The University of Oslo Festival 2017 brought a variety of events, lectures and concerts life between the 12th and 14th of May. And in true academic spirit, it did not circumvent an enthusiastic discussion about the most pressing and challenging issues that the world is facing today – Globalisation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“There is no way we can achieve the SGDs if we leave a billion people behind” – Kofi Annan
Professor Andrea S. Winkler, the Director of the UiO Centre for Global Health, participated this week at the "Global Partners Meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases" at WHO HQ in Geneva on April 19, followed by a 3-day NTD Summit organised by Uniting to Combat, to celebrate the 5th year anniversary of the WHO Roadmap targets for NTDs and the signing of the London Declaration.
The 10th Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research took place on the 14-15 of March, hosted by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
What is a reasonable hope – and what is a fancy fairytale from politicians to their people?
Dr. Tarek Meguid, invited to Oslo by the Centre for Global Health, shared his experiences working as a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
The Centre for Global Health was honored to host Dr. Tarek Meguid from the State University of Zanzibar last week. Listen to his message on achieving health for everyone.
Application deadline is March 1, 2017.
The course is composed of two modules: a 5-week e-learning module in May-June and a 1-week on-campus module at the University of Copenhagen in mid-August. Application deadline is 1st April 2016.
The CYSTINET-Africa group, consisting of members from Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Germany and Norway, got together for a three day workshop in Tanzania last week to kickstart the project.
The University of Oslo hosted the 10-year anniversary seminar by the Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) and the Norwegian Research School of Global Health (NRSGH) at the University of Trondheim.
On the 8th of December the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the Institute of Health and Society, in collaboration with the Research Group on Traumatic Stress, Forced Migration and Global Mental Health at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo hosted a seminar highlighting the challenges and opportunities in mental health within global health.
Tenure Track Position in Cancer-Related Behavioral Interventions in the Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tenure Track Position in Global Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The aim of the Research School is to increase network activity between Ph.D.-candidates, thereby lowering the threshold to visit each other and cooperate, says Chairman Thorkild Tylleskär. –We believe that through this we will be able to facilitate for better research.
The board meeting for the Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research was hosted by the Centre for Arctic and Global Health (SAG), located at the University of Tromsø.
The world has witnessed great strides towards eradication of polio worldwide, but the job is not yet complete. New report from the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo and the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.
BERN, LONDON, GENEVA – October 24, 2016, should be a unique day in the history of polio. If all goes according to plan, it will be the last annual World Polio Day before the disease is eradicated. But now is not the time for celebration or complacency; while we know how to eliminate polio, we have not yet finished the job.
Professor Johanne Sundby has been honored with the Faculty of Medicine’s prize for excellence in the Bachelor and Master education for her very important contribution in offering high quality education to the students at the Master of International Community Health.
Does everyone deserve the world’s highest quality health tests and treatments? Is it ever ethical to provide people with less effective or more toxic care? Dr. Emanuel defends the controversial position that it can be ethical to provide less effective or more toxic treatments.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was founded on August 31 in London, at the headquarters of the Wellcome Trust, a medical charity.
The story of global polio eradication is considered the blue ribbon case for vaccine effectiveness and public health success. However, although polio is a distant memory in most of the world, it still exists in some places, causing paralysis and death in small children.
Ragnhild Beyrer, previous senior executive at the Section of International Health, visited two previous PhD students from Ethiopia April 2015.
On Friday, November 10th an open guest lecture was delivered by Dr. Said Habib Arwal, known as the First Afghan Health Hero and the father of community based health care in Afghanistan. The event was organized by the Centre for Global Health.
