{"id":77,"date":"2026-03-19T05:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkvtsno.stage.dekodes.no\/en\/employee\/nissen-alexander\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:12:46","slug":"nissen-alexander","status":"publish","type":"employee","link":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/employee\/nissen-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissen, Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Norsk versjon<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bio:<\/b> I completed my bachelor’s degree in economics at UC Berkeley before training as a medical doctor at Yale University in the US. I subsequently completed a master’s degree in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK and a DrPhilos at the medical faculty at the University of Oslo, Norway, focusing on refugee mental health. Before going into research, I worked as a child- and adolescent psychiatrist at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. I have been employed at NKVTS since 2011, part- or full-time, and I also have a part-time position as a statistician at the Red Cross University College, Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n

Academic interest: <\/b>refugee health\/mental health (e.g. burden of disease; risk- and protective factors); health and integration in refugees; global (mental) health; psychotraumatology; PTSD; epidemiology\/ epidemiological methods (e.g. study design and statistics, pre-registration\/hypothesis generating vs. testing research)<\/p>\n

Activities: <\/b><\/p>\n

– researcher in the REFUGE-project, which explores (mental) health and integration in adults refugees from Syria who arrived in Norway between 2015 and 2017<\/p>\n

– researcher in the study: “Should we talk about mental health? Feasibility of assessment of mental health and treatment needs in newly arrived refugees from the war in Ukraine – a pilot study”<\/p>\n

– researcher\/statistician in the research program “Resiliency, Mental Health and Social Participation among Refugees (RMSR)” at the Red Cross University College, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

Google Scholar profile: <\/b>https:\/\/scholar.google.no\/citations?user=zOpLai4AAAAJ&hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n

ResearchGate profile: <\/b>https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Alexander-Nissen\/publications<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3012,"template":"","role":[],"topic_tax":[4,6,3],"class_list":["post-77","employee","type-employee","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic_tax-disasters-terror-and-stress-management","topic_tax-forced-migration-and-refugee-health","topic_tax-implementation-and-treatment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/employee\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/employee"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/employee"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"topic_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nkvts.no\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic_tax?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}