Tore Hofstad

Tore Hofstad is a Guest Researcher at the University of Oslo's Center for Population Health (Bergen) and affiliated with SIFER-Vest (Regional Center of Excellence for Security, Prison and Forensic Psychiatry). He holds a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology (2022) and prior degrees in Political Science (MA 2018, BA 2015). His career includes over 16 years in mental health care work, focusing on acute and geriatric populations.

Research Interests: Compulsory mental health care, geographical variation in healthcare services, causal inference from observational data, registry data analysis using R, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). His work emphasizes ethical challenges in involuntary psychiatric care and regional disparities in mental health service utilization.

Key Contributions: Pioneered analyses of Norway's compulsory hospitalization patterns (2014-2018), developed causal models for mental health outcomes using registry data, and explored methodological robustness in QCA. Current projects include evaluating ADHD diagnosis/medication regional differences and reducing coercion in mental health care (ReCoN initiative).

Grants & Projects: Involved in UNTAP, Controversies in Psychiatry, and ReCoN projects. Active in the professional council for Voluntary and Coercive Action.

Labs/Teams: Part of Bergen's Center for Population Health and SIFER-Vest's research groups, collaborating with institutions like Helse Bergen and international registries.