Gunnar Skov Simonsen

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Gunnar Skov Simonsen er spesialist i medisinsk mikrobiologi, overlege og avdelingsleder ved Avdeling for mikrobiologi og smittevern ved Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge og professor II ved Institutt for medisinsk biologi ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Han er leder for Norsk overvåkingssystem for antibiotikaresistens hos mikrober (NORM).

Articles by Gunnar Skov Simonsen

Antimicrobial resistance is a super wicked problem

Jasper Littmann,
Gunnar Skov Simonsen

31.10.2019: Antimicrobial resistance is a global health challenge, for which effective political measures are hard to find. This can be explained by the fact that antimicrobial resistance is a so-called 'wicked problem' that requires a long-term change in its development trajectory. Antimicrobial resistance is...

Use of antibiotics in hospitals and nursing homes

Gunnar Skov Simonsen

07.03.2017: A conservative tradition of treatment with room for improvement. Antimicrobial resistance is an increasing public health problem globally, and has been described as the health services’ climate crisis. The topic was dealt with in the UN General Assembly in September 2016, with Norway playing an...