Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS)

🌎 At the International Health Economics Association #IHEA Congress 2025, @thelancet.com Commission on Investing in Health presented their work on halving premature #mortality by 2050 #50by50
📷 Commissioner & BCEPS PhD Fellow Sarah Bolongaita presenting
More: lnkd.in/dGKspE7N
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👏 At the Intl Health Economics Assn #IHEA2025 Congress, BCEPS PhD Fellow @achyutraj.bsky.social presented two papers:
1️⃣ Health Financing Reform in #Nepal: Bridging the Gap Between #Resources and #Disease Burden
2️⃣ #Poverty and Intersecting #Inequities in #HealthService Access and Utilization in Nepal

👏 At the International Health Economics Association #IHEA Congress in #Bali #Indonesia, BCEPS PhD Research Fellow Pratik Khanal (pictured) presented his paper "Estimating the #financialburden of #cancer in #Nepal:A cross-sectional study of #patientcosts"
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@igs-uib.bsky.social

👏 At the Intl #HealthEconomics Assn Congress 2025 in #Bali #Indonesia, BCEPS PhD Fellow Ravi Kanta Mishra presented "From Constitutional Provision to Implementation of Basic #HealthCare Services (BHCS) Delivery in #Nepal: Towards Achieving #UHC" #IHEA2025
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👏 Yesterday, at the Intl #HealthEconomics Association Congress in #Bali #Indonesia, BCEPS Researcher @krishnaaryal.bsky.social presented "Addressing the Non-communicable #Disease Burden in #SouthAsia: #PrioritySetting through #Costeffectiveness #Analysis of Essential #NCD #Interventions".
#IHEA2025

Out now: "New #Multilateralism for Promoting #Equity and #GlobalSouth Agency: Principles, #politics and #strategies for remaking the #globalhealth architecture", co-authored by BCEPS co-initiator Ole F. Norheim (Professor at @hsph.harvard.edu): www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/07/07/2...
📷 L. Desiro

💥 Several BCEPS researchers will be presenting at the upcoming International Health Economics Association #IHEA Congress 2025 in #Bali, #Indonesia, July 19-23, 2025!

See below for the timing and topics of the BCEPS researcher presentations👇

Full program: healtheconomics.confex.com/healtheconom...

🎉 New BCEPS study 👇
"Association between out-of-pocket expenditure and health-related #qualityoflife among patients receiving #cancertreatment: a cross-sectional study from #Nepal", just published in BMC Health & Qual. of Life Outcomes: hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📷 S. Rajbahak, Nepal

BCEPS PhD Research Fellow Pratik Khanal co-authored the study "Navigating #Nepal’s #healthfinancing system: A road to #universalhealthcoverage amid epidemiological & demographic transitions", recently published in @plosone.org:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#healthcare

Fig. 5 from the study:

BCEPS researchers Omar Mwalim, Sanaa Said, Ole Norheim, Ingrid Miljeteig, Austen Davis, Peter Hangoma & Kjell Arne Johansson along with co-authors published "A 10-Step Method for Fair Priority-Setting Processes: A Qualitative Case Study from Zanzibar" in @hsrjournal.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/3z58r8nt

**BCEPS International Symposium 2025**
#BCEPS2025 #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #PrioritySetting #FairChoices #DCPAnalyticsTool #HealthFinancing #FairChoices #HealthEquity #HealthSystems #HealthPolicy #HealthGovernance #BCEPS #NepalHealthEconomicsAssociation #NHEA @bceps.bsky.social

👏 Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to our annual BCEPS International Symposium 2025 last week!

💡Over the course of 3 inspirational days, both internationally leading and early career researchers in priority setting in health shared presentations, panels, and discussions.

🎉 Congratulations to Tarun Shankar Choudhary, the newest BCEPS PhD! 🎓

Tarun defended his PhD thesis at @igs-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social yesterday: "Assessing equity and poverty impact of health interventions in randomized controlled trials: a case study of Kangaroo Mother Care". 👏

🎉 Congratulations to BCEPS PhD Research Fellows @khanalpratik.bsky.social (photo 1 & middle, photo 2) and Ritha Willilo (right, photo 2), who won 2nd and 3rd place, respectively, in the Research Poster of the Year 2025 Awards given by @igs-uib.bsky.social, @unibergen.bsky.social!

#nepal #zanzibar

🎉 Congratulations to Ole F. Norheim for being awarded Best Publication 2024 by @igs-uib.bsky.social for "Halving premature death and improving quality of life at all ages: cross-country analyses of past trends and future directions", published in @thelancet.com: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📅 Join us for a discussion on #US and #European #AidCuts — Do They Matter for #GlobalHealth? on 27 May 2025 @unibergen.bsky.social 💡

See below for information in English and Norwegian. Some of the presentations will be in English, and some in Norwegian.

