Annual Report 2020
Centre for Global Health
Greetings
2020 is indeed a year to remember. We have seen the largest global pandemic in a century. Never before in our time has Global Health been so important. We are all impacted. The floods, the wildfires, the hurricanes/cyclones, the pandemic, the American election, the locusts, the terror episodes, the starvation in Yemen, the tragic mudslide at Gjerdrum outside of Oslo, the list is long. Events that came into our home, our lives and our future. Events that impacted us personally, emotionally and financially. We are one human race, one nature system and one globe. What we do in this arctic country matters.
Our lives, perspectives, priorities and outlooks have changed and this brought new outlooks on what the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo (UiO) is and can be. Our engagement and interest in Global Health, One Health and Planetary Health matters. Engagement in research, education and leadership in Global Health is pivotal. We need to join efforts to harness our common future. We must do better to advance science and ensure a sustainable future. We cannot compromise on the global common goods of our children and grandchildren. We must go all in to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
In the midst of shifting to a purely digital platform for many of our activities while working from home, we had a leadership change at CGH in 2020, as Jeanette H. Magnus replaced Andrea S. Winkler as Director and welcomed two new Deputy Directors, Mekdes Gebremariam from the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and Asgeir Johannessen from the Institute of Clinical Medicine. We extend our collective gratitude to Andrea for her dedication and keen leadership, and are pleased that she continues as Deputy Director and Co-Chair for the Lancet One Health Commission. The CGH now has a strong leadership team to advance the CGH Strategic Plan and ambitions in 2021.
As you will see in our annual report, the CGH has prepared and co-organized 26 events and webinars in 2020 with an unprecedented number of participants. Never have so many been interested in our events, and the digitalization has opened the borders to a global community like never before. We hope you enjoy reading, and if you have comments, suggestions or reflections please share, as we need your support to advance the CGH.
Jeanette H. Magnus Ingeborg K. Haavardsson
Director Managing Director
Centre Update
The Faculty of Medicine Board at UiO established CGH in 2014 and refined the CGH mandate in 2019.
The CGH is based on a broad definition of global health as ‘an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide.' In this broad sense, “global health” includes the study of major societal challenges such as global inequalities in healthcare resources, health impact of globalization and cultural mobility, as well as global implications of and solutions to local health problems.
The Faculty of Medicine Board states:
“The CGH will build competence and develop research projects in selected global health research areas. Another key function of CGH is to review and disseminate knowledge about global health at the University of Oslo, as well as to the national and international community of researchers, decision makers and the public.”
In the refined mandate, a CGH Board was established and members have been appointed for two years. The Chair is defined as the Head of the Institute of Health and Society, currently Terje P. Hagen.
The Board is to ensure that the CGH has a strategic plan. The new strategy (2021-2023) was approved in November 2020 and states the following main ambitions for CGH.
Objectives for CGH
Develop and facilitate research projects in selected global health areas across units at UiO;
Advance capacity for research education in global health nationally and internationally;
Disseminate global health knowledge to students and faculty at the UiO, as well as to the wider community of researchers, decision makers and the general public;
Establish and consolidate formal cross-sectoral networks of researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders within selected areas at UiO, in Norway and globally.
Vision
The UiO Centre for Global Health is a multi- and interdisciplinary hub for education and research capacity development in global health, contributing to sustainable development through collaboration and networking.
Mission
Advance capacity for global health research, education and communication at UiO and partner institutions.Structure
Management
CGH’s day-to-day activities are facilitated by Jeanette H. Magnus, Ingeborg K. Haavardsson and Gabriella Rodriguez, supported by three Deputy Directors representing the three institutes from the Faculty of Medicine at UiO.
CGH Deputy Directors
The Deputy Directors will be responsible for:
initiating and running CGH activities at their institute;
mobilizing the staff of their institute in global health related activities within teaching, research and dissemination in line with the CGH strategic plan;
mobilizing students at their institute in CGH student activities;
ensuring synergy between the institute and the CGH in strategic activities related to global health;
serving as a global health advocate;
representing CGH in relevant contexts.
