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Inga Haaland is a Researcher and Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. She conducts fieldwork on the Pragmatic Trial for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) roll out in Tanzania through a collaboration between Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and UiO's Institute of Health and Society. Her work bridges medical anthropology with global health implementation science in East African contexts.
Her educational background includes:
- MRes in Anthropological Research Methods: Medical Anthropology from SOAS, University of London
- MPhil in International Community Health from the University of Oslo
- BA in Public Health and Health Promotion from the University of Bergen with exchange studies at Makerere University, Uganda
Haaland's research critically examines the social dimensions of HIV prevention, focusing on how gender norms, sexuality, and structural barriers shape biomedical intervention uptake among marginalized populations. Her work centers on queer communities, sex workers, and key populations in Dar es Salaam, analyzing tensions between public health policies and lived experiences. She investigates social iatrogenesis, identity formation, and the unintended consequences of prevention technologies within Tanzania's healthcare landscape.
Her publication trajectory reveals a cohesive research program analyzing PrEP implementation through anthropological lenses. The 2021-2025 works demonstrate progressive deepening into social risks for queer users (2025), conceptual frameworks for biomedical prevention work (2023), and gender norm navigation in public health settings (2023). Collectively, these studies highlight her focus on context-specific adaptation of HIV prevention tools in resource-limited urban East African settings.
Haaland actively contributes to major research initiatives including DOCEHTA (Strengthening Doctoral Education for Health in Tanzania) and PREPARE projects. Her methodology integrates participatory design approaches with ethnographic fieldwork, particularly evident in the 2021 mobile health application development study. She is affiliated with the Global Health Politics and Medical Humanities research groups, where she examines policy implementation and historical dimensions of health interventions in African contexts.
