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Case challenge

2021.04.07

A student solution for Brazil's mass vaccination problem

A multidisciplinary team consisting of five students from Global Health, Global Development, and Medicine represented the University of Copenhagen at the 2021 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition.

2021.04.06

Hans Olsson writes article on COVID-19, food shortages, and Christian farming in South Africa

In this article Hans Olsson puts focus on the relationship between religion and farming in South Africa and discusses how a Christian model to grow food enters questions of social and ecological sustainability.…

2021.03.30

Stig Jensen discusses the African football association CAF and their new president, Patrice Motsepe

The African football association CAF has a new president, after Ahmad Ahmad from Madagascar had to resign due to corruption. The new man at the helm is the South African business man and mining billionaire Patrice…

CASE CHALLENGE

2021.03.24

New Global Health Case Challenge: Improving quality of care at birth in the wake of COVID-19

There is a new student case challenge in town! University of Copenhagen is re-launching its popular international Global Health Case Challenge in collaboration with three Nordic universities.

New research

2021.03.19

The fight against diarrheal diseases in Bangladesh

Rebeca Sultana has spent the last six years investigating diarrheal diseases including cholera transmission in a low-income urban community in Dhaka. Read her story here.

2021.03.19

Asian Futures: Rethinking the Asian Century

This seminar open a series of talks on the question of Asian Futures in the 21st century.

Cardiovascular disease

2021.03.08

Failing to see the wood for the trees may be preventing better outcomes in cardiovascular disease

Managing single risk factors like blood pressure rather than looking at overall risk may be wasting scarce resources in countries where cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise, according to a new study.

2021.03.08

New public seminar series: Asian Futures

Drawing on fresh scholarly work by researchers around the world, Asian Futures will begin a series of conversations on the shifting dynamics of Asian politics and the economy.

2021.03.02

New project looking to enhance young people’s climate crisis awareness, agency and action in Tanzania

A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the sections of Global Health and Health Services Research has been awarded DKK 12 million from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study young people’s engagement wit…

2021.03.01

Video: Making Sense of Myanmar's 1.2.21 Military Coup

The recording of the discussion on 4 February of the unfolding crisis in Myanmar is now available.

2021.02.17

4 articles about CAS students' thesis projects

Globalnyt has published a series of articles about CAS students and their exciting, creative and relevant thesis projects. This can give insight into some of the possibilities studying at CAS, and what type of research…

2021.02.11

The Guilty Victim - Podcast with associate professor Stig Jensen

For the first time ever, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, has found a child soldier guilty of crimes against humanity. Dominic Ongwen was abducted and brainwashed by a Christian rebellion army and…

2021.02.09

CAS welcomes PhD fellow Hamida Massaquoi

CAS welcomes Hamida Massaquoi, our new PhD fellow at the faculty.

2021.02.07

Special issue: Calcutta characters

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen is the co-editor of a new special issue titled ‘Calcutta characters’ published by the quarterly journal ‘Contemporary South Asia’. The special issue is an experiment in alternative…

2021.01.21

Video: East-West Reflections on Demonization

Video recording of the book launch of "East-West Reflections on Demonization" edited by Geir Helgesen and Rachel Harrison.

COPE

2021.01.19

COPE 2020 Annual Highlights

The COPE 2020 Annual Highlights is now available!

2021.01.19

Associate Professor Amanda Hammar publishes chapter in The Handbook of Displacement

CAS Associate Professor Amanda Hammar has recently had a chapter published in The Handbook of Displacement (Adey et al., Palgrave Macmillan 2020). The Handbook “provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how…

2021.01.19

Associate Professor Amanda Hammar gives the 5th JJ Bachofen Lecture

In November 2019, CAS Associate Professor Amanda Hammar was invited to give the 5th JJ Bachofen Lecture in Anthropology at the University of Basel. The title of her lecture was Speaking Through Houses: Interweaving…

COPE Socials

2021.01.12

World Disasters Report, 2020: Come Heat or High Water

On December 17, 2020, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted an online talk with Maarten van Aalst, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and Kirsten Hagon, Senior Analyst in the IFRC…

2021.01.12

Associate Professor Stig Jensen publishes article on tourism in Uganda during the COVID-pandemic

Associate Professor Stig Jensen publishes article on tourism in Uganda during the COVID-pandemic in Globalnyt.