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Ongoing research projcets

The Centre for International Health is involved in numerous interdisciplinary projects with partners from many countries and continents.

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The Centre for International Health is involved in numerous interdisciplinary projects with partners from many countries and continents.

The research topics include both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and CIH hosts a Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC).

CIH gives priority to projects that may contribute to fulfil the sustainable development goals (SDGs), in particular SDG3 – Ensure healthy lives for all.

Find more information on selected ongoing CIH research projects below.

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Ongoing research projects

Research - CISMAC

CISMAC has a large portfolio of ongoing studies, and you can read about each of them here.

NORHED II 2021-2026

NORHED is the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development. CIH researchers was rewarded with five NORHED II projects for the period 2021-2026.

The PROMISE Research Consortium

Promoting infant health and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Projects founded by the Research Council of Norway

Centre for International Health has a number of research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway. Learn more about the various projects here.

Building GH capacity in middle-income countries (BACE)

Researchers from the Centre for International Health, the University of Tromsø and Heidelberg University are collaborating with 3 Eastern Europe-Central Asian countries to build capacity in Global Health education in higher education institutions in these countries.

PedMAb: a project with paradigm-shift potential

June 2021, an international team of researchers had a kick-off meeting for a new EDCTP research project undertaking a study that represents a paradigm shift in mother-to-child-transmission of HIV. CIH Professor Thorkild Tylleskär is a member of the team.

MATRISET - Studying «real time» implementation of maternal death reporting and review

MATRISET is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to strengthen maternal death surveillance systems in the contexts of Ethiopia and Tanzania.

DATURA – Better treatment for patients with tuberculosis and HIV co-infections

The project aims to assess whether an intensified initial TB treatment can increase survivability in hospitalised, HIV-infected adults and adolescents compared to the standard TB treatment regime.

100 Years of Respiratory Health In Northern Europe, Spain and Australia

RHINESSA aims to provide information on causal and preventive factors of asthma, allergies and associated diseases across three generations. It will thereby contribute to improved clinical management and more efficient prevention.

Save the children

Evaluation of adding parenting component interventions in the Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) Projects : A collaboration between Save the Children, Finland and University of Bergen, Centre for International Health.

TREAT C-AUD

A new Research Council of Norway funded consortia project: TREAT C-AUD Child Alcohol Use Disorder in Eastern Uganda: Screening, diagnostics, risk factors and handling of children drinking alcohol began in 2019.

TREAT INTERACT

The TREAT INTERACT is an implementation trial to promote Child Mental health in Uganda.

Promise-EPI Study

In spite of antiretroviral therapy, ART to HIV-positive mothers, breastfeeding transmission of HIV remains too high in many African countries. Our primary objective is to evaluate the efficacy of an innovative intervention to protect HIV-1-exposed uninfected infants.

The PROMISE-ZERO study

Most cases of paediatric HIV now occur during the breastfeeding period. In the last twenty years, considerable progress has been achieved to improve policies and scale up the roll out of...

BabyGel - A cluster randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of household alcohol-based handrub for the prevention of sepsis, diarrhoea and pneumonia in Ugandan infants

Norwegian experts to help halt new born infections and deaths in Africa.

Better health through partnership in higher education and bilateral student mobility: collaboration between Pakistan and Norway

The aim of this project is to train global health students in combating global health challenges.

Enhanced partnership for research capacity of next generation of nutrition researchers in Norway, Tanzania and DR-Congo (EPRENUT)

This exchange program aims to enhance partnership to develop research capacity of next generation of nutrition researchers through implementing students' mobility, strengthened curricula and teaching, and dissemination of research output for national and global sustainable development.

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Effectiveness of peer counseling in addressing psychological distress and exposure to violence among LGBTI population in Nepal

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) persons in most countries in the world have more mental health problems than the general population due to discrimination, exclusion, abuse and marginalization. Unfortunately, in many low and middle income countries LGBTI persons do not have...

Randomized clinical trial assessing balloon occlusion of the aorta for controlling life-threatening postpartum bleeding in Africa (REBOA)

The leading direct cause of maternal mortality worldwide is heavy bleeding after birth or postpartum haemorrhage. In this randomized trial we want to assess the efficacy of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) for postpartum haemorrhage (bleeding after birth) in a low...

SAMBULELO Phase II double blind randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial.

There is increasing evidence that antibody, in particular neutralizing antibody, has the potential to prevent infection with HIV. This study will provide information on the safety and levels of one such neutralizing antibody in babies, paving the way to further studies.

Emollient therapy for very low birthweight infants (<1500g) in Uganda: effects on survival, infection, growth and development

The primary aim of this research project is to answer one of WHO priority questions: ...

Toxic exposures in early life, growth, and development: An exposome study in Nepal

Through a close collaboration between academic and non-academic institutions in Nepal and Norway, we will address relevant and current environmental exposures that can affect child health, growth and development. The proposed study addresses several of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and is...

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Pesticides and exposures from traditional textile industry associated with own and offspring health in indigenous Guatemalan communities

Harmful work environments are a global challenge, most prominent in deprived societies. New science suggests toxic exposures may affect germline cells and thereby health and disease in future offspring, and that father’s exposures may be as important as the mother’s. If true, radical rethinking of...

GROWNUT II - Developing a cadre of African nutrition scholars and leaders to address nutrition disorders and influence nutrition policy

Three CIH Professors will be involved in GROWNUT II, Anne Hatløy (Associate Professor), Ingunn Engebretsen, and Thorkild Tylleskär. The project will be implemented in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and will have collaborating partners from South Africa.

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SENUPH II - Educating and training professional staff and future leaders in southern Ethiopia

Professor Bernt Lindtjørn from the Centre for International Health leads a NORHED II project that will expand the ongoing capacity-building activity at Hawassa University to include Arba Minch and Dilla Universities in southern Ethiopia.

I-CARTA – institutionalisation for sustainability

CIH Professor, Thorkild Tylleskär, leads a NORHED II project, I-CARTA, that aims to partner with 3 universities in Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda to implement and institutionalise the successful strategies and outcomes of the 20-year CARTA Consortium.

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SAFEWORKERS - developing a Virtual School of Occupational Health

Professors Bente E. Moen (CIH) and Magne Bråtveit (OEM) aim to develop a Virtual school of Occupational Health with their partners in Tanzania and Ethiopia.

SAHLSA - UiB part of an innovative new Health System project in Latin America

Ana Lorena Ruano, from the Centre for International Health, is leading a new NORHED II project in partnership with 2 Latin American institutions. The project will professionalize a new generation of leaders in the field of Health Policy & Systems Research (HPSR) that represent the region’s...

PRICE - Strengthening Health Systems through Primary Care leaders Education

WHO emphasizes that the best approach for improving the quality and coverage of essential health services and for ensuring the...

Water ESSENCE Africa - creating synergy to meet the global challenges

The project ESSENCE-Africa shall strengthen and innovate the teaching and learning processes, enhancing the capacities and capabilities of the graduate water programs.

Completed research projects

The Centre for International Health is involved in numerous interdisciplinary projects with partners from many countries and continents. Here you find many of Centre for International Health's completed projects over the years.

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