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Researchers warn: Denmark will drain the Philippines and India of the health care workers they themselves need

Denmark has far better coverage of healthcare professionals than India and the Philippines, which report a shortage of nurses. "Ethically worrying" that Denmark wants to recruit from there, say three researchers.

Global Health Researcher Spotlight

Helle Samuelsen: How civil servants promote climate change adaptation in Burkina Faso

The School of Global Health's Global Health Research Spotlight series focuses on global health researchers from the University of Copenhagen.

RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT

Healthy Future exhibition features Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen

COPE member and associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen is featured in a new exhibition inaugurated by the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Bente Merete…

Diplomacy in Africa

Dag Hammarskjöld - UN Hero?

In a recent podcast produced by Radio4 titled ‘Verden Kalder’, Associate Professor Stig Jensen delves into the history surrounding Dag Hammarskjöld, in light of the recently released movie about his life. Stig speaks…

Social media and crowdsourcing in disaster risk management: Trends, gaps, and insights from the current state of research

Social media and crowdsourcing (SMCS) are increasingly used as tools to govern disasters. Nevertheless, we have a limited understanding of how these technologies support disaster risk management (DRM). Based on a…

Grassroots healthcare

Global health crisis: Vietnam shows new ways to treat diabetes

Med øget fokus på uformel omsorg er det muligt at forbedre diabetespatienters liv markant. Det viser forskningsprojektet VALID, der netop har afsluttet sin første fase i Vietnam og kan få betydning andre steder.

Mandela's vision is the guiding star for post-apartheid South Africa

In an article published by ‘Baggrund’, Associate Professor Stig Jensen details how the spirit of Mandela and his efforts to fighting apartheid and create a more equal world still lives on. South Africa has grown their…

Rethinking Vulnerability in the Nordic countries: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Researchers Emmanuel Raju, Claudia Morsut, Olivier Rubin, Gyöngyi Kovács, Johan von Schreeb, Carina King and Anne Bach Nielsen have published their new study in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction titled…

Living and Working through Heatwaves in Urban Chennai- Field Reflections

Globally heat is becoming an urgent disaster that needs to be acted upon. Heatwaves are progressively becoming more severe with increasing frequency.

Interview with Marianne Bach Mosebo

Meet Marianne Bach Mosebo, Assistant Professor at the University College Copenhagen. She is currently working on the project ‘Scope of drones and AI usage in disaster management and humanitarian aid’, in cooperation wit…

Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities in the Nordic Countries (CliCNord)

Climate change is also affecting the Nordic countries, and there are vulnerable geographical areas that will be particularly affected by an increasing number of devastating natural events.

CERTIZENS Regional Workshop on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

In January, CERTIZENS Research Project convened a three-day workshop in Kampala with the title 'Changing ID Systems in East Africa: Histories, Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of States and Citizens'. In five…

Regime Change in Africa

A Couped Continent

In the latest edition of Samfundsnyt 'Africa and Globalization', a journal for social studies teachers in Denmark, Associate Professor Stig Jensen explains some of the reasons for the recent military coups in Africa.…

Global Health Researcher Spotlight

Magdalena Bogucewicz: Migrant healthcare in humanitarian contexts

The School of Global Health's Global Health Research Spotlight series focuses on global health researchers from the University of Copenhagen.

Logic of the Apartheid State

In a podcast episode by DR, Associate Professor Stig Jensen helps listeners understand the complexities of apartheid. With the recent escalation in the conflict in Israel and Palestine more people are beginning to align…

PhD Fellowships at the Faculty of Theology

Subject to available grants, the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, hereby announces that two three-year PhD scholarships will be available from 1 September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. We invite…

New project explores multiple waterscapes in Ghana

With support from DANIDA, a new project based at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen is investigating how poorer residents in different parts of Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi, access clea…

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Olivier Rubin

We would like to invite you all to the inaugural lecture by the newly appointed Professor Olivier Rubin on April 5th 2024, at 14:00 (CET) in Building 25, room 25.1-035, at Roskilde University.

Dorothy Antwi Boasiako is a new PhD student at the Centre of African Studies

Dorothy graduated from the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2021 where she wrote her thesis on displacement and the construction, negotiation and navigation of masculinity of migrant Ghanaian…

Borderland 2024 - Application Deadline: April 1st

Are you missing 7,5 ECTS Points? Do you want to spend a month in Thailand this summer? APPLY FOR THE BORDERLAND COURSE!