Anne Hatløy
Anne Hatløy
Research Professor

    Academic background:

    PhD, Nutrition, University of Oslo


Area of work:

Nutrition, health and social indicators, Child labour, Trafficking, Mali, West Africa Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Eritrea.


Research areas:

Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa | Global health | Peacebuilding and stabilisation | Decent Work | Global education and out-of-school children


Anne Hatløy is research professor at Fafo in the group of Global Studies. In addition, she holds a position as Associate Professor at Center for International Health, University of Bergen.

Hatløy has 30 years of experience with implementation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative research projects in low income countries (West Africa, Uganda, Eritrea, DR Congo, Haiti) on child labour, living conditions, food and nutrition security.

She has extensive experience with research cooperation with institutions in developing countries and in research administration.

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Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave og Anne Inga Hilsen
Intensjonsavtalen for sunnere kosthold
Sluttrapport 2016–2021
Fafo-rapport 2022:29
Anne Hatløy og Ketil Bråthen
Saltpartnerskapet 2019–2021
Framdrift og måloppnåelse
Fafo-rapport 2022:31
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave and Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafopaper 2021:21
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave og Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafo-notat 2021:19
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave og Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafo-notat 2020:15
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave og Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafopaper 2020:16
Ellen Cecilie Andresen and Anne Hatløy
Faforeport 2020:11
Ellen Cecilie Andresen og Anne Hatløy
Fafo-rapport 2019:24
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave and Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafo Paper 2019:29
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave og Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafo-notat 2019:25
Anne Hatløy og Ketil Bråthen
Fafo-notat 2019:11
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave and Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafo-paper 2019:12
Anne Hatløy, Ketil Bråthen, Svein Erik Stave og Anne Inga Hilsen
Fafo-notat 2019:09
Fafo-report 2017:24
Anne Hatløy and Tone Sommerfelt
Fafo-report 2018:06
Anne Kielland, Anne Hatløy, Tone Sommerfelt, Tewodros Aragie Kebede and Kathleen M. Jennings
Hidden in the numbers: Barriers to girls’ education in West Africa
A scoping study concerning knowledge about trends and sub-variations
Fafo-report 2017:39
Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy et Kristin Jesnes
Rapport Fafo 2015:20
Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy and Kristin Jesnes
Fafo-report 2015:19
Rapport Fafo 2015:14
Massa Coulibaly and Anne Hatløy
Fafo-report 2015:13
Rapport Fafo 2015:06
Anne Hatløy, Massa Coulibaly and Jing Liu
Fafo-report 2015:04
Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Anne Hatløy, Tewodros Kebede, Huafeng Zhang
Perceptions of Good Jobs. Analytical Report. Risaralda, Colombia
Background paper for the World Development Report 2013
Fafo-report 2012:21
Tewodros Kebede, Anne Hatløy, Huafeng Zhang, Ingunn Bjørkhaug
Perceptions of Good Jobs. Analytical Report. Urban Cairo and Rural Fayoum, Egypt
Background paper for the World Development Report 2013
Fafo-report 2012:20
Huafeng Zhang, Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Anne Hatløy, Tewodros Kebede
Perceptions of Good Jobs. Analytical Report. Jianyang, China Sichuan
Background paper for the World Development Report 2013
Fafo-report 2012:19
Anne Hatløy, Tewodros Kebede, Huafeng Zhang, Ingunn Bjørkhaug
Perceptions of Good Jobs. Analytical Report. Port Loko and Freetown, Sierra Leone
Background paper for the World Development Report 2013
Fafo-report 2012:18
Anne Hatløy, Tewodros Aragie Kebede, Patrick Joel Adeba and Core Elvis
Morten Bøås, Hedda Flatø, Anne Hatløy, Jon Pedersen and Åge Tiltnes
Fafo-paper 2011:17
Morten Bøås, Hedda Flatø, Anne Hatløy, Jon Pedersen and Åge A. Tiltnes
Polling for peace and security
Pre-election and post-election polling in fragile and precarious situations
Fafo-paper 2011:15
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
After the ‘Storm’
Economic activities among returning youths. The case of Voinjama. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Fafo-report 523
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
Living in a material world
Children and youth in alluvial diamond mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Fafo-report 515
Anne Hatløy og Anne Huser
Identification of street children
Characteristics of street children in Bamako and Accra
Fafo-report 474
Kari Hauge Riisøen, Anne Hatløy, Lise Bjerkan
Travel to Uncertainty
A study of child relocation in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali
Fafo-report 440
Anne Hatløy
Methodological aspects of assessing nutrition security
Examples from Mali. Doctoral dissertation
Fafo-report 323

Freddy Bangelesa, Anne Hatløy, Branly Kilola Mbunga, Paulin B. Mutombo, Mwanack Kakule Matina, Pierre Z. Akilimali, Heiko Paeth, Mala Ali Mapatano

