Helle Samuelsen

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Current research

I am responsible for the project "Promoting Climate Change in a Context of Multiple Crises in Burkina Faso: The role of civil servants", The project aims at identifying and studying the potentialities for the civil servants to promote climate change adaptation and sustainable development within a context where the climatic crisis overlaps with a health crisis, a political crisis and a security crisis. The projeect has a strong focus on capacity building and includes researchers from Burkina Faso and Denmark (including 3 PhDs and 2 postdocs from Burkina Faso).

Teaching

Medical anthropology, Global Health, Health Care Systems, Applied Anthropology, Qualitative methods.

Fields of interest

Key Words: Medical Antropology, Global Health, Health Care Systems, Epidemics, Development,Africa,  Burkina Faso.

Member of the researcher group: Health and Life Conditions.

 

Selected publications

1. Published

   Balancing professional autonomy and authority at the margins of a fragile state: Front-line health workers' experiences in Burkina Faso

   Pare Toe, L. & Samuelsen, Helle, 2021, In: Global Public Health. 16, 7, p. 1099-1110

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Accelerated Fragility: Exploring The Supply-Demand Nexus at Health Facilites in Rural Burkina Faso.

   Samuelsen, Helle, 2020, In: Africa. 90, 5, p. 934-51

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   Do health systems delay the treatment of poor children? A qualitative study of child deaths in rural Tanzania.

   Samuelsen, Helle, Tersbøl, Britt Pinkowski & Mbuyita, S. S., 2013, In: B M C Health Services Research. 13, 67, p. 1-10 10 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   Health Care Systems

   Samuelsen, Helle, 2018, International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Callan, H. (ed.). Wiley

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   Epidemics in unstable places: Anthropological perspectives on health security in West Africa

   Samuelsen, Helle & Paré Toé, L., 2024, The Routledge Handbook on Anthropology and Global Health. Masvawure, T. B. & Foley, E. E. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 394-406

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   Fragile Futures: Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso

   Samuelsen, Helle, 2024, New York: Berghahn Books. 250 p. (Rediger Epistemologies of Healing, Vol. 22).

   Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

7. Published

   Gender relations and decision-making on climate change adaptation in rural East African households: A qualitative systematic review

   Niemann, J., El-Mahdi, M., Samuelsen, Helle & Tersbøl, Britt Pinkowski, 2024, In: PLOS Climate. 3, 1, 22 p., e0000279.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Review › Research › peer-review