The Bergen Summer Research School aims to produce and disseminate research-based education to address some important global challenges. These challenges include Climate and environmental changes, health challenges and new diseases as well as widespread and severe poverty of certain groups and regions. These issues call for interdisciplinary spaces for debate, and joint learning.
Short description for the 2010 course on Research Methods in Climate Change and Health:
Global climate change may lead to changes in extreme weather events such heatwaves, droughts, extreme rainfall and severe storminess. This may affect human health by bringing about changes in the ecology of infectious diseases. To address the impact of climate change on affect human health a broad research approach including social, demographic, and economic aspects is needed.
The course will explore the links between human health and the earth’s environment, and consider the implications of those links for human health in a changing environment.
The central objective of the course is to help develop and strengthen local and regional scientific knowledge and capacity to deal with the impacts of climate variability and climate change on human health.
For full course description and syllabus: click here (PDF)
The course is by Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Centre for International Health at University of Bergen
Course leaders are:
- Bernt Lindtjørn, Professor, University of Bergen, Centre for International Health
- Asgeir Sorteberg, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
- Ellen Viste, Research Fellow, University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute
- Thorleif Markussen Lunde, Research Fellow, University of Bergen, Centre for International Health