Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) is a Research Council of Norway Centre of Excellence that aims to understand and promote ethically acceptable, fair, and efficient priority setting in national health systems.
BCEPS team and extended network in 2023.
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Ricky Heggheim
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Better health for all, more fairly distributed
BCEPS at the University of Bergen (UiB)
Within the University of Bergen, the Centre is part of the Section for Ethics and Health Economics at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care. We are located in Overlege Danielssens hus, Årstadveien 21.
BCEPS’ research activities are relevant in both a national and international context, with BCEPS researchers often being called upon to provide input to debates on priority setting in health in Norway and internationally. When the Centre was established in 2019, funding was allocated to planned project activities in Ethiopia, Zanzibar, and Malawi.
Since then, it has attracted additional funding from RCN and Norad for activities that are now ongoing in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Ghana. For the future, we look forward to expanding the theoretical and foundational elements of our research as we step up to become a Centre of Excellence (SFF) from September 2023.
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Primary Objective:
The overall objective of the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health is to understand and promote ethically acceptable, fair, and efficient priority setting in national health systems.
Activities:
BCEPS currently carries out work in Norway, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zanzibar, India, Tanzania, Ghana, Nepal, and the US.
Centre for International Health (CIH) at the University of Bergen
Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR) at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) at the University of Bergen
Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC)
Haukeland University Hospital, Helse Bergen Health Trust
Akershus University Hospital, Oslo
Partners in Ethiopia
The Addis Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (ACEPS) is our key partner and acts as a regional hub for knowledge exchange in East Africa. It organises short and advanced courses in economic evaluation, priority setting and essential health service package design for relevant stakeholders in the region.
Africa CDC, Health Economics Program
Ministry of Health Ethiopia
Partners in Ghana
Official Country Team Partners
University of Ghana
Ministry of Health Ghana
Ghana Health Service
Collaborators
WHO (Health Financing Unit & NCD Unit)
PharmAccess
Ghana National Health Insurance Authority
NCD Alliance
Partners in India
Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies (CHRD-SAS)
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)
Partners in Malawi
Ministry of Health Malawi
Kamuzu College of Health Sciences (Health Economics and Policy Unit)
Partners in Nepal
Official Country Team Partners
Ministry of Health and Population
Epidemiology and Disease Control Division under Dept of Health Services
Kathmandu University
Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Economics
Kathmandu Institute of Child Health
Collaborators
WHO (Health Financing Unit & NCD Unit)
NCD Alliance
Partners in Tanzania
Official Country Team Partners
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)
Ministry of Health Tanzania
PharmAccess
President Office Regional and Local Government Authority (PORALG)
Collaborators
WHO (Health Financing Unit & NCD Unit)
Tanzania Non-communicable Diseases Alliance (TANCDA)
National Institute of Medical Research (NCDI Alliance)
National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)
Partners in Zanzibar
Official Country Team Partners
Ministry of Health Zanzibar
Ministry of Finance
D-Tree
WHO
Addis Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (ACEPS)
National Bureau of Statistics
Collaborators
PharmAccess
Health Improvement Project Zanzibar (HIPZ)
Other International Partners
University of Pennsylvania (US)
Harvard University (US)
University of Washington (US)
University of California, San Francisco (US)
University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
University of York (UK)
London School of Economics (UK)
Makerere University (Uganda)
World Health Organisation
World Bank
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BCEPS funding organisations
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BACKGROUND
BCEPS has more than 30 cross-disciplinary researchers and conducts a wide range of projects in Norway and abroad.
Core disciplines are ethics, health economics and priority setting in health.