Global Health Priorities

Global Health Priorities Research Group

Until mid-2019, Global Health Priorities was the main research group at the Section for Ethics and Health Economics (ETØK), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS). It focused on the ethics and economics of priority setting in health, and the background and implications of health policies and planning. Key research topics included the ethics of decisions at a clinical and population level, local implications of global and national health policies, equity-efficiency trade-offs, and standard and extended health economic evaluations.n level, local implications of global and national health policies, equity-efficiency trade-offs, and standard and extended health economic evaluations.

In June 2019, the Global Health Priorities research group was succeeded by the newly established Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS).

BCEPS has its own website (www.uib.no/en/bceps), while these pages provide an overview of the activities, projects and publications of Global Health Priorities up to and including 2019.