I congratulate Prof. Peter Waiswa of Makerere University School of Public Health on his appointment on the World Health Organisation Advisory Board. This is a great achievement for Peter and Makerere University. Thank you for making Mak shine brighter.

💥💥💥 FANTASTIC NEWS 💥💥💥 BCEPS = Centre of Excellence!!! 👏🥳🎊🎉 The results from the Norges forskningsråd SFF scheme are out and we are proud to become the Centre of Excellence for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health Universitetet i Bergen @medofak_uib Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin uib.no/en/bceps/15679…

Congratulations, Makerere University, to the 100 years!

“We should not have closed schools” during COVID pandemic - no scientific basis & biggest adverse impact in LMIC especially for girls - increase in teenage pregnancies, NMR & MMR Prof Z Bhutta ⁦EAPS Congress⁩ #EAPS22 Powerful words

Each year, over 2 million babies are stillborn - an enormous and painful loss for families around the world 💔 But data gaps obscure the true burden. Learn more at a webinar organized by UNICEF Data & MARCH Centre, LSHTM next Weds 19 Oct: unicef.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

‘The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell.’ Quote from Dag Hammarskjold on #UNday

All welcome!

Now we’re 8 billion. But this video still Hilda: DON'T PANIC — Remember H. Rosling showing the facts about population youtu.be/FACK2knC08E via YouTube

Nå har studentene ved Universitetet i Bergen under ledelsen av Aksel Haukom også vedtatt at Ola Borten Moe er persona non grata. Skal ha ta alvoret inn over seg, tre til side, eller kaller han også disse studentene pubertale? Noen voksne må jo være hjemme i regjeringen til Jonas Gahr Støre?

The minister for higher education and research declared 'persona non grata' by the students at the University of Bergen: bt.no/nyheter/direkt…

Nonsense, hogwash, BS – whatever you call it, please join us in calling out #GHBS – the excessive use of misleading spin, hyperbole, buzzwords, and technocratic jargon in #globalhealth discourse. With @felixundstein & Antoine de Bengy The BMJ bmj.com/content/379/bm…

Today Uganda is again Ebola free thanks to strong leadership by Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero & Ministry of Health- Uganda supported by WHO Uganda as well as development partners including Embassy of Sweden in Kampala. My sincere appreciation to all frontline health workers, local leaders & implementing partners. 👏👏👏

Student fees for students coming from outside EU, a very bad idea: bistandsaktuelt.no/norge-norge-og…

It has been a long time coming! But today we launched the site initiation visit for the #DRCPAP trial. Our pilot trial will evaluate the feasibility & acceptability of the study design to evaluate the impact on prophylactic CPAP in the delivery room for VLBW infants 👶🏾 🫁👏🏼

New York Times today 21 March 2023: What's the best policy undertaken by any American President in the last 50 years? Correct answer: PEPFAR, The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief!

The collaborative NORHED-funded project GrowNut II "Education and research to reduce malnutrition in the DR Congo and Tanzania" held their annual meeting in Kinshasa, next to the Congo River, 13-17 March with all the partners. uib.no/en/cih/146534/…

Is the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård the answer to everything? nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opi…

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Massive cred in Nature (!) to the "Scandinavian model" of strengthening research capacity in Africa with split-site (or sandwich-) PhD programmes! Centre for International Health

It has come! This year's report on the State of the World's Children from UNICEF: unicef.org/reports/state-…... This year's main message: vaccinate every child!