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  • 17.10.2011 09:42
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    Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy?

    The project investigates whether litigation can make health policies and -systems in poor countries more equitable by forcing policy-makers and administrators to take seriously their human rights obligations

  • 17.10.2011 10:30
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    Gender, Generation and Social Mobilization (GESOMO)

    Reproductive health is located at the heart of the UN’s millennium goals, and is found within the partner institutions’ research priorities. The project covers capacity building, curriculum development, research and dissemination.

  • 17.10.2011 09:37
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    REACT: Health Related Priority Setting, Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia

    Health systems authorities in many low many LMICs perceive current management capacity as insufficient to be given full responsibility for priority setting. Moreover, without effective decentralization of the priority setting process, the capacity will never increase.

  • 25.01.2013 14:06
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    Global and Development related Research

    Global and development-related research is one of two priority areas for research at the University of Bergen.

  • 30.1.2009 9:59

    PhD PSY: PhD Course 2013

  • 17.10.2011 10:06
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    Searching for effective HIV-prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa

    After 20 years of experience with HIV prevention, the number of people infected with HIV continues to rise, and there are still few examples of declining epidemics. Why have we not done better? This proposal is a response to the urgent need to document what works in community

  • 07.10.2011 09:50

    SKOK's E-mail list!

  • 19.09.2011 11:55
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    The Ethics of Priority Setting in Global Health

    Scarce health resources should satisfy two goals; allocative efficiency and fairness. Up to now there exists limited evidence as to how to incorporate efficiency with fairness. This is both a theoretical problem as well as a challenge for national and international health authorities such as WHO.

  • 17.10.2011 10:16
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    PROMISE EBF: Safety and efficacy of exclusive breastfeeding promotion in the era of HIV

    Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months is an effective child survival strategy.

  • 30.1.2009 10:46

    Mailing list for Lectures at SVT

  • 17.10.2011 09:49
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    Strengthening Human Resources for Health: A Study of Health Worker Availability and Performance in Tanzania

    Shortage of health personnel and poor health workers’ performance is major constraint on health systems in low-income countries. The project represents an important strategic initiative to provide evidence that will be valuable in addressing health work force crises.

  • 4.9.2009 9:10

    EU FP7 SEAT: Sustaining Ethical Aquaculture Trade

  • 17.10.2011 10:11
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    Gender in poverty reduction. Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Womens Rights

    During the last decade gender equality and womens rights have become key issues in international development aid policies, and a main concern in the Millennium effort to eradicate poverty.

  • 06.03.2013 10:27 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
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    Capacity building in Ethiopia

    Rector Sigmund Grønmo signed a new collaboration agreement with the Armauer Hansen Research Institute and bolstered relations with Addis Ababa University on a visit to the Ethiopian capital.

  • 12.2.2009 15:53 News

    New paper from the group

    Members of the Bergen Bullying Research group contribute with an empirical research paper in the latest issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association. The paper, entitled "A study of basic life assumptions and post-traumatic stress disorder among victims of workplace bullying" is written in Norwegian. An abstract in English is presented here.

  • 06.02.2013 22:49 RESEARCH FUNDING
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    The ethics of global health

    A research project looking at how to achieve more equal health distribution on a global basis has received a grant from Worldwide Universities Network.

  • 24.05.2013 09:32 PSYCHOLOGY
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    Help at hand for schizophrenics

    How can healthy people who hear voices help schizophrenics? Finding the answer for this is at the centre of research conducted at the University of Bergen.

  • 31.05.2013 08:51 OIL RESEARCH
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    Sweet dreams in the North Sea

    Night shift workers and daytime workers in the offshore oil industry report similar sleep problems after a two-week work period, according to a Norwegian study.

  • 21.06.2011 13:19 BERGEN SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOOL
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    Academic Transformers

    The higher education system needs to transform itself to solve the global challenges of poverty reduction, health policy, and climate change.

  • 20.12.2011 16:21 MEDICINE
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    Rodent PET scan solving health riddles

    Soon, researchers at the University of Bergen will use a PET scanner on rats and mice. A practice that could lead to improved future health for all.

  • 31.01.2013 10:11 MENTAL HEALTH
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    Mental health of fathers can affect foetus

    A three-year old child is at increased risk of emotional problems if its father had mental health issues during the pregnancy.

  • 11.04.2013 08:15
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    Broad involvement and many success stories in global health

    Many Norwegian stakeholders work actively to improve the access to and the quality of health services at a global scale. The Centre for International Health is one of them.

  • 20.11.2012 16:12 MEDICINE
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    How your genes can solve obesity

    What roles do diet and genetics play in the development of obesity and diabetes? The answer may be found in a unique Norwegian study of mothers and children.

