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Angela Akol
Global Health Conference in Bergen (28.04.2016)
Our research group participated in the Global Health Conference in Bergen, entitled "Norwegian Global Health Networks with Impact". Find posters and pictures here.
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Associate professor Johansson comments on new article on mental health in the New York Times (25.04.2016)
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New Disease Control Priorities Volumes released (25.04.2016)
Associate professor Kjell Arne Johansson has contributed to two new volumes on the important project Disease Control Priorities. In the new volumes just released, world leading experts provide new insight to the literature on investments in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (Volume two) and on Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders (Volume four).
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When is the worst time to die? (18.04.2016)
The badness of death and its possible implications for priority setting in global health is the subject in a new article by PhD-candidate Carl Tollef Solberg from the Global Health Priorities Group and Associate Professor Espen Gamlund. In the article just published in BMC Medical Ethics they present possibly the first systematic discussion on philosophical considerations of the badness of death... Read more
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Presentations at the World Congress for Neurorehabilitation in Philadelphia (15.04.2016)
The Physiotherapy Research Group participates at the WCNR in Philadelphia, 10 - 13th May, 2016.
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February: Jovita Amurwon PhD of the Month (11.04.2016)
Jovita Amurwon is the PhD candidate of the Month at Centre for International Health!
Sudha Basnet and her husband Suman Basnet
April: Sudha Basnet PhD-candidate of the Month (11.04.2016)
Sudha Basnet is PhD of the Month at Centre for International Health!
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Expanding teaching of teachers (ToT) in medical ethics to seven new universities in Ethiopia (14.03.2016)
The Addis Ababa University (AAU) and our research group Global Health Priorities at UoB are collaborating on training the teachers of medical students in medical ethics. Just after 25 teachers at AAU had completed a three year program of training in ethical theory, methods and handling of clinical ethical dilemmas, the Minister of health in Ethiopia, dr. Kesete asked professor Norheim and... Read more
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Does location matter? A study of malnutrition amongst Ethiopian children (07.03.2016)
Each month a paper is selected by one of the Editors of the five Nutrition Society Publications, and this month the paper selected is by PhD Candidate Seifu Hagos.
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Mid-term evaluation of the GLOBVAC programme (07.03.2016)
The evaluation team finds that the GLOBVAC programme has made significant achievements in a number of areas and fills an important gap in the Norwegian funding landscape.
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Circumcision as method for HIV prevention (25.02.2016)
PhD Candidate Simon P. Kibira has recently published the first article from his PhD project, concerning sexual risk and willingness to be circumcised in Uganda.
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Joint PhD degree programme recruiting students (17.02.2016)
Recently, Hawassa University in South Ethiopia and the University of Bergen agreed on a joint PhD degree programme. The programme is now recruiting students.
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Male cancer survivors are less likely to reproduce (15.02.2016)
In a new study recently published in British Journal of Cancer, scientists at the department of Global Public Health and Primary care studied all males born in Norway during 1965-1985, and compared those diagnosed with cancer before the age of 25 with the cancer-free male references, for analyses on paternity, marriage, and offspring outcomes.
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Losing weight can bring challenges! (15.02.2016)
Recent results from the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) show that bariatric surgery patients need more than just physical follow-up.
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A new proposal for priority setting in Norway: Open and Fair (10.02.2016)
A new article discusses the new, comprehensive framework for priority setting laid out by the third Norwegian Committee on Priority Setting in the Health Sector in November 2014. The authors also discuss the debate and work that followed in the wake of the Committee’s report.
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Every child everywhere benefits from breastfeeding (25.01.2016)
21st Century women – in rich and poor countries alike – do not receive the support they need to breastfeed.
Catherine Schwinger
CIH Phd January 2016: Catherine Schwinger (25.01.2016)
January 2016: Catherine Schwinger
Jan Helge Seglem Mortensen
Supplemental folic acid in pregnancy and risk of maternal and childhood cancer (19.01.2016)
A new study from IGS shows no association between folic acid use before and during pregnancy and the risk of maternal and childhood cancer. The study included more than 430,000 women and 690,000 children in the period 1999-2010, and 3,780 women and 800 children developed cancer. Information on supplement use was obtained from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway.

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