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• UiT and UNN as a resource in global health

• Composition and establishment of health services

• Teaching

• Research

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Faculty of Medicine

Experience from establishing a faculty of medicine comprising of departments of pharmacy, odontology, clinical medicine, medical biology and community medicine.

Centres playing a potentially important role in global health research:

• The National Research Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM)

• The Centre for International Health (SIH) is a common initiative with the University Hospital North Norway (UNN) with the main objectives to coordinate international activities and to develop international competencies within these two institutions.

• Tromsø Mine Victim Resource Center

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Tromsø University College

• There exists a close collaboration between UNN, UiTø and HiTø on training of ergotherapists, radiographers, nurses, health visitors, midwifes, bioengineers, physiotherapists and dental hygienists.

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Multi disciplinary research

• Experience from multi disciplinary research, e.g. collaboration between UiTø, UNN and the Norwegian College of Fishery Science; MARIBO.

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Organ based teaching

• Organ based teaching in medicine and our new and exciting concept in odontology are sought after competencies in several third world countries.

• We are engaged at the Eastern University, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, after a request from the university.

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The Tromsø Study

• Now in it’s fifth version this represents a substantial resource as a model in future global research.

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Centre for Peace Studies

• An important resource to develop sustainable projects in the third world.

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Department of Microbiology and Virology, UiTø, and Department of Microbiology, UNN, share the following interests and targets:

• Resistance surveillance (National centre of competence: NORM (surveillance of resistance bacteria and viruses))

• Resistance mechanisms ((National centre of competence: detection and characterization of resistance microbes)

• The departments have worked on mechanisms of antibacterial and antiviral peptides.

• Competencies in bacterial and viral resistance could be a contribution to global health research in SOS/STD/STI/HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.