Cambridge Global Health Year
The Humanitarian Centre is hosting a year of events and activities on current Global Health issues. This includes conferences, networking opportunities, training, seminars and workshops, and an online database to increase collaboration and impact in Global Health. Our blog captures the thoughts of ‘Global Health’ students, researchers, practitioners and others. Please contact Anne Radl to contribute.
As unwieldy as they are, the words “noncommunicable diseases” are on the tip of everyone’s tongues—at least, everyone in health care—and rightly so. The “four main” noncommunicable diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung diseases and diabetes) kill three in five people worldwide, and cause serious socioeconomic harm within all countries, particularly developing nations.
This past September, the biggest names in health gathered in New York for the UN Summit on (more...)
by Bryant Okoroji
Pictures By Helen Atwood (c) CrativeElla at Encourage Photography
Video courtesy of Cambridge Union Society
In a post-apocalyptic world, who would you trust with your health? Who would you protect? Who is most important? At the 2011 Global Health Life Raft Debate, experts from a variety of disciplines debated why their particular expertise would be most useful in this whimsical scenario. The debate put the experts in the hot seat, as they competed for the one (more...)
On Friday 25 November at 7:30pm the Humanitarian Centre presents, the first ever Global Health Life Raft Debate. Who will survive??
We imagine there has been an apocalyptic disaster, and that the sole survivors, the audience, have built a life raft to take them to a new land, where they will have the opportunity to build a new society.
Experts from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds in Global Health will vie for the one remaining space on the life raft, each presenting an argument for (more...)
Cambridge Film and Video: The Series: HIV 30 Years On “Cambridge Film and Video is proud to present in collaboration with Cambridge Hub, The Series. A number of short films capturing moments from live talks and interviews by people directly involved in helping others.
Taryn Treger organised a talk on the History of HIV for Cambridge Hub. This group is working very hard in bringing to the University an awareness for organisations that help those less fortunate than ourselves. For more (more...)
The deadline for the 2012 Cambridge Aid for Health Simulation has been extended to Friday 18 November, 10am. This will be the first Aid for Health (A4H) Simulation in the UK. The simulation was piloted at Harvard University last year (2010), and was a tremendous success.
Delegates will simulate a high-level aid negotiation for health, using Botswana as the setting, taking on the roles of key players from organisations such as Botswana’s Ministry of Health, WHO, DFID, USAID, and others. (more...)
Peter A. Singer on the future of Global Health, and how to make it happen.
October means new beginnings in a university town like Cambridge. But for those under the spectre of malaria, October brought the beginning of new hopes for a brighter future with the successful trial of RTS,S, a malaria vaccine. At the same time, the persistent famine in the Horn of Africa left a sober reminder that future is far from rosy.
What does October means for global health? In an interview with Dr. Peter (more...)
This year, the Student Stop AIDS Speaker Tour stopped by Cambridge to share the poignant stories of three individuals from around the world.
At first glance, Mohammed, Lea and Victor seemed to have little in common. Mohammed is a young man from Gambia, Victor is 28 and from Nigeria, and Lea a young mother living in Bedford. Yet it soon became apparent that, in addition to their youth, they also share an HIV positive status.
But HIV isn’t the only thing they are positive in; what really (more...)
Dr Kennedy Amone-P’Olak, a THRiVE post-doctoral fellow from the University of Gulu in Uganda is spearheading an innovative study into the effects of war on the mental health of young people in Uganda. Dr Amone-P’Olak, who is being mentored by researchers at the Department of Psychiatry in Cambridge,explained the details of his study to an audience at the Centre of African Studies on Wednesday 2nd November 2011.
Uganda recently emerged from 20 years of war in which thousands of youths were (more...)
At the Oct. 2011 launch event for the Global Health year, Dr. Peter Singer spoke with great enthusiasm about the potential for scientific innovation, global partnership and effective ‘governance’ to help counter global health challenges. With innovation, we can provide technical solutions. With partnership, we can break through barriers and share resources. With effective governance, we can provide a framework within which both innovation and partnership can flourish. In this way, we may (more...)
‘Stinky sock’ boxes, genetically modified drought resistant corn, mutant mosquitoes, serum meningitis vaccines… Scientific innovations such as these point the way towards a ‘brighter tomorrow’ in global health, says Dr. Peter Singer.
Speaking at the Oct. 2011 launch event for the Humanitarian Centre’s Global Health year, Dr. Singer focused on innovation, ‘creative partnership’, and improved governance as essential for tackling today’s global health challenges.
Innovation comes (more...)