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The CIH-CISMAC Research School holds monthly webinars for researchers where junior and senior scientists discuss topics of their interest.

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About the seminar series

The webinars alternate between a selected topic of general interest and meetings with presentation of PhD proposals or other work in progress.

The webinars strengthen the links between CISMAC鈥檚 partner institutions and CIH, and fosters linkages to other researchers at the University of Bergen and in its collaborating low- and middle-income country research institutions.

2025 - spring semester

Date:听February 12
Time: 10:30-12:00 CET
罢颈迟濒别:听"Implementation research to promote treatment of pneumonia in under-five children in a North Indian district鈥.
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Barsha G. Pathak听

Date:听January 08听
Time: 12:00-13:30 CET
Title:听Implementation Research- What? Why? How?
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Sarmila Mazumder

2024 - fall semester

Date:听December 11
Time: 13:00-14:00
Tentative title:听Challenging implications of the politicization of maternal death reporting: 听Case studies from Tanzania and Ethiopia
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Astrid Blystad and Karen Marie Moland

Date:听November 13听(Cancelled. Will be rescheduled for spring 2025)
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听罢叠础
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Sarmila Mazumder

Date:听October 2
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听Economic support, comprehensive sexuality education and community dialogue for girls' empowerment in Zambia
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Ingvild Fossgard Sand酶y, Hanne Keyser Hegdahl and Mweetwa Mudenda

Date:听September 11
Time: 12:30-14:00
Titles:听Single Cleansing of The Umbilical Cord Stump with Chlorhexidine to Prevent Newborn Infections: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda,
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Exposure and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Cohort Study
Presenters: Victoria Nankabirwa and Halvor Sommerfelt

Date:听August 14
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听听Impact of an integrated intervention package during preconception, pregnancy, and early childhood on biomarkers of infant growth in the first 6 months of life: A sub study in WINGS
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Ranadip Chowdhury

2024 - spring semester

Date:听June 19
Time: 13:00-14:30
Title: Labour augmentation with oxytocin in low- and lower-middle-income countries听 听
Presenter: Monica Lauridsen Kujabi

Date:听May 15听(Cancelled. Is rescheduled for fall 2024)
Time: 12:30-14:00
Tentative title:听MATRISET 听听
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Astrid Blystad and Karen Marie Moland

Date:听April 17 (Cancelled. Is rescheduled for fall 2024)
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: TBA听 听 听 听
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Ingvild Fossgard Sand酶y听

Date:听March 20
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听Labour progression in urban resource-constrained maternity units - An appeal for change听 听 听
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Monica Lauridsen Kujabi

2023 - fall semester

Date:听December 13
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听'Zinc as adjunct treatment for clinical severe infection in young infants鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧'鈥
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Dr. Nitya Wadhwa听

Date:听August 16
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听"Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve the Duration of 听Kangaroo Mother Care in the Facility, South India".
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Dr. Sathya Jeganathan

2023 - spring semester

Date:听April 12
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听: Assumptions and estimation of complier-average causal effect in RCTs
Presenter: Hugo Cogo Moreira

Date:听March 08
Time:听CANCELLED, will be rescheduled.
Title:听Labour augmentation with oxytocin in low- and lower-middle-income countries
Presenter: Monica Lauridsen Kujabi

Date:听February 22
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听Effects of Result-based Financing on maternal, neonatal and child health care services in Tanzania.
(Eskindir Loha, Ottar M忙stad, Vincent Somville, Peter Binyaruka, Jo Borghi)
Presenter: Eskindir Loha

Date:听January 11
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听What are the consequences of vitamin B12 deficiency in early life, what do we know, what are the remaining research questions, and how should we address these?听
- and how has CISMAC contributed to generating the evidence
Presenter: Tor Strand

2022 - fall semester

Date: December 14
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听"Impact of a package of health, nutrition, psychosocial support, and WaSH interventions delivered during preconception, pregnancy, and early childhood periods on birth outcomes and on linear growth at 24 months of age: factorial, individually randomised controlled trial"
Presenters:听Dr. Sunita Taneja and Dr. Ranadip Chowdhury.听

