). Mortality after near-miss obstetric complications in Burkina Faso: medical, social and health-care factors. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.  ISSN 0042-9686.  90(6), s 418- 425 . doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.094011 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Abstract OBJECTIVE: To investigate mortality in women in Burkina Faso in the 4 years following a life-threatening near-miss obstetric complication and to identify the medical, social and health-care-related causes of death. METHODS: In total, 1014 women were recruited after hospital discharge and followed for up to 4 years: 337 had near-miss complications and 677 had uncomplicated pregnancies. Significant differences in mortality between the groups were assessed using Fisher's exact test. The medical causes of death were identified from medical records and verbal autopsy data; social and health-care-related factors associated with death were identified from interviews with the deceased women's relatives. FINDINGS: In the 4 years, 15 (5.3%) women died in the near-miss group and 5 (0.9%) died after uncomplicated pregnancies (P < 0.001). More than half the deaths after a near miss, but none after an uncomplicated delivery, were pregnancy-related. Indirect factors contributed to many of these deaths, particularly human immunodeficiency virus infection. Relatives' accounts suggested that the high cost and poor quality of health care, a lack of follow-up care and an unmet need for contraception contributed to the excess mortality in the near-miss group. CONCLUSION: Women in Burkina Faso who initially survived a near-miss obstetric complication had an increased risk of all-cause and pregnancy-related death in the ensuing 4 years. The likelihood of survival over the longer term could be increased by offering a continuum of care that addresses the indirect and social causes of death and supplements the emergency intrapartum obstetric care provided by current safe motherhood programmes.

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• Kittelsen, Sonja; Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2019). Editorial: the political determinants of health inequities and universal health coverage. Globalization and Health.  ISSN 1744-8603.  15:73, s 1- 5 . doi: 10.1186/s12992-019-0514-6
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Palmer, Jennifer (2019). When ethics and politics collide in donor-funded global health research. The Lancet.  ISSN 0140-6736. . doi: When ethics and politics collide in donor-funded global health research Vis sammendrag

  In this Viewpoint, we share our experience of censorship in evaluation research for global health. Our experience shows a broader trend of donors and implementing partners who deliberately use ethical and methodological arguments to undermine essential research. In a context of chronic underfunding of universities and their growing dependence on donor-driven research grants, we propose several structural and cultural changes to prevent manipulation of research governance systems and to safeguard the independence of research.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Roalkvam, Sidsel & Asaduzzaman, Muhammad (2019). Action to protect the independence and integrity of global health research. BMJ Global Health.  ISSN 2059-7908.  4 . doi: 10.1136/ bmjgh-2019-001746 Vis sammendrag

  The tensions between research ethics and the wider politics of the global health field are increasingly recognised. However, the repercussions of these tensions for individuals and research institutions need careful consideration. While ‘rocking the boat’ is uncomfortable and may threaten individual career progression and research institutions’ external income, biased evidence can harm health programme beneficiaries and public trust in research. There are certainly no simple, fail-safe, technocratic quick fixes to resolving issues of power and politics, but the ideas proposed here should at least create better relationships between the institutions involved in commissioning, undertaking and publishing research, and feed into more sophisticated and thoughtful mechanisms of accountability, which do not simply re-enforce existing frameworks that favour accountability towards donors. The ideas we propose should be considered within broader discussions on how to address north–south power imbalances within the research community, and will hopefully catalyse wider action on protecting the independence of public universities and other research institutions globally. We believe this is necessary to enable researchers to hold power to account and advance informed and healthy debate on issues of public interest.

