News archive for Pandemic Centre

On October 28th, the Pandemic Centre arranged an international conference in Bergen. Professionals from a number of different institutions gathered to discuss topics like governance in complexity, AI, plantetary health and media-academic collaboration.

Master's student Camilla Anna Simonelli from the University of Pavia will spend the next half year at the Pandemic Centre. There she will finish her thesis focusing on the use of AI-models in health care trained on pandemic data.

In order to coordinate efforts around research in climate and health, the Bjerknes Centre and the Pandemic Centre organized the Climate and Health Initiative on June 14th. Held at Alrek, the session brought together experts and community members to discuss the critical links between climate change and health.

The pandemic center will lead a newly established working group on migration and pandemics on behalf of the European public health organization EUPHA.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Norwegian health authorities used the term "dugnad" to encourage collective infection control measures. New research indicates that the use of such culturally specific terms can be problematic for immigrant groups.

The Pandemic Centre will collaborate with the University of Gdansk to exchange experiences from the health ambassdor project that was organized in Bergen during the covid 19-pandemic. The goal is to adapt the same model in a polish context and among Ukrainian immigrants in Poland.

PhD-students with different backgrounds are participating in the Pandemic Centre's interdisciplinary PhD-course this semester. The students hope the course will give them a broader understanding of the complex issues during a pandemic.

Fulbright-student Leah Eliza Balter from the United States has recently started a new research-project at The Pandemic Centre. She will explore how Norway’s Covid-19 experiences may have influenced the response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis that happened simultaneously.