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2nd June, 2017

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CONTENTS
WESSEX

     News      Events
  • Globally Mapping Past and Future Settlements (7th June) 
  • African Sundowner Event : Poole Africa Link (30th June)
FEATURE
  • Global Health and Wessex : Have your say 
EVENTS
  • THET Conference : Super Early Bird (23 - 25 October)
  • War Zone Surgery (6th June)
  • The Politics of Help (7th June) 
  • Global Health and Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference (20 - 21 June) 
FUNDING
  • Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship
NEWS
  • Syria & crowdfunding doctors
  • Yemen and cholera
  • South Sudan and cholera
  • DRC and ebola
  • Nigeria and meningitis
  • Venezuela, malaria and infant mortality
  • Nepal and lessons from earthquakes
  • Trump and women's health
  • Phillipines and aid 
EDUCATION
  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Refugees
  • Governing Global Health
  • Europe and aid
  • Europe and coal subsidies
  • Nigeria and Humanitarian Report
  • UN's Agenda for Humanity (1 year on)
  • Universal basic income
  • Stagflation in Africa
  • NCDs
  • Aid
RESEARCH
  • Research capacity building
  • Respiratory distress (Ghana)
  • Vector control
  • Hepatitis B and pregnancy
  • Mental health - Comment and bereavement support 
JOBS
  • International HIV/AIDS Alliance
  • Royal College of Pathologists
  • PHARO
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Lively Minds
  • ADEPT
PREVIOUSLY

 
 

WESSEX


 
Wessex News

Interim Steering Group for the Network 

Network workshop : A workshop about the Network and what people want from it took place on 12th April. An outcome was the formation of an Interim Steering Group to take forward what had been said and look for ways to make the Network  sustainable.

Steering Group : The first meeting of the Steering Group took place on 23rd May. One of the areas discussed was how multidisciplinary groups involved in global health can enhance what they do in ways that give rise to more than simply the sum of the parts. Models used in other parts of the UK suggest that there are ways in which this can be done. Examples of these are given below in the Feature Article.

Could we do more? There was a feeling that Wessex might benefit from something that would give more focus for global health across Wessex. 

Please contribute to the thinking of the Steering Group and send any thoughts or ideas you might have about this to John Acres
 




Wessex Events
  
Globally Mapping Past and Future Settlements

When  : Wednesday 7th June, 2017 : 12.00 - 13.00 
Where : Building 44, Room 2103, Highfield, University of Southampton 

What  : Urban or built-settlement datasets are one of the best predictors for accurately mapping the distribution of populations across space. Recently, the ability to delineate built-settlements from satellite imagery has increased rapidly, but even this better information does not predict future building settlements. 

Jeremiah Nieves will talk about the modelling work in which has been involved to better predict built-settlements in the future. 

Come and learn more at this lunchtime seminar, one in the series of the Applied Spacial Modelling Group. 

All welcome. Bring your own lunch. More information from Jessica Steele
 
The next meeting in this series will be on 5th July, when Victor Alegana will talk about "Baysian assessment of precision in national representative cluster sample surveys."
 
 

African Sundowner Event :
Evening of Friday, 30th June

This is being staged by the Poole Africa Link and is being held at the Branksome Dene Community Room, set just above one of Poole's sandy beeches. Everyone is welcome. Tickets and more information can be obtained from Hilary Fenton-Harris
 






FEATURE
 
Global Health and Wessex

What can we learn from the way others are organising
global health across organisational boundaries? 

 

What is the problem? 

The wide range of issues involved in improving global health means that there will be people involved involved in global health working in a wide range of specialisms that seldom meet.

A consequence can be "silo working" where people cannot learn from each other, duplication of effort, difficulty in showing the impact of research and dissipation of leadership. 

What can be done about this?

Over the last few years a greater number of groups involved in global health across the UK have organised themselves to try and deal tackle this. Here are some examples ...
  • London International Development Centre : A well established, well funded multidisciplinary academic collaboration within the University of London without hospital partnershipss.
  • CORBIS - Sussex Global Health Very recently formed predominantly multidisciplinary student-staff academic consortium focusing on annual conferences and development. It does not involved hospital partnerships. 
  • Kings Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships A well established multidisciplinary arrangement that brings together both academic and health partnerships. It runs three major health partnership schemes itself. 
  • International Health Co-ordination Centre - Wales : A well established group providing a focal point for information sharing, knowledge exchange, collaboration and network across Wales. Connects with policy, research and health partnerships. 
  • The Scottish Global Health Collaborative : A recently formed co-ordination network relying on volunteers with current objectives to map Scotland’s global health work, consult on a Global Health Framework and develop its communications. 
  • International Health Group (UK) : An informal quarterly meeting allowing communication between the International Division of the Department of Health, the Department for International Development and some members of the NHS. 
  • Global Health Exchange - HEE : A group established by Health Education England in the North West focusing on global education, overseas volunteering, on-line learning for public health, progress of the Uganda Health Alliance and education in global health. 
  • Addenbrooke's Abroad : A hospital trust based organisation established 10 years ago and now under a charity to manage partnerships between Addenbrooke’s and Botswana, El Salvador and Myanmar. 
     
