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ECTMIH brings together scientists and experts from Europe and from all over the world, including many delegates from low and middle income countries. Please join the congress  from October 16th to 20th, 2017.

The Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo, McGill University in Canada and Tribhuvan University in Nepal welcome you to a two-day course on Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Professor Anne-Emanuelle Birn’s research explores the history, politics, and political economy of international/global health.The talk will examine the planning and repercussions of WHO's International Conference on Primary Health Care in 1978, Alma-Ata in the context of Soviet political and health developments, drawing from Soviet and Kazakh sources, including oral history interviews with several key protagonists.

As a follow up of the G20 summit, that took place in July 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo together with Norad (the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) and CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) is co-organizing a conference on two highly relevant topics: Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) and Emerging/Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID). The former has also been coined “poverty-related diseases” and the latter plays a major role in the context of Global Health Preparedness.

Global health topics intersect with many areas of disaster risk reduction and disaster response. The Norwegian Institute for Public Health and Centre for Global Health at the UiO welcome you to attend the second seminar on disaster diplomacy research by Ilan Kelman. This presentation explores a research and policy agenda for viewing global health from a disaster diplomacy perspective.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) left us with an unfinished agenda for mothers, newborns and small children. The less detailed, but more comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are attempting to take us a step forward. Do they focus enough on MDG 4 & 5? 

The Centre for Global Health and Faculty of Medicine, UiO, welcome you to an inaugural seminar on the occasion of visiting colleagues from Jimma University, Ethiopia. The seminar will focus on important Ethiopian health issues such as heart disease in children, meningococcal and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The talk will focus on the relationship between measurement and mapping; continuity and rupture between colonial and postcolonial networks of global public health; and the potential for radical cartography as a form of scholarship and activism. How is global knowledge spatially constituted into the visual practices of global health. How and why are these practices of producing global health so reliant on maps, and what role do these maps play in the constitution of global health as a field of global knowledge?  

How can we most effectively organize toward health equity in the era of neoliberal austerity?

The health services in the US faces great challenges and the future is now more uncertain than for a long time. At this launch event, Obamacare-architect Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel presents his forthcoming book "Prescription for the Future".

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo (CGH) are pleased to welcome you to this first seminar in a series on Global Health and Disaster Diplomacy.

The Centre for Global Health (CGH) is pleased to invite you to an informal, smaller workshop on the Big Questions regarding Horizon 2020 - tailored for researchers with an interest in Global Health.

The Global Health & Innovation Conference (#GHIC) is the world's leading and largest global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries.

Launch of the special issue of Health Economics, Policy and Law entitled "Towards a Global Framework for Health Financing" edited by Trygve Ottersen, David Evans, Elias Mossialos, and John-Arne Røttingen.

What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and are they useful?

"If Content is King, Context is God: why human rights in health care (especially) in a poor setting?"

LSE Health & Social Care and the LSE’s Department of Social Policy announces a call for papers for the inaugural International Health Policy Conference, to be held at the LSE from 16th -19th February 2017. This unique conference seeks to bring together academics and policy-makers from a wide range of disciplines to take a multi-disciplinary approach to key health and social care issues.

"Everyone is worth Everything: how to translate human rights principles into daily patient care in maternal health in a poor setting."

The 6th workshop of the EU-funded Sci-GaIA project on “e-Infrastructures and Open Science in support of Public Health” will be held on the 8th of February 2017 at the Conference Centre of the Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.

The Centre for Global Health at the Institute of Health and Society and the Research Group on Traumatic Stress, Forced Migration and Global Mental Health at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo are organizing this symposium inviting both national and international persons devoted to this field. Please register by December 3 due to lunch orders.

Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Outcomes Features of the Latest Emerging Infectious Pathogen

Open guest lecture by Neuroepidemiologist Dr. James J. Sejvar, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Lecture 14:00-15:30. Refreshments served and a chance for networking 15:30-16:00. Please register here

3rd GHNGN Next Generation Global Health Forum. More information about the conference.

This first work meeting with researchers from Scandinavia who work on reproductive health and migration issues emerges from a wish to establish a Nordic forum for discussion and exchange of ideas. The meeting is a closed event.

The meeting is open to the public and we invite representatives of the government, international organisations, civil society, think tanks and private sector to join the discussion. Please register by 30 August due to limited number of seats and serving of lunch.