Guri Helene Ingebrigtsen (19 May 1952 – 5 January 2020) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Ingebrigtsen was born in

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. In the 1970s she was a member of the leftist Workers' Communist Party (AKP). In 1986, she worked in the Afghanistan Committee, giving medical aid. She was a graduate in medicine from the University of Oslo in 1982, having minored in

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in 1976. Among several medicine-related jobs, she was a researcher at the University of Oslo from 1987 to 1996. From 1996 to 1997, during the

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, she was appointed political advisor to the Minister of Health and Social Affairs. From 2000 to 2001, during the

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, she headed the same Ministry. On the local level Ingebrigtsen was a member of Vestvågøy municipal council from 1995 to 1999, and then served as mayor from 1999 to 2007. On 5 January 2020, Ingebrigtsen died from cancer at the age of 67.

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