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Health students' trip to Geneva written by student Janessa Sochima Aneke.

Students want to specialise in sustainable health while studying for their master's degree.

Concepts that Matter – Debating Democracy is a new Honours Certificate at University of Oslo. Application deadline is July 1, 2024.

The conference is on Medical and Legal Knowledge and the Problematic of Translation, March 6–7, 2024. Deadline for submission: December 10, 2023.

The SHE Corpus is a new resource developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education to enable students and researchers to investigate the key concepts that underpin the practice and ethos of modern medicine as well as the discourses on sustainability in the field of healthcare. 

MEDRA is an acronym for The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights on the Debate about Abortion. MEDRA is a research group in SHE with funding from UiO:Democracy.

From fall 2023, master’s students at the University of Oslo can strengthen their education with an Honours certificate in sustainable health.

Calling all students, academics, researchers and healthcare personnel in Norway! We invite you to participate in this picture competition about a world after antibiotics, an exciting opportunity to showcase your creativity and research prowess. Deadline October 20.

April 12 was a workshop day for the Sustainit unit, where employees from all three centers discussed values and exchanged interests in various projects. 

The new Master course, Politics of Sustainability in Public Health,  is a joint effort between SHE and Circle U. It caters to Master of Public Health students at UiO, as well as MA Circle U. students from various disciplines who share an interest in the political dimensions of sustainability within public health.

For the last 3 months I have been a visiting lecturer at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas.

I seek to develop a theory of political cooking, particularly in the context of solidarity kitchens operating in Serbia, situating them as a part of a larger movement happening across Europe, explains researcher Vanja Petrovic.

As the new Head of Unit of SUSTAINIT, I feel incredibly proud and privileged to launch this new initiative with such a great team. At the seminar we started the important process of defining our identity, articulating our ambition, and identifying some core dilemmas and attention points, says Prof Eivind Engebretsen.

2022 has indeed been an eventful year for SHE. Collaboration with other entities has increased, a new unit is established and grants are awarded.

Hilde O. Vandeskog has been a visiting scholar at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.

Are you a student at bachelor's or master's program at the Faculty of Medicine, and interested to work with us?

We are thrilled to share the news that two of SHE's projects have been awarded Circle U. Interdisciplinary Thematic Research Network grant.

A forthcoming book explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies, including Covid-19.

At Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), student involvement is essential for achieving the centre's sustainable education goals. Read Eivind Engebretsen and Trine Kleven's editorial on how they make this happen.

Researchers and students in India, South Korea, from Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education and Department of Informatics at University of Oslo are going to build the design and development of digital health education modules.  

Our International Advisory Board is advising us on how to bridge the gap between policy goals and educational practice. 

Eivind Engebretsen is appointed as Chair of Global Health at the European University Alliance Circle U, with the mission to explore the interface between global health and democracy. Here you can read his mission statement.

SHE is currently working with the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network on developing various projects supported by the Oslo Medical Corpus.

Elin Rosvold leads work package 2 in SHE together with Eivind Engebretsen.

Spring 2021: SHE launches a series of seminars on sustainability related to health issues in different forms.