2018

Report from PRIO seminar on Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: Reflections on the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, 11 December 2018

As a part of the Oslo Peace Week 2018, the Centre for Global Health co-hosted a dinner seminar on Tuesday 11 December, reflecting on Women, Health, Peace and Prosperity.

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

The Women in Global Health Norway (WGH Norway) was launched on November 26th, 2018 in Oslo with an impressive academic programme followed by an informal reception. The newly established platform is hosted by the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo (UiO).

On the 29^th-30^th October 2018, more than 100 participants from 12 different countries gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal for the International Conference on Culture and Global Mental Health: Culture, Spirituality and Mental Health.

Research project on use and misuse of cesarean section in low-resource setting receives 992.000 NOK in funding from Vestre Viken.

How does infrastructure and health care practises interact? Fanny Chabrol gave a lecture on her latest research on this question from the Kibong'oto hospital in Tanzania. 

We congratulate the Global Financing Facility (GFF), on their well executed event this week in Oslo.

Global health research groups now have the opportunity to apply for project development support from the RELIGHT programme. This is a great chance for qualified groups to position themselves for larger grant schemes. NEW DEADLINE 28. February 2019.

The Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo had the pleasure to organise its 2^nd annual Global Health Inspiration Day on the 25^th of September 2018.

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.

The Centre for Global Health joined the UiO boat at Arendalsuka with a strong team of researchers from Institute of Health and Society.

Targeted treatment could be a possible solution to antimicrobial resistance, says Kristian Rødland at Centre for Global Health (CGH)

Guide to Arendalsuka with a twist of Global Health!

The Centre for Global Health had the pleasure of hosting the visits of senior research staff from our strategic partner Jimma University, Dean Dr. Legese Chelkeba and Dr. Gudina Terefe, who were in Oslo to present at the 2nd Annual Jimma Seminar last week.

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

On the 10-11 of April the Centre for Global Health co-hosted the annual Norwegian Global Health Conference in Oslo. This years theme, 'Health for all revisited' was explored through presentations, panel sessions, key-note speakers and posters.

More than 25 posters was presented at the 2018 Norwegian Global Health Conference  in the postersession competition. The prize for 'Best poster' and a token of 10.000 NOK was given to Bezawit Temesgen Sima, PhD student at University of Oslo. 

The Centre for Global Health would like to congratulate our own Ekaterina Bogatyreva with her recent publication for the WHO - the multicountry meeting report on "Strengthening national health research systems: implementation of the Action Plan to Strengthen the Use of Evidence, Information and Research for Policy-making in the WHO European Region (2017)".

The writing of scientific research papers is an essential part of being a Ph.D. student and a researcher within the field of Global Health. But how do you write good scientific papers and how do editors work with scientists of submitted papers? At this year's National PhD Conference in Global Health we had the opportunity to learn from one of the best within the field, Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief at The Lancet.

The year 2017 was a remarkable year for the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo and we are therefore happy to share our annual report. 

The history of global health has several success stories, but very few with such positive rippling effects for the global community as the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas White. On the 12th of March, their story was told in the film Bending the Arc as part of the Human Rights, Human Wrongs film festival in Oslo, followed by an engaging panel discussion organised by the Centre for Global Health, UiO.

Centre for Global Health congratulates Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée on winning the prize for best student article (Ordningsprisen) in 2017, for his article about Norway's role during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The Norwegian Research School of Global Health (NRSGH), a network for young norwegian-trained researchers in global health, has launched their new blog this week. 

The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (Tidsskriftet) has published two new articles in the Norad and the Centre for Global Health article series.