Global Health

Innspillsmøte om porteføljeplan for demokrati og global utvikling 8. januar 2025

Forskningsrådet inviterer til innspillsmøte om porteføljeplan for demokrati og global utvikling.

Innspillsmøtet vil finne sted 8 januar kl. 10.30-11.30. I møtet vil mål, prioriteringer og tiltak i utkastet til porteføljeplan bli gjennomgått. Målet er å følge opp Langtidsplan for forskning og høyere utdanning, Forskningsrådets målsetning og strategi.

Ny utlysning: Forprosjekter innenfor global helse

Forskningsrådet lyser ut midler til forskningsmiljøer som ønsker å videreutvikle eller etablere nye likeverdige partnerskap med samarbeidspartnere i lav- eller lavere mellominntektsland, med sikte på å søke midler gjennom utlysningen av Kompetanse- og samarbeidsprosjekt innenfor global helse i 2025.

GLOBAL HEALTH DAY 2023 in Trondheim

Leaving no one behind
- Global surgery - a neglected part of the health care system?
- Who lags behind in the work to reach the SDG?

18,5 millioner til forskningsprosjekt i Nepal

FHI fikk 21. mars 2023 innvilget 18.5 millioner kroner til et forskningsprosjekt på ikke-smittsomme sykdommer (NCD) i Nepal. Søknaden er utviklet sammen med våre partnere i Nepal og Australia, og involverer mange av FHIs ansatte.

Launch of a report - Seminar: Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage

Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting, the World Bank and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in partnership with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation and the University of Oslo welcome you to a discussion on the key findings and policy implications of the report, “Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage."

Bergen Summer Research School, apply before 15.Feb

Childhood: Nurturing care for building the future Bergen Summer Research School is now accepting applications from PhD students.

Call for proposals for organised sessions

The 13th edition of the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) will be held in the Netherlands, Utrecht, on 20 – 23 November 2023. The overarching theme is Planetary health, focusing on all aspects related to planetary health including global health and tropical medicine.
Deadline for submission of an organised session: 19 Feb 2023

New Sustainable Health Unit at UiO

There is an interdisciplinary commitment to education and research at the Faculty of Medicine (MED) at UiO. The new unit from 1.1.2023 will be a knowledge cluster comprised of the existing units Centre for Global Health, Centre for Sustainability in Health Education (SHE) and a new Pandemic Centre.

GSK globalt har nå lansert Global Health Africa Open Lab

GSK globalt har nå lansert "Global Health Africa Open Lab”, hvor de inviterer forskere basert i Afrika til å søke om forskningsstøtte/utviklingsprogram med fokus på infeksjonssykdommer.

New call from The Research Council of Norway, deadline 8th February 2023

Funding is available for research on health improvements for vulnerable populations in low and lower-middle income countries (LLMICs). The research must be relevant to Sustainable Development Goal 3 “Good health for all” and its targets.

Global Health Norway Conference 2022 - 25 Nov

Climate change and global health - emphasize on working and life conditions

Date: November 25, 2022
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (CET)
Venue: Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Pilestredet 46, Oslo, Norway (Physical and Stream)

Global Health Competencies by Global Health Norway Working Group

Competencies should take into account the needs of the professionals for whom they are developed. However, there is a need to think beyond the needs of local trainees and reflect on broader implications in different settings when developing global health competencies. Future work also needs to take into consideration implementation and evaluation aspects of these competencies.

NUNAMED 2022 – a conference on Greenlandic health and medicine

11th NUNAMED Movement in Health - Culture, health and a good life

NUNAMED is for all researchers and health care persons with an active interest in Greenlandic Health Research and takes place in Nuuk on Sep. 30 – Oct. 2, 2022.

Call for proposals: A life course approach to common NCD risk factor prevention and reduction

I desember ble utlysningen av midler til forskning på ikke-smittsomme sykdommer aktiv på forskningsrådet og GACD sine nettsider:

A life course approach to common NCD risk factor prevention and reduction (forskningsradet.no)

Reducing harms of domestic violence during pregnancy in Nepal

The ADVANCE project addresses domestic violence, and the significant health risks it poses to women and their unborn infants in pregnancy. The project has now been awarded funding from the FRIPRO research programme for a second phase, with the aim of ensuring that sustainable and evidence-based changes can be made to antenatal care in Nepal.

Received prestigious award for best PhD dissertation in African Studies

Jacinta Victoria S. Muinde, Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Institute of Health and Society at UiO has been awarded the ASAUK (African Studies Association of the UK) Audrey Richards Prize 2020 for the best PhD dissertation in African Studies.

Looking at the Interaction Between People, Animals and the Environment

Scientists from all over the world gathered for the first meeting of the Lancet One Health Commission.

Opprinnelsesland påvirker risiko for dødfødsel

Hver fjerde kvinne som føder i Norge kommer fra et annet land. Blant disse er det kvinner fra Pakistan og Sri Lanka som har størst risiko for dødfødsel.

Når er det verst å dø?

Espen Gamlund og Carl Tollef Solberg i samtale med Mathias Barra om når det er verst å dø, og relevansen for globale helseprioriteringer.

Commission vs. independent research – are there differences?

Katerini Storeng & Jennifer Palmer write on when ethics and politics collide in donor-funded global health research.

Tuberkulose: fortvilelsens sykdom

Tuberkulose kan både forebygges og behandles. Likevel er den en av verdens ti vanligste dødsårsaker.

