Centre for International Health

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Welcome to CIH

The Centre for International Health is one of 8 departments at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (MOF), the University of Bergen (UiB). CIH has a particular obligation to working interfacultary at the UiB and together with other departments at MOF. CIH aims to address health in low-income countries.

This is especially done through research, postgraduate teaching and advanced training in areas of importance for collaborating universities and other institutions in low-income countries. CIH is also involved in teaching in Global Health issues for undergradutate students in health.

The Research Council of Norway

NOK 2 billion to new Centres of Excellence

The Research Council of Norway has granted 13 research groups status as Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF centres), among them the CIH based Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child health.
GLOBAL HEALTH

A primer in life and death

Who receives medical care when resources are scarce? To make those hard decisions, researchers at UiB have worked on a guide with the World Health Organization.
News

Free online textbook on neurology

In Africa neurological disorders are a common cause of disability and death. The textbook “Neurology in Africa” is specifically written for Sub-Saharan Africa by Dr. William Howlett, physician and neurologist in Tanzania.
New publication

Health workers prefer public sector

In Tanzania, health workers in rural areas prefer to work in the public sector, even though the church-run hospitals mostly provide better patient care and are better equipped. A favourably pension scheme seems to be part of the reason.
Research funding

New malaria research project in Ethiopia

Malaria remains a major public health problem worldwide. Researchers at CIH, the Bjerknes Climate Centre and in Ethiopia are collaborating to strengthen malaria research and now initiates a new project.