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Professor Kristin Braa is the Director of the HISP Centre at the Department of Informatics. She resumed as a Professor in 2009 after 8 years as Research Director at Telenor (an international mobile operator), where she built up and headed a Research and Innovation centre in Malaysia for all Telenor Asian operations. She was previously the Vice Head of the Department of Informatics and head of the Information Systems (IS) research group. Kristin won the 2023 AIS Impact Award and the 2020 Roux Prize (both received jointly with her brother, Professor Jørn Braa), as well as the University of Oslo Innovation prize for her work in HISP.
Kristin's research interest lies in mobile extensions of the open source District Health Information System (DHIS2) software with the aim of generating new knowledge about the development and use of mobile IT in low resource settings. She has recently managed two action research projects: MobiHealth: Developing Health Service Networks through Mobile Solutions in Low Resource Settings (2010-2014); Strengthening national Health Information Systems in the South, NORAD (2010 – 2014). Kristin has a keen interest in the further development of action-research methods to drive innovation, a key success factor for HISP. The focus of her recent research has been to identify innovative ways to support health care workers in rural areas and to extend health systems to reach underserved populations in developing countries.
Kristin's research vision is to contribute to the development of sustainable information systems that empower communities and allow decision makers to improve coverage and quality of health services. This is best done, she believes, through engaged researchers' active and long-term participation in the strengthening of national health information systems.