According to the statutes the Forum shall promote high quality research and training aiming at improving health and health care for marginalized population groups in low- and middle-income countries. The main strategies applied to fulfill the objectives of the Forum include activities to:
" Improve knowledge exchange and collaboration in research among Norwegian institutions and researchers in the field of global health and promote interdisciplinary approaches
" Improve collaboration on global health is sues between the research community, the government, the private sector and NGOs
" Be a forum for development of evidence-based policy on international health issues and contribute to national and international processes and initiatives in the field of g lobal health and health research
" Organise conferences on global health research at a regular basis in collaboration with the Research Council of Norway
" Establish and maintain a web site and keep an inventory of research activities and resources used for global health research in Norway