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Thorkild Tylleskär
PeerJ Author
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Epidemiology
HIV
Pediatrics
Public Health
Neuroscience
Cognitive Disorders
Psychiatry and Psychology

Thorkild Tylleskär

PeerJ Author

Summary

•Thorkild Tylleskär is a paediatrician and professor in International Health since 2001. His focus is on child health in a global perspective, nutrition, HIV and health informatics. He has his medical degree, his PhD training and his specialist training in paediatrics from Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital. In addition, he has a French Master in African Linguistics from Sorbonne University after field work in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire). His medical thesis in 1994 under the supervision of late Prof Hans Rosling describes the toxico-nutritional causation of ‘konzo’, a paralytic disorder permanently crippling women and children in some pockets in Africa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konzo.

Since his appointment as full professor in Bergen, Norway his focus has been shared between 1) child health and nutrition, especially on the nutritional problems accentuated by HIV and how to solve the breastfeeding and postnatal HIV transmission, 2) birth care and 3) improved data collection and management for health in low resource settings.

He has supervised over 20 PhD candidates, the majority of them from Africa.

Cognitive Disorders Epidemiology Global Health HIV Neuroscience Nutrition Pediatrics Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Statistics

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Professor

University of Bergen
September 2000
Centre for International Health

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  • Articles 2
March 13, 2018
Spatial–temporal trend for mother-to-child transmission of HIV up to infancy and during pre-Option B+ in western Kenya, 2007–13
Anthony Waruru, Thomas N.O. Achia, Hellen Muttai, Lucy Ng’ang’a, Emily Zielinski-Gutierrez, Boniface Ochanda, Abraham Katana, Peter W. Young, James L. Tobias, Peter Juma, Kevin M. De Cock, Thorkild Tylleskär
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4427 PubMed 29576942
June 30, 2017
Maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and child’s cognitive performance at 6–8 years of age in rural Burkina Faso: an observational study
Anselme Simeon Sanou, Abdoulaye Hama Diallo, Penny Holding, Victoria Nankabirwa, Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen, Grace Ndeezi, James K. Tumwine, Nicolas Meda, Thorkild Tylleskar, Esperance Kashala-Abotnes
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3507 PubMed 28674660