Jeanette H. Magnus Director
Ingeborg K. Haavardsson Managing Director
Gabriella Rodriguez Communications
Andrea S. Winkler Deputy Director, Lancet One Health
Commission Mekdes Gebremariam
Deputy Director, Institute of Basic Medical
Sciences Asgeir Johannessen
Deputy Director, Institute of Clinical Medicine
CGH Board
CGH is led by a Board with members that advise the core group and can make strategic decisions based on majority rule. The Board meets 3 times a year.
Ambition 1: Mobilize Cross-Sectorial, Multi- and Interdisciplinary Global Health Research:
Objective To develop and facilitate research projects in selected global health areas across units at UiO.
Activities:
RELIGHT
The support program, Research Excellence and Innovation in Global Health (RELIGHT) was launched in the fall of 2018. The three groups for 2019-2021 include The Digital Health Promotion in the Global South (ProDHP) project led by Josef Noll, The Child, Nutrition and Development (CHNUDEV) project led by Per Ole Iversen, and The Politics of Global Health Security project led by Katerini Storeng.
Terje P. Hagen Head of Department, Institute
of Health & Society, UiO (Chair)
Flemming Konradsen Director, Copenhagen
School of Global Health, University of
Copenhagen
Sidsel Roalkvam Director, Centre for Development & the Environment, UiO
Ingvild Sandøy Deputy Director of CISMAC, University of
Bergen
Johanne Sundby Professor, Institute of Health
& Society, UiO
Kristine H. Storholt Assistant Director, Dept.
for Health, Education and Human Rights Section for Global Health, Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation Anne Bergh
Director for Global Health, Norwegian Public
Health Institute of Public Health
The Digital Health Promotion in the Global South (ProDHP) project is addressing digital health promotion and aims to contribute to better health outcomes in local global south societies.
The Politics of Global Health Security project is developing critical social scientific research into pandemic preparedness, unpacking how knowledge about pandemic risk is produced, and the consequences for how particular pathways of response are identified and pursued.
The Child, Nutrition and Development (CHNUDEV) project originates from a randomized trial conducted among mothers and their small children (6- 8 months) in rural Uganda in 2013-14. The main aim is to test if maternal education encompassing aspects of nutrition, hygiene and stimulation would improve child growth and development outcomes.
Please find the RELIGHT project reports from 2020 here. In 2021, a new call will be announced for the next three year period (2022-2024).
The Lancet One Health Commission
The COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating economic and global health impact have underscored the urgent need for a sustainable, systemic, and integrated human-animal-environment interface approach in health. During the remarkable 2020, The Lancet One Health Commission engaged with the exigencies of the contemporary crisis in a number of timely ways.
Photo: Politics of Global Health Security team
Photo: Project fieldwork by Per Ole Iversen, UiO
In April 2020, The Lancet One Health Commission webinar series, “One Health – Reconnecting for Our Future”
commenced. In response to the pressing need for scientifically informed conversations that connect the scientific and academic community to policy makers, frontline clinicians, students, young professionals, and the wider public, these webinars raise awareness, disseminate expertise, and instigate multi-directional dialogue that feeds back into the work of The Lancet One Health Commission and the future Lancet report. The webinars have addressed One Health relevance for the contemporary pandemic, global health security, policy and governance, education and capacity building, and career development.
In May 2020, The Lancet formally announced The Lancet One Health Commission. The publication presents the Commission’s overarching theme of interconnection, its guiding vision of improved human, animal, and ecosystem health, and its key objectives of evidence synthesis, stakeholder engagement, and policy and investment recommendations.
CGH is proud that our former Centre Director and current Deputy Director Professor Andrea S. Winkler co-chair The Lancet One Health Commission with Dr. John Amuasi from Ghana.
