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Welcome to the Opening of Global Health Norway (02.11.2017)
Welcome to the Opening of Global Health Norway - Norwegian Institute for Research, Education and Capacity Building in Global Health
PhD candidate presenting her poster
Global mental health research group present at the 10th ECTMIH (23.10.2017)
The Global Mental Health research group was present at the 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine & International Health (ECTMIH), in Antwerp, Belgium.
Audience The 2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017
2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017 (05.10.2017)
27-28 March 2017, Silversprings, Kampala, Uganda 2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017
Choosing Between Starvation and Disease (04.10.2017)
Esprance Kashala-Abotnes, a CIH researcher, is training care-givers in DRC how to prevent Konzo Disease in very young Congolese children.
Justin Tongun poster at CAPGAN
CIH PhD Student Wins Poster Prize (02.10.2017)
Justin Tongun is a PhD student at the Centre for International Health (CIH). His home is in South-Sudan.
Joyce Nalugya presenting group work
Mental health and child development in societies of change (28.09.2017)
One of the courses in the Bergen Summer Research School was arranged by the global mental health research group.
Getachew TESHOME and Lelisa FEKADU
Meet Some Capacity Builders (26.09.2017)
Five «students» been selected to take part in the capacity-building project funded by the Gates Foundation. Here we meet Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome.
Global Health Priorities
It’s unfair - not everybody who is sick in Ethiopia gets medicine! (26.09.2017)
Researchers from the Global Priorities research group and the Gates project have prepared an activity to help Norwegian 7th graders in Bergen understand global health inequalities.
Ugleprisen 2017
Pertinent and Innovative MOOC (18.09.2017)
UiB’s highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Occupational Health in Developing Countries”.
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
TB project meeting May 2017
New TB test (15.09.2017)
CIH researcher, Tehmina Mustafa, has developed a new robust, rapid, sensitive, and specific test for TB, implementable in low-resource settings!
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Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (15.09.2017)
The 2016 Global Burden of Disease Study has been published as a special edition in the Lancet, and in a accompanying podcast you can listen to professor Ole Frithjof Norheim discussing Ethiopia's path towards the SDGs.
Petri dishes
Call for Tenders for a study on the "Burden of Diseases potentially preventable by Maternal Immunization in sub-Saharan Africa" (10.08.2017)
students
Welcome New Students! (07.08.2017)
Things get started 10 August!
Research
What is "necessary training" in health-related research ethics? (21.06.2017)
Associated Professor Kristine Bærøe spent one month as a visiting researcher at the Ethox Centre at Oxford University. She recently published a blog post on Ethoxblog, addressing the question of necessary training in research ethics.
Department Day
Department Day 2017 in the Aula (26.05.2017)
The Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) held its annual Department Day in the University Aula, 10 May.
Global Challenges Opening
#GlobalChallenges (19.05.2017)
The University of Bergen (UiB) has 3 strategic multidisciplinary focus areas. One of these, “Global Challenges”, was officially launched 15 May 2017.
Congress logo and VIRTES title
Results from the VIRTUES study (18.05.2017)
Results from the VIRTUES study will be presented at a focused symposium at the 2nd Congress for Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 22-24 May 2017 in Maastricht, the Netherlands

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