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Seminar with internationally renown researcher on dementia (21.08.2018)

Thursday August 23rd at 14:00 Raymond Koopmans will visit Kalfarveien 31

Centre for Nutrition at a conference (20.08.2018)

Members from Centre for Nutrition participated at the FASEB conference in Canada.

Award to PhD candidate Samih M Ahmed (10.08.2018)

Samih Mohamed Ahmed received the prestigious Nordic Hatton Award 2018

Andor Dragonfly confocal in house and ready to use. (09.08.2018)

Thanks to funding from the Faculty of Medicine MIC recently got a new confocal in house. It was installed before summer and is ready to use.

Check out CIH’s PhDs! (31.07.2018)

In the 2017 Annual Report, CIH reported more than 60 PhD candidates. Learn more about what they are doing!

Jovita Kakia Amurwon: Gathering insights through qualitative approaches (30.07.2018)

Jovita Kakia Amurwon is a PhD student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, and a guest PhD student at CIH, University of Bergen.

Reflections on the HIV Epidemic in northern Tanzania (24.07.2018)

In 3 filmed interviews spanning over 30 years, Neurologist and Researcher, William Howlett reflects on the on-going HIV epidemic, from the first documented case to the situation today.

David Rutagwera: Focusing on saving the kids (23.07.2018)

CIH PhD Candidate, David Rutagwera, aims to reduce infections caused by HIV shed in breastmilk to as close to 0% as possible, so that every child can begin life without the HIV+ burden.

Josephine Tumuhamye: Reducing the Neonatal Mortality Rate (23.07.2018)

PhD candidate Josephine Tumuhamye uses her laboratory skills to study how mothers might be implicated in neonatal infections.

William Howlett – Humanitarian and Global Health specialist (23.07.2018)

William Howlett is a Visiting Researcher at CIH. Based in northern Tanzania for much of his medical and research career, he is renowned for his commitment and dedication to improving health in Tanzania, and beyond.

Translating academic ethics to real world practice (09.07.2018)

How can we secure that decision makers in health are being held accountable for how they prioritize – also to those who are negatively affected by the decisions made? A newly published paper in International Journal of Health Policy and Management presents a checklist to ensure legitimate stakeholder participation in healthcare decisions.

Gruppebilde av seminardeltakerne underveis i seminaret.

Having the Municipalities of Bærum and Bergen on board (29.06.2018)

SEFAS has started our new RCN-financed Project LIVE@Home.Path aimed at improving the quality of time spend at home for persons with dementia.

Bilde av SEFAS' leder og eldreministerens på sistnevntes kontor

Minister for the Elderly and Public Health asks SEFAS for input (29.06.2018)

The Minister wanted our views on how to improve palliative care for the elderly and people with dementia.

A Second 5 Years! (27.06.2018)

CISMAC will continue as a Centre of Excellence for another 5 years!

UiB Magazine 2018/2019 (21.06.2018)

The latest English language UiB Magazine is now published with input from IGS, CIH and CISMAC!

New Doctorate at the Department of Clinical Dentistry (19.06.2018)

Monday 18th of June Ahmad Rashad defended his doctoral dissertation “Wood-Based Nanocellulose Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications”.

Ole Frithjof Norheim receiving the award

Awarded research group of the year! (18.06.2018)

The Global Health Priorities Research Group was awarded research group of the year by the Faculty of Medicine at UiB.

Andrey and Gayanna standing in front of their posters.

Guest students from Armenia in oral pathology project (14.06.2018)

Currently UiB/CCBIO have two PhD guest students from Armenia within a collaboration project promoting oral pathology and research (Eurasia program).

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