Globale samfunnsutfordringer

All UiB staff and students, as well as interested parties from other institutions are invited to this launch of Global Challenges — one of three strategic focus areas at the University of Bergen.

The focus on Global Challenges comprises collaboration across all faculties within three key areas of global significance: Health, Migration and Inequality.

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PROGRAMME
The event will be held in English

Chair persons
Robert Bjerknes, Vice Rector for Interdisciplinary Affairs
Eyvind Rødahl, Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Registration, coffee/tea (09:30-10:00)

Opening by Rector Dag Rune Olsen and Dean Nina Langeland, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Does interdisciplinary co-operation provide greater opportunities?
Ottar Mæstad, Director, Chr. Michelsen Institute
Sondre Johan Chesney Kvamme, Student, UiB

Brief presentations (15 mins.) of ongoing UiB research and education related to Global Challenges

‘Positive deviant’ care responses to climate impact on child health in South Africa and Ghana
Marguerite Daniel, Ass. Professor, Faculty of Psychology
Comment by the Dean, Faculty of Humanities

Break (11:00-11:30)

Politics of morality: democracy and health effects
Siri Gloppen, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
Comment by the Dean, Faculty of Law

Young women´s access to adequate sexual and reproductive health services: Focus on the role of health staff/nurses at local clinics
Henriette Sinding Aasen, Professor, Faculty of Law
Comment by the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences

Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN sustainable development goal for health
Ole Frithjof Norheim, Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Comment by the Dean, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design

Lunch (12:15-13:00)

Times of migration: the consequences of ‘waitinghood’ for migrants’ health and processes of integration
Christine Jacobsen, Professor, Faculty of Humanities
Comment by the Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Decoding the systems toxicology of Atlantic cod
Dorothy Jane Dankel, Researcher, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Comment by the Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dignity
Frans Jacobi, Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
Comment by the Dean, Faculty of Psychology

Education and administration

Teaching opportunities
Astrid Blystad, Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Ståle Knutsen, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences Comment by Oddrun Samdal, Vice Rector for Education

A global administrative unit
Bente E. Moen, Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Comment by Tore Tungodden, Assistant University Director

Sustainable Development Goals and universities: A special role for UiB
Tor Halvorsen and Tore Sætersdal, Global Challenges
Comment by Anne Christine Johannessen, Vice Rector for International Affairs

Summary and the way forward
Nina Langeland, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

End (15:00)