News archive for Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)

Digital summer research school.

Going digital: Norway’s 4th National PhD conference in Global Health (29.09.2020)

The special circumstances around 2020 led to the annual PhD conference from the Norwegian Research School of Global Health being first postponed and then transformed to an online conference.

Epidemiologic considerations around a case-control study of oxytocin (mis?)use and baby survival. (21.09.2020)

A team of researchers from CISMAC (see side bar) have been involved in a nested, case-control study. The study is a good example of researcher curiosity in action.

Bergen School of Global Studies_Health Resource Allocation Game-4K

Making your own health system – it is not as easy as it might look! (10.09.2020)

What if it was up to you to restore the health system to a war-ravaged country that has finally achieved peace? How would you prioritise and allocate resources within a limited budget? What infrastructures would you build and where? What programmes would you implement?

In conversation with Paul Farmer (03.09.2020)

Partners In Health founder Paul Farmer was an inspiring virtual visitor at last week's annual seminar of the Section for Ethics and Health Economics (Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care).

Meaning to do good, but … (01.09.2020)

The Centre for Health Research and Development at the Society for Applied Studies in New Delhi undertook a large randomized controlled trial in India together with CISMAC researchers and the Haryana government to estimate the effect of the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses strategy (IMNCI).

An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation (01.09.2020)

BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim contributes to a paper in Science Magazine proposing an ethical framework for global COVID-19 vaccine allocation.