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Camilla Stoltenberg
Norwegian physician

Camilla Stoltenberg

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Norwegian physician
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Gender
Female
Place of birth
Oslo, Norway
Age
66 years
Education
Oslo Waldorf School
University of Oslo
Awards
honorary doctorate of the University of Copenhagen
(2014)
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Biography

Camilla Stoltenberg

Camilla Stoltenberg (born 5 February 1958) is a Norwegian physician and researcher. Since 13 August 2012, she has been Director-General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Early life and education

Stoltenberg attended Oslo Waldorf School and studied sociology and medicine at the University of Oslo, where she graduated with the cand.med. degree. She later obtained a research doctorate (dr.med.) at the same university. She has also studied medical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Stoltenberg began her career with an internship in the Helgeland region before working as a registrar at Rikshospitalet University Hospital, and later in casualty departments in both Aurskog-Høland and Oslo.

She was affiliated to the FAFO study of living conditions in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Later, she took part in a mission for ECON concerning biotechnology at the turn of the millennium.

For her doctoral thesis, Stoltenberg studied infant death, social inequality and consanguineous marriage in immigrant groups.She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University before being employed at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in 2001. Since 2002, Stoltenberg has held various posts at the institute; Director of the Epidemiology division, Assistant Director-General and now Director-General.

Stoltenberg has a crucial role in the National Health Registry Project. The project aims to modernise the health registries in Norway. Stoltenberg was also the leader of the national FUGE platform, Biobanks for Health, and is now co-chair of Biobank Norway, a national infrastructure for research biobanks. She has had core functions in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort (MoBa) study since 2001, and is leading the Norwegian part of the Autism Birth Cohort study. Her research focuses on causes and risk factors for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

Jon Sudbø case

Stoltenberg played an important role in uncovering that a medical article submitted by Jon Sudbø to the Lancet was an academic fraud.

Other activities

  • The Lancet Public Health, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board (since 2016)

Personal life

She is the daughter of Thorvald and Karin Stoltenberg and the sister of Jens Stoltenberg and Nini Stoltenberg.

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