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Official Opening of BCEPS Centre of Excellence

Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) has been awarded Centre of Excellence (SFF) status by the Research Council of Norway and will build on ongoing applied research to develop innovative methods for efficient and fair priority setting in health.

Universitetsmuseet i Bergen
Welcome to the official opening of our new Centre of Excellence - Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) - in the University Aula on 8 January.
Photo:
Charlotte Eide, UiB

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better health for all - more fairly distributed

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

09:30Doors open

10:00

Welcome

   - Margareth Hagen [Rector, University of Bergen]
   - Per Bakke [Dean, Faculty of Medicine]
   - Bjarne Robberstad [Head of Department,
     Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care]
   - Benedicte Løseth [Executive Director, Research Council of Norway]

Presentation of BCEPS

Keynote: Principles for priority setting under resource scarcity

   - Zeke Emanuel [Bioethicist, University of Pennsylvania, BCEPS PI]

Panel Debate: Disease Control Priorities 4 - Rationing Lab

   - Moderator: Ole Frithjof Norheim [BCEPS Director]

     Panellists: Mizan Kiros, Pakwanja Twea, Andrea Melberg, Sindre Horn

11:35

LUNCH

12:30

Keynote: What now for global health?

   - Jessamy Bagenal [The Lancet, Senior Executive Editor]

Presentation: FairChoices and Equity Impact

   - Ingvild Sandøy [BCEPS Deputy Director & Equity Impact]

     video contribution: Tarun Choudhary

   - Kjell Arne Johansson [BCEPS FairChoices]

     video contribution: Omar Mwalim

Should BCEPS work on Climate Change and Health?

   - Anand Bhopal [BCEPS researcher]

Comments and Discussion

Concluding Remarks

   - Paul Fife [Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation]

14:10

MINGLING AND REFRESHMENTS
15:00Doors close


OPEN TO ALL  -  please register if you would like lunch

 

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