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Karen Lillethun and Thorkild Tylleskär
The team that started UiB’s largest and most comprehensive collaboration (12.11.2019)
The collaboration between Makerere University and UiB was initiated by Endre Lillethun. It first focused on restoring Physics teaching and training at the University, and quickly expanded to include Chemistry, Biology and Science Education. Over 30 years, it has grown to include many other subject areas.
Makerere 30-year cele
30 years - let's celebrate! (12.11.2019)
A delegation from the University of Bergen (UiB), travelled to Makerere University (Mak) in Kampala, Uganda, to celebrate 30 years of inter-institutional collaboration.
Candidat Mahima Venkateswaran and the committee.
Mahima Venkateswaran: Health information about pregnant women on the West Bank, Palestine (06.11.2019)
Digital health information systems can make health indicators more accessible. Mahima Venkateswaran emphasizes the importance of understanding this type of data to assess quality in health service.
ASCAPAP Conference
Sharing results of 14 years of Norwegian-Cambodian collaboration (31.10.2019)
The Cambodian – Norwegian collaborating team presented research results at the 10th Congress of the Asian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions
field work Ravi Prakash Upadhyay
Ravi Prakash Upadhyay: Investigating the impact of nutritional interventions on neurodevelopment in young Indian children (30.10.2019)
PhD Candidate, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, writes about his PhD and research activity.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Getachew Teshome Eregata: Capacity-strengthening for better national health (24.10.2019)
Getachew Teshome is combining a leadership position at the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and taking a PhD in evidence-based, cost-effective health priority setting at UiB.
Stacking rocks
BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school. 
high tech neonatal unit
Increasing low birth-weight baby survival with community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care (08.10.2019)
A team of CISMAC researchers has published the results of CISMAC’s first and largest randomized control trial in The Lancet.
Recotr at IGS
UiB leadership meets with IGS strategic leaders (04.10.2019)
UiB Rector, Dag Rune Olsen, and Vice-Rector for Global Relations, Anneline Eriksen, met with IGS’ strategic research and education leaders Wednesday 2 October.
asthma medicine
Father’s obesity in puberty increases the risk of asthma in his future offspring (03.10.2019)
MED reports that 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.
academic writing
Joint Research School Writing Seminar 9 October 2019 (01.10.2019)
CIH Associate Professor, Ana Lorena Ruano is leading an open workshop on how to write better scientific articles.
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The Politics of Abortion (27.09.2019)
The CISMAC supported SAFEZT project has released a special issue on reproductive health and the politics of abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia, and Tanzania.
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Why is it so difficult to report maternal deaths? (20.09.2019)
A thought-provoking paper by PhD candidate Andrea Melberg and colleagues underlines how the politicisation of global health initiatives affects the ways in which knowledge about important health indicators is produced.
Body Silhouettes
Marianne Lønnebotn: Preparing for Parenthood Already in Childhood (13.09.2019)
PhD Candidate Marianne Lønnebotn is using data from large, long-term health surveys with information that extends over several generations to study how factors such as being overweight can affect the respiratory health of respondents’ offspring.
Alrek
IGS General Assembly 27 Aug. 2019 (29.08.2019)
The second semi-annual IGS General Assembly for 2019 was held 27 August. The meeting highlighted the changes to the PhD regulations, an update on Alrek (plan is that IGS takes over 10 August 2020!) and Per Bakke, the Dean of the Medical Faculty, presented some of the most important take-home messages from the new UiB Strategy.
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Norhed project meeting in "GROWNUT" (29.08.2019)
Training in nutritional epidemiology increases capacities that are central to the large burden of nutritional problems across the lifespan and the nutritional transition faced by DR Congo.
Welcome to CIH's Master in Global Health
Welcome to CIH’s Master Programme in Global Health (14.08.2019)
CIH’s new Master programme in Global Health is starting its third year. Including one year of classes and one year of field / thesis / internship, the new programme merges two previous Master programmes, one in International Health and one in Oral Sciences.
the last mile
Agnes Langat: The Last Mile Can Be the Hardest (15.07.2019)
CIH PhD candidate, Agnes Langat, is studying ways to combat the current rising trend of Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT) in Kenya.

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