Events for employees at MED - Page 43

GLOBVAC and Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo, invite you to a seminar presenting upcoming calls for global health researchers. Join the seminar and learn all about global health in H2020. 

Guest lecture with Professor Ian Whitmarsh and PhD(c) Ryan Whitacre from the University of California, Berkeley. They will focus on the growing usage of RCTs (randomized controlled trials) in guidelines and policy documents as concepts that pertains to evidence and truth.

Guest lecture with Professor Ian Whitmarsh and PhD(c) Ryan Whitacre from the University of California, Berkeley. They will explore how metrics can be seen as part of a standardization of the medical world, i.e. epidemiology, measurements - and ultimately even subjectivities.

This memorial seminar is organized in honor of Hans Rosling, founder of Gapminder and world renowned scholar and inspiratory. Join a discussion on the challenges of exaggerated numbers, of identifying and reaching populations in humanitarian emergencies, and the implications for the politics of human progress.

Dr. Eivind Valen, Group Leader at the Computational Biology Unit of the University of Bergen, will present the lecture "Searching for function in the dark matter of the genome."

Family involvement during severe mental illness in psychiatry. Implementation, research and moral aspects. This 2-day seminar focuses on implementation of guidelines for family involvement, as seen through research and guidelines from several European countries.

ECTMIH brings together scientists and experts from Europe and from all over the world, including many delegates from low and middle income countries. Please join the congress  from October 16th to 20th, 2017.

The Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo, McGill University in Canada and Tribhuvan University in Nepal welcome you to a two-day course on Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health in Kathmandu, Nepal.

IOB hosts a mini-seminar on molecular changes in aging with two invited speakers from the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen.

Professor Anne-Emanuelle Birn¡¯s research explores the history, politics, and political economy of international/global health.The talk will examine the planning and repercussions of WHO's International Conference on Primary Health Care in 1978, Alma-Ata in the context of Soviet political and health developments, drawing from Soviet and Kazakh sources, including oral history interviews with several key protagonists.

Foredrag ved Guri Aarseth - fastlege, spesialist i allmennmedisin og stipendiat ved Universitetet i Oslo

Welcome to the next Oslo University Hospital (OUH) Research Seminar: "Individualised Cancer Treatment"

Speaker: The Tien Mai, Postdoc., Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), University of Oslo.

Michail Sitkovsky, Professor and Director of the New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute at the Northeastern University College of Science, Boston, USA, will give a guest lecture titled, 'Anti-Hypoxia/HIF-1alpha and anti-A2A-Adenosinergic Co-adjuvants to enable the rejection of the most therapy-resistant tumors' 

Algae can be used to make foods, medicines and energy. What role can researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and investors play in bringing ideas to the market?

Speaker: Cristopher Yau, Reader in Computational Biology, Centre for Computational Biology, University of Birmingham, UK.

Dr. Christopher Yau, Reader in Computational Biology based in the Centre for Computational Biology at the University of Birmingham will give a lecture titled, "Probabilistic modelling approach for pseudotime estimation in single cells and populations."

As a follow up of the G20 summit, that took place in July 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo together with Norad (the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) and CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) is co-organizing a conference on two highly relevant topics: Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) and Emerging/Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID). The former has also been coined ¡°poverty-related diseases¡± and the latter plays a major role in the context of Global Health Preparedness.

Foredrag ved Carl Edvard Rudebeck - svensk allmennlege og professor II i allmennmedisin ved UiT.

Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells ¨C iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. 

Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells ¨C iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

Global health topics intersect with many areas of disaster risk reduction and disaster response. The Norwegian Institute for Public Health and Centre for Global Health at the UiO welcome you to attend the second seminar on disaster diplomacy research by Ilan Kelman. This presentation explores a research and policy agenda for viewing global health from a disaster diplomacy perspective.

'Exploring and exploiting the constraints of local signaling', by Professor John D. Scott