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Teaching and Learning Nurturing Care for building the future for international PhD candidates

Members of the Global Mental health Research Group are delighted to have successfully completed the Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) 2023: Childhood: Nurturing care for building the future. BSRS 2023 was held face-to-face in Bergen 5-15 June, 2023

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Updated: 26.06.2023 (First published: 22.06.2023)

Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) 2023
Childhood: Nurturing care for building the future.

BSRS 2023 was held face-to-face in Bergen 5-15 June, 2023 

BSRS 2023  was inspired by the nurturing care framework

Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen was the scientific leader of the BSRS 2023 and selected five courses representing the domains of the nurturing framework:

Health   |   Nutrition   |   Education   |   Caregiving   |   Migration 

The Global Mental health Research Group is proud to have contributed to the Caregiving course , an members of our group took the lead in coordination and teaching:
Ragnhild Dybdahl , Unni Heltne and Henriette Risvoll.

The course had excellent teachers from all over the world including Dr John Phuka, Executive Dean, School of Public and Global Health (SOGAPH) at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Malawi and Melissa Gladstone Professor in Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics and International Child Health, University of Liverpool, UK. The course also had good contribution from colleagues and partners at UiB, Norce, FHI and other partners in Norway.

So, "we did it" - we have delivered an excellent PhD course in Caregiving!  

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BSRS 2023 had excellent key-note lectures

BSRS 2023 had excellent key-note lectures including

WHO representatives explaining the Nurturing Care framework and need for improved data:

Bernadette Daelmans and Sheila Maji
Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Investing in our future

and

Data for policy and practice to improve health and wellbeing along the life course

From Unicef we heard how the nurturing framework is used and implemented.

Pia Rebello Britto and Janneke Hartvig Blomberg, Unicef, The Lao People's democratic Republic (PDR)
Nurturing care - Early action for the impact of a lifetime

 

Bernadette Daelmans
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Unni Marie Gulla Heltne

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Henriette Risvoll

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