At the 2020 World Health Summit in October Dr. John Amuasi and Professor Andrea S. Winkler, co- chaired and participated in two sessions “Pandemics and Operationalizing One Health: Working within the Framework of the Global Action Plan for SDG3” and “Climate Change and One Health: Critical Action for a Sustainable Planet.”
The Lancet One Health Commission is partly funded by UiO: Life Sciences and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The Commission will instigate One Health engagements in 2021 and launch the report in 2022.
Andrea S. Winkler Co-Chair
John Amuasi Co-Chair
Christina Brux Commissioner & Adviser
Ingeborg K. Haavardsson Secretariat lead
Gabriella Rodriguez Communications
NORPART EXCEL SMART project
Direktoratet for internasjonalisering og kvalitetsutvikling i høgare utdanning (DIKU) has since 2016 funded the NORPART (Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation) EXCEL SMART (Exceeding Learning through Strategic Mobility and Academic Partnership) Project. The pandemic warranted digital adaptation and smart adaptations and sought necessary changes to the original plan. With the acceptance of a one year no cost extension in hand, the EXCEL SMART Project is confident it will achieve its goals. Being on similar time zones as students and project collaborators and with internet connection improving year by year, the project has been able to exploit the great benefits that lie in digital cooperation, from project team meetings to live teaching sessions.
At the tail end of 2020 (December 10), EXCEL SMART and SACCADE (Strategic And Collaborative Capacity Development in Ethiopia and Africa) hosted an annual seminar, presenting research results from key personnel working within the two projects as well as experience sharing and reflections about future partnership possibilities from the funding agencies, DIKU and NORHED. The event attracted 60 participants from Norway and partner institutions in Ethiopia, Jimma University and St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College as well as others interested in these successful partnerships.
In 2020, mobility was put temporarily on hold, however it slowly started to resume towards the end of year. Jimmy University lecturer, Temesgen Kabeta was able to complete his stay following courses in Health Economic Evaluation as the world closed down in March.
Muhammad Asaduzzaman from UiO travelled to Jimma to finalize the sample collections needed for his PhD on transmission pathways of antimicrobial resistance in collaboration with the laboratory at Jimma University.
NORHED SACCADE project
The Norad funded (2013-2020) Strategic And Collaborative Capacity Development in Ethiopia and Africa (SACCADE) project finalized it’s activities in 2020. Development, implementation and advancement of research in core areas within health and medical sciences in universities in the South are essential. Active research is imperative to increase institutional, national and regional capacity and to reduce brain drain. SACCADE was set up to ensure training in research education for staff teaching in health and medical sciences to meet urgent needs for development and quality of the research and research education. Capacity building in health sciences research education is necessary for improved quality of educational programs, retention of faculty. In 2020, despite the pandemic we completed the following activities:
Guest researcher short-term mobility: The aim for this activity is to facilitate international collaborations and opportunities for career development within Ethiopia to mitigate brain drain.
One Associate Professor in Medical Microbiology from St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College visited UiO spring 2020.
Photo: JU lecturer, Temesgen Kabeta
One Professor in Medical Parasitology from Jimma University visited UiO autumn 2020 for consolidating already existing collaboration within AMR and One Health projects with the Institute of Health and Society and Institute for Informatics at UiO and Oslo Metropolitan University.
One Associate Professor of Environmental Health from Jimma University visited UiO autumn 2020 to establish collaboration with UiO:Energy, Center for Development and the Environment (SUM) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
One Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology from Jimma University visited UiO autumn 2020 to establish collaboration with the research group Genome Dynamics at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO.
One Associate Professor in Public Health from St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College visited UiO autumn 2020 to establish a collaboration between the research group Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology.
Research active staff short-term mobility: The SACCADE Project’s objective for this activity is for Jimma University and St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College senior staff to have short-term (2-3 weeks) visits to UiO with pre-planned objectives to attach to one of the research sites or centres of excellence so that they can forge research collaboration or be exposed to a specific method. The long-term goal is exploring further research collaboration with partners of UiO. During the autumn 2020, one specialist in internal medicine and one transplantation surgeon from St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College visited UiO and Oslo University Hospital to consolidate and further develop collaboration between the partners.
