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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…

Updated educational resources about innovation in global health

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

Can architects prevent pandemics?

Jakob Knudsen and Flemming Konradsen discuss implications regarding architects' roles in preventing pandemics.

After hard working days she rested by the beautiful Ebola River

This is the remarkable story of the surgeon Margrethe Rask, who went to work on a mission hospital near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Online course update: The impact of COVID-19 on tourism

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on all sectors, not least the tourist industry. Therefore, we decided to update our online course on sustainable tourism.

Dental care in school breaks down social inequalities

A new global survey documents how dental care in the school environment is helping to assure a healthy life and social equity.

Researchers reveal malaria's deadly grip

Discovery of how parasite sticks to blood vessels could lead to new means to combat malaria.

Could families be a key to preventing type 2 diabetes in Uganda?

Jannie Nielsen is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen and she is currently situated in Kasese in Uganda to collect data for her studies. Diabetes is a complex disease which is closely linked to the way we live,…

Ali Salanti receives Phase II Grand Challenges Explorations Funding

Ali Salanti and the VAR2CSA team at Centre for Medical Parasitology will receive Phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

A day dedicated to "bounce back-ability"

School of Global Helath and NOHA dedicated a whole day to investigate the concept of "resilience" (bounce back-ability). See and read about the the day here.

Copenhagen NCD meeting links South and North experiences

Non-communicable diseases can destroy a country’s economy and that is why international movements currently are working hard to put health on the agenda at Rio +20 – The UN conference on sustainable development in June.

Cross-sectoral collaboration is needed to make sanitation projects work

Access to water and sanitation has high political priority in Vietnam, but the efforts seldom reach the ethnic minorities in the northern part of the country.

Community health observatory kicks off in Malaysia - a new UCPH collaboration

SEACO in Malaysia will give a unique insight to how e.g. culture, family, jobs and the economy shape the transition in life style.

Herbal abortion helps African women

Researchers have examined a number of plants which are used for illegal abortions in Tanzania. Several of the plants can be used to stop lethal bleedings after birth.