Faculty
Bernadette Nirmal Kumar, a medical doctor, has a doctorate in Epidemiology and Public Health from the University of Oslo, Norway, and post-doctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Psychiatry, University of Oslo. Kumar has several years' international experience working for UNICEF, WHO, WFP, World Bank, and NORAD in Southern Sudan, Somalia, North West Kenya, West Bank and Gaza, North Korea, China, and Bhutan (1989-2000). Migration and Health have been the focus of her research since 1999 and she is the co-editor and author of Text Book on Immigrant Health in Norway: Flerkulturelt folkehelsearbeid (Fagbokforlaget 2009) and Migrant Health – A Primary Care Perspective( Taylor and Francis, 2019).
She was appointed Director of NAKMI (Norwegian Center for Migration and Minority Health now part of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 2010) and Associate Professor, Global Health at the Institute for Health and Society, University of Oslo (2013). She is a Professor at the Empower School of Health, India. She has been a commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Migration and Health (2018) and is co-chair of Lancet Migration. Kumar leads the Migration Health work package of the EU Joint Action on Health Inequalities is the President of the EUPHA section of Migration and Ethnic Minority Health (2018-) and is Chair of the Global Society on Migration, Ethnicity, Race, and Health.