Nyhetsarkiv for Bergen senter for etikk og prioritering (BCEPS)

The Commission is bringing together a group of international experts to facilitate a transition to climate-resilient and sustainable health systems.

In this year’s National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal, BCEPS Senior Researcher presented about priority setting of health sector interventions in the path towards UHC.

Global climate change is impacting food systems, biodiversity, and ecosystems, with major implications for health. At the recent Prince Mahidol Award Conference, BCEPS PhD candidate Anand Bhopal shared his work on pathways to low carbon healthcare.

The results are out and BCEPS is one of two centres at the University of Bergen to receive Centre of Excellence (SFF) status from the Research Council of Norway.

Epidemiology experts Kenneth Rothman, Vera Ehrenstein and Matthew Fox travelled to Bergen as visiting lecturers for the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC).

The agreement will strengthen ongoing work to improve public health in African Union (AU) member states and give more people access to basic health services.

BCEPS and Africa CDC are looking for motivated candidates to work on generating evidence for defining and implementing essential NCD Universal Health Care (UHC) packages in Africa.

Healthcare is a place of healing, but as a major polluter it is also a source of harm. In this public science lecture, BCEPS PhD candidates Anand Bhopal and Emily McLean discussed the feasibility, responsibility and ultimate desirability of healthcare decarbonisation.