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Expanding teaching of teachers (ToT) in medical ethics to seven new universities in Ethiopia (14.03.2016)

The Addis Ababa University (AAU) and our research group Global Health Priorities at UoB are collaborating on training the teachers of medical students in medical ethics. Just after 25 teachers at AAU had completed a three year program of training in ethical theory, methods and handling of clinical ethical dilemmas, the Minister of health in Ethiopia, dr. Kesete asked professor Norheim and... Read more

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Does location matter? A study of malnutrition amongst Ethiopian children (07.03.2016)

Each month a paper is selected by one of the Editors of the five Nutrition Society Publications, and this month the paper selected is by PhD Candidate Seifu Hagos.

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Mid-term evaluation of the GLOBVAC programme (07.03.2016)

The evaluation team finds that the GLOBVAC programme has made significant achievements in a number of areas and fills an important gap in the Norwegian funding landscape.

Circumcision as method for HIV prevention (25.02.2016)

PhD Candidate Simon P. Kibira has recently published the first article from his PhD project, concerning sexual risk and willingness to be circumcised in Uganda.

Joint PhD degree programme recruiting students (17.02.2016)

Recently, Hawassa University in South Ethiopia and the University of Bergen agreed on a joint PhD degree programme. The programme is now recruiting students.

Male cancer survivors are less likely to reproduce (15.02.2016)

In a new study recently published in British Journal of Cancer, scientists at the department of Global Public Health and Primary care studied all males born in Norway during 1965-1985, and compared those diagnosed with cancer before the age of 25 with the cancer-free male references, for analyses on paternity, marriage, and offspring outcomes.

Losing weight can bring challenges! (15.02.2016)

Recent results from the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) show that bariatric surgery patients need more than just physical follow-up.

A new proposal for priority setting in Norway: Open and Fair (10.02.2016)

A new article discusses the new, comprehensive framework for priority setting laid out by the third Norwegian Committee on Priority Setting in the Health Sector in November 2014. The authors also discuss the debate and work that followed in the wake of the Committee’s report.

Every child everywhere benefits from breastfeeding (25.01.2016)

21st Century women – in rich and poor countries alike – do not receive the support they need to breastfeed.

CIH Phd January 2016: Catherine Schwinger (25.01.2016)

January 2016: Catherine Schwinger

Supplemental folic acid in pregnancy and risk of maternal and childhood cancer (19.01.2016)

A new study from IGS shows no association between folic acid use before and during pregnancy and the risk of maternal and childhood cancer. The study included more than 430,000 women and 690,000 children in the period 1999-2010, and 3,780 women and 800 children developed cancer. Information on supplement use was obtained from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway.

New Head of Department at IGS (11.01.2016)

Guri Rørtveit kicked off her leadership job at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) with an open meeting where she outlined her plans and ideas for the next 4-year period.

Access to surgical services in rural Ethiopia - balancing health, finance and equity (04.01.2016)

Surgical disease cause a high disease burden and there is limited access to surgical services in low- and middle-income countries. In a new article published in Health Policy and Planning , a DCP-Ethiopia and Priorities2020 team examined how policies to expand access to surgery in rural Ethiopia would impact health, impoverishment and equity.

CIH Strategy Day (18.12.2015)

Colleagues at Centre for International Health show their ability to co-operate by literary making a chain together, consisting of carabin hooks.

Decision-making in job attendance within health care (16.12.2015)

Kine Melfald Tveten and Tone Morken explored what makes nursing staff with musculoskeletal complaints choose work attendance or sick leave. The article has now been pusblished in Occupational Medicine.

Pneumonia interventions can provide large health and financial benefits in Ethiopia (15.12.2015)

Vaccine and treatment interventions for children can bring large health and financial benefits to households in Ethiopia, most particularly among the poorest socio-economic groups.

CIH PhD November 2015: Peter Hangoma (30.11.2015)

November 2015: Peter Hangoma

Getting the Message Across (26.11.2015)

Ten PhD candidates and three professors from the Centre for International Health (CIH) Research School are attending a seminar on how to make a good scientific poster.

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