Lene Lothe

Head of the Global Health Section in the Department for Global Health, Education and Research, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

Lena Lothe is head of Norad’s Global Health Section. Norad is a technical directorate of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Global Health Section is responsible for grant management, quality assurance and performance measurement of Norwegian investments in Global health. The Global Health Section also provides technical advice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms Lothe has broad experience with immunisation and primary health care policies and has served several terms in the Gavi Programme and Policy Committee. She is also serving on other boards and committees such as the GFF trust fund committee, the Globavac programme board within the Norwegian research council, and the CEPI investors Council, and oversees staff filling other committees and boards within the global health architecture.

Ms Lothe has worked at Norad for more than 12 years and has experience from programme planning at facility, district and national levels, as well as at international level within multilateral and bilateral agencies. She has also worked on mapping and reducing health inequalities within the municipality of Oslo. Ms Lothe also spent much of her life working with the indigenous population in rural Mexico. Ms Lothe is trained in public health and social anthropology, and holds a Master degree in Public Health from Yale School of Public Health and a Master degree in Social anthropology from University of Oslo.