When  :  5th July, 2017 : 12.00 - 13.00
Where :  Room 1087, Building 44, Highfield, University of Southampton

What   : This is one of the monthly meetings organised by the Applied Spacial Modelling Group at Southampton University. This event will lead by Jeremiah Nieves.

Jeremiah is a Postgraduate research student in the Faculty of Geography at the University.  His work includes being part of an international and interdisciplinary team involved in more general population modelling methods, research and applications of population data and spatial machine learning within the WorldPop group (www.worldpop.org).

His research interests include populations, spatio-temporal uncertainty, healthcare access disparities, network analysis, spatial modelling, and spatial analysis
Bring your own lunch. More information from Jessica Steele. 

When  : 18th September, 2017 : Afternoon 
Where : Senate Room. Building 37, Highfield, University of Southampton

What   : The CEO of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Tamar Ghosh, will be visiting Southampton to talk about the RSTMH strategy and funding opportunities. 

More information : Michael Head (Senior Research Fellow, Research Investments in Global Health Study, Southampton)

 

 

What has impact to do with Health Partnerships?

" Engaging in Global Health : The Framework for Voluntary Engagement in Global Health by the UK Health Sector" recommends standards of good practice for health partnerships. The 5 main areas are

What has impact to do with with research?

The Research Excellence Framework, which is used to judge how well universities are performing, includes a section on impact. Impact is defined as "‘an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia’

The Research Councils UK indicate that the impact of research can include 

• Instrumental: influencing the development of policy, practice or service provision, shaping legislation, altering behaviour
• Conceptual: contributing to the understanding of policy issues, reframing debates
• Capacity building: through technical and personal skill development.

Is there anything that helps this to happen?

Knowledge exchange (two way exchange between researchers and research users to share ideas, research evidence, experiences and skills) is seen by the Research Councils UK as being fundamental to its understanding of what makes excellent research. Knowledge exchange could range from seminars and workshops to placements and collaborative research.
 
What can we conclude from this? 

• NHS partnerships need to measure the impact of their work
• Research groups need to include impact in their research
• Knowledge exchange is helpful 

There looks to be a shared agenda here. 

What can the Network offer? 

      1. If you work in 

• a Health Partnership and want to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning 
• research and want your research to include measures of impact 

      2. If you want to set up a meeting to exchange knowledge around a
         particular topic  
 

When  : 4th July, 2017 : 09.30 - 11.00
Where : Overseas Development Institute, London
Web    : This event will be streamed and can be joined on line

What   : Global trade policy and governance are in the spotlight. In the era of Brexit and Trump, the backlash against globalisation is growing and protectionist rhetoric is on the rise, challenging the conventional trade-led growth models that have sought to bring prosperity to developing countries for decades.

But this is not the only challenge facing global trade. New forms of trade and production are arising because of profound technological advances and new trade agreements. These, along with the need to advance public policy objectives in view of the Sustainable Development Goals, require reflection on existing trade governance provisions. Conventional trade-related support programmes need to adapt in order to more effectively realise the potential gains from trading within global value chains – the new trade reality.

This event features the launch of Future Fragmentation, a major publication from the Commonwealth Secretariat with contributions from ODI, that explores the changing nature of global trade in global value chains and the relative position of Commonwealth small states. Our expert panel discusses how to avoid damaging trade-offs between trade and technological advancement that risk harming the economic prospects of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.

More information 
 

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When  : 11th July, 2017 : 11.00 - 13.30
Where : Overseas Development Institute, London
Web    : This event will be streamed and can be joined on line

What   : In December 2015, representatives of 195 governments concluded the historic Paris climate agreement, stating that 'climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet.'

Countries’ national commitments for climate action – termed the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – form a vital part of the Paris Agreement. Eighteen months after the Paris Agreement was concluded, many countries are forging ahead with detailed plans for delivering on their commitments. They are undeterred by the US announcement of its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. However, most climate-vulnerable countries require some degree of financing from international sources (public and private) to help them achieve their full aspirations.

At this event hosted by CDKN and ODI, experts discuss progress in planning for NDC implementation across seven countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Critically, the discussion focuses on how the NDCs are being mainstreamed into national development processes – so that climate change is not an isolated concern of environment ministries but owned across governments and beyond.

More information 

See also : Video of event on The Future of the Paris climate agreement  

Palestine 

Development 

 

 

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This paper from WHO documents how strengthened implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control interacts with other SDG targets. Long-considered a priority primarily for the health sector, tobacco control can accelerate sustainable development across its social, economic and environmental dimensions. Recommendations are provided to help integrate tobacco control into broader SDG implementation efforts at national and local levels, and to strengthen policy coherence.

Under the five-year FCTC 2030 project funded by the United Kingdom, UNDP is partnering with the WHO FCTC Secretariat to help strengthen WHO FCTC implementation in low- and middle-income countries.

Read the paper  

 

Open StreetMap (OSM) Data is a valuable resource for people responding to humanitarian crises. OSM data on the location of buildings, waterways, and roads has been available on HDX for a few countries for some time but it was shared through a manual process which made it more difficult to maintain.

There has been release of a new integration that automates the regular flow of OSM data to HDX.

Universal Health Coverage

Gravitating towards universal health coverage in the new WHO era (The Lancet - Global Health (Editorial))

Heart Failure 

Global mortality variations in patients with heart failure: results from the International Congestive Heart Failure (INTER-CHF) prospective cohort study (The Lancet - Global Health) 

Uncovering difference: a glimpse at patients with heart failure in low-income and middle-income countries (The Lancet - Global Health (Comment))

Malaria

Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Malaysia: a population-based case-control study to examine associated human and environmental factors. (The Lancet : Planetary Health) (Answer : Adult male farmers at most risk) 

Role of mass drug administration in elimination of Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a consensus modelling study (The Lancet- Global Health) 

Diarrhoea 

Effect of community health clubs on child diarrhoea in western Rwanda: cluster-randomised controlled trial (The Lancet - Global Health) 

Mental Health and Natural Disasters

Social capital prevents cognitive decline (The Lancet : Planetary Health) 

Mental Health and Indigenous People 

Some of highest suicide rates are among indigenous people (Letter to WHO - The Lancet : Planetary Health) 

Sustainability

One planet regions: planetary health at the local level (The Lancet : Planetary Health) 

 

 

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