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

🎉BCEPS Co-founder Ole F. Norheim was named a Goalkeepers Nordics Champion by the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
📸 @billgates.bsky.social with the 6 Champions (l-r): Nagin Ravand, Jesper Thomsen, Gunhild Stordalen, Bill Gates, Ole F. Norheim, Martin Blomberg, Asabea Britton
📸 by Dalberg Media/Gates

💡🇹🇿 BCEPS PhD Research Fellow @castory.bsky.social (pictured speaker) taught a workshop in #Zanzibar on Friday, providing an introduction to #healtheconomics & #prioritysetting in #health, and the #FairChoices DCP Analytics Tool, to the project team in Zanzibar.
@norad.no @igs-uib.bsky.social

🇹🇿 Official handover: '22-25 NCD project to "Fair Choices on the Path to UHC" '26-30
Front: Amani Mori, prev. Tanzania team lead handing over to new team lead Alphoncina Kagaigai
Back: Hamad Juma Nyembea, Ministry of Health
Right: Apolinary Kamuhabwa, Vice Chancellor MUHAS
📸 Maria Sollohub
@norad.no

💡🌱 We begin the new year with a recently published @thelancetplanet.bsky.social article by BCEPS researchers Anand Bhopal,Ole F. Norheim & coauthors on how #prioritysetting tools can facilitate the transition to environmentally #sustainable #healthcare:
www.thelancet.com/.../PIIS2542...
📸 Danist Soh

🇳🇵This week, BCEPS was well-represented with several speakers at the Int't #Conference on #HealthEconomics in #Kathmandu, #Nepal. BCEPS Deputy Director Prof. Kjell Arne Johansson (pictured) gave a plenary talk on evidence- and value-informed priority setting.

📰 thehimalayantimes.com/health/intl-...

Associate Professor or Professor of Health Economics (290565) | University of Bergen Job title: Associate Professor or Professor of Health Economics (290565), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, December 19, 2025

📢❗BCEPS is #hiring! Applications are now open for a permanent, #full-time Associate Professor/ #Professor of #HealthEconomics position, based at @unibergen.bsky.social in #Bergen #Norway

⏰ Deadline: 19 December 2025

ℹ️ 👉 Details: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

#applynow

@igs-uib.bsky.social

BCEPS is proud to offer its award-winning #onlinecourse “Introduction to #PrioritySetting in #Health” again! The course is free, open to all and in English. Dates: 2 Jan. - 20 March 2026
👉Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
👉Course info: www4.uib.no/en/studies/c...
@igs-uib.bsky.social

🇳🇵BCEPS PhD Research Fellow @khanalpratik.bsky.social
presented a cross-sectional #study among #patients receiving #cancertreatment in #Nepal at the #GlobalHealth #Norway #Conference 2025 in #Bergen.
📄 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

@igs-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social @norad.no
📸 BCEPS

🌍 BCEPS Senior Researcher @krishnaaryal.bsky.social presented a #costeffectiveness analysis of essential #interventions to address the non-communicable #diseaseburden in #SouthAsia at the #GlobalHealth #Norway #Conference 2025 in #Bergen
@igs-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social @norad.no
📸 BCEPS

At the #GlobalHealth #Norway #Conference 2025 this week, Professor Kjell Arne Johansson, BCEPS Deputy Director, gave a #keynote on " #Priorities: How do we prepare and improve #healthsystems for the current and future challenges?"

@igs-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

📷 by Eivind Senneset

💡Great turnout & questions yesterday at Prof. @zekeemanuel.bsky.social's talk on "Disinformation & Trust in Science in the U.S. & Beyond"!
Emanuel ( @upenn.edu & BCEPS, @unibergen.bsky.social) spoke about the historic crisis trust in health institutions is facing & how scientists can rebuild trust

Join us on Oct. 14, 14:00-15:00 in Alrek, @unibergen.bsky.social, for a talk with @zekeemanuel.bsky.social (@upenn.edu)on #disinformation and #trust in #science in the U.S. and beyond.

Sign up here:
alrekhelseklynge.no/arrangemente...

#sciencecommunication
#trustinscience
#Health #ethics

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to the newest BCEPS PhD graduate, Sindre August Horn (pictured)! 👏 🎓

On Monday, Sindre successfully defended his #PhD thesis, entitled "Univariate #inequalities in #health and #priority to the worse off" at @unibergen.bsky.social, @igs-uib.bsky.social

🎉 We are extremely happy & proud to announce that the project “Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage”, led by Prof. Kjell Arne Johansson, has been awarded NOK 129 million in funding over 5 years (2026-2030) by @norad.no!
Read more👇
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
@unibergen.bsky.social

🇹🇿 🇳🇴 🇬🇭🇳🇵BCEPS staff&affil. researchers Amani Mori( #Tanzania), Oddvar Kaarbøe( #Norway), Lumbwe Chola( #Ghana)&@krishnaaryal.bsky.social( #Nepal) presented on"Enhancing #Healthcare Prioritization through Implementing #Health #Technology #Assessment #HTA" in these countries @unibergen.bsky.social today

BCEPS event as part of Alrek Helsedager at @unibergen.bsky.social next week! Read more and register here: alrekhelseklynge.no/arrangemente...

@uio.no
@igs-uib.bsky.social
@krishnaaryal.bsky.social

#HTA #healtheconomics
#health #healthcare
#healthtechnology #assessment
#event #seminar

🎉 🇳🇵 #Nepal Chapter of the @thelancet.com Commission on Investing in Health launched in #Kathmandu last week! The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health includes several members from BCEPS.

👉 Read more about the launch on BCEPS' page: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

@norad.no
@unibergen.bsky.social

🇳🇵Successful 5-day #healtheconomics #training completed in #Nepal with 30 policymakers (pictured) as part of a 9-month “Health Economics for Policy” #fellowship, led by @governmentofnepal.bsky.social MoHP, BCEPS @unibergen.bsky.social, @who.int, Kathmandu Univ., NHEA & funded by @norad.no

🇳🇵Our 5-day #healtheconomics #training brings 30 federal & provincial officials together as part of the country’s 1st 9-month “Health Economics for Policy” #fellowship in Nepal, led by @governmentofnepal.bsky.social MoHP, BCEPS, @who.int Kathmandu Univ., NHEA & funded by @norad.no.
📷 BCEPS speakers

🌎 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
@unibergen.bsky.social

👏 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"
@unibergen.bsky.social
@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
@unibergen.bsky.social @igs-uib.bsky.social

👏 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