Health Economic Evaluation short-term mobility: Economic evaluation has been at the core of the SACCADE Project’s activities. UiO has a Joint degree European Master in Health Economics and Management. Jimma University has a strong wish to establish courses in economic evaluation in health systems in Ethiopia. The aim of this activity was to further strengthen the capacity and competency needed by Jimma University staff members. Five staff members visited UiO in spring 2020 where they participated in courses, seminars and meetings.
Strengthen Gender equality:
Gender Equality for Sustainable Development, on the National Conference in Leadership March 7th 2020 in Addis Ababa.
Jimma Executive Programme for Women in Academic & Educational Leadership (JEWEL)
JEWEL training sessions is to further develop leadership skills and capacities for women leaders in health and medical education across Ethiopia. Dr. Jeanette Magnus has been a primus motor developing the programme and she held a one-week training session with Cohort IV in March 2020, where 27 women from different parts of Ethiopia participated.
PHD candidate writing visit 2020: The SACCADE Project invited all PHD candidates, enrolled at UiO, in the SACCADE Project (male and female, with a special focus on females) to a writing visit at UiO where they could focus on literature search, reading and writing manuscripts for articles and the synopsis for their Doctoral thesis (KAPPA). One female PHD candidate spent one month at UiO autumn 2020 for writing articles and the KAPPA. Two male PHD candidates used this opportunity to visit UiO winter
2020 for extensive meetings and writing workshops with their supervisors; both submitted their Doctoral thesis in summer 2020.
Ambition 2: Hub for Capacity Development in Research Based Global Health Education
Objective Advance capacity for research education in global health nationally and internationally
Activities:
Following its strategic ambition to be a hub for capacity development in research based global health education, the CGH facilitated a variety of interactions between interdisciplinary research groups with a goal to prepare for joint applications in 2021/22. Funds were reallocated in 2020 to support a multinational interdisciplinary research group developing digital courses in Research Ethics in Global Health in 2021, to support an Ethiopian/Norwegian interdisciplinary group developing digital course in Assessment of Digital learning and to develop digital sessions related to the importance of Sex and gender in research.
Conferences and events
GLOBVAC conference
CGH is partnering with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Research Council of Norway for the GLOBVAC 2020 Conference, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The overarching theme of the conference is the changing landscapes of global health in the 21st century. By this conference, results and achievements in global health research in the last decades will be presented and celebrated, whilst looking into the next decade. A webinar series in the fall of 2020 built up to the postponed main GLOBVAC conference in Oslo, now planned for 20-21 April 2021.
Jeanette H. Magnus Principal Investigator EXCEL SMART & SACCADE
Ester Mæland Project coordinator
EXCEL SMART
Line Løw Project coordinator
SACCADE
National fora for global health
Global Health Norway
Global Health Norway is a network of the major Norwegian institutions in the educational, hospital and research institute sectors involved in global health activities, including research, education and capacity strengthening. CGH is alternate member to the Board as well as in the Editorial Board. The aims of the network are, among others, to
Facilitate high quality in global health research and education in Norway
Inform the public about Norwegian efforts and activities in global Health
Maintain an overview of global health projects and funding opportunities
Promote inter-regional and inter-sectoral collaboration on research proposals
Promote collaboration between the hospital sector, educational sector, the national research council, NGOs, the private sector and Norad
Norwegian Forum for Global Health Researchers
The Forum is an interdisciplinary network of academics and others who work with or have an interest in global health. The Forum offers individual membership. CGH is represented in the Board of the Norwegian Forum for Global Health Researchers.
The Norwegian Research School of Global Health
CGH actively engages with the Norwegian Research School of Global Health (NRSGH) and participated in the Annual PhD Conference. The NRSGH aims to strengthen the quality of post-graduate education and facilitate recruitment of young researchers in global health. Current partners of the NRSGH include the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Tromsø, the University of Bergen, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and UiO.
