Case Competition 2023.04.24 Global Health Case Competition 2023 in Atlanta With support from the School of Global Health, six UCPH students participated in the Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition 2023 in Atlanta, US.
New Podcast 2023.04.20 DR Tiden: Sudans warring partners On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Tiden, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the growing conflict in Sudan.
Blind spots 2023.04.14 The global health sector depends on women but favours men Women make up more than 70 percent of the healthcare workforce globally, but the industry still favors men. This can create blind spots in research and lead to global personnel shortages.
Book Chapter 2023.04.04 Grounding the Prosperity Gospel In their recent work, Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach and CAS Affiliate Professor George Bob-Milliar, present an overview of grounding the prosperity gospel, basing their discussion on an analysis of the project of…
Career Portal at the Global Development Network 2023.03.20 Career Portal at the Global Development Network Do you want to find your next Student Assistant Job, or maybe your future Internship?
New Director 2023.03.17 Lena Skovgaard Andersen is the new Director of University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health Professor Flemming Konradsen has passed the baton to Assistant Professor Lena Skovgaard Andersen when the board of the School of Global Health unanimously elected her as the new director of the School of Global Health.
COVID-19 2023.03.07 Do rules at folk high schools make sense for young people - What we learned from COVID-19 In June 2020, a study investigated staff and student reactions to folk high schools reopening under new COVID-19 guidelines.
Call 2023.03.01 Registration for the Bonn 2023 CCC now open Employees at the University of Copenhagen have the opportunity to apply for accreditation prior to the Bonn 2023 Climate Change Conference organized by the Sustainability Science Centre (SSC).
new podcast 2023.02.27 Nigeria’s choice: a light in the darkness of apathy On the recent episode of the Globalnyt podcast Højtryk, former director of CAS, Niels Kastfelt, discusses Nigerian politics and the upcoming elections.
Review 2023.02.22 Book Review: Healing and Power in Ghana Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of CAS, recently reviewed Paul Glen Grant´s new book, called Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity.
Climate Change 2023.02.13 Barriers to interdisciplinarity: an early career researchers’ perspective on urban climate governance About a year ago, our Cities in Global Climate Governance early career researchers’ (ECR) group took up a project to begin reviewing all of the contemporary global urban climate governance literature.
Disaster risk 2023.02.08 COPE researchers at the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality Last month, COPE researchers Maansi Parpiani and Suchismita Goswami participated in the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality organized by the Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies and the Tata…
Global health research 2023.02.01 New global health research projects about climate change and health in 2023 Danida Fellowship Center has granted the Global Health Section at the University of Copenhagen 30 million DKK for three new climate change and health related research projects in Tanzania, Kenya, and Bangladesh.
NEEDS 2022 2023.01.24 Disasters, Climate Change and Law: Reflections from the NEEDS conference and COPE stay As someone who is interested in the intersection between law and disasters – it is always exciting to find an event that caters to both. This made the Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies…
2023.01.12 Piss off: Salva Kiir and South Sudan On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Genstart, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the leader who became president of South Sudan.
New research 2023.01.09 What characterises emergency response to slowly developing crises and disasters? An EU-funded project hosted at Roskilde University in collaboration with Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) takes a closer look at the characteristics of attention and proactive response in the context of…
COVID-19 2022.12.07 Risk and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic The study identified five key themes in the experiences of people living with chronic illnesses during the pandemic: wellbeing, normality, healthcare access, coping resources, and meaningfulness.
NEEDS 2022 2022.12.06 Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…
Obituary 2022.11.30 Obituary: Siri Tellier (2 April 1946 – 19 October 2022) Global health and the Section of Global Health at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen has lost an inspiring scholar and infatigable spokeswoman for health and human rights.
New research 2022.11.29 Improving the efforts to support families in humanitarian crises New research project sets out to evaluate the Nurturing Families intervention - a scalable, multi-sectoral, component-based intervention for families experiencing multiple difficulties.