Dr Maria Lisa Odland MD, PhD

Institute of Applied Health Research
Research Fellow Global Health

Contact details

Telephone: +47 971 255 69
Email: m.l.odland@bham.ac.uk

Address: Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Maria Lisa has been interested in global health before starting medical school in 2007 and spent her training in several different countries; Brazil, Australia and Malawi in addition to Norway.

She has a particular interest in reproductive health and holds a PhD on post abortion care from Malawi. Maria Lisa has recently started as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham and is currently working on other very important global health issues regarding health systems, global surgery, multimorbidity and non-communicable diseases.

Qualifications

PhD in Medicine 2019 (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)
Internship in Medicine 2014-2016 (Akershus University Hospital)
MD 2014 (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)

Biography

Maria Lisa was enrolled in the PhD programme whilst studying medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and started research early on in her medical studies. Initial research was working on preeclampsia and congenital infections before she moved on to working on post abortion care in low income settings. In her PhD studies she trialled an intervention to improve the treatment of incomplete abortions in Malawi.

Her interest for global health was evident all through her medical studies and she entered into exchange semesters in Brazil, Australia and Malawi during her training. She finished her general internship in medicine at the Akershus University Hospital in Norway with focus on gynaecology, respiratory medicine, surgery and general practice. Straight after finishing her medical internship she travelled to Malawi to do the data collection for her PhD, which she defended in January 2019 just before starting here as a research fellow in Global Health at the University of Birmingham.

Research

EquiTrauma

This project is to identify barriers in access to quality care for people who have been injured in lower and middle income countries, in particular Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda.

Funded by the NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research (130036) and the Institute for Global Health Innovation at the University of Birmingham.

Research Groups and Centres

Global Health Research Unit, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Other activities

Board Member Norwegian Research School of Global Health 2017-2019

Publications

Odland, Maria Lisa; Membe-Gadama, Gladys; Kafulafula, Ursula; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Darj, Elisabeth. (2019)"Confidence comes with frequent practice":health professionals'perception of using manual vacuum aspiration after a training program.Reproductive Health.
Odland, Maria Lisa; Membe-Gadama, Gladys; Kafulafula, Ursula; Jacobsen, Geir Wenberg; Kumwenda, James; Darj, Elisabeth. (2018)The Use of Manual Vacuum Aspiration in the Treatment of Incomplete Abortions: A Descriptive Study from Three Public Hospitals in Malawi.International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.vol. 15:370 (2).
Odland, Maria Lisa; Membe-Gadama, Gladys; Kafulafula, Ursula; Jacobsen, Geir Wenberg; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Darj, Elisabeth. (2018)Effects of refresher training on the use of manual vacuum aspiration in the treatment of incomplete abortions: a quasi-experimental study in Malawi.BMJ Global Health.vol. 3 (5).
Cook, Sinead; de Kok, Bregje; Odland, Maria Lisa. (2017)‘It’s a very complicated issue here’: understanding the limited and declining use of manual vacuum aspiration for postabortion care in Malawi: a qualitative study.Health Policy and Planning.vol. 32 (3).
Roten, Linda Tømmerdal; Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim; Gundersen, Astrid; Fenstad, Mona H.; Odland, Maria Lisa; Strand, Kristin Melheim; Solberg, Per; Tappert, Christian; Araya, Elisabeth; Bærheim, Gunhild Marie; Lyslo, Ingvill; Tollaksen, Kjersti; Bjørge, Line; Austgulen, Rigmor. (2015)The Norwegian preeclampsia family cohort study: a new resource for investigating genetic aspects and heritability of preeclampsia and related phenotypes.BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.vol. 15:319.
Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim; Melton, Philip E.; Tollaksen, Kjersti; Lyslo, Ingvill; Roten, Linda Tømmerdal; Odland, Maria Lisa; Strand, Kristin Melheim; Nygård, Ottar; Sun, Chen; Iversen, Ann-Charlotte; Austgulen, Rigmor; Moses, Eric; Bjørge, Line. (2015)Refined phenotyping identifies links between preeclampsia and related diseases in a Norwegian preeclampsia family cohort.Journal of Hypertension.vol. 33 (11).
Odland, Maria Lisa; Rasmussen, Hanne; Jacobsen, Geir Wenberg; Kafulafula, UK; Chamanga, P; Odland, Jon Øyvind. (2014)Decrease in use of manual vacuum aspiration in postabortion care in Malawi: A cross-sectional study from three public hospitals, 2008-2012.PLoS ONE.vol. 9 (6).
Odland, Maria Lisa; Strand, Kristin Melheim; Nordbø, Svein Arne; Forsmo, Siri; Ausgtulen, Rigmor; Iversen, Ann-Charlotte. (2013)Changing patterns of cytomegalovirus seroprevalence among pregnant women in Norway between 1995 and 2009 examined in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study and two cohorts from Sør-Trøndelag County: a cross-sectional study.BMJ Open.vol. 3.
Roten, Linda Tømmerdal; Johnson, Matthew; Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim; Gundersen, Astrid S.; Solberg, Per; Tollaksen, Kjersti; Lyslo, Ingvill; Tappert, Christian; Odland, Maria Lisa; Strand, Kristin Melheim; Fenstad, Mona H.; Drabløs, Finn; Skorpen, Frank; Moses, Eric K; Austgulen, Rigmor; Bjørge, Line. (2013)A preeclampsia genome-wide linkage scan in Norwegian families.Pregnancy Hypertension.vol. 3 (2).
Strand, Kristin Melheim; Odland, Maria Lisa; Iversen, Ann-Charlotte; Nordbø, Svein Arne; Vik, Torstein; Austgulen, Rigmor. (2012)Cytomegalovirus antibody status at 17 - 18 weeks of gestation and preeclampsia: a case-control study of pregnant women in Norway.BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.vol. 119 (11).
Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim; Iversen, Ann-Charlotte; Lyslo, Ingvill; Tollaksen, Kjersti; Odland, Maria Lisa; Strand, Kristin Melheim; Solberg, Per; Roten, Linda Tømmerdal; Gundersen, Astrid; Nygard, Ottar; Sun, Chen; Austgulen, Rigmor; Bjørge, Line. (2012)A population and family based study design to investigate genetic predisposition to preeclampsia and cardiovascular disease. The Norwegian Preeclampsia Family Study.Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.vol. 91.
Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim; Iversen, Ann-Charlotte; Roten, Linda Tømmerdal; Lyslo, Ingvill; Tollaksen, Kjersti; Odland, Maria Lisa; Strand, Kristin Melheim; Solberg, Per; Gundersen, Astrid; Sun, Chen; Nygård, Ottar; Austgulen, Rigmor; Bjørge, Line. (2012)INVESTIGATING GENETIC PREDISPOSITION AND CLINICAL OCCURRENCE OF PREECLAMPSIA AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE THROUGH A FAMILY-BASED DESIGN.Placenta.vol. 33 (9).
Roten, Linda Tømmerdal; Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim; Gundersen, Astrid; Odland, Maria Lisa; Strand, Kristin Melheim; Fenstad, Mona Høysæter; Leuschner, Heiko; Solberg, Per; Tappert, Christian; Lyslo, Ingvill; Tollaksen, Kjersti; Bjørge, Line; Austgulen, Rigmor. (2011)Establishment of a Norwegian Preeclampsia Family Biobank.Placenta.vol. 32 (9).