Oslo Hub meeting for Women in Global Health

Celebrating the recent Lancet issue on 'Advancing women in global health' and planing next steps and initiatives of the Women in Global Health Norway platform.

En æresdoktor for fremtiden

En tydelig stemme for solidaritet i en verden hvor goder fortsatt fordeles svært ulikt, og hvor helse avhenger av politiske føringer.

Addressing misconceptions about migration and health

The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: The health of a world on the move.

Popular science dissemination workshop i Tromsø

Centre for Arctic and Global Health and the Norwegian Research School of Global Health invite to a two-day workshop (in English) about science dissemination for PhD students.

Millions to new centre for ethics and priority setting

The research group, Global Health Priorities, has become the research centre BCEPS, with support from Bergen Research Foundation, Norad, UiB and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Global Mental Health Day 2018

Report from Global Mental Health Day 28th November 2018 at Professorboligen, this year a special focus on perinatal mental health.

New network on 'Women in Global Health'

The Women in Global Health Norway (WGH Norway) was launched with an impressive academic programme.

Protecting children – the next HIV generation

Progress in treating the AIDS / HIV epidemic has been made, but there is still no cure, and new generations are being infected.

Improving neonatal care

CISMAC, the Centre of Excellence in Intervention Science for Maternal and Child Health, has a new project in its portfolio, NeoSupra - Neonatal Supraglottic Airway Trial, being undertaken in Uganda.

Synergies between universal health coverage, health security and health promotion

Camilla Stoltenberg and Trygve Ottersen, two directors at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, are members of The Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security and health promotion.

Lancet correspondence article on Women in Global Health Germany

The Women in Global Health is a global network striving to achieve gender equality within Global Health leadership. Its German Chapter has recently published a Lancet correspondence article describing the network.

Reflections on the HIV Epidemic in northern Tanzania

In 3 filmed interviews spanning over 30 years, Neurologist and Researcher, William Howlett reflects on the on-going HIV epidemic, from the first documented case to the situation today.

Hjertelig utdanningssamarbeid over landegrensene

Hvordan kan økt utdanningssamarbeid over landegrensene bidra til å finne årsaken til den høye dødeligheten knyttet til hjerte- og karsykdom i Russland?

Global Health research featured in UiB's annual magazine

The latest English language UiB Magazine is now published with input from Global Health research at UiB!

Pili: Telling the real-life stories behind the research

Researcher and film producer Sophie Harman shows us a different way of doing science communication with her work on the film “Pili”.

Country in Focus: Malawi

Malawi in the south eastern part of Africa, with a population of about 19 million, has a number of challenges related to health. Global health researchers are working on projects covering a number of topics issues from malaria to health priorities, digitalisation and more.

Testing prolonged Malaria Medicine in Malawi

Professor Bjarne Robberstad at the University of Bergen is leading a project that tries to find out if preventive malaria treatment after hospitalization can save the lives of children.

Better information supports better health!

Digitalising health information makes health data more easily accessible. This, in turn, makes it possible for governments to more optimally manage resources, whether in terms of health personnel or medications.

Strengthening health priority in Ethiopia with Gates-Millions

A grant of 3 million US dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is enabling Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim and his research group at UiB to teach health priorities to Ethiopian students.

Student article on Norway's role during Ebola wins prize

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallé won the prize for best student article ("Ordningsprisen") in 2017, awarded by the Scandinavian-language journal Internasjonal Politikk.

Midwifery in Rural Afghanistan

Two researchers from Bergen were involved in a project evaluating women´s perception, utilization and experience of a professional midwifery service in rural Afghanistan in the time around childbirth.

Tessa Richards: Solidarity in a cold climate

Journalist Tessa Richards has written a commentary on The symposium "Exploring Global Health in the Arctic" in Tromsø.

Project on maternity care for migrant women wins research grant

The Norwegian Research Council has granted 12,7 million NOK to The MIPREG Project: Closing the Gaps in Maternity Care to Migrant Women in Norway.

Funding opportunities for global health researchers in Horizon 2020

Call texts for Norwegian researchers in global health in Horizon 2020 are now published.

Network for social science in Norwegian global health research

There are many researchers within the social sciences and humanities based in Norway who share an interest in global health, but we are spread across many disciplines and institutions. You are therefore invited to join a new network for social sciences within Norwegian global health research.

Promoting Child Development

The SCALE-8 project in Pakistan examines the impact of early nutrition and stimulation interventions on school-age children.

East-to-west cooperation in global health

The notion global health traditionally emphasizes a north-to-south perspective. At the University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, the east-to-west aspect is equally important, with Russia as a main focus.

Global health article series

"Global Health in the Era of Agenda 2030" is an ongoing article series in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, launched by Centre for Global Health, UiO, and Norad.

Ruth Prince to receive prestigious ERC Starting Grant

Ruth Prince is one of six researchers in Norway who will receive one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants awarded this year. The project is an anthropological study that will critically explore moves towards Universal Health Coverage by conducting research among policy-makers, bureaucrats and citizens in three African countries.

Prime minister to speak at SDG conference in Bergen

Prime Minister Erna Solberg is one of the keynote speakers at the a conference on the role of Norwegian universities in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8-9 February 2018 at the University of Bergen. Solberg is one of 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Advocates.

Interview: Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy has always had a desire to use her education to do something meaningful and to help others. Now she leads the Zambian based project RISE, aiming to reduce teenage pregnancies.

Research

Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research

Network for social science

Norwegian Research School of Global Health

Research Articles