Is stunting in children under five associated with the state of vegetation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Secondary analysis of Demographic Health Survey data and the satellite-derived leaf area index
Heliyon | 2023 | Open access

Debritu Nane, Anne Hatløy & Bernt Lindtjørn

Barriers to Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition Among Children Aged 6 to 59 Months in Damot Pulassa, Wolaita, South Ethiopia
A Phenomenological Study of Mothers and Health Service Providers
Food and Nutrition Bulletin | 2022 | Open access

Debritu Nane, Anne Hatløy and Bernt Lindtjørn

A local-ingredients-based supplement is an alternative to corn-soy blends plus for treating moderate acute malnutrition among children aged 6 to 59 months
A randomized controlled non-inferiority trial in Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia
PLoS ONE | 2021 | Open access

Anne Hatløy, Silondile Luthuli, Vaughn John, Lyn Haskins, Sphindile Mapumulo, Paulin Mutombo, Thorkild Tylleskär, Ingunn M. S. Engebretsen, Christiane Horwood & Mala Ali Mapatano

‘I am not only beneficial to the community but to the entire country, I am trained as a researcher now’
Global Public Health | 2021 | Open access

Christiane Horwood, Sphindile Mapumulo, Lyn Haskins, Vaughn John, Silondile Luthuli, Thorkild Tylleskär, Paulin Mutombo, Ingunn M. S. Engebretsen, Mala Ali Mapatano & Anne Hatløy

A North–South-South partnership in higher education to develop health research capacity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The challenge of finding a common language.
Health Research Policy and Systems | 2021 | Open access

Mapatano Mala Ali, Lyn Haskins, Vaughn John, Anne Hatløy, Silondile Luthuli, Sphindile Mapumulo, Ingunn M. S. Engebretsen, Thorkild Tylleskär, Paulin Mutombo & Christiane Horwood

Establishing a postgraduate programme in nutritional epidemiology to strengthen resource capacity, academic leadership and research in the democratic republic of Congo
BMC Med Educ | 2021 | Open access

Debritu Nane, Anne Hatløy and Bernt Lindtjørn

Development and nutritional evaluation of local ingredients-based supplements to treat moderate acute malnutrition among children aged below five years
A descriptive study from rural Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia.
Food Sci Nutr. | 2020

Mapatano Mala Ali, Christiane Horwood & Anne Hatløy

Building a new master’s and PhD programme in nutritional epidemiology in Kinshasa
How to face obstacles beyond the control of the project | 2019 | Åpen tilgang / Open access

Liv Elin Torheim, Anne Hatløy & Tone Sommerfelt

Nutrition, global health and Norway's development policy
Tidsskrift for den norske legeforening | 2017 | Open access

Hallgeir Kismul, Pawan Acharya, Mala Ali Mapatano & Anne Hatløy

Determinants of childhood stunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo
: further analysis of Demographic and Health Survey 2013–14
BMC Public Health | 2017 | Open access

Marianne Sandsmark Morseth, Navnit Kaur Grewal, Ida Sophie Kaasa, Anne Hatløy, Ingrid Barikmo and Sigrun Henjum

Dietary diversity is related to socioeconomic status among adult Saharawi refugees living in Algeria | 2017 | Open access

Bumbangi NF, Muma JB, Choongo K, Mukanga M, Velu MR , Veldman F, Hatløy A , Mapatano MA

Occurrence and factors associated with aflatoxin contamination of raw peanuts from Lusaka district's markets, Zambia
Food Control | 2016

Kismul H, Hatløy, Andersen P, Mapatano M, Van den Broeck J and Molland KM (2015).

The social context of severe child malnutrition: a qualitative household case study from a rural area of the Democratic Republic of Congo
International Journal for Equity in Health | 2015

Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy

‘Getting in, getting out’: militia membership and prospects for re-integration in post-war Liberia
Journal of Modern African Studies | 2008 | External link

Bøås M and Hatløy A

Alcohol and drugs in post-war Sierra Leone
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies | 2008

Hallund J, Hatløy A, Benesi I and Thilsted SH

Snacks are important for fat and vitamin intakes among rural African women: a cross-sectional study from Malawi
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2007

Hatløy A

Life as a child domestic worker in Haiti
The Journal of Haitian Studies | 2005

Torheim LE, Barikmo I, Parr C, Hatløy A, Ouatara F, Oshaug A

Validation of food variety as an indicator of diet quality assessed with a food frequency questionnaire for Western Mali
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2003

Torheim LE, Barikmo I, Hatløy A, Ouattara F, Diarra M and Oshaug A

Validation of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire in Western Mali | 2001

Hatløy A, Hallund J, Diarra MM and Oshaug A

Food variety scores, socio-economic status and nutritional status in urban and rural areas in Koutiala (Mali)
Public Health Nutrition | 2000

Hatløy A, Torheim LE and Oshaug A

Food variety – a good indicator of nutritional adequacy? A case study from an urban area in Mali, West Africa
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1998

Other publications

  • Completed projects