• De Moor, Katrien; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Lind, Guro Elisabeth; Hølleland, Herdis & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2018). Unge forskere i Norge. Karriereveier og ambisjoner. Oslo: Akademiet for yngre forskere. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2018). Global accountability and the politics of maternal mortality estimates.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2018). The Politics of Maternal Mortality Indicators in Global Health (guest lecture).
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2018). The contested use of maternal mortality indicators in global health.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Civil society participation in global public-private partnerships for health.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Derfor er sivilsamfunnets rolle i globale beslutningsprosesser viktig. Dagsavisen - Nye Meninger.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Global Governance for Health: what role for civil society?.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Sivilsamfunnsdeltakelse i globale partnerskap for helse.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Uetisk å banalisere hiv. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & de Bengy Puyvallée, Antoine (2018). Utviklingsministeren idealiserer sivilsamfunnets rolle som vaktbikkje. Dagsavisen - Nye Meninger. Vis sammendrag

  Tilsvar til Utviklingsminister Astrup, N. «Sivilsamfunnet er viktigere enn styreverv»; Dagsavisen; 3 Oktober 2018; https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyemeninger/sivilsamfunnet-er-viktigere-enn-styreverv-1.1211284

• Aronsen, Jan Magnus; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Emblem, Kyrre Eeg; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Enberg, Katja; Knutsen, Carl Henrik & Lind, Guro Elisabeth (2017). Kvalitetsparadokset i den norske forskningspolitikken. Khrono.no.  ISSN 1894-8995. Vis sammendrag

  De fleste insentivene norske forskere opplever i sin hverdag, er preget av kortsiktige resultater og målstyring mot kvantitet heller enn kvalitet. Dette er et kvalitetsparadoks i norsk forskningspolitikk. skriver flere medlemmer i Akademiet for yngre forskere.

• Emblem, Kyrre Eeg; Enberg, Katja; Helland, Ingeborg Palm; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Rognes, Marie; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Østby, Gudrun (2017). Tenk nytt om tellekanter, Haugstad!. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847. Vis sammendrag

  En siteringsindikator kan være positivt for å måle forskningskvalitet fremfor -kvantitet, men vi trenger fornyelse av tellekantsystemet.

• Kloster, Maren Olene & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2017). An alliance of invisible partners: international actors’ legitimacy seeking practices in the Malawian abortion law reform.
• Puyvallée, Antoine de Bengy & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2017). Protecting the vulnerable is protecting ourselves: Norway and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.  ISSN 0029-2001.  137(12-13), s 908- 910 . doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.17.0208 Vis sammendrag

  Norway has played a critical role in the recent launch of the new Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, revealing Norway’s powerful position in global health. But how will Norway help put the coalition’s governance principles – political legitimacy, representation and accountability – into practice? And how will a more security-based approach impact Norwegian global health policy and research?

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2017). Behind the scenes of donor-driven policy intervention.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2017). Working “behind the scenes”: international NGOs’ role in the global-national transfer of safe abortion policy.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2017). Partnership and politics in global health: The case of re-integrating maternal, newborn and child health.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2017). Policy ideals and everyday politics in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health—the role of ethnography. Health Policy and Planning.  ISSN 0268-1080.  32(7), s 1077- 1078 . doi: /10.1093/heapol/czx019
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Holsten, Hilde Hartmann (2017, 25. februar). Reproductive health causes tension in South Sudan. [Internett].  ScienceNordic. Vis sammendrag

  South Sudanese women find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war between traditional and modern views on their reproductive health.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Kloster, Maren Olene (2017). A struggle for legitimacy – international NGOs’ role in liberalising Malawi’s abortion law.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; DeMoor, Katrien & Lind, Guro Elisabeth (2017). Kampen om talentene. Dagsavisen.  ISSN 1503-2892.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Palmer, Jennifer J; Kloster, Maren Olene & Daire, Judith (2017). Working “behind the scenes”: international NGOs’ role in the global-national transfer of safe abortion policy.
• Høgestøl, Sofie A.E.; Lind, Guro Elisabeth; De Moor, Katrien; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen & Hølleland, Herdis (2016). Karrièreusikkerhet tærer på unge forskere. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.  s 16- 17
• Kloster, Maren Olene & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). A struggle for legitimacy – liberalizing the abortion law in Malawi.
• Palmer, Jennifer J & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Building the nation’s body: the contested role of abortion and family planning in post-war South Sudan. Vis sammendrag

  In this ethnography of reproductive health policy change in post-conflict South Sudan, we examine how ethnic movements and global humanitarian actors configure family planning and abortion in relation to the idea of the nation and the societal tension elicited when their discourses compete.

