Global Health Research Group
Research group in Global Health.
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Vision: Better health in the underprivileged populations in low-income countries
Goals: To be a spearhead and provide a meeting point for health research and researcher training that is particularly relevant for underprivileged populations in low-income countries.
Plan:
- Perform global health research
- Develop research projects and applications in global health
- Recruit PhD candidates and post-doctoral candidates for research in global health
- Arrange monthly research group meetings using webinars in co-operation with partner researchers/institutions in low-income countries. A particular focus will be on highlighting and reading recent scientific articles
- Be responsible for monthly scientific presentations in scientific staff meetings on campus at Centre for International health, with online participation of PhD candidates in the field and from collaborating partners in low-income countries
- Inspire colleagues in health research in Norway to develop projects in global health
Research Projects
PROMISE EPI – Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1: programme evaluation and innovative rescue intervention integrated in the Expanded Programme of Immunization
PedMAb – seeking innovative ways to protect children from getting HIV from their mothers
REBOA PPH trial – Randomized Clinical Trial Assessing the usefulness of aorta ballon in postpartum haemorrhage
NORHED II
Bernt Lindtjørn: South Ethiopia Network of Universities in Public Health II (SENUPH II)
Thorkild Tylleskar: iCARTA – Institutionalisation of Advanced Research Training in Africa
Ana Lorena Ruano: Strengthening Agency & Learning across Health Systems in the Americas
Bente Elisabeth Moen: SAFEWORKERS – Safe Work Conditions by Innovative Research and Education
Completed projects - Archive of recently completed project
Face-Mask Randomized Phase III Clinical Trial Assessing a Supraglottic Device versus Face-Mask Ventilation in Neonatal Resuscitation in Africa
SURVIVAL PLUSS Increasing capacity for Mama-baby survival in post-conflict Uganda and South Suda
PhD Candidates
- Aashifa Yaqoob
- Abiot B. Banti
- Agnes Langat
- Catherine Chunda
- Chola Nakazwe
- David Rutagwera
- Hanne Keyser Hegdahl
- Josephine Tumuhamye
- Linda Kampata
- Faustin Kitetele
- Francis Okello
- Mahboob ul-Haq
- Martin Chebet
- Mweetwa Mudenda
- Noella Okalany
- Rhoda Namakula
- Thomas Mwogi
- Abdela Amano Abdo (Joint degreee with Hawassa University)
- Aschenaki Kea (Joint degreee with Hawassa University)
- Sewhareg Belay (Joint degreee with Hawassa University)
- Beatrice Odongkara (Joint degree Makerere)
- Heidi H Thorsdalen (Medical Student Research Programme)
- Neda Valeckaite (Medical Student Research Programme)
Graduated PhD candidates
- Hans-Jörg Lang, 2021 "Treatment of the critically ill child in low-resource settings: Essential paediatric emergency and critical care"
- Agnes K Napyo, 2021 "Universal antiretroviral therapy for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Northern Uganda"
- Susanna Myrnerts Höök, 2021 "Supporting neonatal resuscitation in low-resource settings - Innovations and new strategies"
- Appolinaire Tiam, 2020 "Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1 in Lesotho"
- Julia Regina Brandenberger, Germany 2020: "Asylum-seeking children at a Swiss tertiary hospital"
- Hamidah Hussain, Pakistan 2020: "Tuberculosis care: Cost-effectiveness of a public-private partnership model in Pakistan"
- Andrea Melberg, Norway 2020: "Global policies and the provision of birth care in Burkina Faso"
- Anneli Eriksson, Sweden 2020: ”Estimating needs in disasters”
- Anselme S. Sanou, Burkina Faso 2020: "Child development in rural Burkina Faso: Association between maternal alcohol consumption, stunting, schooling, and neuropsychological outcomes"
- Nicolas Pejovic, Sweden 2020: "No cry at birth"
- Alice Mugisha, Uganda 2020: "Designing usable mobile forms for collection of health data in Uganda"
- David Mukunya, Uganda 2020: "Newborn Care Practices in Northern Uganda" Article in English
- Justin Bruno Tongun, South Sudan 2020: "Breastfeeding practices and health facility births in South Sudan" Article in English
Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC)
Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC)
CISMAC was established in 2013 to pursue a vision of equitable improvements in maternal, newborn and child health and development in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Our project portfolio can be found here: https://www.uib.no/en/cismac/117083/research-cismac
Webinar series - CIH-CISMAC research school
The CIH-CISMAC Research School holds monthly webinars for researchers where junior and senior scientists discuss topics of their interest.