Date:听November 9
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听How to deal with lack of adherence in Randomized Controlled trial: new alternatives to Intention-to-treat applied to trials in education
Presenters:听Hugo Cogo-Moreira

Date: October 12
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Effect of kangaroo mother care initiated in community settings on financial risk protection of low-income households: A randomized controlled trial
Presenters:听Tarun Choudhary

Date: September 28
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:听Effect of community-initiated kangaroo mother care on breastfeeding performance in low birthweight infants: A randomized clinical trial
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Bireshwar Sinha

2022 - spring semester

Date: March 30.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 12 (Using Regression Models in Epidemiologic Analysis)
Presenter: Monica Kujabi

Date: March 16.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 10 (Controlling Confounding by Stratifying Data)
Presenter: Farhan Yusuf

Date:听March 2.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 9 (Analyzing Simple Epidemiologic Data)
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Ravi Upadhyay and听Ranadip Chowdhury

Date:听Feb 16.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 8 (Random Error and the Role of Statistics)
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Mahima Venkateswaran

Date:听Feb 2.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 7 (Dealing with Biases)
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Eleni Zoumpoulia Papadopoulou

Date: Jan 19
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 5 (Types of Epidemiologic 大象传媒)
Presenter:听Catherine Schwinger

Date: Jan 5
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 3 (recap) and Chapter 11 (Measuring Interactions)
Presenters:听Tarun Choudhary and听Bireshwar Sinha

2021 - Fall听semester

1) 11 August
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: "How can India and Tanzania most efficiently reduce neonatal mortality to 12 per 1000 live births or less"
Presenter:听Usha Dingra

2) 8 September
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: "Effect of ciKMC听on fecal biomarkers of gut function in low birthweight infants"
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Bireshwar Sinha

3) 13 October
Time: 12:30-14:00
罢颈迟濒别:听Can benefits of early interventions sustain during primary grades? Findings from a follow-up evaluation of a rural, disadvantaged cohort in Pakistan
Presenter:听Muneera Abdul Rasheed

4) 10 November
Time: 12:30-13:20
Title: Brief information about the two back-to-back courses in April 2022
听 听 听 听 听,听 and
Presenters:听Professor Halvor Sommerfelt

5) 24听November
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Recap of webinar Nov 10 + Chapters 1, 2 and 3
Presenter: Professor听Halvor Sommerfelt

6)听 8 December
Time: 12:30-14:00
罢颈迟濒别:听CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Chapter 4 (Measuring Disease Occurrence and Causal Effects)
Presenter:听Professor Halvor Sommerfelt

7) 22听December
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
听 听 听 听 听Prevalence, Time-to-event analysis, Chapter 4: Causal effectsDate:
Presenters: Halvor Sommerfelt with听Eleni Zoumpoulia Papadopoulou,听Josephine Tumuhamye and听David Mukunya

2021 - Spring semester

1) 03听February
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: A digital health registry with clinical decision support for improving quality of antenatal care in Palestine (eRegQual): a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Presenter: Mahima Venkateswaran

2) 10听March
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:鈥淓ffect of Community-Initiated Kangaroo Mother Care on catastrophic out of pocket expenditure and impoverishment: An Equity Randomized Controlled Trial鈥
Presenter:Tarun Choudhary

3) 14听April
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:鈥淭he importance and challenges of long-term follow-up in studies on neurodevelopment. Experiences from Nepal.鈥
Presenters:The CISMAC-B12 Nepal team.听

4) 19听May
Time: 12:30-14:00
罢颈迟濒别:听Catch up growth in childhood and association听with neurodevelopment
Presenters: Ravi Upadhyay

5) 09听June
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: 鈥淭he effectiveness of a girls麓empowerment programme on early childbearing and grade 9 completion in rural Zambia: A cluster randomized trial鈥.
Presenter: Ingvild Sand酶y