Women in Global Health Norway
CGH is a strong supporter of gender equity in leadership, especially in global health, where women make up the majority of the workforce. CGH is currently hosting the Secretariat for the Norwegian chapter of Women in Global Health (WGH), a platform for dialogue and collaboration that links the Centre and University to broader networks and alternative funding sources.
WGH Norway experienced a substantial growth in membership from 21 members in 2019, to 340 by the end of 2020. The management team was strenghtened by convening an Advisory Group and two Special Counselors in the fall of 2020. This group of experienced women will provide advice and suggestions to advance WGH Norway, ensuring processes supporting effective achievement of the national chapter's vision and mission.
Two ad-hoc taskforce groups were established during the first part of 2020, engaging the members and contributing to the growth of the network. One is the COVID 50/50 Taskforce led by Advisory Group member, Candela Iglesias Chiesa. The second taskforce led the work behind WGH Norway’s first Annual Conference, focusing upon the WGH Global’s Five Asks for Gender-Responsive Global Health Security.
A searchable member booklet has been created presenting an initial list of our members. WGH Norway wishes to highlight the broad and deep experience, expertise, passion, and diversity that exists among women working within the field of global health in Norway.
During the 2020 UN General Assembly in September 2020, WGH Global in partnership with Wagner Foundation and Foreign Policy delivered a high-level Digital Summit. With assistance from WGH Norway, two of the commitments came from Norway including the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and WONCA – World Organization of Family Doctors.
Ambition 3: Facilitator of Community Engagement,
Knowledge-Based Dialogue, and Public Opinion Formations Related to Important Global Health Discussions
Objectives
Disseminate global health knowledge to students and faculty at the UiO, as well as to the wider community of researchers, decision makers and the general public. Establish and consolidate formal cross-sectoral networks of researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders within selected areas at UiO, in Norway and globally.
Communication is at the core of CGH. As part of the communication strategy and to ensure a professional and updated interface internally and externally, CGH is continuously enhancing and updating its website and social media platforms with news, reports and activities to serve the faculty,
Photo: Women in Global Health
Ingeborg K. Haavardsson Leader WGH Norway
Gabriella Rodriguez Communications
WGH Norway
staff, students, alumni, partners and affiliates of CGH. A main communication focus is reaching a broad audience of students, researchers and clinicians in global health via organized events. The year 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic forced CGH to shift gear and redesign from a focus on physical meetings to digital encounters from the smallest meetings amongst the core team to the larger webinar and conferences. The CGH has had a keen focus on making its events available for the broad audience online, and will continue the increased priority for digital presence and presentation.
Events
CGH organizes a range of seminars and conferences, many in collaboration with partners and individual researchers. During the months of March and April, a complete turn-around took place for seminar and conference activities and operations, as all international travel and physical meetings stalled. CGH is proud to note that the Centre now offers a very professional back office for small to very large events, already sought after by external partners. The CGH completed 17 events fully organized by its team, supported 9 events with other partners and only 4 events were cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic, some at the last minute. In total, CGH hosted or co-hosted 26 events in 2020, with over 4000 participants in total.
One Health – Reconnecting for Our Future series (The Lancet One Health Commission webinar series)
As already mentioned this series is a collaboration between the Lancet One Health Commission and the CGH. It aims to increase awareness of One Health and its relevance for health security in the COVID-19 era and in general and highlight the work of the Commission while fostering an on-going, multi- directional dialogue between Commissioners and the audience.
Global Health and the Pandemic series
The series was a Centre initiative at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing reports from the frontlines and fostering critical discussions on global health.
Global Health Unpacked series
The Global Health Unpacked series is in collaboration with the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at UiO and aims to bring together the global health community in Oslo on a regular basis to critically discuss key debates in global health through informal seminars.
The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown
The intertwined links between health and climate change are undeniable. 120 world-leading experts have looked at more than 40 indicators for The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and
Photo: Prachatai / Flickr Photo: Pixaby and Canva
Climate Change. CGH hosted its launch in Norway in close collaboration with UiO: Energy, UiO: Nordic, SUM, UiO, the Norwegian Institute for Public Health and the Norwegian University for Life Sciences.
