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• Thorkild Tylleskär (MD, PhD, MA) is a paediatrician and professor in International Health since 2001, trained at Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden. His focus is on child health, birth care, neonatal care, HIV, nutrition, health informatics and clinical trials in a global perspective.
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• He leads the Norwegian Research School in Global Health for Sustainable Futures
• He has a French Master in African Linguistics from Sorbonne University after field work in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire).
• His medical under the supervision of late  describes the toxico-nutritional causation of permanently crippling women and children in DR Congo and other pockets in Africa.
• 12 of his former PhD-candidates have been promoted to professors at universities in Africa, USA and Norway. 

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Supervision: He has supervised over 40 PhD candidates, most of them from Africa. The latest graduated PhD candidates are: 

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Ongoing projects: 

• Norwegian Research School in Global Health for Sustainable Futures
• BURST-Excel - The Bergen-Uganda Collaboration on Research Schools and Training for Excellence in Global Health

Main collaborating countries: 

• Uganda
• Kenya
• Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa)
• Zambia
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Burkina Faso
• France
• UK

 Main areas are: 

• Global Health
• Child Health
• Birth Care
• Neonatal care
• HIV
• Global Nutrition
• Clinical trials
• Information and Communication Technology in Health Sciences

Awards:

Additional responsibilities: 

I am teaching medical students, master students and PhD candidates in international health. I am teaching on a number of courses and I am course leader of two/three courses:

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My main areas are: 

• Global Health
• Child Health
• Global Nutrition
• HIV
• Clinical trials and experimental epidemiology

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Editorial/Leader article

Master’s thesis

Research report

Non-fiction monograph

Study protocol

Letter to the editor

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Ongoing projects: 

• Norwegian Research School in Global Health for Sustainable Futures
• BURST-Excel - The Bergen-Uganda Collaboration on Research Schools and Training for Excellence in Global Health

Past projects: 

• NeoSupra Trial – Randomized Phase III Clinical Trial Assessing a Supraglottic Device Versus Face-mask Ventilation in Neonatal Resuscitation in Africa