Preben Aavitsland, Chief Physician at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), has been given an extra job as a professor at the Pandemic Center at the University of Bergen, writes Morgenbladet.
Agderposten writes that the job involves researching pandemics and pandemic preparedness. Aavitsland tells Morgenbladet that he is “really looking forward”.
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– This is an initiative where you will research pandemics and pandemic preparedness in an interdisciplinary way, says Aavistland to the newspaper.
The FHI top is also the municipal chief physician in Arendal and Froland. He lives in Kristiansand.
Aavitsland has become a familiar face during the pandemic, perhaps especially after he tweeted the sentence «That was the pandemic»Just over a week ago. He then clarified to Dagbladet that it was “an optimistic message that things are going much better now”, and that it is now important to “persevere” and avoid “stumbling in a hedge”.
In a press release on the same day, FHI emphasized that the pandemic is not over. Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie has also told Dagbladet that he was involved.
– It is too early to state from FHI’s side that this pandemic is over in Norway. Preben Aavitsland has today also specified that we have the sprint again. But it is a very gratifying development that both the number of infections and positive tests is declining, and that the incidence of new hospital admissions and intensive care units has been stably low in recent weeks, said director of FHI, Camilla Stoltenberg, in the press release.
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