• Roalkvam, Sidsel; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Chunga, Joseph; Mvua, Peter; Pot, Hanneke; Kloster, Maren Olene & Chinsinga, Blessings (2016). NGOs and the transfer of global maternal health policies.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Global health actors, policy trends and global-national policy transfer.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Ideal og praksis i Malawi.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). International aid and NGOs’ role in safe abortion policy.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Mer enn bare gode historier: Hvordan kan samfunnsvitenskapen bidra med et konstruktivt og kritisk perspektiv i norsk forskning innen global helse?. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.  ISSN 0029-2001.  21(136), s 1824- 1826 . doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.16.0505
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Reisebrev fra verdens helseforsamling.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Safe abortion in rapidly changing policy contexts.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). 'The ‘Gates approach’ to health system strengthening'.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). The World Health Assembly - notes from the field.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). The ethnography of power within global health coalitions.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). The politics of global health - what can social science contribute? (Keynote lecture).
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). Utrygg abort.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2016). What is Policy Change and Who Drives it? Cross cutting insights from a five country study of international NGOs’ influence on abortion policy.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2016). The politics of integration in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2016). The reconfiguration of rights in global advocacy for maternal health.
• Behague, Dominique & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2015). The rise of cost-effectiveness evidence in global health: contingencies of ‘context’ and the politics of contingency. Vis sammendrag

  The development and implementation of health policies in developing countries have become increasingly driven by the practices of research communities, inter- and non-governmental organisations, and donor agencies operating at the global level. Critics of this shifting landscape argue that the concurrent rise in demand for experimental evidence of cost-effectiveness reflects not only the ‘superior’ epistemic truth-value often attributed to experimentation, but also the permeation of neo-liberal market-principles into global health that took force in the 1990s with the rise of “philanthrocapitalism” and public-private partnerships. Simply put, cost-effectiveness measures facilitate the calculation of returns on investments, thereby enabling donors to hold recipients to account in highly detailed technocratic ways. Concern with growing neo-liberalism in global health has given rise to a series of counter-narratives relating specifically to the reductionistic and universalizing tendencies of cost-effectiveness frameworks. Epidemiologists and social scientists now routinely point to the disjuncture that arises when evidence-based guidelines, which are assumed to be broadly universally applicable, are transposed onto a variety of local “contexts” that are rife with “culture.” Many now actively engage in producing alternative epistemologies that they argue are better suited to understanding “context” and “complexity.” Drawing on an ethnographic study of the safe motherhood initiative, this paper explores the social and political life of these alternative epistemologies. Focusing on the recent proliferation of two specific concepts — “context” and “complexity” — we compare key differences in the ways these concepts are used by various stakeholders, depending on their type of expertise, and their role, rank and geopolitical placement. We demonstrate that underpinning debates regarding the epistemic importance of complexity and context are long-standing concerns with the workings of neocolonial power. Our analysis explores how debates relating to contingency are entrenched in geo-political negotiations and the emergence of new “community”-oriented politics of self-governance among experts who identify as representing the Global North and Global South. Focusing less on the polarised fringes of normative epistemologies (e.g. epistemic “resistance”) and more on how epistemic genres divide, multiply and inter-relate, we explore how assertions of the importance of “context” and “complexity” are trapped in a finely-tuned dualistic and dialectical relationship, thereby rendering these concepts unlikely vehicles of change.

• Cresswell, Jenny; Filippi, Veronique; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Yaogo, Maurice; Soubegia, Andre; Ilboudo, Gueswende Patrick C.; Drabo, Seydou & Ganaba, Rasmane (2015). Women’s work and productivity during pregnancy and postpartum in Burkina Faso (presented by Jenny Cresswell).
• Filippi, Veronique; Cresswell, Jenny; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Powell-Jackson, Timothy; Yaogo, Maurice; Soubegia, Andre; Ilboudo, Gueswende Patrick C.; Drabo, Seydou & Ganaba, Rasmane (2015). PopDev Dissemination workshop (multiple presentations to national policy-makers on the Productivity, Family Planning and Reproductive Health (PopDev) Project). Vis sammendrag

  The dissemination workshop was held in Burkina Faso, and a policy brief was subsequently distributed to participants and others.

