Anne Alvik (born 7 May 1937) is a Norwegian physician and civil servant. She was born in

Namsos ( sma, Nåavmesjenjaelmie) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Some of the villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Kli ...

. She graduated with the cand.med. degree from the

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in 1962, and with a Master of Science degree in community medicine at the

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in 1980. From 1977 to 1982 she was assisting chief physician in the Norwegian Directorate for Health, and from 1982 to 1985 she was assisting county physician in

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. In 1985 she became assisting director in the Directorate for Health, and in 1992 she was promoted to director. As of 1994 the Directorate for Health became the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision. She stepped down as director in 2000. She was first granted a six-month absence of leave in March; acting director was

Petter Øgar Petter Øgar (born 5 September 1953) is a Norwegian physician and civil servant. He was born in Oslo, and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1978. He worked at Kongsberg Hospital from 1980 to 1983. He was district physician in Stryn from 198 ...

. On 1 September the

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announced her stepping down, and Lars E. Hanssen became acting director. She was a delegate to the Council of Europe Public Health Committee from 1988 to 1992, a board member of the

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from 1997 to 2000, and of the

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. She has also been involved in the

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, the

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and ''Hovedkomitéen for norsk forskning''. From 1975 to 1979 she was a member of Ås

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and

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for the Liberal People's Party; she was also a parliamentary secretary for the party from 1975 to 1976.

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