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Getachew TESHOME and Lelisa FEKADU
Meet Some Capacity Builders (26.09.2017)
Five «students» been selected to take part in the capacity-building project funded by the Gates Foundation. Here we meet Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome.
Ugleprisen 2017
Pertinent and Innovative MOOC (18.09.2017)
UiB’s highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Occupational Health in Developing Countries”.
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
TB project meeting May 2017
New TB test (15.09.2017)
CIH researcher, Tehmina Mustafa, has developed a new robust, rapid, sensitive, and specific test for TB, implementable in low-resource settings!
Petri dishes
Call for Tenders for a study on the "Burden of Diseases potentially preventable by Maternal Immunization in sub-Saharan Africa" (10.08.2017)
students
Welcome New Students! (07.08.2017)
Things get started 10 August!
Global Challenges Opening
#GlobalChallenges (19.05.2017)
The University of Bergen (UiB) has 3 strategic multidisciplinary focus areas. One of these, “Global Challenges”, was officially launched 15 May 2017.
Cutting of ribbon Global challenges
Opening of Global Challenges (16.05.2017)
GLOBVAC
Does prolonged malaria treatment save lives? (24.04.2017)
A new GLOBVAC project will examine whether it is safe and effective to routinely provide antimalarial drugs during the first three months after discharge from hospital.
Medical Peace Work
New MOOC in Medical Peace Work (03.04.2017)
CIH, IGS and UiB are launching a new interactive Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Medical Peace Work.
GLOBVAC 2017 Posters
GLOBVAC 2017 Poster Prizes (03.04.2017)
There were around 80 poster contributions at the 2017 GLOBVAC Conference held 13-15 March.
GLOBVAC 2017
Ensuring Healthy Lives for All (03.04.2017)
Over 300 participants from more than 30 countries attended the 10th GLOBVAC conference held this year in Trondheim.
Drawing of man holding the elevator roors
Meeting Bill Gates in the lift (16.03.2017)
Imagine that you were to meet Bill Gates in a lift. You strike up a conversation and he asks you what you do. As it happens, you have just come up with an idea that you believe could change the world. In the approximately two minutes until the elevator reaches your floor, you decide to try to convince him that he should invest in your idea. What would you say?
WHO guidelines
Improving feeding practices among mothers with HIV (02.03.2017)
New WHO guideline published with updates on HIV and infant feeding.
Bistandsaktuelt Mødredødsfall
Maternal mortality more than halved (16.02.2017)
In some parts of the world maternal mortality is still high. CIH Professor Bernt Lindtjørn led a project that led to significant improvements in south-western Ethiopia.
Haydom field experience
Unique Global Health Opportunity (09.02.2017)
During their medical student career, students at the University of Bergen have the option of taking an elective course called “Global Health”.
mental health
BSRS 2017: Global Challenges (02.02.2017)
Register now! Global challenges affect us all. Every summer the University of Bergen (UiB) hosts a cross-disciplinary research school exploring some of the most pressing challenges facing our world, Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS). Deadline for registration 1 March 2017.
Forum Seminar 12 Jan 2017 Oslo
10th Anniversary Seminar (30.01.2017)
At the Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research (Forum)’s 10 Anniversary Seminar 12-13 January 2017 the conclusion was that it takes time to build relations and networks – and that after 10 years, Forum’s Global Health Research activities are becoming firmly established.

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