Maria Nordheim Alme

Field of work

Head of section at Section global health and rehabilitation 

I have a background in neuroscience (UiB and University of Virginia) and have previously taught physiology here at HVL. Now Im head of Section Global Health and Rehabilitation Section, which is an interdisciplinary section at the Department of Health and Functioning. I work specifically with competence building for today's societal needs, migration and ageing. An important aspect of this is how we structure education to ensure that we can build skills where needed. This involves decentralisation, interantionalisation, digitalisation, flexibility, assessment methods and contact with practice and civil society.

I lead the projects "Health equity through education for a sustainable society, HEQED", Erasmus+, "Decentralized education for health professionals", Hkdir and EMDM Master in health Equity (Erasmus Mundus Design Measures). I was the leader of the Eramus+ project "Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project, PREP", 2018 - 2021.

Recent publications: 

• Built Environment Accessibility and Disability as Predictors of Well-Being among Older Adults: A Norwegian Cross-Sectional Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 5898. 
• ​​​​"On becoming a (physio)therapist, Mindlines changing education", chapter in Knowledge Transformation in Health and Social Care. 2022 Taylor & Francis group. 
• "Borten Moe, løft blikket!". Khrono.no 2022
• "Å kreve betaling fra utenlandske studenter viser at vi ikke har lært av pandemien", Utrop, 2022
• Collaborative effort to increase the physiotherapist’s competency in rehabilitation of torture survivors. Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture 2021 ;Volum 30.(3) s. 61-66
• QuaranTrain: An international community of practice for learning. Open Physio Journal 2021
• ​​​​​​Genetikk - ei innføring. Fagbokforlaget 2020 (ISBN 9788245025088) 
• Traumebevisst omsorg i fysioterapeutisk behandling av personar med flyktningbakgrunn. Fysioterapeuten 2020

At Section for Global Health and Rehabilitation, we carry out the master's programme "Master healthy ageing and rehabilitation" and the continous learning programme "Health, migration and ageing", which is a programme customised for flexible and decentralised education. Our research is also focused at ageing and migration. These are the two largest reasons for the demographic changes we have globally and in Norway, and we are particularly interested in understanding how we can handle these changes in the future. 

People in the section
Maria Nordheim Alme, fagseskjonsleiar, førsteamanuensis
Yaliso Yaya Balla, førsteamanuensis
Mariya Stoyanova Bikova, førsteamanuensis
Alemayehu Hailu. førsteamanuensis 
Djenana Jalovcic, førsteamanuensis
Mike Landry, professor
Hanne Tuntland, dosent
Graziella Van den Bergh, førsteamanuensis
Esperanza Diaz, professor II