Astrid Klopstad Wahl

Wahl is a professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at UiO and a researcher at the Department of Transplantation at OUS (20%). She has more than 20 years of experience in research on patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) and in supervising PhD and master's students.

Wahl’s research is related to various chronic disease groups (kidney disease, psoriasis, COPD, diabetes, heart failure, cystic fibrosis, and cancer). Over the past five years, she has worked to establish health literacy research in Norway, including the translation and validation of international tools and instruments into Norwegian, in close collaboration with Professor Richard Osborne in Australia.