Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl
Associate Professor / Head of Studies
Global Health Section
Øster Farimagsgade 5, bg. 9, indg. P, Postboks 2099, 1014 København k, CSS bg. 9, Building: 9.2.18
Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl is a trained anthropologist and has a PhD in Public Health. BPT conducts research with a focus on the interactions between health/illness, treatment and socio-cultural aspects. For example, BPT works with exploring how health interventions and the context in which these are implemented mutually constitute each other. BPT is involved in research projects in Tanzania, Ghana and Denmark in the fields of reproductive health, chronic illness, health systems research and access to / use of medicines, inkluding antibiotics.
Teaching
Director of the following courses
Public Health, 4th semester course in International Health
Global Health Masters Fieldcourse in Poland
Summercourse in Global Health challenges (2016)
Teaching and supervising in the following topics
Medical anthropology and global health
Health systems research
Reproductive health
Child health in health systems in low-and middle income countries
Qualitative research methodology
Ethics in qualitative research
Research communication and utilization
Gender and global health
Gender and reproductive health
Supervision of Global- Medical- and Public Health students
Primary fields of research
Gender, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, Child Health & Health Systems
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Do health systems delay the treatment of poor children? A qualitative study of child deaths in rural Tanzania.
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Factors influencing drug uptake during mass drug administration for control of lymphatic filariasis in rural and urban Tanzania
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Integrating biomedical and herbal medicine in Ghana: experiences from the Kumasi South Hospital: a qualitative study
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