Ann Kristin Knudsen

About

Department and Centre director for Disease Burden at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Employment

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health Director
  2021 - Present
• University of Bergen Associate Professor
  2017 - 2020
• Norwegian Institute of Public Health Researcher
  2014 - 2016
• University of Bergen post.doc.
  2013 - 2016
• Uni Research AS Researcher
  2012 - 2013
• University of Bergen PhD student
  2009 - 2012

Education

• University of Bergen PhD
  2009 - 2013
• University of Bergen cand.psychol.
  2004 - 2009
• University of Bergen Law Studies
  2000 - 2002

Projects & Funding

• Long-term sickness absence and disability pension award for common mental disorders L.Meltzers Høyskolefond
  2011 - 2011

Publications (67)

• Characteristics of participants and nonparticipants in a population based diagnostic survey of mental and substance use disorders. A follow-up study of the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)
  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s00127-025-03030-y
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• The burden of dietary risk factors in the Nordic and Baltic countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  Ann Kristin Knudsen, Carl Michael Baravelli, Christian Madsen +24 more
  The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101543
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• Working Under Pressure—Mental Health and Life Satisfaction Among Elite Coaches in Norway
  International Sport Coaching Journal 2026 DOI: 10.1123/iscj.2025-0044
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• Mental health and suicidal ideation from 2010 to 2023 among university students: national repeated cross-sectional analysis
  The British Journal of Psychiatry 2025 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2025.10435
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• Unemployment and associations with diagnosed health problems in the Norwegian GP-DEP study: a repeated cross-sectional register study (2010–2016)
  BMJ Public Health 2025 DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001758
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• Assessing diagnostic precision: Adaptations of the hopkins symptom checklist (HSCL-5/10/25) among tertiary-level students in Norway
  Clinical Psychology in Europe 2024 DOI: 10.32872/cpe.13275
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• Mental health problems in elite sport: the difference in the distribution of mental distress and mental disorders among a sample of Norwegian elite athletes
  BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2023 DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001538
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• Agreement between survey‐ and register‐based measures of depression in Denmark
  Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2023 DOI: 10.1111/acps.13555
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• Prevalence of mental disorders, suicidal ideation and suicides in the general population before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: A population-based repeated cross-sectional analysis
  The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100071
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• Disease burden in the Nordic region. Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD 2017)
  12th European Public Health Conference 2019
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• Life expectancy and disease burden in the Nordic countries: results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017.
  The Lancet. Public health 2019 DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(19)30224-5
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• Trends in self-reported psychological distress among college and university students from 2010 to 2018.
  Psychological medicine 2019 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291719003350
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• Association of Household Income With Life Expectancy and Cause-Specific Mortality in Norway, 2005-2015.
  JAMA 2019 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.4329
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• Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
  Mohsen Naghavi
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2019 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l94
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• Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
  Daniel Dicker, Grant Nguyen, Degu Abate +97 more
  Lancet (London, England) 2018 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31891-9
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• Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
  Gregory A. Roth, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate +97 more
  Lancet (London, England) 2018 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32203-7
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• Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease St…
  Jeffrey D Stanaway, Ashkan Afshin, Emmanuela E. Gakidou +97 more
  Lancet (London, England) 2018 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32225-6
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• Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
  Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate +97 more
  Lancet (London, England) 2018 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32335-3
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• Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
  Spencer Lewis James, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate +97 more
  Lancet (London, England) 2018 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32279-7
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• The global burden of disease attributable to alcohol and drug use in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
  Louisa J Degenhardt, Fiona Charlson, Alize J Ferrari +31 more
  The lancet. Psychiatry 2018 DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(18)30337-7
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