SAMDAL, ODDRUN

Oddrun Samdal is a Professor at the Department of Health Promotion and Development at the University of Bergen. Her main research interest is to study how pupils’ experiences in school affect their learning, health behaviours, and well-being by exploring the interplay between individual and environmental correlates. A core strand of Prof. Samdal's research relates to intervention research in schools evaluating implementation and effect of intervention programs aiming at promoting pupils’ physical activity, healthy eating and well-being.Prof. Samdal has since 1999 been the Data Manager and the Norwegian Principal investigator of the international WHO-collaborative study “Health Behaviour in School-aged Children”, which involves 50 countries and regions in Europe and North-America. Since 2009 she has been work-package leader of three different EU-funded projects. Currently she is involved in the Horizon 2020 project Co-Create coordinated by the Norwegian Public Health Institute.