Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Information from IGS:

From November 11th you will find UiBhjelp on https://hjelp.uib.no. UiBhjelp replaces Issue Tracker

The Department hosts one of three UiB Priority Areas: Global Challenges

general assembly

IGS General Assembly 8 Jan. 2020

Summarising 2019 and looking ahead to 2020 at IGS

Lancet publication

Increasing low birth-weight baby survival with community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care

A team of CISMAC researchers has published the results of CISMAC’s first and largest randomized control trial in The Lancet.

Rector visit

UiB leadership meets with IGS strategic leaders

UiB Rector, Dag Rune Olsen, and Vice-Rector for Global Relations, Anneline Eriksen, met with IGS’ strategic research and education leaders Wednesday 2 October.

RESEARCH | ASTHMA

Father’s obesity in puberty doubles the risk of asthma in his future children

A UIB-study shows that boys who are obese in pre-puberty have an over two times higher risk of having children with asthma than those who are not.

MIGRATION

Released the first international book on migrant health

Esperanza Diaz at IGS has published the first book in history In English on migrant health – a resource for general practitioners.

Calendar

2020 PROGRAMME

Professor Katherine Richardson from the University of Copenhagen speaking at the second national SDG Conference Bergen in February 2019.

2020 SDG Conference programme

University Aula, Bergen

05.02.2020 08:00–15:00

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The Academic Quarter (Kvarteret) and the Student Centre

Day Zero: Wednesday 5 February 2020 (Conference)

08:30–20:00

Kvarteret

Sustainability research in Norway - what strategy to follow? (Workshop)

15:00–16:30

Auditorium, Armauer Hansens hus

PhD-defense: Berit Skretting Solberg (Disputation)

00:00–23:00

Room B307, Sentralblokken, Haukeland University Hospital

CCBIO906 Cancer Genomics (Course)

08:30–17:00

Recent news

Faustin Kitetele Ndolumingo: Peer-educators as game changers

IGS General Assembly 8 Jan. 2020

Lelisa Fekadu Assebe: Analysing communicable disease interventions

“Research is key to improving things”

Dialogues about abortion

Research groups

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Physiotherapy Research Group

Genetic Epidemiology

Global Health Anthropology

Global Health Priorities

Global Mental Health

Phenomenological Studies in Health Sciences

HEMIX

Life Phenomena and Quality of Life

Lifestyle Epidemiology

Praxeology

Registry-Based Studies of Familial Risks

Social Pharmacy

Centres at IGS

Centre for International Health (CIH)

Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine (SEFAS)

Centre for Interprofessional Work-Place Learning in Primary Care (TVEPS)

Biostatistics and Data Analysis

Centre of Excellence

Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC)

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