Vision and Strategy

Vision: Knowledge for better health and less inequality

Goals: During the period 2016 – 2019, the research group aims to be in the forefront of research to:

• Develop theory and methods for ethics and priority setting in global health
• Perform applied economic evaluations using the best available methods
• Perform applied studies on the distributional effects of health interventions
• Study the relationship between theoretical and practical approaches to bioethics
• Discuss valid knowledge transfer between theory and practice
• Study clinical ethical dilemmas and practical priority setting
• Develop methods to increase ethical competence among decision-makers

Instruments for achieving these goals:

• Obtain external funding for research on ethics and priority setting
• Establish and develop expertise in ethics and priority setting in low- and middle-income countries
• Strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration with strong national and international research groups
• Strengthen cooperation on clinical ethics in the Western Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Vest)
• Encourage publications with international partners
• Facilitate collaboration with researchers in low and middle income countries
• Facilitate grant applications with international partners
• Facilitate international exchange and research
• Invite international scientists to Bergen
• Collaborate with other research groups at IGS (CISMAC, CIH and the Norwegian Disease Burden Project)
• Make the findings of our research available to users and decision makers and participate in decision making
• Actively disseminate results from our research (newsletter, Twitter, newspapers, radio, TV, and lectures)
• Enable user involvement in research
• Cultivate an attractive and inclusive professional and social environment
• Promote knowledge of ethics and priority setting through engaging and effective teaching, and recruit excellent students for research

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