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Sudha Basnet is PhD of the Month at Centre for International Health!
Each month a paper is selected by one of the Editors of the five Nutrition Society Publications, and this month the paper selected is by PhD Candidate Seifu Hagos.
The evaluation team finds that the GLOBVAC programme has made significant achievements in a number of areas and fills an important gap in the Norwegian funding landscape.
PhD Candidate Simon P. Kibira has recently published the first article from his PhD project, concerning sexual risk and willingness to be circumcised in Uganda.
Recently, Hawassa University in South Ethiopia and the University of Bergen agreed on a joint PhD degree programme. The programme is now recruiting students.
21st Century women – in rich and poor countries alike – do not receive the support they need to breastfeed.
Colleagues at Centre for International Health show their ability to co-operate by literary making a chain together, consisting of carabin hooks.
Ten PhD candidates and three professors from the Centre for International Health (CIH) Research School are attending a seminar on how to make a good scientific poster.
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) visited Ethiopia, one of its prioritized focus countries for Norwegian development cooperation, to see 6 of its Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC) projects first-hand.
In early October the Research Group for Global Mental Health at CIH attended the 15th Congress of the International Federation for Psychiatric Epidemiology and hosted one of the symposia.
The United Nation’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDG) were officially launched Friday 25 September 2015. Never before have so many peoples and countries agreed about something.
Should the 2006 recommended WHO Child Growth Standards be the global reference?
A timely diagnosis of TB can save lives – not only for the person with TB, but also by limiting further spreading of the disease.
Read about new doctors, degrees, projects and other activities at Centre for International Health in 2014 in our annual report.
To improve the cooperation between staff at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care who are situated both in Kalfarveien 31 and in Overlege Danielsens Hus, this film was made in spring 2015.
Being better able to identify the most seriously ill infants is of great importance in terms of being best able to prioritise health resources, particularly is developing countries where such resources are limited. Two researchers from the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) were part of a study that has identified predictors of recovery time in infants with... Read more

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