Gunhild Stordalen
Norwegian physician and environmental advocate
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- Gunhild Anker Stordalen (née Melhus , born 15 January 1979) is a Norwegian physician and environmental advocate.
- She has been engaged in public debate on issues like climate change and public health and has focused on transforming the global food system.
- According to an interview with Dagbladet in 2010, she grew up in an anti-materialistic and pacifist household and was involved with environmental issues from an early age.
- She enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Oslo in 2000, and joined the medical research program.
- During her time at University, she worked with sexual awareness information for youths (Medisinernes Seksualopplysning) as well as an expert panelist on NRK's radio program Juntafil , a show with 250,000 listeners that answers young Norwegians' sometimes very explicit sexual questions.
Gunhild Anker Stordalen (née Melhus, born 15 January 1979) is a Norwegian physician and environmental advocate. She is the founder and executive chair of EAT Foundation, the co-founder and chair of the philanthropic Stordalen Foundation, the founder of GreeNudge and serves on the board of several commercial and nonprofit organizations. She has been engaged in public debate on issues like climate change and public health and has focused on transforming the global food system.
Early life and education
The daughter of a doctor and a civil engineer, she was born in Haugesund and raised in the sparsely populated hamlet of Muggerud outside Kongsberg. According to an interview with Dagbladet in 2010, she grew up in an anti-materialistic and pacifist household and was involved with environmental issues from an early age.
Stordalen graduated from Kongsberg secondary school in 1998. She enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Oslo in 2000, and joined the medical research program. She received her MD (cand.med.) in 2007. During her time at University, she worked with sexual awareness information for youths (Medisinernes Seksualopplysning) as well as an expert panelist on NRK's radio program Juntafil, a show with 250,000 listeners that answers young Norwegians' sometimes very explicit sexual questions. Stordalen also worked as a model during her time at University.
In 2007, Stordalen enrolled in the PhD program at the Institute of Pathology Oslo University Hospital (Rikshospitalet) and in 2010 defended her doctoral thesis Molecular studies on bone with focus on fracture healing in experimental osteoporosis in the field of pathology and orthopedics.
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