When  : 5th - 7th April, 2017

What   : Have you ever fancied putting your skills to good use and teaching in the “Developing World”? If so, then you might be interested in this Primary Trauma Care (PTC) course. 

The course is essentially an Advance Trauma Life Support course  (ATLS course) designed for the “Developing World” as the advanced version can be inappropriate in many environments.

How it works : Two days are given to teaching ATLS principles. A third day is a “Training the Trainers” day for those who have been on days 1 & 2. (In the field the course is then run again on day 4 & 5 by those who have just done day 3 – and so it cascades.) 

The Primary Trauma Care Foundation (based in Oxford) provides more information and shows the more than 70 countries in which courses are run. 

If you are interested in attending this course and consider becoming a (UK) faculty member, then contact Laura Broadhurst     

If interested please contact Laura Broadhurst

The costs for the three days is £80. 

 

When  : October/November, 2017
Where : Plymouth

What   : This Global Health course is a module can be taken as a short course (over 5-6 days – split between two blocks - 2nd/3rd/4th October and 1st/2nd/3rd November 2017). The module can also be taken as part of a part time Diploma, Certificate or Masters. 

It forms part of an MSc in Global and Remote Healthcare, which is designed to give participants confidence to meet the challenges of working in complex and unpredictable situations; overseas, on expedition, in low resource settings or within your UK practice. Following comprehensive preparatory modules the course provides an opportunity to undertake a placement in a global or remote environment as part of an immersive learning experience. 

The short course has received 30 CPD credits from the Royal Society of Medicine. 

For more information, contact Tara Aird. 

(See also the MSc in Global Health at the University of Southampton)
 

 

When was the RSTHM formed? 

The Society was founded in 1907 by Sir James Cantlie and Dr George Carmichael Low. Its first president was ‘the father of tropical medicine', Sir Patrick Manson. The prefix Royal was granted by King George V in 1920,

Where is it based? 

Originally based in Manson House, Portland Place, it moved in 2011 to Northumberland House, 303-306 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7JZ. 

Is it just for doctors?

No. It is an interdisciplinary organisation with around 1,400 members across the world. 

What is its raison d'être?

It was originally formed to study and discuss diseases of tropical countries. 

Its mission statement says that it now "promotes and advances the study, control and prevention of disease in humans and other animals in the tropics and plays a leading role in increasing awareness throughout the world of tropical medicine and international health issues.

What does it do?

Through its international network of Fellows it facilitates training, education and exchange of information between clinicians, health-related scientists, to nongovernmental development organisations and students across all disciplines in the fields of tropical medicine and international health. 

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EVENTS
 

When : 8th March, 2017 : 14.00 - 15.00

What  : Data visualization plays a key role across global health programs in clearly and effectively communicating information to all audiences, including beneficiaries, program managers and donors. By presenting data in ways that are both visually appealing and easy to understand, data visualization can be used to convey impactful and compelling evidence that influences behavior change and improves program performance.

Join the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) on March 8 at 9am EST for a webinar on data visualization and how it can be used toadvance global health.

This online event is the fifteenth in HC3's innovation webinar series, designed to spotlight a broad range of health communication innovations while providing a meaningful mix of theory and practical examples.

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When  : 8th March, 2017 : 17.00 - 18.30
Where : Overseas Development Institute, London 
Web    : This event will be streamed and can be joined on line 

Is the backlash against women growing, and is it a global phenomenon? How is the world responding? And what will it really take for women globally to achieve equality?  

On International Women’s Day, ODI convenes a debate with women from around the world exploring how to fight the backlash against women.

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When  : 14th March, 2017 : 17.00 - 19.00
Where : Alumni Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House)
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When  : 22nd March, 2017 : 12.30 - 14.00 
Where : Overseas Development Institute, London 
Web    : This event will be streamed and can be joined on line. 

