globalHOME Meeting, 13th March 2008, 6pm

We are having our first meeting for 2008 on Thursday 13th March, 6pm.
The meeting will be held at the Medical Education Unit Conference room - it is in Edward Ford downstairs and across the outside pathway into the building on the other side (I think where room 113 is …. at the end of the […]

‘08 Launch Event, “Postcards from around the world”

[ March 5, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Join us for our launch event for 2008 as we go around the world with students and faculty as they share their recent global health experiences. From outback Australia, our journey will take us through the Pacific, up to Asia, India, across to the Middle East and back through Africa!

The evening will involve a range […]

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Tips for working in the developing world - Dr Anthony Radford

Maintain your enthusiasm!
- join Global HOME, attend motivational speeches from those recently returned form working in the developing world

Don’t lose your vision on graduation
- work in the field, learn what specific skills and knowledge you need to gain, and come back and equip yourself eg Masters in International Public […]

MSF: Experiences in the field and as International President of MSF

 No conference on the developing world would be complete without an address from Dr Rowan Gillies, who has worked with MSF in countries such as Sudan, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Dr Gillies was president of MSF Australia in 2002 and then international president from 2004, at age 33, until this year.
MSF is an independent international […]

Cross cultural medicine - lessons from the outback

In the year of the fortieth anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and in a week during which the Howard government, after years of neglect, announced a radical action plan for remote Aboriginal communities, it was very fitting that the opening plenary session of the AMSA Developing World Conference 2007 addressed the crisis in indigenous health. […]

End poverty 2015

Check out this site about the Millenium development goals to end poverty by 2015, and get involved:
http://www.endpoverty2015.org/
Forgotten what the goals are?:

End Hunger
Universal Education
Gender Equity
Child Health
Maternal Health
Combat HIV/AIDS
Environmental Sustainability
Global Partnership

Also, there are some interesting blogs on the issue of poverty and what others around the world are doing about it at:
http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/en/blog

East Timor - international health forum

[ June 5, 2007; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The challenge of change.
Come and hear about some of the current initiatives underway to assist this fledgling nation’s unique challenges:

47% of the population are under 17
it’s among the 10 most poorest nations
has almost no functioning health system
it has one of the highest birth rates in the world
approx 80% of children are infected intestinal parasites.

Tuesday 5th […]