The Global Health Inspiration Day will include networking opportunities, panels and both in-depth and brief presentations on a broad range of global health topics.
The event is designed for students, researchers and clinicians at the University of Oslo and the University hospitals with an interest in global health research –ranging from infectious diseases, digital health, migrant health, nutrition and health systems and policy, to public health history and anthropology.
Global Health Inspiration Day is a showcase for the research, training and outreach in global health undertaken across the University of Oslo. The goal of the Global Health Inspiration Day is to feature the rich diversity of the global health work being done within the different Signatory Themes across various departments at University of Oslo.
We are very proud to present Professor Till Bärnighausen as our special guest of honor. Professor Bärnighausen is Alexander von Humboldt University Professor and Director of the Institute of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is also Adjunct Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty Member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; and Senior Faculty at the Wellcome Trust's Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa. His research focuses on establishing the causal impact of global health interventions on population health, social and economic outcomes. In particular, he works on large-scale population health interventions for HIV, diabetes, hypertension, and vaccine-preventable diseases.
Please register for the event (as we are serving food and drinks)
Program
Time | Title | Signatory Theme | Speakers |
08:30 |
Morning coffee |
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09:00 | Welcome | Andrea S. Winkler - Director, Centre for Global Health & Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo | |
09:05 |
The Impact of Interventions on Health and Social Welfare |
Keynote lecture and Q&A |
Till Bärnighausen - Professor, Alexander von Humboldt Professor & Director, Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg & Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
10:00 |
Women and entrepreneurship within a global health context |
Global Digital Health |
Christine Holst - Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo Wisam A. Mansour - Advisor Digital Entrepreneurship, Basic Internet Foundation |
Capacity building in the Global South | Kristin Braa - Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo | ||
10:30 |
Implementation of the IOM courses for employees in Norway that have first contact with asylum seekers and refugees | Migrant Health and Social Inequalities |
Charlott Nordström -The Norwegian Centre for Migration and Minority Health (NAKMI) |
11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:15 |
Newborn Care, Nutrition and Growth of newly borns in Southern Africa | Global Paediatrics | Britt Nakstad - Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo |
11:30 |
MIPREG study, migrant pregnant women in Norway |
Sexual & Reproductive Health |
Johanne Sundby - Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo |
12:00 | Q&A | ||
12:15 |
Lunch | ||
13:00 |
Global nutrition - current issues and research possibilities
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Global Nutrition | Nanna Lien - Professor, Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo |
13:30 |
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Contemporary history and anthropology of Global Health |
Christoph Gradmann - Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo |
Policy and practice: Are legal, health care and educational systems friendly to survivors of child sexual abuse? | Cynthia Wangamati - Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo | ||
What if health researchers are actually wrong? | Oliver Mutanga- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo | ||
Civil society participation within global public private partnerships for health |
Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée - Researcher, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo Katerini Storeng - Associate Professor, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo |
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14:00 |
The Zika outbreak in Brazil: An unequal burden |
Infectious Diseases |
Susanne Skråning - Msc. International Community Health |
14:10 | What can human medicin do against antibiotic resistance? The Nordic perspective |
Anne Ma Dyrhol-Riise - Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Oslo Dag Berild - Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Oslo |
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14:40 | Coffee break | ||
15:00 |
AMR - a One Health Approach |
One Health |
Kristian Rødland - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo |
15:15 | Establishing a sustainable neurosurgical service in Malawi | Global Surgery |
Camilla Aukrust - Stud. Master of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo & Nurse, Department of Neurosurgery, Oslo University Hospital Hedda Wegger - Nurse, Department of Neurosurgery, Oslo University Hospital |
15:30 | Association between use of palm- vs peanut oil and risk factors for non-communicable diseases in Yangon Region, Myanmar | NCD | Wai Phyo Aung - Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo |
Prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases in Somaliland: A cross-sectional study | Soheir Hassan - Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo | ||
16:00 | Closing remarks |
Andrea S. Winkler - Director, Centre for Global Health & Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo |