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Alrek
IGS General Assembly 27 Aug. 2019 (29.08.2019)
The second semi-annual IGS General Assembly for 2019 was held 27 August. The meeting highlighted the changes to the PhD regulations, an update on Alrek (plan is that IGS takes over 10 August 2020!) and Per Bakke, the Dean of the Medical Faculty, presented some of the most important take-home messages from the new UiB Strategy.
Group photo people attending meeting
Norhed project meeting in "GROWNUT" (29.08.2019)
Training in nutritional epidemiology increases capacities that are central to the large burden of nutritional problems across the lifespan and the nutritional transition faced by DR Congo.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
New Master Internship Possibilities (14.08.2019)
Centre for International Health (CIH) and the Department of Health Promotion and Development have received funding for a new internship project where master’s students will be able to get scholarships while on internships at partner institutions in Durban, South Africa.
Welcome to CIH's Master in Global Health
Welcome to CIH’s Master Programme in Global Health (14.08.2019)
CIH’s new Master programme in Global Health is starting its third year. Including one year of classes and one year of field / thesis / internship, the new programme merges two previous Master programmes, one in International Health and one in Oral Sciences.
the last mile
Agnes Langat: The Last Mile Can Be the Hardest (15.07.2019)
CIH PhD candidate, Agnes Langat, is studying ways to combat the current rising trend of Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT) in Kenya.
abstinence
Conversations about sex need multi-level approaches (08.07.2019)
CIH/CISMAC researcher, Joar Svanemyr has published about his work with the RISE project in Zambia. The paper is also presented in the UK edition of the Conversation.
Group photo people attending conference
Glimpses from the 7th MUHAS scientific conference (05.07.2019)
More than 500 scientists and students from the host country Tanzania and elsewhere attended the “7th MUHAS Scientific Conference” 27-28 June 2019.
CISMAC meeting June 2019
Beyond our randomized controlled trials … (19.06.2019)
CISMAC meeting 13-15 June, Bergen – some “take-home” messages
gul rose i nærbilde
Hilde Engjom received the Marie Spångberg award for 2018 (17.06.2019)
Engjom is first author on the article "Risk of eclampsia or HELLP- syndrome by institution availability and place and delivery – A population – based cohort study". The Marie Spångberg award is established by the Representative Body of the Norwegian Medical Association in connection with the 100 year anniversary in 1993 for Marie Spångberg. The first Norwegian woman to become a doctor.
photo from outside the ethics centre
Collaborating partners (17.06.2019)
BCEPS has several Norwegian and international partners
CISMAC annual report 2018
CISMAC Annual Report 2018 Available (06.06.2019)
While new funding models are making the future of global health research more uncertain, government leaders around the world are increasingly recognising the importance of using research-based evidence in policy-making – the kind of evidence that CISMAC projects are generating.
CISMAC Systematic reviews and meta-analyses course
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses course (06.06.2019)
CISMAC, one of UiB’s SFFs, is committed to training the next generation of research leaders involved in improving mother- and child-care in low- and middle-income countries. June 2019, the CIH-CISMAC Research School hosted a course in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, as it is important that health care professionals understand what systematic reviews are, and know something about how to... Read more
Cecilie Svanes in Brussels
Cleaning can be bad for your health?? (31.05.2019)
Professor Cecilie Svanes’ research results went viral, and have been discussed in the British Parliament and in the popular press.
Svanes project meeting
Lifestyles and behaviours impact health across several generations (31.05.2019)
Professor Cecilie Svanes at the Centre for International Health is a specialist in pulmonary and internal medicine. She shared the most recent results from several large studies, which seem to indicate that the pre-adolescent health and behaviour of fathers is a critical window for optimising the health of future generations.
Eric Somé's PhD Committee
Eric Somé: Assessing HIV+ mothers’ physical response to breastfeeding (13.05.2019)
Both breastfeeding and coping with HIV infection are energy demanding. Does combining the two increase the rate of disease progression?
IGS Department Day
Health inequalities – what research is needed? (10.05.2019)
Over 100 participated in Department Day 2019 at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS), 8 May. The goal of these annual events is to inform, inspire and engage those working at IGS, as well as helping to build academic and social bonds across different groups at the Department.
The DCP-E team outside Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Discussed Ethiopia´s health services at Harvard (15.04.2019)
A group of central researchers in the Gates funded project “Disease Control Priorities Ethiopia” (DCP-E) gathered at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss the revision of Ethiopia's publicly funded health services package.
Bhutan meeting
Establishing the groundwork for a new international partnership (12.04.2019)
One of the CIH’s most important resources is the many long-term, stable, productive partnerships Centre researchers have been able to establish with researchers and institutions in Africa and Asia.

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