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Medieval leprosy – in retrospect (23.06.2021)

How do we interpret past pandemics? A recent book chapter examines how medieval leprosy was reinterpreted and reinvented for the modern world.

First joint article from the Pandemic Centre published (03.06.2021)

The first joint article from the Pandemic Centre as a unit has now been published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

Norway: Legal Response to Covid-19 (28.04.2021)

Professor Eirik Holmøyvik is lead author together with Benedikte Moltumyr Høgberg and Christoffer Conrad Eriksen from the University in Oslo of the article "Norway: Legal Response to Covid-19" in "The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19".

The covid-19 pandemic: A watershed in the development of digital politics (08.04.2021)

Associate professor at UiB, Kjetil Rommetveit, has received funding from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to study contact tracing under covid-19 as digital politics.

Creating trust through pandemic-rhetoric (18.03.2021)

How does the health-authorities choose to communicate when the world is experiencing a global crisis? This will be the main topic in a new rhetoric-study with researchers from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

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