The Peoples-Uni are looking for volunteer tutors or dissertation supervisors for their Masters-level public health modules

Volunteer tutors will lead two-week topic sessions (all materials have been prepared and uploaded). Time commitment is approx. 2-4 hours per week during the two-week period (and assignment marking at semester end). This is an opportunity to add your teaching skills to our team of highly motivated volunteer academics and professionals, to gain experience with a leading organisation in online public health capacity-building, and update your own knowledge of global health issues.

What?

A tool kit to support doctors working in international health to document the knowledge, attitudes and skills they develop whilst working in low and middle-income countries (LMIC).

For whom?

All doctors who are interested in working in international health.

Aim:

To encourage increased documentation of the skills developed whilst working in LMICs and therefore promote recognition of the value of international experience in the training of doctors.

Objectives:

To facilitate and encourage doctors to document their experience and skills gained whilst working in LMICs.
To support doctors to demonstrate their continued professional development whilst out of programme and to frame their experience in a way that is recognised by recruitment bodies.

Introduction:

• Gaining experience working in LMICs is increasingly being recognised as beneficial to training with a positive knock-on effect on the NHS.
• Moving forwards from it being an acceptable part of training to a central part of education /development of quality and dynamic doctors.
• Increasing awareness of global health within the undergraduate curriculum and the opportunity to channel this focus through to postgraduate education.

What to do if you would like to take part in the Global Health Portfolio Pilot:

Before we send you a copy we just need to ask you a few quick questions. Your answers are important for us to understand the diverse needs of everyone who wishes to use the portfolio, so that we can make any necessary amendments in order to ensure that it is as useful as possible. Please find the survey here.

Once you have completed the survey the global health portfolio will be sent your way! We hope you find the portfolio useful and thank you for your time.

With kind regards,

Dr Jayne Ellis, Education and Training Coordinator, Alma Mata Working Group

If you have any queries or require further information about the survey, please contact us at secretary@almamata.org.uk.

Cities – the bustling centres of economic and industrial growth, but also the harbingers of major social, health and economic inequality. When striving for a fair and sustainable society, how we develop our cities now will determine the future for us all.

Medsin Newcastle’s vision for the 2014 National Conference is to bring together students of all disciplines to examine the city. How do you envision healthier cities? Through a weekend of debates, talks, and exchanging ideas, explore what makes a city, how they are changing and how health is inextricably linked to city-life. Tickets include accommodation, meals and a fantastic social in the impressive city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Early bird tickets are on sale here. 

Venue: Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London, NW1 4LE

Date: Thursday September 25th 2014, 6:30pm – 8pm followed by a drinks reception

This is the third in this year’s Global Health Advocacy seminar series held jointly by the Royal College of Physicians and the Alma Mata Global Health Network. This seminar will focus on patient safety in low and middle income settings. Exploring the challenging scenarios and ethical issues that doctors may be faced with when working overseas. Chaired by Professor John Porter (LSHTM), with Gareth Walker (Doctors of the World UK), Dr. Julian Sheather (BMA), Mr. Michael Stark (DfE/DfID/DoH) and Dr. Gareth Lewis (RCPCH).
Email: international@rcplondon.ac.uk to reserve your place.

The Wessex Global Health Network was set up earlier this year, aiming to foster interest in, understanding of and involvement in global health in the Wessex region.  Their website is well resourced with up-to-date information on global health topics, opportunities and guidance for working overseas, and potential funding sources, as well as listing events in the area.  It’s free to join.  

For more information or if you would like to get involved, please visit their website or email wessexghn@wessex.hee.nhs.uk. 

Pioneering MSc in global health bringing together students from a range of disciplines to understand and address major health challenges. It equips those working in the health sector with the knowledge and skills to critically reflect on health and health care in low and middle income settings and apply this knowledge with supported practical experience within our international capacity building partnerships.

Unique career potential due to specialist concentrations, focus on programme management and research skills and the involvement of NGOs and other employers in delivering the programme.  Specifically designed to focus on specialist training, to network with relevant NGOs at an early stage and to meet the needs of people working in international agencies, humanitarian organisations, and NGOs.

For more information, contact:

King’s Admissions Office, King’s College London, Capital House, Guy’s Campus, London SE1 3QD

The Latest Alma Mata Global Health Newsletter is now out!

Please see the following link for the latest global health news, events, educational links & opportunities:

Scientific advances in our understanding of genetics and genomics may generate major improvements for human health in the coming decades. From a global health perspective, however, the translation of genomics into new medical treatments also raises profound international and local issues around inequality, identity and insecurity.

This interdisciplinary conference brings together experts from the fields of policy, research, industry, foundations, journalism, and non-governmental organisations in order to assess how the rise of genetic and genomic challenges has begun to shape to the field of global health, and what new challenges it poses for global health policy. There is also the opportunity to tailor the conference to your own interests by choosing from a range of concurrent panel sessions in the afternoon followed by further discussion during the networking reception.

See the University of Sussex website for more details, or register with Eventbrite.

Screening of “Remote Area Medical” by the Global Health Film initiative at the Royal Society of Medicine on July 3^rd at 18:00.

The film follows the non-profit, volunteer driven medical organisation that provides free health care to people in remote areas of the United States and around the world.

The founder of Remote Area Medical, Stan Brock, will be joining us from the United States to discuss universal access to healthcare. Leigh Daynes, Executive Director of Doctors of the World, will be discussing the situation in the UK, with a focus on the implications of the Immigration Act 2014 and the planned extension of charges and its effect on vulnerable populations accessing healthcare.

For further details, please see the website or follow the Global Health Film Initiative on Twitter

To register please follow this link

As more and more NGOs, multi-mandate aid agencies and local actors focus their attention on building resilience within vulnerable communities, we ask what this concept really means for the humanitarian sector, and specifically how this concept is of use (or not) in responding to humanitarian crises.

Is building resilient communities and systems the inevitable future of aid work, and does it provide the best way to ensure long term support to some of the world’s most vulnerable people? Or is this new concept being deployed as a way to cut spending and combine development and humanitarian agendas under the umbrella of a stabilisation agenda?

Is resilience building the most relevant approach for humanitarian response in conflicts and conflict related crises such as famines or the displacement of populations? Or is this concept a hollow buzz word whose further implications are irrelevant or unrealistic for the future of humanitarian action?

Come and join the debate and let your opinion help shape the future of the sector!

Panellists

Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Advisor, MSF
Paul Harvey, Partner, Humanitarian Outcomes
Professor Mark Duffield, Bristol University
Professor Virginia Murray, Cambridge University

Chaired by Ishbel Matheson. Director of Communications, Overseas Development Institute

Admission: Free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

Location

John Snow A Lecture Theatre
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT

Date and Time

Tuesday, 17th June 2014. 6:00pm – 8:00pm