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 projects.

If you would like to be involved please email us at vp@almamata.org.uk and we will send you all the details.

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.   In 2008, he was described by the BBC as the “Indiana Jones of Surgery” and appeared on BBC One’s ‘Super Doctors’ series alongside Lord Robert Winston. Between appointments in the NHS he has worked in surgical programmes for aid agencies (including the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières) in multiple conflict situations; these include in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Angola, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, and Rwanda (during the 1994 genocide).  He is currently Head of Department at the Centre for Trauma, Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine at St George’s, Orthopaedic Advisor to CBM (a disability focused NGO) and Chair of World Orthopaedic Concern.

The Latest Alma Mata Global Health Newsletter is now out!

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Photo credit: Royal College of Physicians

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.

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 the WHO Collaborating Centre.

We want to get more people talking about global health; be it doctor, student or member of the public, in the hopes of delivering a greater understanding and appreciation. Our aim is to strip down the ‘white coat’ and reintroduce the definition of global health as a more entertaining, engaging issue within our medium. More importantly we strongly believe in establishing a magazine with good quality journalism that focuses on key global health issues with contributions from authorities in the subject as well as personal stories to highlight the human-interest aspect of medicine and provoke discussion.

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

The Latest Alma Mata Global Health Newsletter is now out!

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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 an ideal opportunity for someone with foundation year paeds experience and APLS/EPLS! For interested applicants please contact Karen Garrott on karen.garrott@aberdeenwomenscentre.org

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 1 million plus health professionals in the UK.

Over the next two years, Medact will be working on the issues of tax justice and tax policy which are fundamental to just about every single national and global health priority.

In order to design a programme of work, Medact is organising a workshop to consult with other health organisations as well as experts in the field of tax and tax justice.

Aims of workshop

• Develop the idea of tax (and tax justice) as a health issue that health professionals should be concerned about
• Define the role that Medact can play in supporting appropriate action on tax – at both a global and local level. This would include research, education and campaigning
• Develop synergistic links between Medact and existing tax-related campaigns and initiatives
• Identify organisations and individuals already working in the area of tax and health
• Explore funding opportunities  to support a programme of work on tax and justice

Participation

This workshop is designed to be small enough to allow for strategic planning. Medact is inviting a number of selected participants; but anyone with relevant interest and expertise who would like to participate is encouraged to email Medact at: workshops@medact.org.

We anticipate holding a more open public meeting on the issue of Tax and Health later in the year.