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Food pattern calculator estimates how to gain up to ten life years (09.02.2022)
Researchers at UiB have developed a calculator that can estimate how many life years you could gain by modifications in diet patterns.
Shoud we sacrifice health for the climate
Should we sacrifice health for the climate? (21.01.2022)
Healthcare is a place of healing, but as a major polluter it is also a source of harm. In this public science lecture, BCEPS PhD candidates Anand Bhopal and Emily McLean discussed the feasibility, responsibility and ultimate desirability of healthcare decarbonisation.
Vaccine Research - Past, Present and Future (01.12.2021)
A recording of this interesting UiB seminar (in Norwegian) organised by the University of Bergen Faculty of Medicine on Saturday 20 November is now available on YouTube.
ECTMIH2021 Track 7
Global mental health at the 12th European Congress On Tropical Medicine and International Health (07.10.2021)
This year’s ECTMIH congress acknowledged the reality of the slogan “No health without mental health” by having a separate track on global mental health. We do encourage coming congresses to take this further and integrate more critical views and perspectives from users and civil society.
ECTMIH2021
GMHRG are contributing to the 12th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH2021) (06.10.2021)
A joint GMHRG initiative has led to the 7th track on Mental health and health promotion – the first of its kind in the ECTMIH history.
Alrek
GMHRG are contributing to the Alrek-days 2021 (06.10.2021)
Alrek-days 2021: "Forskning for folk, med folk, til folk»
Climate crisis and health service
Climate Crisis: The Health Service must take Responsibility (01.10.2021)
In an Editorial in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Anand Bhopal (BCEPS PhD candidate) and Sofie Haugan Shrivastava (Medical Student, University of Bergen) call for a green transformation of the health service.
ECTMIH2021 website
ECTMIH2021: over 1100 Global Health enthusiasts (25.09.2021)
For over 2 years, the Centre for International Health (CIH) and the University of Bergen (UiB) have been preparing to host the 12th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH2021).
Bente Moen og Thorkild Tylleskär
Health, migration and equity are topics for European congress in Bergen (22.09.2021)
Centre for International Health at the University if Bergen is host for the 12th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH).
IGS General Assembly Aug. 2021
IGS General Assembly Aug. 2021 (01.09.2021)
Head of Department, Guri Rørtveit, held the second 2021 biannual General Meeting for all at IGS to kick off a new Academic Year.
Implementation Research Toolkit
Fall 2022, Introduction to implementation science in global health ( Course Code: CISMAC900-2) (16.06.2021)
This course gives a comprehensive introduction to implementation science in global health. The course takes a holistic approach to implementation science with a particular focus on global health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.
SFF Initiative
BCEPS in the final round of evaluation to become a Norwegian Centre of Excellence (15.06.2021)
BCEPS is one of seven applicants from the University of Bergen to reach the final round of the Research Council of Norway's Centre of Excellence (SFF) initiative with its proposal for a Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health.
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First joint article from the Pandemic Centre published (03.06.2021)
The first joint article from the Pandemic Centre as a unit has now been published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
Getachew Teshome and Lelisa Fekadu
Meet our recent doctoral graduates (01.06.2021)
Congratulations to BCEPS PhD candidates Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome on successfully defending their doctoral theses this spring.
Seminar Recordings on YouTube
Inaugural Seminar Series on Climate Change and Priority Setting in Health (30.05.2021)
BCEPS has published recordings of its inaugural seminar series on Climate Change and Priority Setting in Health.
Annual report CISMAC 2020
CISMAC Annual Report 2020 is out (28.05.2021)
With the pandemic hitting the world in March 2020, we have put a rather different and challenging year behind us, but with our dedicated staff working relentlessly, CISMAC’s activities have powered through.
No Smoking Day 2021
No Smoking Day 2021 – protecting future generations (27.05.2021)
Professor Cecilie Svanes and Associate Professor Ane Johannessen from the Centre for International Health (CIH) recently published results showing how smoking in early puberty in boys may have negative consequences for their future generations of offspring.
leadership group for clinical trial
Congratulations Thorkild Tylleskär (12.05.2021)
The CIH Professor’s recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) article was awarded the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care’s Publication of the Year for 2020. Two of Tylleskär’s PhD Candidates, Nicolas Pejovic and Susanna Myrnerts Höök, shared first author in the article.

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