Hege Randi Eriksen (born 18 April 1965) is the Research Director of Uni Health [1] and Professor at the University of Bergen, [2] Norway.
Eriksen holds a Candidate Scientist in Sport and Physical exercise from the Department of Biology and Medicine, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education [3] and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
In 1998 she earned a PhD at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, with the thesis "Stress and coping: Does it really matter for subjective health complaints?" [4]
Eriksen published in international academic journals on stress and coping, subjective health complaints, sick leave and rehabilitation. [5] Together with colleague Holger Ursin she developed the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS) [6] [7] [8] [9]
Hege R. Eriksen is the past president of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. [10]