If you want to read more detail about thesego to the Network website for a summary. 


What about Wessex? 

The Network contributes to the exchange of information and facilitates educational events. Is this enough? Do the examples of other ways of working suggest we could do more? 

Is there a place for there being something that provides global health leaders and organisations in Wessex the opportunity more actively to
  • promote collaboration 
  • build partnerships 
  • reduce duplication 
  • build capacity in research and education
in global health across Wessex? 

What do you think? 



EVENTS
Super Early Bird

Tropical Health Education Trust Annual Conference

Book you Super Early Bird tickets or offer an abstract for the conference on 23, 24 and 25 October. 
War Zone Surgery

When  : 6th June, 2017 : 17.30 - 19.00
Where : London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London

What   : This event will be lead by David Nott of the David Nott Foundation. David is one of the UK’s leading consultant surgeons but for the past 24 years he has taken unpaid leave each year to treat the victims of conflict and catastrophe in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Chad, Darfur, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Central African Republic, Gaza and Nepal.

In 2015 he founded the David Nott Foundation which provides surgeons and medical professionals with the skills they need to provide relief and assistance in conflict and natural disaster zones around the world.

More information 
 
 
The Politics of Help 

Part of the Birkbeck School Of Law - Law Research Seminar Series

When  : 7th June, 2017 : 14.00 - 16.00
Where : Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury

What   : Helping has fallen into disrespect. The discussion about humanitarian reason has shown how help, aid and charity establish fundamentally asymmetrical relations between helpers and recipients of help and fixes the latter in their identity as victims in need, rather than as agents of their fate. Moreover, charity has been analysed to operate at the level of symptoms, and thereby to invisibilise the structural causes of suffering. By abstracting suffering from the political relations that produce it, charity depoliticises.

However, the pertinent questions towards “help” that a perspective of humanitarian reason has raised, make invisible the deeply political character and the transformative potentials of helping. When help tackles concrete problems, it needs to understand the nature of these problems. When helping is learning (rather than knowing), it provides a new understanding of the world. This new understanding of the world and of the social relations that produce difference and inequality can transform charity into solidarity. When helping is an expression of universalist solidarity, which recognises the political nature of inequality, it can transform giving into sharing, and helping into an obligation. 

Professor Eckert will explore the emergence of the politics of help through the pro-refugee initiatives that emerged around 2015 in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

More information 
 


Do Agricultural Certification Scheme benefit producers and workers in developing countries?
A Systematic Review

When  : 9th June, 2017 : 12.30 - 14.00
Where : Birkbeck School of Arts, London

What   : Carlos Oya and Florian Shafer present their findings of a systematic review of the literature about whether certification schemes benefit both producers and workers. 

More information
 

 
Global Health : 
Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference 

When  : 20th - 21st June, 2017
Where : Telford International Centre

What   : Latest news about the Specialty Registrar contribution to the event is that there will be a showcase of some of the work carried out trainees relating to global health, including 
  • Entitlement to Healthcare for Refugees and Migrants (Robert Verracchia)
  • Working to tackle TB in the West Midlands (Helen Green)
  • Experiences of a placement at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Sepeedeh Saleh)
  • Health promotion and community engagement with Medicines Sans Frontiers in Iraq (Daniel Flecknoe) 
More information on Network website 

FUNDING


Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
Travel Fellowship 
Applications are now open for 2018 Travelling Fellowships
 
Are you inspired by projects you know of abroad? Do you have the drive and determination to undertake global research?

This fund enables UK citizens to investigate ground-breaking practice in other countries and return with innovative ideas for the benefit of people in the UK. Whatever your background, we can help you bring positive change to your community, sector, or profession.
 
The Trust is looking for people who are passionate about making a difference in their field.
 
Grants cover return and internal travel, daily living and insurance within the countries visited. No qualifications are required.
 
