🆕 BCEPS is now on @bluesky! 🦋

👉 Follow us over there as well: @ bceps.bsky.social

#bluesky #follow #socialmedia #newaccount #accountstofollow #science #research #ethics
#prioritysetting #health #globalhealth #publichealth #healthcare

New @TheLancet #publication "Investing in #pandemic #prevention, #preparedness, and response" with BCEPS co-founder Ole F. Norheim as lead author recommends highest-return actions for pandemic preparedness, prevention & response: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 Registration is open for the 2027 edition of our award-winning and entirely free online course BCEPS300 "Introduction to Priority Setting in Health"! 🎓

📆 4 January - 12 March 2027
Every Friday, there will be a live Zoom meeting from 2-4 pm CET.

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🎉 🎓 Please join us in congratulating @AdjeiAduo (2nd from right), who successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday, 27 August 2026!
🎓 His main supervisor was @LumbweChola1 (far left), and co-supervisors were Øystein Ariansen Haaland (2nd from left) and @jakazili (far right)

#Newstudy published in @JAMA_current: "Multidomain Intervention for Growth in Term Small-for-Gestational-Age #Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial", co-authored by BCEPS Director Ingvild F. Sandøy:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

#publication #JAMA #babies #clinicaltrial #study

BCEPS was well-represented at the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) @socmdm 48th Annual Meeting in Oslo, from 28 June - 1 July, 2026.

Read about the BCEPS presentations at SMDM 2026 here: www4.uib.no/en/research/re…

#SMDM2026 #SMDM26
@Kriessh @LumbweChola1 @UiB @noradno

We convened the 5th annual BCEPS International Symposium under the theme "Priority Setting for Universal Health Care at a Crossroads: Equity, Efficiency, and Accountability" last week, with 90+ participants from 15+ countries, representing our international research network.

❗BCEPS is #hiring a #Postdoctoral Fellow in a 4-year, 100% position at @UiB to support the @noradno-funded project "Fair Choices on the Path to UHC – In Times of Change (2026–2030)", led by Kjell Arne Johansson.
👉 #apply: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…
📆Deadline: 28 June 2026

🎉The Section for Ethics and Health Economics (ETØK), made up of BCEPS and the research group HELTER at @UiB won the Research Environment of the Year Award for 2025! 🏆
📷 Current ETØK leader Oddvar Kaarboe (left) and former ETØK leader Ingrid Miljeteig (right).

👏 BCEPS Co-Founder Ole F. Norheim Appointed to Lead New National Council for Priority Setting and Sustainability in Health and Social Care Services in Norway.

Read more: 👇
www4.uib.no/en/research/re…

@HarvardChanSPH @UiB

"The Impoverishment Effect of Out-of-Pocket Expenditure for #Hypertension in #Ghana" by BCEPS PhD Fellow Kofi Aduo-Adjei & co-authors Øystein A. Haaland, @LumbweChola1, and James Akazili, was recently published in Health Policy Analysis: sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S22121…
📷 by Nappy Studio

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

BCEPS Co-Founder Ole F. Norheim has been named a #GoalkeepersNordicChampion by the @gatesfoundation! He will receive the award tomorrow at the inaugural Gates Foundation #GoalkeepersNordics Event in #Stockholm, #Sweden
#Goalkeepers2030
@BillGates @UiB @HarvardChanSPH @Harvard

💡🇹🇿 BCEPS PhD Research Fellow @castobarym (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 #FairChoices project team in Zanzibar. @noradno

🇹🇿 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 TZ lead Alphoncina Kagaigai
Back: Hamad Nyembea, Ministry of Health
Right: Apolinary Kamuhabwa, Vice Chancellor MUHAS
📸M Sollohub
@noradno

💡🌱 We begin the new year with a recently published @TheLancetPlanet article by BCEPS researchers Anand Bhopal,Ole F. Norheim & coauthors on how priority setting tools can facilitate the transition to environmentally #sustainable #healthcare
thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…
📸Danist Soh

🇳🇵This week, BCEPS was well-represented with several speakers at the Int't #Conference on #HealthEconomics in #Kathmandu #Nepal. BCEPS Dep. Director Prof. Kjell Arne Johansson (pictured) gave a plenary talk on evidence- & value-informed #prioritysetting.
📰thehimalayantimes.com/health/intl-he…

📢❗BCEPS is #hiring! Applications are now open for a permanent, #fulltime Associate Professor/ #Professor of #HealthEconomics position, based at @UiB in #Bergen #Norway
⏰ Deadline: 19 December 2025

ℹ️ 👉 Details: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

#applynow #jobposting #job #academicjob

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

🇳🇵BCEPS PhD Research Fellow Pratik Khanal
presented a cross-sectional #study among #patients receiving #cancertreatment in #Nepal at the #GlobalHealth #Norway #Conference 2025 in #Bergen.

📄Read his study in @PLOS: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

@UiB @noradno

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🌍 BCEPS Senior Researcher Krishna Aryal presented a #costeffectiveness analysis of essential #interventions to address the non-communicable #diseaseburden in #SouthAsia at the #GlobalHealth #Norway #Conference 2025 in #Bergen.

@UiB @noradno

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