Helle Krone-Hjertstrøm is a researcher and leader of the research group Social and Ecological Sustaiability. She holds a master`s degree in sociology from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and is currently in the final phase of a PhD in health sciences at the same university.

Her areas of expertice include health service research, qualitative methods, ethnography, implementation and evaluation. Her research interests focus on municipal restruction and health policy, with particular attention to how political initiatives and new services are translated into local practice – and how this shape daily work, collaboration, organisation and competence.

Her PhD project examines how the decentralisation of health policy influences the organisation of municipal health and care services, using ethnographic approach to study the implementation of a Municipal In-patient Acute Care service (MipAC). The thesis highlights the crucal role of nurses and nurses organising work in developing local health services. It also illustrates how smaller, rural municipalities can combine knowledge of their inhabitants with flexible practices, enabeling more asaptive solutions tailored to local needs and contexts.

Keywords: Health Service Research, Health Policy, Implementation and evaluation, Program theory, Implementation science, Nursing and nurses organising work, Qualitative methods and Organisational Ethnography, Sociology