There is no doubt that economic transformation – the movement of labour from low- to higher-productivity sectors (for example, agriculture to manufacturing) – has the potential to reduce poverty and drive sustainable, inclusive growth in developing countries. Yet, efforts to promote transformational policies have not always proven to be successful; many low-income countries that have attempted to transform their economies have experienced low-quality, jobless growth with little in the way of genuine transformation.

This panel event sees the launch of ODI’s Supporting Economic Transformation (SET) programme’s flagship approach paper, and brings together key figures driving forward the transformation agenda to discuss: what is economic transformation, what does it mean for the world’s poorest, and how can it be supported in practice?

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When  : 29th March, 2017 : 11.00 - 12.30 
Where : Overseas Development Institute, London 
Web    : This event will be streamed and can be joined on line

Reaching the most vulnerable and marginalised people relies on a plethora of conditions to be in place. Does this woman, her pregnancy, her ethnicity and her disability even ‘exist’ according to the government’s official records? Is there a progressive public health policy, informed by data, that makes provision for vulnerable groups? Are sufficient financial resources being allocated to the right people and places? Finally, do local political conditions allow for the delivery of quality health services on the ground? 

ODI’s new research which will be discussed at the event integrates all these different elements – data systems, policies, financing, service delivery and broader political economy issues – in a ‘stock take’ of the health sectors in Kenya and Nepal. It identifies those groups currently being excluded from access to healthcare, and traces in detail the obstacles and drivers of progress for leaving no one behind, offering a useful blueprint for future research in other countries and other sectors.

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When  : 3rd April, 2017 : 09.30 - 15.30 
Where : Manchester

The conference will influence how global learning for the NHS can be scaled up and promoted. The morning programme will consist of presentations of evidence from the projects and research the Global Health Exchange has carried out in the past 2 years:

• GP Global Fellows
• Ethical Placements
• Global Learners
• The Change Exchange
• MOVE – Measuring the Outcomes of Volunteering for Education

In the afternoon there will be a planning session to inform the next steps for scaling up this global work. The discussions will cover what the NHS needs to do to act on the evidence heard about in the morning session to scale up this work. The key elements to be discussed will be:

• Capacity
• Education
• Leadership

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When  : 27th April, 2017 : 09.30 - 17.00
Where : Birkbeck College, London 

• Alex Prats: Alex is Inequality Lead at Oxfam Intermón (Spain). Previously he was the Principal Economic Justice advisor for Christian Aid and the Regional Director for West Africa and Maghreb at Oxfam.
• Professor Bina Agarwal: Bina is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester

and parallel session and panel speakers will include:

• Professor Ben Fine (School of Oriental and African Studies)
• Melissa Leach (Institute of Development Studies)
• Dr Barbara Haesler (Royal Veterinary College)
• Dr. Jeff Waage (Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health)
• Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck)

Issues covered will include inequality in nutrition, health, financialisation, systems of provision, poverty and more. 

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Significance of informal (on-the-job) learning and leadership development in health systems: lessons from a district finance team in South Africa (BMJ Global Health) 

This working paper from the Overseas Development Institute is a first-of-its-kind attempt to shine a light on how global removal of subsidies to the production of coal, oil and gas (a key supply-side policy) could contribute to climate change mitigation and leaving unburnable carbon in the ground.

People and policy makers need stories of research, but these are rate to research. 

This article gives some advice on stories. 

This article gives some advice on how to deal with 5 challenges in analysing progress 

This report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to raise awareness about the role that the reform of public health laws can play in advancing the right to health and in creating the conditions for people to live healthy lives. By encouraging a better understanding of how public health law can be used to improve the health of the population, the report aims to encourage and assist governments to reform their public health laws in order to advance the right to health. 
 
The report highlights important issues that may arise during the process of public health law reform. It provides guidance about issues and requirements to be addressed during the process of developing public health laws. It also includes case studies and examples of legislation from a variety of countries to illustrate effective law reform practices and some features of effective public health legislation. 

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