• Filippi, Veronique; Cresswell, Jenny; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Yaogo, Maurice; Soubegia, Andre; Drabo, Seydou; Ilboudo, Gueswende Patrick C.; Powell-Jackson, Timothy & Ganaba, Rasmane (2015). Productivité, planification familiale et santé de la reproduction: Une étude interdisciplinaire au Burkina Faso. Compte rendu d’étude.
• lange, Isabelle; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Witter, Sophie (2015). Twists and turns on the path towards maternal health user fee removals in West Africa. Vis sammendrag

  The global health landscape, characterized by public and private actors, has a great impact on policy and funding of health interventions in the resource-poor health sector in low-income countries. The level of funds and the priorities shift in line with the political and ideological trends of the time. The neoliberal policies promoted by the World Bank and IMF in the 1980s had a far-reaching impact on the health sector, for instance in sub-Saharan Africa. It resulted in introduction of user fees, cost recovery, private health insurance and public-private partnership with consequent inequalities in access to services. Later, in the 1990s, with the post-Washington consensus, global institutions again recognised health services as the responsibility of the state. Today under the influence of the ideology of Alma Ata, formulated in 1978, the emphasis is on universal health coverage through alleviation of user fees. This panel explores the production of global policies and how these affect practices in health care and access to services at the local level in low-income countries and resource-poor areas. Are health practices driven by policies or is it practice that produces policy? For whom are health policies and practices designed? How are health policies formulated and acted on by local community members, other national actors and authorities? How does policy affect access to health care? What have we learned from past experience? How can future health policy and approaches benefit from past experience? We welcome theoretical and ethnographically founded papers as well as those concerned with practice.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2015). Blant aktivister og eksperter: Møt Katerini T. Storeng.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2015). Living after nearly dying: the lived experience of near-miss pregnancy complications (key note lecture). Vis sammendrag

  “Near-miss” events are obstetric complications that are so severe that they probably would have killed the woman had she not received timely medical care. Epidemiological studies have shown that women who experience near-misses are at greater risk of dying and of experiencing a range of other adverse outcomes in the years following the complication. But what does a near-miss event mean in the context of a woman’s life? This presentation draws on anthropological perspectives on ‘reproductive disruptions’ to highlight the importance of considering the social and cultural significance of illness and reproduction in studies of maternal morbidity. Using examples from longitudinal ethnographic research in Burkina Faso, I argue that analysis of ‘lived experience’ can provide concrete insights into the qualitative meanings of near-misses in women’s lives that are of relevance to public health researchers and practitioners. First, a near-miss is a ‘success’ in that death has been averted, but it is also a traumatic health crisis that is painful and frightening, that often entails the loss of a baby, and whose management requires mobilisation of all available social and financial resources. Second, a near-miss event often upends lives and may ultimately compromise the productive and reproductive capacities upon which women’s social worth and positioning is based. It can disrupt women’s bodily integrity through injury, ongoing illness and loss of strength and fertility; weaken their household economy though debts and loss of productive capacity; and threaten their social identity and social stability. Men, children and broader social networks are also affected. Finally, while many women recover from near-misses, they do not simply ‘bounce back.’ Instead, resilience to health shocks like a near-miss is a process of adaptation and depends on social capital - the material and non-material resources individuals can mobilise by virtue of different kinds of social relationships. Even with supportive social arrangements, however, extreme poverty and fragmented and poor quality follow-up care limit some women’s recovery and long-term survival. I end the presentation by considering how anthropology and epidemiology can converge around their shared interest in the study of the social relations of poor health rather than narrowly defined disease outcomes.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2015). The GAVI Alliance and the ‘Gates approach’ to health system strengthening.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2015). The power and perils of 'hard' indicators in global maternal health research. Vis sammendrag

