Eivind Engebretsen

Engebretsen is Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of the Faculty of Medicine’s Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), which is the first Norwegian Centre of Excellence in medical education.

Engebretsen's area of interest is knowledge trajectories and decision making in health care. His current research is concerned with the discourse of ‘knowledge translation’ and how this discourse might be expanded by drawing on theories of translation from linguistics, philosophy and anthropology. His work in this area has created international debate.

Engebretsen obtained his master's degree in intellectual history from the University of Oslo in 2001 and his PhD from the same university in 2006. From 2007 to 2011 he worked as an associate professor in philosophy of science at the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. He has also worked as an assistant professor at the University of Lorraine in France (2001-2002) and as a senior adviser in Norad's evaluation department (2006-2009). He has been a board member of the International Society for Cultural History and the alternate Norwegian Member of the Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation. In 2016-2017 Engebretsen was member of one of the expert groups for the interim evaluation of the European research programme, Horizon 2020. From 2015 to 2019 he was the Research Director at the Faculty of Medicine with the academic responsibility for the first medical postdoctoral training programme in Norway.

Eivind Engebretsen (born in Oslo, November 17, 1974) is a Norwegian researcher in the philosophy of medicine. He is a full professor of interdisciplinary health science at the Institute of Health and Society (HELSAM) at the University of Oslo. From 2019 to 2022 he is the Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Studies at Faculty of Medicine. In 2017 he was elected a fellow and a group leader at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.