Harkness Project Title: Should Personal Responsibility for Health Count in the Prioritizing of Health Care Resources?

Placement: Harvard School of Public Health

Mentors: Norman Daniels, Ph.D., Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, Harvard School of Public Health
James Sabin, M.D., Professor and Director, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Ethics Program, Harvard Medical School

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Berit Bringedal, Ph.D., a 2010-11 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is senior researcher at the research institute of the Norwegian Medical Association. She is also part-time lecturer at Oslo University College and board member of the Western Norway Research Institute (Vestlandforsking). Bringedal’s research interests include priority setting and distributive justice as well as medical professionals’ health, behavior, and attitudes in health care. Previous positions include associate professor at the Institute of Health Economics and Management, University of Oslo, secretary for the Norwegian governmental committee for priority setting in health care, and visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Bringedal is author of 12 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including in Quality and Safety in Health Care. She holds a M.A. in sociology from the University of Oslo and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Bergen.

Email: berit.bringedal@legeforeningen.no

Harkness-Related Publications

Bringedal B, Feiring E. “On the relevance of personal responsibility in priority setting: a cross sectional survey among Norwegian Medical Doctors,” J Med Ethics (2011) doi:10.1136/jme.2010.038844 1

Bærøe K, Bringedal B. “Just health: On the conditions for acceptable and unacceptable priority settings with respect to patients' socioeconomic status.” J Med Ethics. 2011 Sep;37(9):526-9.