Nora Sveaass

Chair of the board

Nora is a clinical psychologist and a professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (UiO). Nora Sveaass chairs Health and Human Rights Info. From 2005-2013 she was a member of the UN Committee against Torture, she is currently a member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. When Nora was the head of International Society for Health and Human Rights she took initiative to establish HHRI. She has worked for many years with survivors of trauma and forced migration at UiO’s Psychosocial Centre for Refugees. She has done research in the context of projects on psychological treatment of refugees, both individually and in families. In addition, Nora was in charge of a collaborative research project under the NUFU programme, between UiO and the Universidad Centro Americana, Nicaragua in the period of 1996 – 2000. Research done under this project constituted part of her Ph.d. project – a family therapy project with refugee families conducted in collaboration with the Department of Psychology and the Psychosocial Center. At the Norwegian Centre for Traumatic Stress and Violence Studies, she was head of two projects focusing on mental health in reception centers for asylum seekers, initiated by the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs. She has also been Norwegian editor of Nordic Psychology and has published chapters, books and articles in the field of refugees, human rights, clinical and political psychology.