  Statistical indicators have acquired a life of their own within the global health enterprise, though not all indicators have equal value. Today, the donors who drive global health tend to value 'hard' indicators of health outcomes over 'softer' indicators of the processes involved in healthcare delivery. This paper examines how the cultural value and prestige associated with methodological rigour reinforces not only the scientific, but also political, authority of such indicators. The paper draws on a broader ethnography of the global advocacy coalition for safe motherhood that has, since the late 1980s, sought to generate political commitment to reducing maternal mortality. Through in-depth interviews and participant-observation within elite global health academic networks in Europe and the US, we show how the creation of better indicators of maternal mortality has become a research priority, displacing the field's earlier emphasis on methodologically diverse health systems research. While they have vigorously pursued the production of such indicators, in private many researchers question their value for improving global health practice, not least because they recognise that certain indicators distort the reality they supposedly measure. While researchers express a wish to rectify such distortion, their limited power to do so reflects not only the scientific prestige associated with specific indicators, but also the extent to which researchers have become positioned as key actors within global health initiatives that compete with each other - a competition in which 'hard' indicators have acquired immense power.

• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Mishra, Arima (2015). Launch of Global Public Health special issue - Politics and practices of global health: Critical ethnographies of health systems.
• Usher, Ann Danaiya & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2015, 31. mars). Report: Gates Foundation fought GAVI funding of health systems/Critique of GAVI and Gates Foundation: ‘narrow technological focus on health’. [Fagblad].  Development Today.
• Nickelsen, Trine; Stalsberg, Linn & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2014, 29. april). Mødre taper kampen om helsekronene.  Aftenposten/Apollon.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2014). The GAVI Alliance and the ‘Gates approach’ to health system strengthening.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2014). The Gates Effect: ideology, independence and the global health elite.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Mishra, Arima (2014). Launch of Global Public Health special issue: Politics and practices of global health: Critical ethnographies of health systems.
• Austveg, Berit; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Sundby, Johanne (2013). Der abort er risikosport. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
• Behague, Dominique & Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). The rise of cost-effectiveness evidence in global health: contingencies of ‘context’ and the politics of contingency.
• Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Moland, Karen Marie & Tylleskär, Thorkild (2013). Accountability and health worker performance in primary care maternities in rural Burkina Faso.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). Bill Gates holder hoff for norske ledere (Bill Gates holds court for Norway’s leaders). Ytring : NRK.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). Contexte globale de l’avortement a risque.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). Health system strengthening and global health initiatives.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). Norge satser uten å vente på resultater (Norway invests in results-based financing without waiting for results). Bistandsaktuelt.  ISSN 1501-0201.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). Uten rett til å velge (Without the right to choose). Aftenposten Vitenskap.  ISSN 2464-3033.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2013). Vaksiner, effektivitet og global helsepolitikk (Vaccines, effectiveness and global Health politics). Ytring : NRK.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Ouattara, Fatoumata (2013). The politics of abortion in Burkina Faso.
• Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Meda, Nicolas; Moland, Karen Marie; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Tylleskar, Thorkild (2012). Obstetric care in primary health centres in rural Burkina Faso from a health worker perspective. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.  ISSN 0001-6349.  91(Suppl. 159), s 113- 113
• Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Meda, Nicolas; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Moland, Karen Marie & Tylleskar, Thorkild (2012). Referral as relief: Health workers' experience of obstetric referrals from primary health care facilities in rural Burkina Faso.
• Ouédraogo, Ramatou; Ouattara, Fatoumata; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Drabo, Seydou; Sundby, Johanne & Gruénais, Marc-Eric (2012). Plural vulnerability of young women to unsafe abortion.
• Ouédraogo, Ramatou; Ouattara, Fatoumata; Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Drabo, Seydou; Sundby, Johanne & Gruénais, Marc-Eric (2012). “When the illegal becomes legal”. An ethnography of post-abortions care inOuagadougou (Burkina Faso).
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2012). The contested meaning of “health systems strengthening”: findings from an ethnographic study of global health actors.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi (2012). Too poor to live: vilnerability and maternal mortality in Burkina Faso.
• Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Behague, Dominique (2012). The reconfiguration of rights language in safe motherhood discourse.
• Behague, Dominique & Storeng, Katerini T (2011). Pragmatic politics and epistemological diversity: The contested and authoritative uses of historical evidence in international maternal health.

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