Centre for International Health

[1] Since January 2013 the Centre is part of the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care at the Faculty of Medicine.

The Centre has an extensive network of partners in low and middle income countries such as: Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.

The Centre has (as of August 2021) the following permanent professors: Emeriti: Among its many initiatives, the University of Bergen’s Centre for International Health[2] also coordinates Global Challenges,[3] one of the university’s three “cross-Faculty strategic focus areas,” which annually organizes Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS), with its interdisciplinary selection of intensive, international PhD courses.

The BSRS is a consortium of research institutions in the greater Bergen area, described as “a joint venture under the leadership of the University of Bergen with NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Chr.

Each year, approximately 100 PhD students from around 40 countries worldwide participate in BSRS, which emphasizes interdisciplinary studies at the intersection of science and policy-making.