Partners

Researchers at the Research Centre for Health Promotion are involved in a number national, and international collaborative efforts with researchers in more than 70 countries. A preliminary list of collaborative projects and networks include these:

• Network of Psychiatric Epidemiology (NEPE) (a national network of researchers from universities, hospitals and research institutes all over Norway, coordinated by Arnstein Mykletun)
• Association for European Psychiatrists, Section for Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry (Arnstein Mykletun, member of board)
• Family Research Forum (a national network for researchers and personnel working in relevant ministries and directorates on family research issues, coordinated by Frode Thuen)
• International collaboration on Positive Psychology websites and data collection with the Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of Hong Kong and University of Madrid (Bente Wold)
• International intervention study on Fostering young people’s health through an Intervention aimed at Promoting the quality of their participation in Physical activity (FIPP). University of Birmingham, University of Valencia, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. (Bente Wold)
• National collaboration in The Network of Universities and University Colleges in Western Norway (Bente Wold)
• The WHO study on Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (close research collaboration with researchers in 43 countries) (previously coordinated by Bente Wold, data bank coordinated by Oddrun Samdal)
• European Network of Health Promoting Schools (Oddrun Samdal)
• Childrens Right’s Forum (Ragnhild Hollekim)
• The SATZ study (collaboration with researchers in seven universities in Europe and Africa (study funded by the EC and coordinated by Leif Edvard Aarø)
• The EC-funded Implementing Mental Health Action (IMPHA) research consortium (Maurice Mittelmark)
• The EC-funded Alcohol Policy Network in the Context of a Larger Europe (BtG) research network (Maurice Mittelmark)
• The Bloomberg Tobacco Initiative (Maurice Mittelmark)
• The EC-funded Building Pathways for Alcohol Control (PATHWAYS) research network (Maurice Mittelmark)
• The EC-funded Health Inequalities Research Network (DETERMINE) (Maurice Mittelmark and Elisabeth Fosse)
• The EC-funded EURO-INDIA Public/Private Partnerships for Primary Health Care project (Maurice Mittelmark)
• The EC-funded Developing the Evidence Base for Mental Health Promotion (DATAPREV) research network (Maurice Mittelmark)
• The EC-funded project Public Health Training in the Context of an Enlarging Europe (PHETICE) (Elisabeth Fosse)
• The EC-funded project Closing the Gap (Elisabeth Fosse)
• The Scientific Committee for Antarctic research (SCAR) Human Biology and Medicine Working Group (Hege Randi Eriksen, Holger Ursin)
• Selection of Antarctic Personell, British Antarctic Survey (SOAP, Hege Randi Eriksen, Holger Ursin)
• International Network for Subjective and Unexplained Health Complaints. Collaborative project under The International Society for Behavioral Medicine (Hege Randi Eriksen, Camilla Ihlebæk, Holger Ursin)
• EU COST B 13 program for European guidelines for treatment and prevention of back pain (Hege Randi Eriksen, Holger Ursin)
• The NUFU-funded Joint Tanzanian Norwegian Project on Counselling, Education and Health Promotion (CEHP) - a Research and Competence Building Programme, a Co-operation between the University of Bergen (Faculty of Psychology and Faculty of Medicine) and the University of Dar es Salaam (Faculty of Education) in the period 1996-2001 and the period 2002-2007. (Co-ordinator Gro Therese Lie)
• The NUFU funded project “Globalisation and Changes in Survival and Care: the Case of Ghana” A co-operation between the University of Bergen and the University of Ghana, Legon (funding period 2003-2007 and the period 2007 - 2011). ( Co-ordinator Asun St. Clair, Co-researcher Gro Therese Lie)
• The multi-disciplinary project “Searching for effective HIV-prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focusing on local contexts”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council 2004-2006, 2006-2009 (Senior Co-Researchers Gro Therese Lie, Leif Edvard Aarø)
• The multi-disciplinary NUFU funded project “ Gender, generation and social mobilisation: Challenges of reproductive health and rights among vulnerable groups in Ethiopia, Sudan and Tanzania”, a co-operation between University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ahfad University for Women (AUW), Sudan; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; University of Bergen and Bergen University College, Norway. (funding period 2007-2011) (Senior Co-researcher Gro Therese Lie)
• The EC-funded project CARMA: Care for the aged at risk of marginalization. Key action 6. The ageing population and disabilities.
• Nordic network for gender research in Latin America (HAINA) (Cecilie Ødegaard)
• Nordic network for Latin American research (NOLAN) (Cecilie Ødegaard)
• Nordic Network in Nordic and East / Central European Network for Qualitative Social Research (NECEN) (Haldis Haukanes)
• Eastern borders, money, gender, and sexuality: a network exploring shifting locations of value on the European peripheries (EastBoardNet). Currently being established, to be coordinated by University of Manchester, Dept. of Social Anthropology (Haldis Haukanes)
• GAD collaboration with African universities through NUFU-funded projects: Addis Ababa University, Dept. of sociology and social anthropology; University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies; Ahfad University for Women, Sudan; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Department of History; Institute of Social Work, Tanzania; Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Collaboration also with Makerere University, Uganda.
• European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (GAD)
• Nordic and East/Central European Network for Qualitative Social Research (NECEN) (Haldis Haukanes)

The Research Centre for Health Promotion will encourage members of all subgroups and teams to continue involving in research networks and collaboration with researchers at all levels.