CMI Staff
Dr Ottar Mæstad
Thematic research group:
Public Sector Reform
Keywords:
Health, human resources, health policy, health systems, governance, priority setting
Geographic keywords:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Eastern and Southern Africa: Tanzania
Director
E-mail: ottar.mestad@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938081 Mob: +47 48189504
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Economist with extensive experience from research, research management, and policy analysis. Head of CMIs research programme on Global Health and Development. Current research interests include 1) health systems and health policy, with a particular emphasis on human resources for health, 2) governance in the health sector, 3) health and economic development, 4) economics and ethics of priority setting in health. He has also worked extensively on climate policy and energy issues, as well as international trade and development. Mæstad has been the leader of a number of research projects for clients such as the OECD, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NORAD, the World Bank, STATOIL, the Norwegian Shipowners Association, and the Research Council of Norway.
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Current and recently completed projects:
Health, Poverty and Public Expenditure
Start: Jan. 2009 (Current)
Keywords: Health, Poverty, Public Expenditure
Geography: Angola
Productivity of health workers
Start: Mar. 2008 (Current)
Geography: Ghana, Zambia, Rwanda, Tanzania
MEDIC - Multidisciplinary approach to explaining differential immunization coverage
Start: Jan. 2008 (Current)
Keywords: Health, Vaccine
Geography: Malawi, India
Litigating the Right to Health
Start: Jan. 2008 (Current)
Keywords: Health rights, courts, health rights litigation, public interest litigation, social rights jurisprudence, health policy, health economics, medical ethics, priority setting
Geography: Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India
Review of Haydom Lutheran Hospital
Start: Sep. 2007 (Current)
Geography: Tanzania
Performance based funding of the health sector in Tanzania
Start: Apr. 2007 (Current)
Geography: Tanzania
Fair distribution of health
Start: Aug. 2006 (Current)
World Bank Trust Fund on Human Resources for Health
Start: Mar. 2006 (Current)
Geography: Sub Saharan Africa
Health Worker Motivation, Availability and Performance (MAP)
Start: Jan. 2006 (Current)
Keywords: Health worker, Performance
Geography: Tanzania
Global Health and Development
Start: Jan. 2006 (Current)
Geography: Tanzania, Nepal
Priority setting in global health
Start: Jan. 2005 (Current)
Geography: Africa: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda.
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Publications by category:
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Overworked? On the relationship between workload and health worker performance
Mæstad, Ottar, Gaute Torsvik and Arild Aakvik (forthcoming)
in Journal of Health Economics
Informal payments and the quality of health care: mechanisms revealed by Tanzanian health workers
Mæstad, Ottar (forthcoming)
in Health policy
The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: Recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania
Munga, Michael, Nils Gunnar Songstad, Astrid Blystad, Ottar Mæstad (2009)
in BMC International Health and Human Rights vol. 9 no. 9
Eliciting people's preferences for the distribution of health. A procedure for a more precise estimation of distributional weights
Mæstad, Ottar and Ole Frithjof Norheim (2009)
in Journal of Health Economics vol. 28 no. 3 pp. 570-577
Measuring inequalities in the distribution of health workers: the case of Tanzania
Munga, Michael and Ottar Mæstad (2009)
in Human Resources for Health vol. 7 no. 4
Distribution matters: Equity considerations among health planners in Tanzania
Ottersen, Trygve, Deogratius Mbilinyi, Ottar Mæstad, Ole Frithjof Norheim (2008)
in Health Policy vol. 18 pp. 218-227
Allocation of Emission Permits with Leakage through Capital Markets
Mæstad, Ottar (2007)
in Resource and Energy Economics vol. 29 pp. 40-57
Market Power with Interdependent Demand: Sale of Emission Permits and Natural Gas from Russia
Hagem, Cathrine, Steffen Kallbekken, Ottar Mæstad and Hege Westskog (2006)
in Environmental and Resource Economics vol. 34 pp. 211-227
Russian Exports of Emission Permits under the Kyoto Protocol: The Interplay with Non-competitive Fuel Markets
Hagem, Cathrine and Ottar Mæstad (2006)
in Resource and Energy Economics vol. 28 no. 1 January pp. 54-73
Environmental Policy and Public Revenue with International Capital Mobility
Mæstad, Ottar (2006)
in International Tax and Public Finance vol. 13 no. 1 pp. 43-58
Enforcing the Kyoto Protocol: Sanctions and Strategic Behaviour
Hagem, Cathrine, Steffen Kallbekken, Ottar Mæstad and Hege Westskog (2005)
in Energy Policy vol. 33 pp. 2112-2122
En Handelspolitikk for Redusert Fattigdom. Studie om Markedsadgang for U-land i Norge
Mæstad, Ottar (2005)
in S. Pahle, red.: Understanding the Issues:Hva er det med Handel?. Oslo: Kirkens Nødhjelp pp. 20-34
Climate policy and the steel industry : Achieving global emission reductions by an incomplete climate agreement
Mæstad, Ottar (2004)
in Energy Journal vol. 25 pp. 91-114
Tollfritak fører ikke til økt import
Wiig, Arne and Ottar Mæstad (2003)
in Kristin Alnæs et al.: For en neve dollar - Handel med Afrikas framtid. Oslo: Solidaritet forlag/Fellesrådet for Afrika 248 p.
