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The three RELIGHT – Research ExceLlence and Innovation in Global HealTh research groups have been working hard over the past year to advance their global health agendas. Take a look into their recent activities and their plans moving forward.
The Centre for Global Health (CGH) has a new leadership team for 2020-2022 effective as of May 1st, 2020.
In honor of Earth Day 2020 and the urgent need to protect nature and our health, the Centre for Global Health, UiO is proud to announce our membership with the Planetary Health Alliance.
In 2020, World Health Day focuses on the vital role played by nurses and midwives in providing health care around the world and call for strengthening the nursing and midwifery workforce.
The Solidarity Trial, initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and sponsored by Oslo University Hospital (OUS) in Norway, enrolled its first patients in this megatrial comparing the safety and effectiveness of four therapy combinations against COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious global health emergency and we can't afford to ignore women's expertise and perspectives in our public health response. Join in supporting equitable representation in global health decision-making.
On the 6th of February, Dr. Mamady Cham presented a seminar on hospital management in The Gambia to a group of faculty and students at the auditorium in Frederik Holsts hus.
– We have to increase the awareness of what consent is, says Wangamati, senior lecturer at the University of Oslo.
The Centre for Global Health (CGH) would like to welcome Ernst Kristian Rødland to the Technical Advisory Board leading the One Health Signatory Theme.
On November 22, at the Universitetets Aula (University Hall) of the University of Oslo (UiO), a gathering for the future of Global Health was co-organized by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services and supported by the Centre for Global Health, UiO.
On November 22, the Centre for Global Health (CGH) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) co-organized the Oslo launch event showcasing the 2019 Report: Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change with leading experts and specialists in the field.
The King’s Medal of Merit was awarded to Dr. Tore Godal in recognition of a lifetime achievement in immunization and global health on November 23, 2019.
The Centre for Global (CGH) at the University of Oslo (UiO) attended Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU) 10th Global Health Day.
The Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo (UiO)’s Medical Faculty is proud to announce that we have received support for the work and output of The Lancet One Health Commission from the UiO Life Science Open Call.
Acknowledging the enormous progress when it comes to polio and the Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-2023, the Global Health Centre (GHC) at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies and the Norwegian think tank, Agenda, in association with the Centre for Global Health, UiO, held a high-level policy dialogue with an expert panel.
Congratulations to the NORSE team for obtaining funding for the creation of a multidisciplinary network of scientists leveraging their efforts to develop a National One Health Resistome Surveillance System in order to monitor the development and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in the environment, the food chain, in animals and humans.
New Global Health Traveller blogpost from Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health at UiO, about his first time visiting Jimma in Ethiopia.
Professor Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance and Commissioner in the Lancet One Health Commission chaired by the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at UiO, gave a talk to a captivated multidisciplinary audience at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute in Oslo on August 28th.
The RELIGHT advisory board, an external and international board set up by the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo (UiO), has reviewed the applications for the RELIGHT call (deadline 28 February 2019). We are thrilled to present the three groups that will have the opportunity to advance their Global Health agenda through project development support from CGH over the next three years.
As one of the Centre for Global Health's Signatory Themes, One Health takes a holistic, cross and multidisciplinary view and aims to promote and improve the health of humans, animals and the environment taking into account the interdependence of different milieus. Listen to The Lancet One Health Commissioners explain the One Health approach and the plan for this Commission.
The Centre for Global Health (CGH) is hosting Global Health Inspiration Days 2019 and we are looking for PhD students to inspire the Global Health community and UiO with their research and projects. Apply today for a spot to introduce your work!
UiO welcomes visitors from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and congratulates Professor Suraj Thapa, UiO for receiving an honorary professorship.
The Centre for Global Health (CGH) is pleased to announce Elia John Mmbaga, New Associate Professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health at the Institute for Health and Society (HELSAM).
Scientists from all over the world gathered for the first meeting of the Lancet One Health Commission.
To celebrate the recent Lancet issue on 'Advancing women in global health' and to discuss the next steps and initiatives of the Women in Global Health Norway platform, the Centre for Global Health welcomed the WGH Norway participants in Oslo for an informal network meeting.