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The DCP-E team outside Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Discussed Ethiopia´s health services at Harvard (15.04.2019)
A group of central researchers in the Gates funded project “Disease Control Priorities Ethiopia” (DCP-E) gathered at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss the revision of Ethiopia's publicly funded health services package.
Bhutan meeting
Establishing the groundwork for a new international partnership (12.04.2019)
One of the CIH’s most important resources is the many long-term, stable, productive partnerships Centre researchers have been able to establish with researchers and institutions in Africa and Asia.
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Haplin power analysis: a software module for power and sample size calculations in genetic association analyses of family triads and unrelated controls (11.04.2019)
We introduce a new and complete tool in the R package Haplin for power and sample size calculations in genetic association studies, readily applicable to data in MoBa or Harvest. The article is published in BMC Bioinformatics
Saving people from the harm of death, Oxford University Press
Saving people from the harm of death (22.02.2019)
This is the first volume to connect philosophical discussions on the harm of death with discussions on population health, adjusting the ways in which death is evaluated. Edited by post doc in the GHP Research Group Carl Tollef Solberg and associated member of the group Espen Gamlund (professor in philosophy). Foreword by professor of Moral Philosophy Jeff McMahan.
Gruppebilde fra deltakere fra seminaret i Bærum
Kick-start for a new study (20.02.2019)
LIVE@Home.Path - a new, innovative and multi-disciplinary study, focusing on home-dwelling persons with dementia.
Research coordinator Linn Knudsen in conversation with the expert panel
Explaining global health priorities (06.02.2019)
GHP kicking of Day Zero at the SDG 2019 conference with the "Global health priorities explained" seminar.
Minister of Health Ethiopia, Amir Aman
Ethiopia renews its commitment to Universal Health Coverage (28.01.2019)
The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia renews its commitment to actions towards universal health coverage (UHC). The re-definition of the Essential Health Service Packages (EHSP), which the Global Health Priorities Research Group is involved in, is defined as one of the most important steps forward.
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SEFAS' Annual Report 2018 (24.01.2019)
Our highlights from research, international collaboration and dissemination.
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IGS General Assembly 16 Jan. 2019 (18.01.2019)
Summarising 2018 and looking ahead to 2019 at IGS
Magnus Vollset
The history of a concept: the epidemiological transition (18.01.2019)
IGS’ first General Meeting of 2019 opened with an inaugural lecture by newly appointed Associate Professor in the History of Medicine, Magnus Vollset.
CISMAC
Course on Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (10.01.2019)
June 2019 CISMAC will be offering a course on systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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Online course about violence, peace and health work (19.12.2018)
The Medical Peace Work project and the University of Bergen offer two interactive Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) early in 2019.
Kjellstadli med to kolleger.
- This stay has provided me with new tools for doing research (23.11.2018)
SEFAS' PhD student at a six months exchange as Postgraduate Fellow at Yale School of Medicine, Geriatrics.
Norwegian group at discussions at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan
Strengthening the Norway-Bhutan academic collaborations (21.11.2018)
Long term networks through the Kolaas’ engagement in Bhutan has given new opportunities for exchange in acadmic training and Research.
Beating the DRUM event with Global Financing Facility in Oslo November 5
Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim leading discussion at international GFF event (06.11.2018)
The international event "Beating the DRUM" co-hosted by Norwegian government focused on domestic resource use and mobilization for accelerating progress towards SDG3. It featured roundtable discussions about increasing public-sector revenue to improve health in an efficient and equitable way. Norheim, director of the Global Health Priority Research Group, was the moderator of one of these... Read more
Medical student from Japan is doing research on data from Norwegian Nursing Homes (05.11.2018)
Erika Ito is a third year medical student at Tohoku University in Sendai in Japan and as part of her study she is four months in Bergen to do research.
Tohoku University focuses on cognitive training for persons with dementia (05.11.2018)
SEFAS' collaboration partner, Smart Aging Research Centre, is doing several studies to test the effect of brain training to improve the cognitive ability for persons with dementia and other groups for elderly people.
User involvement is the future (25.10.2018)
- We train our doctors to ask the patient what matters to them

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