Academic interests
Linda joined the University of Oslo, Department of Psychology in 2023 as a post -doctoral fellow with the project titled, SIBS - Preventing Mental Health Problems in Siblings of Children with Chronic Disorders” at the Section for Clinical Psychology. She previously worked with the Cancer Registry of Norway on a Cervical Cancer Screening and HPV Prevention investigating women in rural areas of Romania attendance and follow-up of cervical cancer screening as well as making recommendations based on research to update the Romania national policy on cervical cancer prevention. She has also worked with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) as a Public Health Advisor on different national and international public health projects. Linda is passionate about public health, global health, promoting mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, evidence synthesis, health systems and policy research.
Background
She is a recent Marie Curie research fellow, she completed her PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the Université de Paris (Paris, France) and Applied Health from the University of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK). Her PhD focused on the use of health research to inform policy making, practice and future research by exploring methods to identify research gaps and determine research priorities.
Linda also has a joint master’s degree in public health From the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and the University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) under Europubhealth, an EU funded Erasmus Mundus Masters programme.