Eivind Engebretsen

Our book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandmics,  provides a framework for how health officials can develop more effective...

A concise poster overview of our Open Access book, which presents a narrative framework for comprehending and tackling mistrust during...

Many medical schools have started to include the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their curricula. Doctors graduate...

Earlier this week, the SUSTAINIT Strategy Seminar convened a diverse assembly of researchers and educators, fostering collaboration and...

This week’s SDG Conference Bergen 2023 was a major event, bringing together over 1500 participants from 117 countries through online...

The Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT) is a knowledge hub located at the Faculty of Medicine (UiO), established by the Faculty Board on...

SUSTAINIT will empower sustainable action through education and research This week we launched the new Sustainable Health Unit...

In our book Mona Baker and I propose a three-step approach to combat disinformation through storytelling. In a recent Lancet report,...

I am thrilled that our project “The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA): The US, Ireland and...

On behalf of my colleague Elin Olaug Rosvold and myself, I am delighted to introduce the first of our two fantastic honorary doctors,...

Please share the flyer for our upcoming book. Available as hardback and Open Access from September 2022.

The book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different people and in different contexts by exploring the...

In a new paper entitled ‘The science-policy relationship in times of crisis: An urgent call for a pragmatist turn’ co-authored with...

Rigorous empirical evidence is often presumed to be the most persuasive, notably in fields such as healthcare and medicine, where there...

Alumni Spotlight: Eivind Engebretsen Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science & Letters (CAS) By Julie Ellinor...

Evidence, in the Evidence-based medicine (EBM) sense of the word, is mainly associated with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which...

This chapter provides a theoretical basis for examining the tension between scientific and lay rationality that continues to undermine...

This chapter outlines the overall aims and rationale for the book and explains how it differs from two established models in the study of...

In our book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Cambridge...

Below you can read a short excerpt from my new book co-authored with Mona Baker. Introduction and blurbs will be available soon! “The...