Categories include:
  • Environment, Conservation and Sustainable Living
  • Education
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Mental Health – Community Based Approaches
  • Migration – Living Well Together
  • New Approaches to Social and Affordable Housing
  • Nursing and Allied Health Professions
  • Science, Technology and Innovation
  • Supporting Vulnerable Children following Bereavement
 Apply before 5pm on 19th September 2017.
 
More information 
 
Syria and crowdfunding doctors : Doctors resort to crowdfunding Syrian hospitals as red tape locks aid money (Guardian) 

Yemen and Cholera : Emergency in Sanaa as cholera kills scores (BBC News) 

South Sudan and Cholera : International Organisation for Migration action as cholera spreads (Reliefweb) 

Democratic Republic of Congo and Ebola : 8th Ebola outbreak (RNZ)

Nigeria and Meningitis : Outbreak in Northern States (Reliefweb) 

Venezuela, malaria and infant mortality  : Malaria and infant mortality rise(Reuters) 

Nepal and Earthquake lessons Opinion: 5 lessons from research in the wake of an earthquake disaster in Nepal (Devex) 

Trump and Women's Health Trump expands 'global gag rule,' targeting $8.8B in global health aid (Devex) 

Philipines and Aid Philippines turns down EU aid after criticism of policies on drugs (Reuters) 

 
Antibiotic resistance 

New industry alliance to tackle antibiotic resistance (Devex) 

Refugees

300,000 unaccompanied child refugees in 2016 (UNICEF report with key figures) 

Traffickers and smugglers exploit record rise in unaccompanied child refugees(Guardian) 

Focus on Refugees Risks Neglecting the Internally Displaced (Chatham House Expert Comment) 

Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? 

Video of event rung by London International Development Centre to launch book. 

Europe and Aid

Interactive guide: Exploring EuropeAid's funding priorities (Devex) 

Europe and Coal Subsidies

Report from Overseas Development Unit detailing subsidies paid to coal industry across Europe. 

Nigeria and Humanitarian Report

New UNHCR Humanitarian Overview of North East Nigeria (Reliefweb) 

UN's Agenda for Humanity

One year on from the summit - 5 things you need to know (OCHA)

Universal Basic Income

Video and podcast from Overseas Development Unit on pros and cons of  introducing it. 

Stagflation in Africa

Briefing by Overseas Development Institute

NCDs

Policies to promote healthy hearts (Devex)

Aid

Every $1 of UK aid increases UK exports by $0.22, study finds (Devex) 
 
RESEARCH


Research and LMIC

Research capacity building—obligations for global health partners (Lancet Global Health)

Respiratory Distress (Ghana) 

Continuous positive airway pressure for children with undifferentiated respiratory distress in Ghana: an open-label, cluster, crossover trial (Lancet Global Health) 

Communicable Diseases

Vector control: time for a planetary health approach (Editorial : Lancet Global Health) 

Hepatitis B and Pregnancy

Maternal pre-pregnancy infection with hepatitis B virus and the risk of preterm birth: a population-based cohort study (Lancet Global Health) 

Mental Health

Mental health—a bridge not so far (Comment : Lancet Global Health) 

Effect of a bereavement support group on female adolescents' psychological health: a randomised controlled trial in South Africa (Lancet Global Health) 
 
 



 
JOBS
 
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Royal College of Pathologists
PHARO
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Lively Minds 
ADEPT
 
 
 
 



PREVIOUSLY ON WGHN ...
 
EVENTS
Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Support 

When  : 5th - 6th June, 2017 
Where : London

More information : Network Website


Negotiating the Humanitarian Space :
Where is the UK Responsibility?



When  : 8th June, 2017 : 
Where : Royal Society of Medicine, London

More information : Network website
 



Faculty of Public Health  Annual Conference

When
  : 20th-21st June, 2017
Where : Telford International Centre. 

  • Tackling non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries?
  • Films and their role in health. 
More information : Network Website

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction : Annual Conference

When  : 21st June, 2017 : 09.00 - 20.00 
Where : University College London

More information : Network website
Digital Health 2017 


When  : 3 - 5.7.17
Where : London

More information : Network website 
 
Global Surgery Summer School
Developing a Career as a Global Surgeon, Anaesthetist or Obstetrician 

When  : 22nd - 23rd July, 2017 
Where : Royal Society of Medicine, London 

More information : Network website
 


SOAS Summer Courses

The School for Oriental and African Studies is advertising is Summer Courses, which run from the end of June until the middle of July. 







More information 
 

Global Evidence Summit 2017 


When  : 13 - 16.9.17
Where : Cape Town, South Africa


More information : Network website


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