Education

Several Norwegian faculties offer Master and PhD degrees in global health, but global health is sometimes also a component of other degree programmes.

Global Health Courses

Four Norwegian universities offer global health related courses. Find more information from the institutions here.

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Education Articles

Finishing a PhD during lockdown

The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemics has affected the lives of many students. PhD Research Fellow Prudence Atukunda from the University of Oslo has written about her coping strategies on how to maintain a healthy mental state and well-being, while finishing her thesis during lockdown.

Released the first international book on migrant health

Esperanza Diaz at IGS has published the first book in history In English on migrant health – a resource for general practitioners.

Ethiopia–Norway collaboration on Health and Higher Education

This time the conference focused on primary health care, trauma, surgery, paramedics and cancer care.

Supervision seminar in Uganda

The Norwegian Research School of Global Health organised a two-day supervision seminar in October 2018.

Students are the future for Global Health!

Nearly 300 people gathered at St. Olav’s Hospital in Trondheim for NTNU’s Global Health Day on October 24 – a majority were students.

Globalt samarbeid gir lokale gevinster

Det er svært viktig at Norge bygger internasjonal kompetanse, både i akademia og i næringslivet.

Sustainable universities?

How can universities work towards a more sustainable and fair world? This was the topic of a workshop for PhD researchers at the University of Tromsø.

“Who are you?” About experiences from a course in qualitative research

Sara Rivenes Lafontan from UiO and the Norwegian Research School of Global Health writes about her learnings from a qualitative course at the University of Copenhagen.

The Norwegian Research School of Global Health launches a new blog - read the first blog post here!

A personal experience from Nepal Earthquake in 2015: Lesson learned from a local hospital.

Virtual Erasmus Global Health Course

UiB's Centre for International Health and two other partners in the educational network TropEd have collaborated since 2016 to create an Erasmus+ project in Global Health Education that involves students being virtually mobile instead of physically so.

Online Global Health Course Wins Prize

UiB’s highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Occupational Health in Developing Countries”.

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