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The Lancet One Health Commission at UiO welcomes you to join the second webinar part of the One Health - Reconnecting for Our Future series with a conversation between Carlos Gonçalo das Neves and Peter Daszak about the dynamics of pandemics.

How are sexual and reproductive health and rights affected during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join this discussion featuring international human rights lawyer and Chief Executive of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM), Eszter Kismödi.

Women in Global Health Chapters in Sweden, Norway, Germany and Finland kindly invite you to a joint seminar on “Europe’s Strategy to Fight COVID-19: Reflections on Different Response Strategies and the Need for a Gender Sensitive Approach” on the 26th of May from 12:00-13:30 CET.

The Centre for Global Health at UiO is pleased to announce a webinar part of the Global Health and the Pandemic webinar series with Professors Ruth Prince and Paul Wenzel Geissler as they discuss their experiences while in Kenya as the COVID-19 pandemic started to unfold.

Unfortunately, we have received notice that the 2020 World Health Summit Regional Meeting in Kampala, Uganda, has been postponed.

The Lancet One Health Commission at UiO is pleased to announce a conversation between the Co-chairs of the Commission, Professor Andrea S. Winkler and Dr. John Amuasi, about One Health and its relevance for pandemics and health security. This is the very first webinar part of the One Health - Reconnecting for Our Future webinar series.

Unfortunately, we have received notice that the 2020 World Health Summit Regional Meeting in Kampala, Uganda, has been postponed.

The Centre for Global Health at UiO is pleased to announce a webinar style talk between Professor Andrea S. Winkler and Dr. Chris Walzer in a conversation on how to create the conditions to minimize the risk for future pandemics.

As directed by the University of Oslo in order to accommodate measures for prevention of the coronavirus infection, the Centre for Global Health has cancelled events until April 14, 2020.

Global Health Trondheim, NTNU will host speakers for a Women in Global Health (WGH) Norway seminar who will share their experiences with participating in events or internships related to global health. The aim is to provide an overview of several options available nationally and internationally.

Join a discussion on the impact of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for hidden and vulnerable populations in post-conflict situations. It will focus on women exposed to sexual violence during war and conflict and children born as a consequence of the assault and children born of war in general.

Join us for the screening of "Resistance Fighters" during the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival in Oslo on February 25th. Following the film screening, a panel debate with field experts on antibiotic resistance will discuss this global epidemic. 

What does a career in global health look like? There are many opportunities and possible actors to work with, so the road ahead is not always clear. We have invited two speakers to talk about their work in global health. 

Join us in honouring Tore Godal's life achievements in global vaccination and immunization as he receives the King's Medal of Merit in Oslo on 23 November 2019.

Launch of Norway’s strategy “Better Health, Better Lives - Combating Non-Communicable diseases in the Context of Norwegian Development Policy 2020-2024." The Gathering for The Future Of Global Health is co-organized by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Care Services and the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo. 

The nature and scale of the global response to climate change will be the determining factor in shaping the health of the global population for centuries to come. Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years of gains for public health, intensifying heatwaves and extreme weather events, worsening flood and drought, altering the spread of infectious diseases, and exacerbating poverty and mental ill health. The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change exists to monitor this transition from threat to opportunity, and to identify how the response to climate change can bring immense benefits to global health.

The Centre for Global Health is leading a debate in the 6th German-African Healthcare Forum, co-organized by German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein) and the German Health Alliance. 

Women in Global Health is an organization, built on a global movement that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership. The German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein), GHA – German Health Alliance and Women in Global Health Norway with the support of EZ-Scout, are pleased to host a breakfast event to introduce Women in Global Health and provide updates of current news.

The Centre for Global Health is organizing a lunch panel at the World Health Summit 2019, exploring different views on One Health with a variety of experts in the field. One Health is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and is intrinsically inter- and trans-disciplinary.

The Centre for Global Health is organizing a high-level panel debate at the World Health Summit 2019. We are harnessing the long-standing and continued collaboration in Global Health between Germany, Norway and Ghana and will explore whether One Health has the potential of becoming an accelerator to the Global Action Plan. 

The Centre for Global Health is pleased to announce Global Health Inspiration Days 2019, offering a unique networking opportunity for students, researchers and clinicians as well as the policy community at large. The 16 September is co-organized with Boston University and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

The Global Health Centre (GHC) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the Norwegian think tank Agenda, in association with the Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo (CGH/UiO), would like to cordially invite you to a high-level policy dialogue on 12 September 2019 from 09:00 to 10.30 (breakfast is served from 08:30-09:00).

PhD workshop on academic writing with Lynn P. Nygaard. 

The theme of this years Global Mental Health Day is 'Global Psychiatry and Neurology - the new number one burden of disease'. The seminar will feature eminent experts from Asia, Latin America and Europe.