The next Alma Mata Working Group Meeting will be held on Saturday 12th April at 10:30 in Old street, London We will be discussing our work around global health education, training, research, signposting and advocacy, as well as planning for the future. We are always looking for new ideas and help with our current …
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Mar 27 2014
Steve Mannion joins tonight’s Responding to Emergencies: the challenges of NGO competition Panel
This free seminar tonight at 18:30 at the RCP will explore the immediate response to emergency situations requiring humanitarian or healthcare intervention and will be followed by drinks reception afterwards. We are pleased to announce that Mr Steve Mannion MA Mchir DTM&H DMCC FRCS (Tr & Orth) Hon. Fellow RSM will be joining the panel. …
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Mar 24 2014
March Instalment of the Alma Mata Newsletter
The Latest Alma Mata Global Health Newsletter is now out! Please see the following link. Photo credit: Royal College of Physicians
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Mar 21 2014
Policy, public health, and the evidence base for charging migrants
In the wake of proposals to radically reduce migrants’ access to the NHS, we question how much consideration has been afforded to the wider public health implications of these proposals, and to what extent they are evidence-based, cost-effective, or even safe.
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Mar 18 2014
Café Communique
Passionate about global health? Are you interested in writing? Café Communique is a recently launched global health magazine with the aim of bringing together science, epidemiology, humanities, policy and economics to a dynamic online platform. We are endorsed by Professor Helen Ward of Imperial College London’s School of Public Health and Professor Azeem Majeed of …
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Mar 14 2014
Alma Mata Book Club
Oxford University Press is pleased to offer members of Alma Mata an exclusive 20% discount on all global health and epidemiology titles when ordering online. See here for featured titles. If you would be interested in doing a review for the book club please contact vp@almamata.org.uk
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Feb 28 2014
The Latest Alma Mata Newsletter
The Latest Alma Mata Global Health Newsletter is now out! Please see the link.
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Feb 26 2014
Responding to emergencies – the challenges of NGO competition
Global health: developing leaders Free seminars to develop global health advocates Responding to emergencies – the challenges of NGO competition This will be the first in the third series of the Global Health Advocacy seminars run by the Royal College of Physicians and the Alma Mata Global Health Network. These seminars aim to enthuse and …
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Feb 21 2014
Doctors needed in Freetown, Sierra Leone
The Aberdeen Women’s Centre (AWC) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is looking for two post foundation year doctors to run their paediatric outpatients clinic from the start of August 2013.o The clinic runs Monday-Friday and accommodation + main meals are provided, plus a wage for those staying for a prolonged period of time. This is …
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Feb 10 2014
Medact: Workshop on Tax and Health
Date: Tuesday, 11 February 2014 Time: 10:30 until 15:00 (lunch provided) Location: The Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square, N1 6HT Background Medact is a London-based health charity designed to enable health professionals to act on the social, political, ecological and economic determinants of health and health inequality. Its purpose is to inform, educate and mobilise the …
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