Ketil Lenert Hansen
Job description
Professor
Job description
Professor, responsible for Sami children and young people
- Professor in health sciences, with a background in indigenous epidemiology. Responsible for Sami children and young people's living conditions and psychosocial health
- Project leader for the research projects Mihá - psychosocial health among Sami youth, Arctic childhood - a study of violence and abuse and Migration and disability
- Researcher in the projects InvolveMENT (UiS) with responsibility for Sami youth, UngKven - Nuorikväani and KASUTA: To grow up
- Board member as representative of the Faculty of Health at UiT in the Equality and Diversity Committee
- Member of the national steering group for Bufdir's project TryggEST protection for adults at risk
- Commission member in Accelerating Indigenous health and wellbeing: the Lancet Commission on Arctic and Northern Health
- Commission member in The health and wellbeing of Indigenous adolescents: a global collective for an equitable and sustainable future
- Member of The UArctic Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic (TN) projects Strengthening circumpolar network in Arctic health research and Circumpolar Maternal and Child Based and Culture Informed Health Services and Research in Circumpolar Maternal Health
- Member of the Research board at Sámi National Centre for Mental Health and Sustance Abuse
- Represented Norway in Fulbright Arctic Initiative Cohort 3, in 2021-23
- In the steering group of the ISPCAN congress 2024: The Congress theme working together i times of crisis, Uppsala, Sweden
Ketil Lenert Hansen is an indigenous (Sámi) epidemiologist and public health professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (100%), with over 20 years of mixed methods research experience within the Norwegian indigenous Sámi people. This work has included research on discrimination, bullying, health inequality, violence, disability, resilience, child welfare, somatic- and mental health among Sámi children, youth and adults. His community engagement work has spanned regional, national, and international efforts. He has also been involved in teaching programs and developed courses in public health for masters and PhD students, taught at several circumpolar summer schools for PhD students in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Lenert Hansen has received several awards for my circumpolar research, eg.: Jens Peder Hart Hansen Award (2012) and Dissemination prize from the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT (2018). He have privious been a Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholar (2021-23). Today, he serves as a member of the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health: Accelerating Indigenous Health and Well-Being.
“As an indigenous (Sámi) professor of public health the Community Dimensions of Health and Well-being for indigenous people in the Arctic are very important to me and close to my heart. My ancestors lived a nomadic lifestyle in the northern part of Scandinavia for hundreds of years. They were predominantly reindeer herders and, several of my family member still continue this tradition today, on the biggest island in Norway, Hinnøya (Linnasuolu, North Sámi language).”
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Research interests
His research interests included research on discrimination, bullying, health inequality, violence, disability, resilience, child welfare, somatic- and mental health among Sámi children, youth and adults. His community engagement work has spanned regional, national, and international efforts. He has also been involved in teaching programs and developed courses in public health for masters and PhD students, taught at several circumpolar summer schools for PhD students in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Lenert Hansen has received several awards for my circumpolar research, eg.: Jens Peder Hart Hansen Award (2012) and Dissemination prize from the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT (2018). Today, he serves as a member of the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health: Accelerating Indigenous Health and Well-Being.
Member of research group / centre
Member of project
Arktisk barndom
The Mihá-study
UngKven - NuoriKvääni
UngKven – NuoriKväani
KASUTA – Å vokse opp med kvensk og norskfinsk bakgrunn
Family council in foster care work
KASUTA – to grow up with Kven and Norwegian-Finnish background
Utredning om et nasjonalt kompetansesenter om fornorskningspolitikk og urett
How ethnic contexts affect Sámi and Kven children and adolescents' Identity, Language use and well-being in Life (SKILL)
CV
In recent years I have worked on several youth psychosocial health and well-being project research project on behalf of the Sámi Parliament in Norway and written several research reports on behalf of the Norwegian government. In 2021 I was an appointed member of the commission that developed TryggEST Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adult in Norway. I represented Norway in the Fulbright Arctic Initiative, during 2021-23. As a Fulbright scholar I collaborated on violence pilot-study among Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, with the Kempe Center, University of Colorado, CO, US. and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, CA. I have also been engaged in other international projects for Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, through the Lancet – The health and wellbeing for Indigenous adolescents: a global collective for an equitable and sustainable future, University of the Arctic – north2north, and University of Alberta, CA, and I have been a prior board member of the International Union for Circumpolar Health.
As an Indigenous health researcher, I follow the motto "nothing for us, without us". In parallel to ongoing collaborations with the Sámi parliament and the Norwegian government in Norway (the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufdir)). I also work as close as possible with Sámi youth organizations. These include the Noereh, NSR-U, SUPU, SANKS and the international Saami Council.
During 2023 my main research tasks include producing Norwegian governmental/International Fulbright reports/policy brief and articles on the health and well-being of the Arctic Indigenous people, based on different studies, e.g. The Arctic Childhood Study and The Mihá-study, supported by UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Fulbright New York office, and the Public Health Agency of Norway. One aspect of the work is a project focusing on the racism experience by young Sámi reindeer herders in Norway, in collaboration with The Sami parliament and The Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud in Norway (LDO) (externally funded).
Other on-going duties include being a substitute member of The Equality and Diversity Committee at UiT, and as commissioner in the "Lancet commission on The health and wellbeing for Indigenous adolescents: a global collective for an equitable and sustainable future " and the "Lancet commission on Arctic Health" (report will come in the end of 2023).