About the group
We recognize that understanding and addressing the complex challenges facing the health of the planet and its inhabitants requires integration of perspectives, methods and analytical frameworks from multiple disciplines, sectors, and actors. We view the diversity within our group and among our network of partners as a significant asset. In all its endeavors, the group will strive to embed a sustainability perspective.
Our approach to sustainability in medicine and health is multidimensional, encompassing social, environmental, cultural, economic, political, legal, technological, educational, and institutional aspects.
Ongoing work
- Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence on Health, Genders and Sexualities
- Access to HIV care among key populations in Tanzania
- Building Cancer Research in Tanzania through clinical research and mentorship training
- Co-creating health-systems interventions to prevent NCDs among pregnant women in Ethiopia
- Co-creation of Home-Based Post-Partum care in Norway
- Cosmetic medicine as an example of medicalization, its practical implications, philosophy and ethics
- Covid-19 in Kenya and its impact on Maternal Health
- Decentralization of hepatitis B care in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Decolonisation in Nordic global health education
- Determinants of physical activities in settings
- Diagnosis and determinants of Kaposi's Sarcoma among HIV infected individuals in Tanzania
- Ethics in research and clinical practice
- Evaluation of a Multi-faceted Intervention to Improve Tracheostomy and Gastrostomy Care for Cancer Patients in Tanzania
- Experiences of transgender care among non-European immigrants to Norway
- Experiences with patient-accessible health records
- Fostering responsible open science in Europe
- Implementing a Surgical Skills Laboratory to Improve Surgical Outcomes for Patients with Cancer in Tanzania
- Investigating the vision of precision medicine, its underlying theoretical foundations, and epistemological uncertainty tied to the vision
- Investigation of a Novel Strategy for Early Detection of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Medically unexplained symptoms, or functional disorders, like chronic fatigue syndromes, a comprehensive medical understanding of these, and the role of medical information and philosophy in generating the problems.
- Pandemic Ethics
- Patient Navigator Education and Training Strategies to Support Cancer Survivors in Tanzania
- PrEP and mHealth among key populations in Tanzania
- Prevention of Severe Hypertensive Adverse Events during pregnancy and childbirth (PRESHA) in Tanzania
- RESTAKE: Health system and community RESilience during Covid-19 through the example of tuberculosis: A comparative mixed methods case study in TAnzania and KEnya
- Scaling up evidence-based early-life nutrition interventions for community resilience and life course health
- Strengthening doctoral education for health in Tanzania (DOCEHTA)
- Violence against women and children
Key words
Planetary Health, Global health, Health equity, Health disparities, Identities, Genders, Sexes, Sexualties, Sexual & reproductive health and rights, Quality of care, Medicalization, Infectious diseases, Non-communicable diseases, Medically unexplained symptoms, Nutrition, Physical activity, Implementation science, Co-creation, Medical futures, Emerging technologies, Technological visions and health, Biopsychosocial medicine, Research ethics, Violence against women and children, Mental health, Systems thinking