The Pandemic Centre starts interdiciplinary course to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic
In january the Pandemic Centre will offer a two-weeks course for students to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic. The course is open to both PhD-students and Master students from all diciplines at the university.
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In January, the Pandemic Centre will start a two-week course aimed primarily at PhD students from all disciplines (Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: an interdisciplinary approach). The course will also be offered as an elective course for 4th year medical students, as well as Master's students from all fields at UiB.
The course will cover both medical issues related to vaccines, experiences from pandemics in a historical perspective as well as legal, social and ethical dilemmas.
Head of the Pandemic Centre, Esperanza Diaz, says that the course offer has been created to strengthen the interdisciplinary teaching at the university.
– This is necessary because the pandemic has shown us that in order to combat a crisis, it is crucial to gather across disciplines, says Diaz.
The course will consist of interdisciplinary teaching from various professionals at UiB, in addition to critical review of texts and practical work in groups.
Particular emphasis will be placed on what experiences can be drawn from covid-19 pandemic with regard to new pandemics in the future. In October, the Pandemic Center arranged a national student conference at the Bergen Public Library where this was discussed.
See the complete program for the PhD course in the table below and here
PhD Course Pandemisenteret
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Location |
| 03.01.2022 | A global, holistic, sustainable approach to the pandemic | Esperanza Diaz | ALREK Midgard |
| 04.01.2022 | Knowledge, interdisciplinarity and complexity | Roger Strand | ALREK Midgard |
| 05.01.2022 | Influenza and COVID-19 : Virus, vaccines, and disease | Rebecca Cox | ALREK Munin |
| 05.01.2022 | Constitutional consequences of the pandemic | Eirik Hølmøyvik | ALREK Munin |
| 06.01.2022 | Mathematical modelling, opportunities and limitations | Guttorm Alendal | ALREK Midgard |
| 06.01.2022 | Corona politics: decision-making, civil society and the media | Siri Gloppen | ALREK Midgard |
| 07.01.2022 | Prepare evaluation | Work in groups | ALREK Midgard |
| 10.01.2022 | Occupational medicine, medical history and leadership | Ole Jacob Møllerløkken | ALREK Hugin |
| 11.01.2022 | Arts and the pandemics | KMD | ALREK Hugin |
| 11.01.2022 | The pandemic as a crisis | Jarle Eid, Unni HeltneLine Oldervoll | ALREK Hugin |
| 12.01.2022 | New scenario | Work in groups (Esperanza Diaz) | ALREK Hugin |
| 13.01.2022 | Community medicine, pandemic surveillance, and the authorities` perspective | Preben Aavisland | ALREK Hugin |
| 13.01.2022 | Health, law and pandemics | Henriette Aasen | ALREK Hugin |
| 14.01.2022 | EVALUATION | ALREK Borgaskaret |
How to sign up?
Log on to Studentweb and register for the semester.
Once you have registered, you can change or add topics to the plan. This topic is outside the education plan, but can be selected from the top menu on StudentWeb. Click on Active topics and then search for it (ELMED328).
See also Registrations and Fee for more information.
For whom is the course?
The course is intended for PhD students, elective students and Master's students from all over UiB.
When and where will the course be?
The course will be held from Monday January 3rd to Friday January 14th at Alrek Helseklyngen, Årstadveien 17, 5009 Bergen.
From Bergen city center you can take the campus bus.
