Research groups at IGS

Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS)

Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS) is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to studying the ethics and economics of priority setting in health.

Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine (SEFAS)

In 2012, the country's first Center for geriatric and nursing home medicine was established by UiB, in collaboration with the GC Rieber Funds. The center's overall goal is to be a leader in research and teaching in nursing homes and in home-based treatment, as well as the implementation of...

Genetic Epidemiology

Global Health Anthropology

Global Health Research Group

Research group in Global Health.

Research group, from 2021 meeting at Solstrand

Greenness, air pollution and health

The greenness, air pollution and health research group is part of the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen, Norway. We aim to study how air pollution and greenness affect respiratory health across the lifespan, focusing on lasting long-term effects.

Global Mental Health

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HELTER

Research group with three focus areas in health economics, leadership, and translational ethics research.

HELFORSK

Group for health service research (HELFORSK) works with research on the health service with emphasis on the general medical service, primary health care and collaboration where general practice is included.

HEMIX - Research promoting public health

We see health and disease from a holistic view, and our research is particularly focused towards people struggling with addiction and towards migrants, but we also have a wider public health perspective.

Lifestyle Epidemiology (LERG)

The Research Group for Lifestyle Epidemiology focuses on epidemiological studies of the causes of disease, especially lifestyle factors and other environmental factors.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Phenomenological Studies in Health Sciences

Physiotherapy

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ReproEpi - Registrybased reproductive epidemiology

In our work we study the relation between adverse pregnancy complications and long-term morbidity and mortality of the mother and the father, with emphasis on the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and reproductive related cancers. Unlike most other researchers we study long-term...

Research in Medical Education

Research Group for Primary Care Medical Education's goal is to contribute to good research, theory development and knowledge implementation in medical education, in collaboration with national and international research environments. MedUt shall prioritize educational research with general medical...

SMIL

This research group focuses on sleep, musculoskeletal complaints, infection and laboratory medicine (SMIL), and our aim is to contribute to more practice-based clinical research with relevance for primary care.

Social Pharmacy

Tehmina Mustafa and colleagues Zanzibar lab

Tuberculosis Research Group

Tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest known human diseases, is still one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality globally. Over 90% of TB cases occur in low- and middle-income countries that have fragile healthcare infrastructures and constrained resources.