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Sune Dueholm Müller is a professor at the University of Oslo and a leading researcher in information systems. For years, he studied the intersection between information systems and healthcare. He is involved in many different projects that investigate socio-technical aspects of health information systems development and use in different organizational contexts.

"Climate variability or climate change really have negative impacts on countries in the global south. I want to dedicate a substantial part of my research time to help address those problems."

At the final conference of the European Research Council–funded EuroWARCHILD project, on May 7 2026, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin delivered a keynote that cuts to the heart of what many in Women in Global Health are grappling with: how global health, humanitarian law, and feminist politics can – and must – respond to the full spectrum of harms women face in war.

Discover key takeaways from the Centre for Pandemics and One-Health Research (P1H) annual conference at UiO. Over two days, experts across ecology, medicine, law, and governance explored multidisciplinary strategies to strengthen global pandemic preparedness.

We talked with researcher Hanne Amanda Trangerud about her PhD dissertation: «To Use or Refuse? A Study of Religious Vaccine Skepticism and its Interaction with Childhood Immunization Policies in the United States» from the Faculty of Humanities.

"My four American case studies showed how parents still use litigation, among other measures, to secure the right to refuse vaccinating their children, and that religious objections cannot always be separated from secular arguments."

On 18 March, the student representatives for the Centre for Pandemics and One-Health Research organized a panel discussion with Usman Ahmad Mushtaq (Labour Party), the State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Care Services, and Erlend Svardal Bøe (Conservative Party), a member of the Health and Care Committee in Parliament, moderated by the center leader Gunnveig Grødeland.

For more than four decades, Jeanette H. Magnus has been a driving force in global health, building institutions, shaping research agendas and opening doors for new generations of scholars and practitioners. As she is retiring, SUSTAINIT organized a celebration for her following the seminar on women's health in peril at Domus Bibliotheca on 9 March. We thank her for everything she has done for the University of Oslo, the Centre for Global Health and SUSTAINIT. 

In recent years, the Centre and WGH Norway have worked to bridge the gap between research, advocacy and policy, underscoring that women's health is not a niche issue, but a central question of justice, security and sustainable development. 

Department: Department of Pharmacy  
Faculty: The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences  
Languages: English or Norsk
Deadline: Monday, 6th April, 2026

Why "Knowledge Preparedness" Cannot Wait for a Crisis

Department: Department of Biosciences  
Faculty: The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences  
Languages: English  
Deadline: Thursday, March 5, 2026

DNA vaccines targeting hemagglutinin from 18 subtypes of influenza A virus to antigen-presenting cells confer broad protection

An HLAII-targeted DNA vaccine against influenza H7N9 protected mice and ferrets from a virus challenge

Warmest season’s greetings from the Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT). As 2025 draws to a close, we want to thank each of you for following, supporting and engaging with our work to advance interdisciplinary, equitable and just approaches to health and sustainability.

Prof. Nils Chr. Stenseth's work looks at plague from a perspective other than just public health, finding links between climate variation in Central Asia and disease outbreaks in Europe.

“It is important to emphasise that we are not only focused on threats when you ask what motivates this work. As a society, we are facing pressing challenges and know that we need to achieve radical change, but the present moment is also an opportunity and human-animal-environment interconnection can be harnessed in service to health, equity, and sustainability.”

With Christina Brux, senior advisor at the Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT), University of Oslo. By applying knowledge from her One Health research and career in the social sciences, she gives an insight into the research happening at the Sustainable Health Unit at UiO and a perspective on pandemics and One-Health.

At the World Health Summit 2025, the The Lancet One Health Commission hosted an engaging session titled “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭?” — exploring how the LOHC report can drive policy, advocacy, and practice toward more sustainable, equitable, and healthy socioecological systems. 

On October 2, 2025, The Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs co-organized the event  Future Global Health: Towards Equity, Ownership, and Resilience in Shaping the Future of Global Health Governance- streaming is now available.

“We are using up all these resources, and we are killing all the species. We need to find other, more sustainable ways of living. This applies not only in the global north but also in the global south. To me, it seems like there is no other sort of question as important as that right now.”

With Helge Jordheim, leader of the Centre for Global Sustainability, University of Oslo.

“Our idea with this project was to re-think the concept of translation by empirically investigating what actually happens when global directives enter local antibiotic practices.”

With their research project "From resistance to friction: promoting action on antimicrobial resistance through analysis of complex global-local connections” - Carolina Rau and Ida Lillehagen from SUSTAINIT- Sustainable Health Unit, explore ways to develop new frameworks for action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

We are delighted to announce that the research project "HOMESICK: Co-creating Hospital-at-Home services for populations with migration background" has been awarded 14,8 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway. 

“Having real-world evidence on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and medications is important as it forms the foundation for good public health decisions — not just in Norway, but globally.”

Hedvig Nordeng is a professor at the University of Oslo and a leading researcher in perinatal pharmacoepidemiology. For years, she has studied how use of medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding may affect both mother and child. Throughout several research project, she investigates the impact of COVID-19 and related treatments on pregnant women and their babies, using Norwegian health data in collaboration with partners from multiple European countries.

Today marks the official opening of the Centre for Global Sustainability. We are proud to be part of this new initiative along with UiO:Energy and Environment, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Democracy, not to mention SUM which is completely integrated into the new centre. Join the launch event – see below.

The University of Oslo honours Grødeland for her exemplary efforts in conveying research-based knowledge about vaccines to the public. "It's important that we express exactly what we mean based on the facts we observe, and that we are not afraid to do so," says this year's winner.

Students Mina Karkhi og Julie Ytre-Eide share experiences from their work as learning assistants at University of Oslo.