Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS)

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✨ We wish all of you a good and healthy 2025! 😊 BCEPS has exciting plans for the new year! You can follow all of our updates here and also sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dptWGcSq #newyear #happynewyear #newsletter #updates #sciencenews #globalhealth #publichealth #ethics #prioritysetting #bceps #norway

💥 From January 2025, co-founder and current director of BCEPS, Ole F. Norheim, will assume his new role as Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy will take over as the Director of BCEPS, with Kjell Arne Johansson as Deputy Director, from January 2025. Ole F. Norheim will remain involved in BCEPS research as an adjunct researcher. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently published a nice article about Ole F. Norheim's work and future plans as a full professor at Harvard University. 💡 📄 👉 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/d7ctk8vY University of Bergen Alrek helseklynge #harvard #harvardchan #hsph #publichealth #globalhealth #professor #newrole #leadership #ethics #research #fairness #efficiency

💥 New study co-authored by BCEPS Postdoctoral Fellow Mizan Kiros Mirutse: "Inequalities in tuberculosis control in Ethiopia: A district-level distributional modelling analysis", recently published in Tropical Medicine and International Health. There are significant disparities in access to effective tuberculosis services across districts in Ethiopia, due to both the health system and tuberculosis-specific factors. Adding tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment to community health extension workers' tasks has significantly improved case detection and treatment outcomes. However, scaling this "task-shifting" approach requires prioritisation due to resource limitations. 📝 By modeling optimal interventions, this study shows that this kind of targeted task-shifting in underserved districts could boost case detection from 66% to 88% and treatment success rates from 93% to 99%. 💡 📄 👉 Read the full paper here (#openaccess): https://lnkd.in/dn9Q4hYd 📸 Nappy Studio University of Bergen #ethiopia #TBcare #tuberculosis #costeffectiveness #prioritysetting #postdoc #phd #research #newstudy #modeling #intervention #study #analysis #healthintervention

📢 Our colleagues in the the Health Economics, Leadership, and Transformative Ethics Research Group (HELTER) have a 3-year PhD position available. HELTER is not part of BCEPS, but the group works on related issues and is based in the same department at the University of Bergen (UiB). The PhD position is part of the project “Health Economics for Policy Impact” (HEPI), funded by Horizon Europe. A short project description can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dD-i4PZE. Read more about the position and apply below 👇 ❗The application deadline is January 2, 2025. Alrek helseklynge #phd #phdposition #job #jobopening #applynow #researcherposition #researchjob #openposition #apply #jobsinnorway #academicjob #norway #bergen

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👉 Bill Gates discusses recent Stoltenberg Committee report, co-authored by committee members BCEPS Director Ole F. Norheim and BCEPS Ghana NCD Project Lead Lumbwe Chola, in op-ed in Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten: "Norges lederskap redder millioner av liv" ("Norway's leadership saves millions of lives"). "Although Norway is a relatively small nation, it has had an enormous impact on global health. The world needs Norway to continue to be a global leader. The Stoltenberg report sets an ambitious goal: to halve the number of premature deaths globally by 2050. It may sound unrealistic, but I believe it is possible – perhaps even before 2050. The reason I have faith is that we have already done it once before". ~ Bill Gates 🇳🇴 Link to the original article (in Norwegian): https://lnkd.in/dNsh26kG 🇬🇧 You can read a translated version of the article in English here: https://lnkd.in/dbVW5d7P University of Bergen (UiB) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Alrek helseklynge #billgates #gatesfoundation #oped #norway #foreignaid #governmentaid #globaldevelopment #50by50 #developmentaid #globalhealth #publichealth #newreport

📣 Please join us in congratulating our Centre Director, Ole F. Norheim, on his new role as Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which he will assume in January 2025! 🎉 We are fortunate that he will remain involved with BCEPS projects as an adjunct researcher and look forward to new collaborations and opportunities. 🤝 Please see Ole F. Norheim's announcement below. 👇👇 All the very best at Harvard University, Ole Frithjof! 👏

💥 New podcast episode with BCEPS researcher Anand Bhopal! 🎙️ Anand was recently a guest on the Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL) podcast "17-målspodden", which focuses on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. In the episode, "Fair and High Quality Health Care through Climate Action" (in English), he discusses how reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the healthcare sector can contribute to high-quality healthcare, how climate change should affect priorities in health, and more. 🎧 👉 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dPrq5c2t Anand defended his PhD at BCEPS, University of Bergen (UiB), on June 17, 2024, with a dissertation entitled "Fair Pathways to Net Zero Healthcare." #netzero #fairpathways #climatechange #climateaction #emissions #healthcare #podcast #sciencepodcast #research #dissertation #phd #unibergen #norway

💥 Global Health 2050 report discussed on The Lancet podcast! 🎧 Gavin Cleaver, Audio Producer at The Lancet, Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, and Jessamy Bagenal BSc, MBBS, MRCS, MPH, FRSPH, Senior Executive Editor of The Lancet, discuss the launch of the Global Health 2050 report, written by the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, which 6 BCEPS-affiliated researchers are members of, including BCEPS Director Ole F. Norheim and BCEPS PhD Research Fellow Sarah Bolongaita. 🎧 👉 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dS6i4fUW (select the episode "Reducing premature deaths") The report highlights a feasible path to reducing global premature mortality by 50% by 2050, a goal referred to as "50 by 50." University of Bergen (UiB) #50by50 #globalhealth #publichealth #wordhealthsummit #health #mortality #thelancet #lancet #podcast