News archive for Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Mental health and child development in societies of change (28.09.2017)

One of the courses in the Bergen Summer Research School was arranged by the global mental health research group.

Meet Some Capacity Builders (26.09.2017)

Five «students» been selected to take part in the capacity-building project funded by the Gates Foundation. Here we meet Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome.

It’s unfair - not everybody who is sick in Ethiopia gets medicine! (26.09.2017)

Researchers from the Global Priorities research group and the Gates project have prepared an activity to help Norwegian 7th graders in Bergen understand global health inequalities.

A Call to World Leaders – National and International – Who Support Access to Safe Abortion from the International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion (20.09.2017)

MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT FOR 28 SEPTEMBER! The women's movement internationally has celebrated 28 September as a day of action for the right to safe abortion since 1990. Join us this year.

Pertinent and Innovative MOOC (18.09.2017)

UiB’s highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Occupational Health in Developing Countries”.

BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)

New TB test (15.09.2017)

CIH researcher, Tehmina Mustafa, has developed a new robust, rapid, sensitive, and specific test for TB, implementable in low-resource settings!

Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (15.09.2017)

The 2016 Global Burden of Disease Study has been published as a special edition in the Lancet, and in a accompanying podcast you can listen to professor Ole Frithjof Norheim discussing Ethiopia's path towards the SDGs.

From the women's Ashenda Festival in Mekelle August each year.

Gendering reproduction and fertility control in Ethiopia (15.09.2017)

The SAFEZT project invites abstracts for panel 1101 at the 20th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, 2018.