Keywords
health economics, health-system efficiency, economic evaluation
Lennja is a health economist specializing in health-system efficiency and economic evaluation. She holds a Joint MSc in Health Economics and Management from the EU-HEM programme, completed across Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Bologna, the University of Oslo, and Management Center Innsbruck, where she focused on advanced decision modelling and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Prior to joining HealthIntelAct, Lennja worked in Oslo at NHO Geneo, the health and life-science division of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise, where she conducted executive interviews with pharmaceutical stakeholders. Her work focused on mapping access delays for innovative medicines, identifying critical barriers in approval pathways, and developing policy-relevant insights to improve time-to-patient access. She later joined the OECD in Paris, contributing to international research on mental-health factors across OECD countries. During her Bachelor’s studies in Psychology, she also worked as a scientific assistant at the Leknes Affective Brain Lab and co-authored a study on reward sensitivity in patients receiving opioid agonist and antagonist treatment for opioid-use disorder.
As a HealthIntelAct Fellow, Lennja will pursue doctoral research on reducing regional health-system inefficiencies and optimizing financial sustainability. Her project examines how uneven resource allocation and regional disparities can lead to cost escalation, unnecessary variation in care, and inequitable access.
Her work aims to support decision-makers in designing health systems that are more efficient, financially sustainable, and responsive to ageing populations and complex health needs.
