News archive for Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

- This stay has provided me with new tools for doing research (23.11.2018)

SEFAS' PhD student at a six months exchange as Postgraduate Fellow at Yale School of Medicine, Geriatrics.

Norwegian group at discussions at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan

Strengthening the Norway-Bhutan academic collaborations (21.11.2018)

Long term networks through the Kolaas’ engagement in Bhutan has given new opportunities for exchange in acadmic training and Research.

Beating the DRUM event with Global Financing Facility in Oslo November 5

Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim leading discussion at international GFF event (06.11.2018)

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

Tohoku student exchange

Medical student from Japan is doing research on data from Norwegian Nursing Homes (05.11.2018)

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.

Rui reserach

Tohoku University focuses on cognitive training for persons with dementia (05.11.2018)

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.

Protecting children – the next generation (02.11.2018)

CIH Professor, Thorkild Tylleskär, spoke about preventing mother-child transmission of HIV at NTNU’s Global Health Day 24 October, 2018.