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Should the 2006 recommended WHO Child Growth Standards be the global reference?

Read about new doctors, degrees, projects and other activities at Centre for International Health in 2014 in our annual report.

Being better able to identify the most seriously ill infants is of great importance in terms of being best able to prioritise health resources, particularly is developing countries where such resources are limited. Two researchers from the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) were part of a study that has identified predictors of recovery time in infants with... Read more

PhD Candidate Phyllis Awor is part of a research group working on improving quality of care at drug shops in Uganda.

Videos, pictures and presentations from all key notes and symposia speakers are now available on the GLOBVAC conference website.

About 6.9 million children younger than 5 years die every year worldwide; 43% of these deaths occur within the first 4 weeks of life; the neonatal period. India is one of the countries that is worst off - a quarter of all neonatal deaths in the world occur in India alone.

Svanes is one of the most cited lung health researchers in Norway. She was recently awarded the Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) award for her longstanding effort in asthma and COPD research.

Injuries are a growing problem worldwide, and almost 6 million people die each year as a result of injuries. This is over 30 percent more than the number of deaths caused by malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined.