Dr Kristine Nilsen PhD
Research Fellow
Dr Kristine Nilsen is a Research Fellow at the WorldPop Research group working on maternal and child health.
Kristine’s expertise is in the conceptualisation, design and analysis of quantitative household surveys and in the application of generalised linear mixed effects models and model-based predictions, including small area estimation and geo-spatial modelling. Her research areas of interest are maternal health, universal health coverage and quality of care.
Kristine has a PhD in Social Statistics from the University of Southampton. Her PhD thesis assessed the impacts of health system policies on the distribution of spatial and socio-economic inequalities in use and quality of maternal health services in Cambodia.
Kristine has previously worked for UNFPA in Lao PDR providing support to the National Statistics Bureau on the production of reproductive and maternal health statistics. She also worked as a Data Analyst in Cambodia on the design, implementation and analysis of representative household surveys. At the University of Southampton, she has previously worked for the Belmont DELTAS project researching the impacts of environmental factors on livelihoods, poverty and nutrition in mega-deltas.
Qualifications
Cand Mag in Political Science, University of Oslo
MSc in Population and Development, London School of Economics
MSc in Social Statistics, University of Southampton
PhD in Social Statistics, University of Southampton