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MA. Rannveig Svendby at Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Understanding masculinity and the corporeal through feminist theories of embodiment and materiality".

M.Sc. Kjersti Stormark Rabanal at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis "Cardiovascular disease and ethnicity - Focus on the high risk of CVD among South Asians living in Norway and New Zealand" for the degree of PhD.

M.Sc. Kjersti Stormark Rabanal at Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "CVD risk prediction - past, present and future".

Master Ingrid Nyborg at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “User participation among older hospitalized people and their relatives; a qualitative case‐oriented study” for the degree of PhD.

Master Ingrid Nyborg at Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Etiske utfordringer i forskning på sårbare eldre pasienter."

M.Phil. Gudrun Maria Waaler Bjørnelv at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis Health Care Utilization, Costs and Benefits of Treatments in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer for the degree of PhD.

M.Phil. Gudrun Maria Waaler Bjørnelv at Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Generic versus disease-specific cancer outcome measures in economic evaluations".

MPhil Søren Toksvig Klitkou at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis "Essays on socioeconomic health inequalities within a setting of specialist health care" for the degree of PhD.

MPhil Søren Toksvig Klitkou at Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Should researchers provide measures of statistical uncertainty (e.g., standard errors and confidence intervals) when analyzing data from nationwide population registers? What do such measures represent when the population has been enumerated rather than sampled".

M.Phil. Camilla Beck Olsen at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis "The Impact of Financial Incentives on Demand and Supply of Health Care Services in Norway: Empirical Studies on co-payments and activity-based hospital financing" for the degree of PhD.

M.Phil. Camilla Beck Olsen at Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "The scope for co-payments in primary care and secondary care".

Roundtable discussion on digital health to prepare inputs for the UN High-level Panel on Digital Inclusion.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 is awarded to Nadia Murad and Dr. Denis Mukwege for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. To honor and celebrate this important acknowledgement, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Centre for Global Health at UiO are co-hosting a seminar on sexual violence as a weapon of war, as a part of the Oslo Peace Days.

MD Charlotte von der Lippe at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Not just a carrier – A qualitative study of psychosocial aspects of women's experiences of living with an X-linked disorder" for the degree of PhD.

MD Charlotte von der Lippe at the Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Revideringsforslagene i Bioteknologiloven tar til orde for en differensiering av genetisk veiledning. I lys av moderne genteknologiske metoder, hvordan kan morgendagens genetisk veiledning se ut?"

Cand.med. Regine Eva Annica Barlinn at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis Cytomegalovirus and parvovirus B19 infections in pregnant women in Norway; epidemiology, diagnosis and outcome for the degree of PhD.

Cand.med. Regine Eva Annica Barlinn at Institute of Health and Society will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Zika virus epidemien i 2016 fra et internasjonalt og et nordisk perspektiv.

The Centre for Global Health is pleased to welcome you to the Global Mental Health Day at the University of Oslo.

Please be welcome to the launch of Women in Global Health Norway, a national chapter of the global movement Women in Global Health and a platform to connect, further strengthen and advocate for gender equality in global health within academia, public and private sectors.

Migration conference in Bergen aiming at increased dialog between disciplines and actors within the field of migration health in Norway.  

This meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal will bring together practitioners, researchers, and experts from diverse traditions to discuss the implications of religious and spiritual teachings for mental health theory, policy, and practice. The aim is to advance mental health programs in Nepal and globally in ways that are informed by local cultural knowledge, values and traditions.

Honorary guest and speaker: Holberg Prize Winner and Professor Julia Kristeva, Université Paris Diderot. Key note speakers:  Professor Marie Rose Moro, Université Paris Descartes, Professor Brian Hurwitz, King's College London and Professor Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford.

Roundtable discussion chaired by Brandy Schillace, Editor-in-chief of BMJ’s Medical Humanities Journal (London). Commentary to Julia Kristeva's lecture by Prof. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University).

In the current global effort to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage (UHC), maternity care is squarely in the center. Since the year 2000 coverage of facility delivery and skilled birth attendance increased, while the maternal mortality ratio decreased, at rates slower than hoped for, partially because of inadequate quality of care.

The Centre for Global Health is pleased to announce the Global Health Inspiration Day, with an opening address to motivate us all; Professor Till Bärnighausen. The event offers a unique networking opportunity for students, researchers and clinicians from the University of Oslo and the University hospitals.