News archive for Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Astrid Blystad reports on the completion of a 2-year project dealing with the politics of abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania in a featured collection in International Journal for Equity in Health.

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.

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.

PhD Candidate, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, writes about his PhD and research activity.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school. 

A team of CISMAC researchers has published the results of CISMAC’s first and largest randomized control trial in The Lancet.

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.

CIH Associate Professor, Ana Lorena Ruano is leading an open workshop on how to write better scientific articles.