  • 31.10.2011 14:36 MEDICINE
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    Solving the CFS-riddle

    For years there has been no cure for chronic fatigue syndrome. But new research in Bergen gives hope to sufferers of the disease.

  • 26.03.2012 10:45 MEDICINE
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    Providing new options for treatment

    Researchers at Haukeland University Hospital and the University of Bergen have discovered a previously unknown gene defect in people with chronic diarrhoea.

  • 17.11.2011 10:40
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    Global Health Group:receives a very positive evaluation

    The Research Council of Norway has facilitated an evaluation of biology, medicine and health research in Norway.

  • 08.02.2013 09:41
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    UiB Global Launches Newsletter to Highlight Research on Development Challenges

    Global and development-related research is one of UiB’s two priority areas. UiB Global's newsletter highlights the scope and diversity of this field at the University of Bergen.

  • 22.11.2011 08:20 MEDICINE
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    Giardia’s long-term health damage

    A new doctoral thesis shows that about half of the Giardia patients in Bergen have experienced long-term health disorders.

  • 25.10.2012 12:37 GLOBAL HEALTH
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    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.

  • 24.04.2012 07:22 PSYCHOLOGY
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    Driven to work

    Researchers from the University of Bergen have developed a new instrument to measure work addiction: The Bergen Work Addiction Scale.

  • 30.08.2012 09:09 Research funding
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    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.

  • 30.10.2012 11:52
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    Development and Sustainability Science

    The Challenge of Transdisciplinary Knowledge for Social Change

  • 23.02.2011 14:03 Bergen Summer Research School
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    The world comes to UiB

    Norms, values, language and culture is the theme for the 2011 Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS). This international, interdisciplinary research School attracts participants from all over the world. The deadline for applications is getting closer.

  • 23.09.2011 14:42 MEDICINE
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    Facing up to non-communicable diseases

    University of Bergen researchers have contributed to an international declaration on the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Now the UN is discussing the issue.

  • 04.03.2013 08:50 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
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    Celebrating 25 years together

    A delegation from UiB headed by Rector Sigmund Grønmo visited Makerere University to celebrate 25 years of collaboration between the two universities.

  • 08.02.2013 06:12
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    The Impact of Medical Capacity Building on Human Well-Being

    Tanzania has one doctor for every 30,000 inhabitants, leading the CIH and a Tanzanian partner institution to mount a medical capacity building project. The results can be seen in a short film produced by UiB.

  • 11.07.2011 08:20 MEDICINE

    Publishing African Neurology Textbook

    When the neurologist William Howlett could not find textbooks of medicine his students in Tanzania could recognise themselves in, he decided to write his own.

  • 26.10.2012 08:42 PSYCHOLOGY
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    Sleep problems cost billions

    Insomnia and sleep apnoea are turning us into major health service consumers, causing us to be less productive at work, and may even lead to serious accidents.

  • 08.02.2012 09:26 RANKINGS
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    Attracting attention worldwide

    According to an international ranking, the Centre for International Health is one of the world’s most influential health policy think tanks.

  • 11.01.2013 09:20 PHILOSOPHY
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    On the mental catwalk

    When the diagnostic thresholds are lowered, being normal ends up being as unachievable as the supermodel on the catwalk, according to Lars Fredrik Svendsen, who is a professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen.

  • 07.01.2013 09:44
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    Presenting a New Era of Open Access to Academic Knowledge

    At a seminar on 14 December the author of "Neurology in Africa" told the story behind the book. UiB representatives described it as an ideal for the future.

  • 17.01.2013 09:50 RESEARCH FUNDING
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    Academia: a brake on UN development goals

    Creating transdisciplinary dialogue between academia and experts from outside will help in the work to achieve the United Nation’s millennium development goals.

  • 09.12.2011 14:29 MEDICINE
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    New cure for leukaemia patients

    Researchers at the University of Bergen have discovered a new treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia.

  • 28.02.2013 12:23 MEDICINE
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    Surviving pandemics

    So far, the tobacco plant has done more harm than good. But in the future, the plant may be used as part of a life-saving vaccine.

  • 16.12.2011 13:45 THE OWL AWARD
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    Rewarding academic quality

    Ancient Philosophy and Global Health may be two quite different subjects, but these two courses nevertheless share UiB’s Owl Award for 2012.

  • 30.11.2011 15:16 MEDICINE
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    A radiation therapy for the future

    A ground breaking new method for radiation therapy is the subject of a PhD at the University of Bergen. The new method promises stronger radiation of tumours but with fewer side effects than previous treatments.