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About BCEPS

Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) is a Research Council of Norway Centre of Excellence that aims to understand and promote ethically acceptable, fair, and efficient priority setting in national health systems.

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BCEPS team and extended network in 2023.
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Better health for all, more fairly distributed

BCEPS at the University of Bergen (UiB)

Within the University of Bergen, the Centre is part of the Section for Ethics and Health Economics at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care. We are located in Overlege Danielssens hus, Årstadveien 21.

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BCEPS as a Centre

In 2019, the Trond Mohn Foundation (TMS) joined forces with the University of Bergen and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) to establish BCEPS, building on a platform of existing projects managed by the Global Health Priorities (GHP) Research Group and funded by earlier grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Norad, the Research Council of Norway (RCN), and the University of Bergen.

BCEPS’ research activities are relevant in both a national and international context, with BCEPS researchers often being called upon to provide input to debates on priority setting in health in Norway and internationally. When the Centre was established in 2019, funding was allocated to planned project activities in Ethiopia, Zanzibar, and Malawi.

Since then, it has attracted additional funding from RCN and Norad for activities that are now ongoing in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Ghana. For the future, we look forward to expanding the theoretical and foundational elements of our research as we step up to become a Centre of Excellence (SFF) from September 2023.

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Primary Objective:

The overall objective of the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health is to understand and promote ethically acceptable, fair, and efficient priority setting in national health systems.

Activities:

BCEPS currently carries out work in Norway, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zanzibar, India, Tanzania, Ghana, Nepal, and the US. 

Collaboration:

BCEPS has an extensive network of collaborative partners in Norway and abroad, including a key partner at the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, the Addis Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (ACEPS).

Partners in Norway

  • Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI)
  • Centre for International Health (CIH) at the University of Bergen
  • Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality (FAIR) at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
  • Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) at the University of Bergen
  • Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC)
  • Haukeland University Hospital, Helse Bergen Health Trust
  • Akershus University Hospital, Oslo

Partners in Ethiopia

  • The Addis Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (ACEPS) is our key partner and acts as a regional hub for knowledge exchange in East Africa. It organises short and advanced courses in economic evaluation, priority setting and essential health service package design for relevant stakeholders in the region.
  • Africa CDC, Health Economics Program
  • Ministry of Health Ethiopia

Partners in Ghana

Official Country Team Partners

  • University of Ghana
  • Ministry of Health Ghana 
  • Ghana Health Service

Collaborators

  • WHO (Health Financing Unit & NCD Unit)
  • PharmAccess
  • Ghana National Health Insurance Authority
  • NCD Alliance

Partners in India

  • Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies (CHRD-SAS)
  • Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)

Partners in Malawi

  • Ministry of Health Malawi
  • Kamuzu College of Health Sciences (Health Economics and Policy Unit)

Partners in Nepal

Official Country Team Partners

  • Ministry of Health and Population 
  • Epidemiology and Disease Control Division under Dept of Health Services
  • Kathmandu University
  • Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Economics 
  • Kathmandu Institute of Child Health

Collaborators

  • WHO (Health Financing Unit & NCD Unit)
  • NCD Alliance

Partners in Tanzania

Official Country Team Partners

  • Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)
  • Ministry of Health Tanzania
  • PharmAccess
  • President Office Regional and Local Government Authority (PORALG)

Collaborators 

  • WHO (Health Financing Unit & NCD Unit)
  • Tanzania Non-communicable Diseases Alliance (TANCDA) 
  • National Institute of Medical Research (NCDI Alliance) 
  • National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)

Partners in Zanzibar

Official Country Team Partners

  • Ministry of Health Zanzibar
  • Ministry of Finance
  • D-Tree
  • WHO
  • Addis Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (ACEPS)
  • National Bureau of Statistics 

Collaborators

  • PharmAccess
  • Health Improvement Project Zanzibar (HIPZ)

Other International Partners

  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
  • University of York (UK)
  • London School of Economics (UK)
  • Makerere University (Uganda)
  • World Health Organisation
  • World Bank

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