News archive for Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Wakisa Mulwafu: Treating an invisible disability - improving hearing in Malawi (05.05.2020)

Wakisa Mulwafu became interesting in ear and hearing issues when he was training as a medical doctor. He travelled to South Africa to become an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist, and returned to Malawi to build up ENT services in the country.

CISMAC Annual Report 2019 – worth a read! (30.04.2020)

CISMAC has prepared its Annual Report for 2019. Highlighting the year’s activity at the Centre for Research Excellence, the report also begins to consider future directions for the Centre, after the end of the 10-year funding period.

Two MED Prizes to IGS / CIH researchers (30.04.2020)

Halvor Sommerfelt and Cecilie Svanes have been awarded the Faculty of Medicine’s Publication and Communications Prizes, respectively, for 2019.

CIH’s Annual Report 2019 is published! (28.04.2020)

CIH’s Annual Report gives the Centre a chance to reflect on its activities over the past year. The Centre vision provides a “red thread” through the research, networking, education and publication activity.

Hanne Keyser Hegdahl: Young women’s sexual and reproductive health behaviour, beliefs and risks in a sub-Saharan African setting (20.04.2020)

PhD Candidate Hanne Keyser Hegdahl’s work studies factors contributing to young women’s sexual and reproductive health behaviour, attitudes, beliefs and risks in a sub-Saharan African setting.

A million thanks!! (31.03.2020)

Overnight March 12-13, UiB became a digital university. This meant everything, even the pinnacle of university study – PhD Defences – went online. The transformation is working - thanks to the concerted efforts of many.

The Spanish flu causes Corona-fear today (26.03.2020)

The world has experienced several devastating epidemics. One of the worst was the Spanish flu, that ravaged between 1918 and 1920. The epidemic probably killed more people than the First and Second World Wars together.

Samfunnsfarmasi vant utdanningspris (23.03.2020)

Det medisinske fakultet har delt ut utdanningspriser, og den gjeveste prisen gikk til Samfunnsfarmasi.

Annual report 2019 SEFAS (20.03.2020)

In our annual report we write about ongoing and future research related to the Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine (SEFAS).

Book cover Global Health Priority-Setting

Priority-Setting in Global Health: Book Launch in Washington DC (02.03.2020)

'Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness' discusses a new framework for priority-setting in global health. A book launch was hosted by the Center for Global Development in Washington DC on 27 February 2020.

Negative results are also interesting and important (11.02.2020)

David Mukunya: Empowering communities to save lives (11.02.2020)

In the vulnerable population living in post-conflict northern Uganda there are disproportionate levels of neonatal deaths. Medical doctor and PhD candidate, David Mukunya’s project aimed to find out if there were interventions that could help reduce this number.

Technology and Knowledge for Sustainability and Equality (10.02.2020)

SDG panel debate with Dr. Ronald Semyalo from Makerere University

SDG17: Partnerships for the Goals for Partnerships (07.02.2020)

In memory of Maharaj Kishan Bhan (28.01.2020)

It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the passing of Dr Maharaj K. Bhan, member of CISMAC Executive Committee and a close friend. Dr Bhan died in Delhi on 26 January. He was 72 years old and leaves behind his wife, two children and a large group of researchers and health professionals whom he mentored during his generous life. - Josè Martines, Ingvild Fossgård Sandøy, Ane Straume and... Read more

Faustin Kitetele Ndolumingo: Peer-educators as game changers (21.01.2020)

Faustin Kitetele Ndolumingo’s PhD is about improving the quality of life for children living with HIV. The CIH PhD candidate is based at the Kalembe Lembe Paediatric Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

IGS General Assembly 8 Jan. 2020 (14.01.2020)

Summarising 2019 and looking ahead to 2020 at IGS

Lelisa Fekadu Assebe: Analysing communicable disease interventions (14.01.2020)

PhD Candidate, Lelisa Fekadu Assebe, is studying evidence-based, cost-effective policy-making and priority setting of public health interventions in Ethiopia that are addressing three major global health threats: malaria, HIV, and TB.

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