2020 - Fall semester

1) 09听September
Time:听13:30-15:00听CET听 听 听 听 听
Title:听PART 1, Epidemiologic considerations around a case-control study of oxytocin (mis?)use and baby survival.
Presenter:听Halvor Sommerfelt and Sanjana Mohan

2) 23 September
Time:
听14:00-15:30听CET听 听 听 听 听
Title:听PART 2, Epidemiologic considerations around a case-control study of oxytocin (mis?)use and baby survival.
Presenter:听Halvor Sommerfelt

3) 07听October
Time:听12:30-14:00 CET听 听 听 听 听
Tentative title:听鈥淓ffects of economic support and community dialogue on adolescent sexual behavior: findings from the RISE trial鈥
Presenter:听Hanne Keyser Hegdahl

4) 21听October
Time:
听12:30-14:00听 听 听
Title:听PART 3, Epidemiologic considerations (around a case-control study of oxytocin (mis?)use and baby survival.)
Presenter:听Halvor Sommerfelt, Bireshwar Sinha, Hanne Keyser Hegdahl.

5) 18听November
Time:听12:30-14:00 CET听 听 听 听 听
Title:听Health Equity Impact of Community Initiated Kangaroo Mother Care (ciKMC)
Presenter:听Tarun Shankar Choudhary and Kjell Arne Johansson

6) 02听December
Time:听12:30-14:00 CET听 听 听 听 听
Title:听DSMBs 鈥 when and why听they are needed,听their organization and operation.
Presenter:听Jose Martines with experience-sharing inputs from Simon Cousens of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Rajiv Bahl of WHO.

2020 - spring semester

1) 13 February
This webinar will be a live streaming听of a PhD defense
Time:听09:15听CET and 11.15 CET听 听 听 听 听
Topic:听 听 听听听
Trial lecture:听鈥淪trengths and challenges of complex community based interventions for maternal newborn and child health鈥.听
PhD Defense:听鈥淣ewborn care practices in Northern Uganda: 大象传媒 on breastfeeding, decision-making and hypothermia鈥
Presenter: David Mukunya

2)听03 March听
This webinar will be a live streaming听of a听PhD defense
Time:听09:15听CET and 11.15 CET听
Topic:听 听 听听听
Trial lecture: 鈥淚nvolving future users in the design of health apps: methodologies and methods鈥
PhD Defense:听鈥淒esigning usable mobile forms for collection of health data in Uganda鈥
Presenter: Alice Mugisha

3)听27 March听
This webinar will be a live streaming听of a听PhD defense
Time:听09:15听CET and 11.15 CET听 听 听 听 听
Topic:听 听 听听听
Trial lecture: "Global newborn mortality: What are the game changers?"
PhD Defense: "No cry at birth Neonatal - resuscitation in low-resource settings: role of the laryngeal mask airway"
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Nicolas Pejovic听

4) 06 May
Time:听12:30听CET听 听 听 听 听
Topic:听鈥淏uilding multivariable models for epidemiological analyses鈥
Presenter:听David Mukunya

5)听03 June听
Time:听12:30 CET听 听 听 听
Topic:听"Multivariable regression to analyze data from a Randomized controlled trial (RCT) of community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care and postartum depression: Why and when to adjust for covariates in an RCT?"
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Bireshwar Sinha

2019 - fall semester

1) 3听October,
Time:12:00-13:30 CET听 听 听 听 听
Topic: 鈥淔rom paperwork to practice 鈥 Rural Health bureaucrats and the Zambian abortion Policy鈥澨
笔谤别蝉别苍迟别谤:听Marte Haaland

2) 5听November
Time:(tentative) Trial Lecture:09:15 CET, PhD Defence 11:15 CET听听
This webinar will be a live streaming听of the PhD defense by CISMAC PhD candidate, 听Mahima Venkateswaran
Title of PhD:听鈥淎ttributes and consequences of health information systems data for antenatal care. Health status, health system performance and policy鈥
Title of trial lecture:鈥淓nabling environment for digital health: supporting sustainability, policy decisions and clinical decision making鈥

