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Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS)
@bceps.bsky.social
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BCEPS is a Norwegian Centre of Excellence at the University of Bergen that aims to understand and promote ethically acceptable, fair, and efficient priority setting in national health systems.
Visit our website: https://www.uib.no/en/bceps
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🌍 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
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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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?"

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📷 by Eivind Senneset
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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💡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
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🎉 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
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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🎉 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
September 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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🇹🇿 🇳🇴 🇬🇭🇳🇵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
September 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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BCEPS event as part of Alrek Helsedager at @unibergen.bsky.social next week! Read more and register here: alrekhelseklynge.no/arrangemente...

@uio.no
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@krishnaaryal.bsky.social

#HTA #healtheconomics
#health #healthcare
#healthtechnology #assessment
#event #seminar
September 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🎉 🇳🇵 #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
September 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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🇳🇵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
August 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🇳🇵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
August 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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🌎 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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August 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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
July 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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👏 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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July 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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👏 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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July 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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
July 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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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
July 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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💥 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...
July 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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🎉 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
July 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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:
July 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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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
June 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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**BCEPS International Symposium 2025**
#BCEPS2025 #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #PrioritySetting #FairChoices #DCPAnalyticsTool #HealthFinancing #FairChoices #HealthEquity #HealthSystems #HealthPolicy #HealthGovernance #BCEPS #NepalHealthEconomicsAssociation #NHEA @bceps.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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👏 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.
June 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🎉 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". 👏
June 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🎉 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
June 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM