News about Global health

Improving the efforts to support families in humanitarian crises

New research project sets out to evaluate the Nurturing Families intervention - a scalable, multi-sectoral, component-based intervention for families experiencing multiple difficulties.

New podcast about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar

A new podcast series from the University of Copenhagen about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar.

A REFLECTION OF MY EXPERIENCE ON A COURSE ON “DIALOGUE AND THE ART OF LISTENING”

Maura Ntow, PhD candidate. In this short piece, I reflect on my engagement with the course “Dialogue and the art of listening” organized at Aarhus University.

Myths about antibiotics are a much bigger problem than you think

A recent study by the University of Copenhagen is used to develop new communication materials informing patients and health care professionals about the correct use of antibiotics.

Mexicans should consume less ultra-processed products – especially pregnant women

Ultra-processed products negatively impact Mexican pregnant women, and Mexico could learn a great deal from Denmark when it comes to living a healthier life, says Adriana Granich, a Mexican epidemiologist and medical…

Equine cardiologi meeting 2022

This year Equine cardiology meeting was held at the Panum Institute.

Global health summer courses: 150 students are ready to tackle future global health challenges

Over three weeks, 150 students from more than 20 different countries have participated in School of Global Health's summer courses

The PartoMa guidelines and seminars are now implemented at all study sites in Dar es Salaam

The PartoMa guidelines were adapted for Dar es Salaam last year, and they have now been implemented at five of the biggest and most congested maternity units in the city

Not all kinds of lockdown measures for COVID-19 subsequently improved air quality

A newly published study by Jiawei Zhang and his colleagues, surprisingly showed that not all kinds of lockdown measures for COVID-19 subsequently improved air quality.

Y-ENGAGE has found its eight excellent doctoral students

The project has been fortuned with no less than eight doctoral students that are currently shaping their individual research studies within the project frame of exploring young people’s awareness, agency, and action in…

Inadequate access to harm reduction services may cause higher HIV prevalence among women who use drugs in Tanzania

People who use drugs are more affected by HIV compared to the general population in Tanzania. In the last few years, the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs has decreased but women who use drugs are…

Updated educational resources about innovation in global health

Newly updated educational resources about innovation in global health. Freely available to anyone interested.

First PartoMa seminars for health students have been conducted at State University of Zanzibar

Forward-thinking solutions are needed to support the current midwifery and medical students to enable best possible quality of care after graduation

Student innovations to improve the health of indigenous peoples

A team from University of Copenhagen participated in the Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition and developed a health action plan to improve the health of indigenous peoples.

A PartoMa stakeholder event in Dar es Salaam: Co-creating next steps

Supported by DFC/Danida, we conducted a mid-term dissemination event in Dar es Salaam on 8th June 2022

The crisis of unintended pregnancies and the shortcomings of modern contraception

United Nation Population Fund’s (UNFPA) State of World Population Report 2022 confirms an alarming fact: almost half of all pregnancies - a total of 121 million pregnancies each year - are unintended.

Kick-off seminar in April 2022

The Rasopta Group met for the first time in Copenhagen at their kick-off meeting from 24 to 30 April 2022. A large group of partners and with Phd Students from 12 countries all over the world. It will be interesting to…

Hanxi Li

Welcome to Hanxi Li - now all the ESRs are on board and ready to go. Learn more about Hanxi LI's project.

Presenting Sara Sousa de Brito

Welcome to Sara - see Sara's project HERE

Julia and Manuel

Welcome to ESR4: Julia Södergren, from PLEN at UCHP. Julia's project is Microbial ecology of production and degradation of geosmin in RAS Her new colleaque is ESR 8, Manuel Thibaud Blonc. Manuel will be working from…

We have now commenced the 7th year of PartoMa seminars in Zanzibar

We are currently training more than 500 health providers on the archipelago every 3 months

..... and to Pedro Martínez Noguera

ESR 5: Pedro Martínez Noguera; Department of FOOD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Organic and inorganic off-flavors in water and fish in RAS

Welcome to Sujan, Matteo and Fernando

Nearly there. This week's ESR profiles are: Fernando, Sujan and Matteo:

Welcome to Mariana, Dhiraj and Hazim

ESR 6: Mariana Rodriques da Silva, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany: Investigation and the development of managing strategies regarding off-flavours in fish and water of RAS ESR 9:…