3) 2听December听听听听
Time:(tentative) 12:00-13:30 CET
Tentative title: 鈥淧resentation based on the NeoSupra Trial鈥
Lead: Thorkild Tyllesk盲r

2019 - spring semester

1) 9th January
Topic: Fetal growth variation and global consequences
Invited speaker: Professor Torvid Kiserud, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen

2) 6th February
Kjersti M酶rkrid Blom-Bakke, Norwegian Institute of Public Health:
"The use of eRegistry in Palestine to implement the 2013 WHO Gestational Diabetes mellitus criteria"
Ingrid Friberg, Norwegian Institute of Public Health:
"The use of data from eRegistries to inform decision: the delivery care model"

3) 6th March
Topic: Instrumental Variable Analysis: Measuring the "true" effect when trial intervention is not delivered with optimal fidelity. Relevance for CISMAC studies.
Lead: 脴ystein Ariansen Haaland

4) 3rd April - no webinar

5) 16th May (NB: date!)
Topic: Do 蹿补迟丑别谤蝉鈥 environment before conception matter for the health of his future offspring? Identifying age windows with higher susceptibility to environmental exposures
Lead: Cecilie Svanes

2018 - autumn semester

7)听听听听听 听5th September
Topic: Training research staff for community-based early childhood development studies: Experience from rural Pakistan
Lead: Muneera Rasheed

8)听听听听听 3rd October
Topic: The importance and challenges of achieving high sensitivity and specificity in outcome assessment in randomized controlled trials.
Leads: Ranadeep Chowdhury, Catherine Schwinger, Halvor Sommerfelt

9)听听听听听 7th November
PhD project presentation: Mahima Venkateswaran, Norwegian Public Health Institute:
Antenatal care metrics 鈥 analyses of data from an electronic registry for maternal and newborn health.

PhD project presentation: David Mukunya
Breastfeeding initiation and morbidity risk in Lira district, Northern Uganda

10)听听听 21th November (NB! Change in time: 13:00-14:00)
PhD project presentation: Susanna Myrnerts H枚枚k and Nicolas Pejovic:
Enhancing performance during neonatal resuscitation: the NeoSupra trial and ancillary studies

11) 5th December
PhD project presentation: Ravi Upadhyay, Society for Applied 大象传媒, India:
Effect of high quality and increased quantity of protein to infants aged 6 to 12 months on their neurodevelopmental outcomes at 24 months of age.

2018 - spring semester

1)听听听听听听17th January
Topic: High loss to follow up in RCTs 鈥 what can go wrong and how to minimize听
Lead: Halvor Sommerfelt. Contributors: Sarmila Mazumder, Victoria Nankabirwa, Bireshwar Sinha, Halvor Sommerfelt

2)听听听听听听7th听February
Topic:听"Analysis of growth in young children -听the LMS method and the SITAR growth model."听
Invited speaker: Professor Tim Cole, University College of London.

3)听听听听听听7th听March
PhD project presentation: Bireshwar Sinha, SAS-India: "Effect of community initiated kangaroo mother care in low birth weight infants on infant breast milk intake, gut inflammation, maternal depressive symptoms and stress."

4)听听听听听听4th听April
Topic: "How to secure high fidelity and quality of the delivery of the intervention(s) in RCTs"
Lead: Ingvild Fossgard Sand酶y. There will be contributions from different CISMAC studies.

5)听听听听听听2nd听May
Topic: Statistical power in RCTs Why does CISMAC insist on so high statistical power? Relevance for Getting Research into Policy and Practice (GRIPP)
Leads: Halvor Sommerfelt and Jos茅 C. Martines.

6)听听听听听听6th听June
PhD project presentation:听Olive Jackie Namugga, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Uganda:
Measuring body temperature in young infants to identify clinical severe infection; axillary and infrared tympanic membrane temperature measurements.听

PhD project presentation:听Josephine Tumuhamye, School of Public Health,听Makerere University, Uganda:听
Colonization of the birth canal and infections in newborns in Uganda: Etiology, antibiotic resistance of potential pathogens and factors associated.