Gates Honors Norheim as Gatekeepers Nordic Champion – Center for Health Decision Science

CHDS affiliated faculty Ole Norheim was honored as a Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Nordic Champion. The Gates Foundation Goalkeepers honors those who bring the world closer to achieving the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. According to the Gates Foundation, Norheim was selected as one of the Nordic Champions due to his “influential contributions to advancing global health equity and leadership in shaping evidence-based approaches to priority setting in health systems” and that his work “plays a significant role in advancing equality, innovation, and sustainable development across the region.”

Norheim stated that, “the reason I want to be involved in the whole keeper movement there is that I really like the initiative. I share many of the same ethical values, and I think that attention to global health, to climate change, to education is among the topics that it’s most meaningful to work on…I see this as an opportunity to meet new people, working together with them, and expanding the reach of our work. I believe it’s possible to do more and really make a difference.”

Norheim is the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population and was a co-founder of the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he remains an affiliated researcher. His research addresses theories of distributive justice, inequality in health, priority setting in health systems, decision science, distributional cost-effectiveness analysis, and universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries. He is the Lead Series Editor of the Fourth Edition of the Disease Control Priorities project.

Learn more: Read about the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers
Learn more: Read about the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Learn more: Read the BCEPS’s recap of the Goalkeepers Nordics Event