Assessing the economic gains of free market access for the least developed countries in the QUAD
Wiig, Arne, Rune Jansen Hagen and Ottar Mæstad (2003)
in Nordic Journal of Political Economy vol. 29 no. 1 pp. 3-24
Rammevilkår for internasjonal varehandel
Wiig, Arne, Ottar Mæstad (1999)
in Rune Jansen Hagen and Karl Rolf Pedersen (red.): Fordeling og vekst i fattige land. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget pp. 79-99
Reports
Assessing the economic gains of free market access for the least developed countries in the QUAD
Wiig, Arne, Rune Jansen Hagen and Ottar Mæstad (2002)
Bergen: Inst. for research in economics and business adm. (Working paper no. 62/02)
Economic impacts on the least developed countries of the elimination of import tariffs on their products
Wiig, Arne, Rune Jansen Hagen and Ottar Mæstad (2001)
Oslo: Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Evaluation Report 2/2001) 88 p.
CMI Reports
Research for improved health worker performance. International workshop Bergen, Norway, May 2009
Mæstad, Ottar (2009)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2009: 11) 10 p.
Haydom Lutheran Hospital - final project review
Mæstad, Ottar and Aziza Mwisongo (2009)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2009: 13) 51 p.
Review of Haydom Lutheran Hospital. External Review Contracted by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Dar es Salaam
Mæstad, Ottar, Eamonn Brehony (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2007: 18) 44 p.
Will International Trade Reduce Poverty? A Background Note to NORAD
Wiig, Arne, Line Tøndel, Espen Villanger with the contribution from Ottar Mæstad (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2007: 16) 36 p.
Rewarding Safe Motherhood: How can Performance-Based Funding Reduce Maternal and Newborn Mortality in Tanzania?
Mæstad, Ottar (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2007:17)
Human Resources for Health in Tanzania: Challenges, Policy Options and Knowledge Gaps
Mæstad, Ottar (2006)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2006: 3) 33 p.
Kan vi kjøpe mer fra våre samarbeidsland? Hvem vet hva og hvordan?
Wiig, Arne, Ottar Mæstad, Anna Milford, Ørjan Skare (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2002:4)
CMI Working Papers
Overworked? The relationship between workload and health worker performance in rural Tanzania
Mæstad, Ottar, Gaute Torsvik and Arild Aakvik (2009)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2009: 2) 39 p.
Improving the Quality of Health Care when Health Workers are in Short Supply
Mæstad, Ottar and Gaute Torsvik (2008)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2008: 12) 25 p.
U4 Publications
Informal pay and the quality of health care: lessons from Tanzania
Mæstad, Ottar, Aziza Mwisongo (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2007:9) 4 p.
Other External Publications
Health Worker Motivation and Performance Project (MAP)
Mwisongo, Aziza and Ottar Mæstad (2006)
in Human Resources for Health Newsletter no. 2 September
Conference Papers
Assessing impacts of health rights litigation
Mæstad, Ottar; Lise Rakner (2009)
Presented at: Health Rights Litigation workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Newspaper Op-Eds
Uetisk import av helsearbeidere?
Mæstad, Ottar (2007)
Bergens Tidende 2 April
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Informal Payments and the Quality of Health Care: the Case of Tanzania
Mæstad, Ottar (2006)
Seminar PUSER, CMI
Health Worker Performance in Tanzania - Preliminary Results from Qualitative Research
Mæstad, Ottar (2006)
Seminar, Department of Economics, Univeristy of Bergen
Explaining Health Worker Performance in Tanzania - Preliminary Results from Focus Group Discussions
Mæstad, Ottar (2006)
Workshop MAP project, University of Bergen
Friere handel og fattigdomsreduksjon
Mæstad, Ottar (2006)
Panel speaker, University of Bergen