Please refer to Appendix 1 for a complete overview of hosted and co-hosted 2020 events.
Promotion materials
Newsletter and webpages
The CGH newsletter including its seminar mail list and webpages actively provide the CGH network with updates on news and events. Within 2020, the number of recipients signing up for the newsletter and invitations increased from 1636 to 2431 and the webpages continued its high level of activity with 47.936 visits. CGH adheres to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules and regulations as required by UiO.
Social media
The CGH uses Facebook and Twitter as a key platform to disseminate global health-related content relevant to our followers. Our following has been consistently growing with increasing activity and focus from the small, but efficient core team.
Photo: Event speakers
Resource Overview
Table 1 shows the results from previous years and the Centre for Global Health (CGH) accounts of 2020. CGH is mainly supported by a core grant from the Faculty of Medicine.
Table 1: Accounting 2015-2020 and Budget 2021
Year Accounting 2015
Accounting 2016
Accounting 2017
Accounting 2018
Accounting 2019
Accounting 2020
Budget 2021 Transferred
from previous year
- 583 954 664 754 217 413 376 421 24 271 188 922
Total income
1 202 000 2 312 270 2 280 040 2 923 461 1 615 959 1 714 823 1 619 927
Total expenses
618 046 2 231 470 2 727 381 2 764 453 2 016 651 1 501 630 1 552 216
Unused or unallocated
583 954 664 754 217 413 376 421 24 271 188 922 256 633 The UiO Global Health profile followers on Twitter (2020)
The UiO Global Health profile followers on Facebook (2019-2020)
Forecast 2021
The Strategic plan provides an anchor for the strategic direction of the CGH in 2021. Anticipating the Pandemic to rule our lives we have adapted an action plan that takes this into account. Below are some of our planned activities linked to each strategic objectives:
Objective 1:
Develop and facilitate research projects in selected global health areas across units at UiO Activities:
Advance the CGH RELIGHT program Profile cohort 1, solicit a call for cohort 2
Develop cross disciplinary global health themes at the centre, i.e. Planetary/One Health
Objective 2:
Advance capacity for research education in global health nationally and internationally Activities:
Support a multinational interdisciplinary research group developing digital courses in Global Health Ethics.
Support an Ethiopian/Norwegian interdisciplinary group developing digital course in Digital Assessment of e-learning.
Objective 3:
Disseminate global health knowledge to students and faculty at the UiO, as well as to the wider community of researchers, decision makers and the general public
Activities:
Establish and support the Deputy Directors at each Faculty of Medicine Institute
Conduct a National One Health conference in 2021
Develop webinars in the “Global Health and the 2030 Agenda” series
Objective 4:
Establish and consolidate formal cross-sectoral networks of researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders within selected areas at UiO, in Norway and globally
Activities:
Establish formal student engagement in CGH activities
Establish national network for Planetary Health
Consolidate partnership with Women in Global Health Norway
Final remarks
Thank you for reading our Annual Report for 2020. Please let us know is you have any questions, reflections or suggestions. Please follow us on Facebook of Twitter to see what’s going on in 2021.
Appendix
Appendix 1.
