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Oddrun Samdal (born 1967 in Bergen, Norway) is Professor in health promotion/health psychology at the University of Bergen [1] and has been a pioneer for implementation of health promoting schools in Norway [2][3] and for development of research based implementation components for health promoting schools.[4][5][6]

Biography

Samdal was certified as a teacher at Bergen University College[7] in 1990, and in 1992 she completed her master studies in Nutrition, health and environmental issues at Stabekk University College (now University College of Oslo and Akershus [8]). In 1999 she defended her dr.philos degree at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Psychology, with the thesis The school environment as a risk or resource for students' health-related behaviours and subjective well-being.[9]

After her master study Samdal worked one year as a teacher at Misje skule [10] in the municipality of Fjell kommune outside Bergen before she in 1993 entered as an employee at the Research Centre for Health Promotion (now Department of Health Promotion and Development,[11]) at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen. During the following years she started out as a PhD candidate, later worked as a university lecturer and post doctor. In 2002 Samdal got a permanent position as Associate Professor of Health Promotion/Health Psychology. From 2007 she is Professor in the same position.

In her research Oddrun Samdal has taken a special interest in adolescent health and health behaviours.[12][13] She has done extensive studies of how students’ perceive their work environment [14] at school and how these experiences relate to their reported health behaviours, health and life satisfaction.[15] Similarly she has studied correlates of physical activity in young people.[16] Samdal has also taken a special interest in intervention studies addressing both implementation [17][18] and effect studies of health promotion initiatives in schools and adolescents' leisure settings.

Oddrun Samdal has volunteered at several occasions to community service at the University of Bergen. During 2004-2005 she was the department chair at the Department of Health and Education that was established the same year. The following year she was asked to become the vise dean of education at the Faculty of Psychology and served in this position until 2009.

National Community Service

From 1999 to 2004, Samdal was appointed as member of the first national board of physical activity in the Directorate of health under the Ministry of Health.[19] During the same period she was also member of the Child and Family board of the Norwegian national Association of Public Health.[20] Samdal has further served in several evaluation committees [21][22] for the Directorates of Education and Health. Since 2011, Samdal is the chair of the program board for Public Health in the Norwegian Research Council.[23]

International Research Leadership & Management

Internationally, Samdal has since 1999 served as Data Manager [24] in the "Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: WHO collaborative Cross-National Survey” (HBSC).[25] Currently more than 40 countries in Europe and North-America participate in the study and Samdal is also the Principal Investigator in Norway.[26] Every fourth year nationally representative data from 11-, 13- and 15-year olds are collected in all countries. The cleaning and the storage of the data takes place the Databank at the University of Bergen in collaboration with the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. Once the data is puted up together, this information is available to external researchers.[27]

In 1993 Samdal was appointed by the Ministry of health and Ministiry of Education to serve as the Norwegian national coordinator of the European network of Health Promoting Schools [28] (now Schools for health in Europe [29]). Throughout 10 years she worked closely with 10 pilot schools in Norway to develop models for implementing health promotion in school. These models were later taken forward in the national intervention projects “Physical activity and healthy meals in schools” [30] and “All day school”.[31]

Currently, Samdal is work package leader in two EU (FP7) funded projects; PAPA [32] (Promoting Adolescent health through an intervention aimed at improving the quality of their participation in Physical Activity) and SPOTLIGHT [33] (Sustainable prevention of obesity through integrated strategies), that aims to increase and combine knowledge on the wide range of determinants of obesity in a systematic way, and to identify multi-level intervention approaches that are strong in terms of Reach, Efficacy, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance.[34]

Samdal is fluent in English and Spanish and has had long term (6–18 months) research visits at Sydney University (1995) San Diego State University (2001) [35] and University of Valencia (2010–2011).[36]

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References

  1. ^ Oddrun Samdal profile at University of Bergen
  2. ^ Samdal, O., Viig, N.G., & Wold, B. (2010). Health promotion integrated into school policy and practice: experiences of implementation in the Norwegian network of health promoting schools. Journal of child and adolescent psychology, 2, 43-72.
  3. ^ Interviu with Oddrun Samdal explaining the key factors of program implementation in schools
  4. ^ Samdal, O. & Rowling, L. (Eds) (2013).The Implementation of Health Promoting Schools Exploring the theories of what, why and how? London: Routledge
  5. ^ Samdal, O. & Rowling, L. (2011). Theoretical and empirical base for implementation of health promoting schools. Health Education, 111(5), 367–390. DOI:10.1108/09654281111161211
  6. ^ Rowling, L. & Samdal, O. (2011). Filling the black box of implementation for health-promoting schools. Health Education, 111(5), 347–362. DOI:10.1108/09654281111161202
  7. ^ Bergen University College
  8. ^ University College of Oslo and Akershus
  9. ^ Samdal, O. (1999).The school environment as a risk or resource for students' health-related behaviours and subjective well-being. ISBN 82-7669-068-8.
  10. ^ Misje skule Archived 2009-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Department of Health Promotion and Development
  12. ^ Prof. Oddrun Samdal: Ungdom, helse og livstilfredshet i et nordisk perspektiv (Youth, health and life satisfaction in a Nordic perspective)
  13. ^ Current Research Information SysTem In Norway from Oddrun Samdal
  14. ^ Wold, B. & Samdal, O. (Eds) (2012). An Ecological Perspective on Health Promotion Systems, Settings and Social Processes. London: Bentham
  15. ^ Danielsen, A.G., Samdal, O., Hetland, J., & Wold, B. (2009). School-related Social Support and Students' Perceived Life Satisfaction. The Journal of Educational Research, 102(4), 303-318.
  16. ^ Social inequalities in physical activity
  17. ^ Directorate of Health; A guide to how to start the implementation of increasing physical activity in school
  18. ^ A guide to how to start the implementation of increasing physical activity in school
  19. ^ National board of physical activity Archived 2007-06-25 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ Child and Family board of the Norwegian national Association of Public Health [1]
  21. ^ Evaluation of Programs to prevent drug use and promoting Health
  22. ^ Ways of Promoting Physical Activity among Children and Young People
  23. ^ Public Health in the Norwegian Research Council
  24. ^ International Data Manager for HBSC
  25. ^ Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)
  26. ^ Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: Norway
  27. ^ Publications of the HBSC: World Health Organization Collaborative Cross-National Survey
  28. ^ European network of Health Promoting Schools
  29. ^ Schools for health in Europe
  30. ^ Physical Activity and Healthy School Meals Project (FYSMAT in their Norwegian acronym)
  31. ^ Whole School Day Project
  32. ^ Promoting Adolescent health through an intervention aimed at improving the quality of their participation in Physical Activity (PAPA Project)
  33. ^ Sustainable prevention of obesity through integrated strategies (SPOTLIGHT Project)
  34. ^ The SPOTLIGHT project’s conceptual framework and design
  35. ^ Invited research stay with James F. Sallis, San Diego State University
  36. ^ Invited Members UPID Valencia University
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