Event page: www.uib.no/en/bceps/178...

🗞️ Ny kronikk i @morgenbladet.no av førsteaman. Andrea Melberg & BCEPS-postdoktor Anand Bhopal,begge også leger,som reagerer på den nylig publiserte stortingsmeldingen «Helse for alle—Rettferdig prioritering i vår felles helsetjeneste»
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🎉 Join us in congratulating BCEPS Postdoc Research Fellow Anand Bhopal who won PhD Dissertation of the Year 2024, awarded by the @unibergen.bsky.social Medical Faculty! Congratulations on this very well-deserved award! 👏
His dissertation title was "Fair Pathways to Net Zero Healthcare"
📸J.Wilbricht

💡In a recent IJHPM article, BCEPS Postdoc Fellow Anand Bhopal & co-authors Kristine Bærøe and Ole F. Norheim (@hsph.harvard.edu) report on #interviews conducted with #civilservants leading national #netzero #healthcare strategies. 🌱

Link: www.ijhpm.com/article_4695...
Image: Figure from the article

💥 Now available: BCEPS 2024 Annual Report! 📄
Read the highlights of what has happened at our @forskningsradet Centre of Excellence in 2024: Publications, conferences, public events, courses, social activities, media coverage, and more!💡

www.canva.com/design/DAGf8...

@norad.no
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🎉 Join us in welcoming Anand Bhopal as a BCEPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow!

He earned his PhD at BCEPS and we are thrilled to have him join BCEPS as a postdoc to continue his important work!

📸 Anand defending his PhD in June 2024. Photo: J. Wilbricht
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🎉 Published today by the #WorldBank: Disease Control Priorities Fourth Edition (DCP-4) Volume 1!

📖 👉 You can download the entire volume or each of the 22 chapters free of charge here: dcp4.w.uib.no/volumes/volu...

The Secretariat was based at BCEPS, @igs-uib.bsky.social, @unibergen.bsky.social.

Thank you BCEPS300 participants & instructors! 🎉 👏
Over the past 2 weeks, 80+ students from 30+ countries met every day for BCEPS300 "Introduction to Priority Setting in Health" led by BCEPS Prof & Deputy Dir. Kjell Arne Johansson.
@unibergen.bsky.social
#onlinecourse #globalhealth #publichealth

Interesting article published by BCEPS adjunct researcher Jesse Bump ( @harvard.edu ) & colleagues:“Health equity and distributive justice: views of high-level African policymakers” 💡
Link: bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Image: Fig. 1 from the article showing respondents' countries

Yesterday, BCEPS' Head of #Administration, Maria Sollohub, and BCEPS' Head of #Communication, Jana Wilbricht, presented on the administrative leadership & branding of a #CentreofExcellence at the @unibergen.bsky.social Centre of Excellence Day, sharing advice/ideas for initiatives currently applying

BCEPS Professor Ingrid Miljeteig (pictured center, back) is a member of the #ExpertGroup on Developing @who.int #Guidance on #ClinicalEthics. 📃 The group (pictured) recently convened at @universityofmiami.bsky.social.
Miljeteig leads the chapter: #Teaching & Building #Competence in Clinical Ethics

This summer, as part of the Bergen Summer Research School, Professor Oddvar Kaarbøe will teach a course on "Health Financing Towards Universal Health Coverage" and you can register now! 💡

🇳🇴 10-20 June 2025 at @unibergen.bsky.social
‼️ Registration deadline: 1 Feb!
👉 Link: www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs/1...

#NetZero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for #sustainable #healthsystems through Reduce and Support"— #newstudy published in @bmj.com #GlobalHealth by BCEPS Researcher (& PhD grad) Anand Bhopal & colleagues 🌍

📄 👉 Link #openaccess: gh.bmj.com/content/8/Su...

📸 Fateme Alaei

#climatechange

📢 BCEPS is proud to announce a free 2-week online course on priority setting in health, led by Kjell Arne Johansson
& featuring international expert lecturers! 💥

Anyone around the world can take this course. This is a rare and valuable opportunity—please share widely! 💡

See more info below👇

💥 New study by BCEPS-affiliated PhD Candidate Leonie Schwarz, BCEPS Lead Researcher Ingrid Miljeteig & colleagues on #senior patients’ #ICU admission preferences & their next-of-kins’ ability to predict these.

📄 👉 Read the paper: journals.lww.com/ccejournal/f...

See the #visualabstract below👇