Gunnar Skov Simonsen

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Gunnar Skov Simonsen er leder av Norsk overvåkingssystem for resistente mikrober (NORM) og professor II i medisinsk mikrobiologi ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

Articles by Gunnar Skov Simonsen

Antibiotic resistance in times of war and conflict

Øyunn Holen,
Miriam Sare,
Gunnar Skov Simonsen

18.03.2026: Antimicrobial resistance increases during times of war and conflict. The rise in armed conflicts worldwide highlights the need to improve preparedness within the Norwegian health service to manage patients evacuated from abroad who are carriers of multidrug-resistant organisms. Although the close...

Microbes as history's driving force

Gunnar Skov Simonsen

22.04.2025: Books on human history often describe individuals or groups who attempt to shape our environment and societies. However, we are all biological beings subject to natural processes. Cosmic phenomena, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, climate change and epidemics have repeatedly impacted on the course...

Antimicrobial resistance is a super wicked problem

Jasper Littmann,
Gunnar Skov Simonsen

31.10.2019: Antimicrobial resistance is a global health challenge, for which effective political measures are hard to find. This can be explained by the fact that antimicrobial resistance is a so-called 'wicked problem' that requires a long-term change in its development trajectory. Antimicrobial resistance is...

Use of antibiotics in hospitals and nursing homes

Gunnar Skov Simonsen

07.03.2017: A conservative tradition of treatment with room for improvement. Antimicrobial resistance is an increasing public health problem globally, and has been described as the health services’ climate crisis. The topic was dealt with in the UN General Assembly in September 2016, with Norway playing an...