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Bernt Lindtjørn Presenting the Joint PhD Program
Hawassa- UiB Joint PhD program thriving (19.12.2017)
On the third year of its launching, the Joint PhD program between the University of Bergen-Norway and Hawassa University-Ethiopia is showing remarkable success. It has so far enrolled 18 PhD candidates conducting their studies at both universities.
lancet paper
Important DCP-3 summary published (04.12.2017)
Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim is co-authoring a new Lancet article giving recommendations on how to organize the Disease Control Priorities findings to best promote universal health coverage.
Tallying
UiB Staff Observes Kenya's Troubled Election (28.11.2017)
Uhuru Kenyatta was declared president elect despite elections not having taken place in 25 constituencies in four counties in the 26 October election
Audience attending seminar listening to presentation
CIH Hosts a half-day Seminar on Global Health Research Opportunities in H2020 (03.11.2017)
Universitetets Aula
Welcome to the Opening of Global Health Norway (02.11.2017)
Welcome to the Opening of Global Health Norway - Norwegian Institute for Research, Education and Capacity Building in Global Health
PhD candidate presenting her poster
Global mental health research group present at the 10th ECTMIH (23.10.2017)
The Global Mental Health research group was present at the 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine & International Health (ECTMIH), in Antwerp, Belgium.
Audience The 2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017
2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017 (05.10.2017)
27-28 March 2017, Silversprings, Kampala, Uganda 2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017
Choosing Between Starvation and Disease (04.10.2017)
Esprance Kashala-Abotnes, a CIH researcher, is training care-givers in DRC how to prevent Konzo Disease in very young Congolese children.
Justin Tongun poster at CAPGAN
CIH PhD Student Wins Poster Prize (02.10.2017)
Justin Tongun is a PhD student at the Centre for International Health (CIH). His home is in South-Sudan.
Joyce Nalugya presenting group work
Mental health and child development in societies of change (28.09.2017)
One of the courses in the Bergen Summer Research School was arranged by the global mental health research group.
Getachew TESHOME and Lelisa FEKADU
Meet Some Capacity Builders (26.09.2017)
Five «students» been selected to take part in the capacity-building project funded by the Gates Foundation. Here we meet Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome.
Global Health Priorities
It’s unfair - not everybody who is sick in Ethiopia gets medicine! (26.09.2017)
Researchers from the Global Priorities research group and the Gates project have prepared an activity to help Norwegian 7th graders in Bergen understand global health inequalities.
Ugleprisen 2017
Pertinent and Innovative MOOC (18.09.2017)
UiB’s highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Occupational Health in Developing Countries”.
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
TB project meeting May 2017
New TB test (15.09.2017)
CIH researcher, Tehmina Mustafa, has developed a new robust, rapid, sensitive, and specific test for TB, implementable in low-resource settings!
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Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (15.09.2017)
The 2016 Global Burden of Disease Study has been published as a special edition in the Lancet, and in a accompanying podcast you can listen to professor Ole Frithjof Norheim discussing Ethiopia's path towards the SDGs.
Petri dishes
Call for Tenders for a study on the "Burden of Diseases potentially preventable by Maternal Immunization in sub-Saharan Africa" (10.08.2017)
students
Welcome New Students! (07.08.2017)
Things get started 10 August!

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