Have you seen our new website for #FairChoices, an innovative #healthsector #prioritysetting tool for both #policy and #research? The FairChoices research group and tool development are led by Kjell Arne Johansson at BCEPS, Universitetet i Bergen. 👉Check out the new website here: fairchoices.org

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Shiva Adhikari (Tribhuvan University), BCEPS Affiliate Senior Researcher (right), who was appointed Vice Chair of the National Planning Commission, an advisory body of the Government of #Nepal, in an oath-taking ceremony with Nepal's Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli (left).🇳🇵

💥 BCEPS Lead Researcher Ingrid Miljeteig selected as UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 International Bioethics Committee (IBC) member 💥 The IBC consists of 36 leading experts from around the world who serve 4-year terms. 🌍 Learn more: unesco.org/en/ethics-scie… #bioethics #medicalethics #UNESCO

Join our event online! The free livestream is about to start here: youtube.com/live/ybdAQ8ljL… Among other experts, BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim, BCEPS affiliated lead researchers Zeke Emanuel and Lumbwe Chola, & BCEPS PhD researcher Pakwanja Desiree Twea discuss #biotechnology and #malaria

BCEPS PhD Research Fellow Pakwanja Desiree Twea, Head of Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board Marianne Aasen & Senior Advisor at Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board Eirik Joakim Tranvåg open our joint event on #malaria & #biotechnology at Arendalsuka 2024

“Priority setting in health requires collaboration across countries and organisations” BCEPS Affiliate Lead Researcher Lumbwe Chola (Universitetet i Oslo) at Arendalsuka #malaria #Biotechnology #globalhealth #prevention #Collaboration

BCEPS Affiliate Lead Researcher Zeke Emanuel (Penn) on the importance of considerations beyond the #costeffectiveness of interventions & of a global platform for #prioritization of #biotech innovations that can address multiple diseases, like genetically modified mosquitoes.

BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim and Head of Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board (Bioteknologirådet) Marianne Aasen introduce the complexities of #prioritization in #globalhealth in the context of #malaria and #biotechnology at our joint Arendalsuka event

BCEPS Affiliate Lead Researcher Zeke Emanuel (Penn) (3rd from left) highlights the importance of #research before widespread #implementation of #healthinterventions like genetically modified #mosquitoes. Also pictured (l-r): Mette Risa, Lumbwe Chola, & Lisa Sivertsen

Watch our Arendalsuka event, "New #biotechnology to end #malaria", here: youtube.com/live/ybdAQ8ljL… Expert Panelists: ▻ Marianne Aasen ▻ Ole Frithjof Norheim ▻ Lisa Sivertsen ▻ Eirik Mofoss ▻ Zeke Emanuel ▻ Pakwanja Desiree Twea ▻ Lumbwe Chola ▻ Eirik J. Tranvåg Moderator: Mette Risa

We look forward to a great discussion on "#Sustainable #healthcare - or overuse of #resources?" on August 26, organised by Alrek helseklynge & BCEPS. 🏥🌱 BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim will be one of the speakers. The event is now at capacity. Thank you for your great interest!

💥BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim (Universitetet i Bergen, Med_UiB) selected for #expertcommittee advising #Norway's future efforts in #globalhealth. 🏥 The expert committee consists of 11 members, among them also Lumbwe Chola (Universitetet i Oslo), Ghana NCD Project Lead at BCEPS. 👇 langsikt.no/publikasjoner/…

Welcome #intern Johanna Goethe to BCEPS!🤝 Johanna joins us under the Erasmus+ programme this semester. She is based at Uni #Bremen, #Germany, where she pursues a bachelor's in #publichealth. We are happy to expand our #capacitybuilding efforts to a student #internship.

A year ago, I embarked on a review of pandemic financing with Sun Kim, Diego Pineda, and Stefano M Bertozzi for the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting led #DiseaseControlPriorities Project 4th edition #DCP4. 🎉Today I am delighted to share Center for Global Development DCP4 working paper is released in preprint version.

💥 Don't miss this event with some of BCEPS' great young minds 💥 ➡️Thursday 12 Sep at Det Akademiske Kvarter Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin Med_UiB Norad Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse Effektiv Altruisme

Included in this series is a case study on "A New Compact for #Financing #HealthServices in #Ethiopia" by BCEPS Consultant Researcher and ACEPS Director Solomon Tessema Memirie et al., including BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim. 💡 👉 Direct link to the policy paper: cgdev.org/publication/ne…

BCEPS co-organises "The Health Services Research Conference 2024: Priority setting, ethics and inequalities in health". BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim will deliver a keynote on "Priority Setting in Global Health" (Norwegian). 💡 ‼️Submit your abstract by 15.9.! norceresearch.no/arrangementer/…

Happening now at Det Akademiske Kvarter in Bergen: “Maximizing #costeffectiveness & #fairness to improve #health”, organised by Effektiv Altruisme UiB, with Anand Bhopal, Prasanna Tuladhar, & Omar Mwalim 💡

Great event yesterday evening on "Maximizing #costeffectiveness and #fairness to improve #health" in Bergen, organised by Effektiv Altruisme UiB. BCEPS researchers Anand Bhopal, Prasanna Tuladhar, and Omar Mwalim presented & participants tried out the #FairChoices tool themselves. 🧑‍💻