News archive for Faculty of Medicine

The Politics of Abortion (27.09.2019)

The CISMAC supported SAFEZT project has released a special issue on reproductive health and the politics of abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia, and Tanzania.

Gigantic waterfall at Iceland, and people walking into a view plateau in the middle of it.

Stimulating scientific eruptions (23.09.2019)

Iceland’s dramatic landscape served as backdrop for generating ideas and action plans for new collaborations between the University of Bergen/CCBIO and Harvard Medical School/Vascular Biology Program in a meeting August 29th to September 3rd.

Being born by Caesarian section may affect your intelligence (23.09.2019)

Researchers at the University of Bergen looked if there is a connection between the mode of delivery and the genetics of children’s intelligence.

Professor Bruce Zetter to be Honorary Doctor at the University of Bergen (20.09.2019)

The University of Bergen is appointing 10 new Honorary Doctors, one of which is Harvard Professor Bruce Zetter, very well known to the CCBIO family, both as advisor in the CCBIO Scientific Advisory Board, and through the CCBIO-VBP INTPART collaboration.

Why is it so difficult to report maternal deaths? (20.09.2019)

A thought-provoking paper by PhD candidate Andrea Melberg and colleagues underlines how the politicisation of global health initiatives affects the ways in which knowledge about important health indicators is produced.

Olga sitting on a wall with landscape in background.

Mapping oral cancer prevention in Eurasia countries (18.09.2019)

The collaboration project for education and research in oral pathology between Norway, Moldova, Belarus and Armenia is an important internationalization project financed by DIKU through the Eurasia program. Within this project, UiB/CCBIO is currently hosting a master student, Olga Golburean, a graduated dental hygienist who is taking her master degree in global health with Professor Dana Costea... Read more

collage of photos from Boston, and the 3 intern students.

Boston summer interns (18.09.2019)

This summer, CCBIO sent their second batch of students to be Boston summer interns in the CCBIO/Harvard INTPART collaboration. Read the full report from Hanna Dillekås, PhD candidate in Oddbjørn Straume’s group, Ridhima Das, PhD candidate in Dana Costea’s group, and Amalie Fagerli Tegnander, medical student affiliated to Lars A. Akslen's group, in Elisabeth Wik’s project.

Marianne Lønnebotn: Preparing for Parenthood Already in Childhood (13.09.2019)

PhD Candidate Marianne Lønnebotn is using data from large, long-term health surveys with information that extends over several generations to study how factors such as being overweight can affect the respiratory health of respondents’ offspring.