News archive for Centre for International Health

BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)

Digital summer research school.

Going digital: Norway’s 4th National PhD conference in Global Health (29.09.2020)

The special circumstances around 2020 led to the annual PhD conference from the Norwegian Research School of Global Health being first postponed and then transformed to an online conference.

Master students are valuable Research Group members (29.09.2020)

For Master students, being a part of a Research Group can be an important career starting point. It can be an instant networking opportunity, with ripple effects extending through the networks of all the group members. The experience also provides students with support for their research and studies.

co-authors Larry Davidson and Christine H. Ødegaard

Having a choice in mental health care (28.09.2020)

CIH PhD Candidate, Christine H. Ødegaard, was part of a team of researchers who recently published results about how mental health recovery was facilitated when patients were given options of different therapies and provided with education about the benefits, drawbacks, and evidence for the available treatments.

Makerere University fire: 'Ivory Tower' gutted (21.09.2020)

Thorkild Tylleskär, the UiB co-ordinator of the UiB-Makerere collaboration, shared the sad news of the terrible fire that happened 19 September 2020.

Bergen School of Global Studies_Health Resource Allocation Game-4K

Making your own health system – it is not as easy as it might look! (10.09.2020)

What if it was up to you to restore the health system to a war-ravaged country that has finally achieved peace? How would you prioritise and allocate resources within a limited budget? What infrastructures would you build and where? What programmes would you implement?

Nazarius Tumwesigye, Thorkild Tylleskär and Michael Balikuddembe

In memory of Michael Balikuddembe (07.09.2020)

CIH and Makerere University report the sad news that PhD-candidate Dr Michael Balikuddembe has passed on.

Meaning to do good, but … (01.09.2020)

The Centre for Health Research and Development at the Society for Applied Studies in New Delhi undertook a large randomized controlled trial in India together with CISMAC researchers and the Haryana government to estimate the effect of the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses strategy (IMNCI).