Table 2. Events hosted/co-hosted by the Centre for Global Health in 2020
Title Co-organizers Date Type Registered
Participants Managing a Rural Hospital in The Gambia Centre for Development and the
Environment (SUM), UiO
06 February “Global Health Unpacked” seminar series 50
The Role of Faith-based Organizations in Global Health Programmes in Cameroon
SUM, UiO 11 February “Global Health Unpacked” seminar series 20
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival - Resistance Fighters
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival
24 February Film screening and panel debate 75
Fulfilling the SDGs for Hidden and Vulnerable Populations
Center of Gender Research, UiO & Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
09 March Seminar 55
A Paradigm Shift in One Health: Implications for low and middle-income countries - One Health panel at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting Uganda 2020 (Cancelled)*
UiO: Life Science, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) & World Health Summit
27 April World Health Summit Regional Meeting (Uganda)
The “Triple Dividend”: Investing in Gender Equality within the Global Health Workforce - WGH panel at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting Uganda 2020 (Cancelled)*
Women in Global Health Norway, Norad &
World Health Summit
28 April World Health Summit Regional Meeting (Uganda)
The Burden of Non-communicable Diseases – evidence and its translation into policy and practice - NCDs panel at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting Uganda 2020 (Cancelled)*
Norad & World Health Summit 28 April World Health Summit Regional Meeting (Uganda)
GLOBVAC 2020 Conference (Postponed)* Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and The Research Council of Norway
13 & 14 May Conference
COVID-19: Rethinking Our Relationships with Wild Animals & Wild Places
22 April Global Health and the Pandemic – CGH webinar series
180
One Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic The Lancet One Health Commission 28 April One Health – Reconnecting for Our Future webinar series
430
The Politics of Pandemics: Norway's Response to COVID-19
SUM, UiO 08 May “Global Health Unpacked” seminar series
(webinar)
150
Health System Challenges and the COVID-19 Response in Africa - Field Experiences from Kenya
13 May Global Health and the Pandemic – CGH webinar series
120
Europe’s Strategy to Fight COVID-19: Reflections on Different Response Strategies
Women in Global Health Norway, Sweden, Germany & Finland
26 May Webinar 150
The Implications of COVID-19 for Sexual &
Reproductive Health and Rights Globally
26 May Global Health and the Pandemic – CGH webinar series
100
Pandemics of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow:
Are We Always Forgetting a Piece of the Puzzle?
The Lancet One Health Commission 04 June One Health – Reconnecting for Our Future webinar series
270
The “Triple Dividend”: Investing in Gender Equality within the Global Health Workforce
Women in Global Health 10 June Webinar 150
Health, History and the COVID-19 Pandemic 17 June Global Health and the Pandemic – CGH webinar
series
190
Developing a Career in One Health: Stories from the Next Generation
The Lancet One Health Commission 29 June One Health – Reconnecting for Our Future webinar series
520
COVID-19 and the Law: Lessons for Global Health SUM, UiO 25 August “Global Health Unpacked” seminar series (webinar)
140
GLOBVAC Webinar 1: COVID-19 Aspects and Healthcare Systems
NIPH & Research Council of Norway 08 September Webinar 80
Education and Capacity Building in One Health:
Lessons from the Field
The Lancet One Health Commission 08 October One Health – Reconnecting for Our Future webinar series
405
GLOBVAC Webinar 2: Children, Health and Nutrition
NIPH & Research Council of Norway 13 October Webinar 40
Women in Global Health Norway Annual Conference 2020
Women in Global Health Norway 21 & 23 October
Conference (webinar) 280
World Health Summit - Pandemics and Operationalizing One Health: Working within the Framework of the Global Action Plan for SDG3
The Lancet One Health Commission & Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
26 October World Health Summit (Berlin)
World Health Summit - Climate Change and One Health: Critical Action for a Sustainable Planet
The Lancet One Health Commission, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina &
InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
26 October World Health Summit (Berlin)
GLOBVAC Webinar 3: Digital Health NIPH & Research Council of Norway 10 November Webinar 40
One Health Policy, Governance and the EID/NTD Interface
The Lancet One Health Commission 03 December One Health – Reconnecting for Our Future webinar series
215
The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health & Climate Change - the Oslo Launch
UiO: Nordic, UiO: Energy, SUM, UiO, NIPH &
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
04 December Webinar 295
GLOBVAC Webinar 4: Mental Health in Crisis, Vaccine and Point of Care Support
NIPH & Research Council of Norway 08 December Webinar 30
Ethiopia Seminar 2020 10 December Webinar 150
Total 26 hosted/co-hosted events 4 135
* Events affected by the regulations of COVID-19
