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The study involves researchers from Norway, England and Uganda. It will investigate how relatively simple measures relating to hand hygiene can help to prevent newborn infections in Uganda.
GHP kicking of Day Zero at the SDG 2019 conference with the "Global health priorities explained" seminar.
Researchers from Norway, England and Uganda have just been awarded a €5.9 million grant study how relatively simple measures relating to hand hygiene can help to prevent newborn infections in Uganda.
The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia renews its commitment to actions towards universal health coverage (UHC). The re-definition of the Essential Health Service Packages (EHSP), which the Global Health Priorities Research Group is involved in, is defined as one of the most important steps forward.
Our highlights from research, international collaboration and dissemination.
IGS’ first General Meeting of 2019 opened with an inaugural lecture by newly appointed Associate Professor in the History of Medicine, Magnus Vollset.
June 2019 CISMAC will be offering a course on systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Alemselam Zebdewos’ study deals with child anemia, which is common childhood malnutrition and which includes diagnosed nutritional deficiency problems.
The Medical Peace Work project and the University of Bergen offer two interactive Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) early in 2019.
SEFAS' PhD student at a six months exchange as Postgraduate Fellow at Yale School of Medicine, Geriatrics.
Long term networks through the Kolaas’ engagement in Bhutan has given new opportunities for exchange in acadmic training and Research.
The international event "Beating the DRUM" co-hosted by Norwegian government focused on domestic resource use and mobilization for accelerating progress towards SDG3. It featured roundtable discussions about increasing public-sector revenue to improve health in an efficient and equitable way. Norheim, director of the Global Health Priority Research Group, was the moderator of one of these... Read more
Erika Ito is a third year medical student at Tohoku University in Sendai in Japan and as part of her study she is four months in Bergen to do research.
SEFAS' collaboration partner, Smart Aging Research Centre, is doing several studies to test the effect of brain training to improve the cognitive ability for persons with dementia and other groups for elderly people.
CIH Professor, Thorkild Tylleskär, spoke about preventing mother-child transmission of HIV at NTNU’s Global Health Day 24 October, 2018.
- We train our doctors to ask the patient what matters to them
The report by The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems, co-authored by leader in the GHP research group Ole Frithjof Norheim, sets a new definition for “quality health systems,” and finds that improved health system quality could prevent over 8 million deaths and improve the health outcomes of millions more each year in low- and middle-income countries. The report... Read more
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