News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Inaugural Seminar Series on Climate Change and Priority Setting in Health (30.05.2021)

BCEPS has published recordings of its inaugural seminar series on Climate Change and Priority Setting in Health.

CISMAC Annual Report 2020 is out (28.05.2021)

With the pandemic hitting the world in March 2020, we have put a rather different and challenging year behind us, but with our dedicated staff working relentlessly, CISMAC’s activities have powered through.

No Smoking Day 2021 – protecting future generations (27.05.2021)

Professor Cecilie Svanes and Associate Professor Ane Johannessen from the Centre for International Health (CIH) recently published results showing how smoking in early puberty in boys may have negative consequences for their future generations of offspring.

Screenshot collage from Zoom, with speakers.

Top scientists at fully digital CCBIO Symposium (2021) (19.05.2021)

A broad range of renowned international cancer scientists gave talks at the 2021 CCBIO Annual Symposium, which for the very first time was held as a fully online event.

Congratulations Thorkild Tylleskär (12.05.2021)

The CIH Professor’s recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) article was awarded the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care’s Publication of the Year for 2020. Two of Tylleskär’s PhD Candidates, Nicolas Pejovic and Susanna Myrnerts Höök, shared first author in the article.

Global Health and Public Administration most popular with international applicants (07.05.2021)

Four of the five most popular master programmes among international applicants directly tackle global challenges.

Bettina Husebø is editor in new journal on pain and dementia (05.05.2021)

Professor Bettina Husebø at SEFAS is one of several editors in a new journal aiming to promote research on pain among people with dementia.