Hans Melberg
Director Of Research. Health Services. at University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolHans Melberg is a health economist and data-savvy research leader with 11+ years combining academic rigor and policy impact, now serving as Director of Research, Health Services at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. He brings deep expertise in causal inference, economic evaluation and registry-based analyses using Python tooling (Pandas, Polars, Lifelines, Statsmodels, Scikit-Learn) to estimate intervention effects and guide priority setting in health. As an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo and former Harkness Fellow and visiting researcher at top US institutions, he blends teaching, high-quality research and international health policy experience. Hans is known for translating complex health registry and prescription data into actionable insights, and for pragmatic use of interactive Jupyter workflows to make analyses reproducible and accessible. An understated strength is his long-standing focus on addiction research and cost-benefit methods, which informs rigorous evaluations across clinical and policy questions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Economics, Ph.D, Economics at University of OsloBachelor's degree, Politics, Philisophy, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Politics, Philisophy, Economics at University of OxfordI.B., I.B. at AH United World College of the American West
Norwegian, English, German, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
skulpt10
pyodide10
python9
browser9
webassembly9
phylogeny8
brython8
plaid8
javascript8
edgar7
programming-language7
financial-data7
tushare6
html6
conditional-statements6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hmelberg/econeval
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
hmelberg/stats-to-pandas
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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