News archive for Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Global Health Conference in Bergen (28.04.2016)

Our research group participated in the Global Health Conference in Bergen, entitled "Norwegian Global Health Networks with Impact". Find posters and pictures here.

Associate professor Johansson comments on new article on mental health in the New York Times (25.04.2016)

New Disease Control Priorities Volumes released (25.04.2016)

Associate professor Kjell Arne Johansson has contributed to two new volumes on the important project Disease Control Priorities. In the new volumes just released, world leading experts provide new insight to the literature on investments in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (Volume two) and on Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders (Volume four).

When is the worst time to die? (18.04.2016)

The badness of death and its possible implications for priority setting in global health is the subject in a new article by PhD-candidate Carl Tollef Solberg from the Global Health Priorities Group and Associate Professor Espen Gamlund. In the article just published in BMC Medical Ethics they present possibly the first systematic discussion on philosophical considerations of the badness of death... Read more

Presentations at the World Congress for Neurorehabilitation in Philadelphia (15.04.2016)

The Physiotherapy Research Group participates at the WCNR in Philadelphia, 10 - 13th May, 2016.

February: Jovita Amurwon PhD of the Month (11.04.2016)

Jovita Amurwon is the PhD candidate of the Month at Centre for International Health!

Sudha Basnet and her husband Suman Basnet

April: Sudha Basnet PhD-candidate of the Month (11.04.2016)

Sudha Basnet is PhD of the Month at Centre for International Health!

VIRTUES trial patient recruitment completed (11.04.2016)

A new milestone reached: 120 patients have been included