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- February 21,2012 Reflections on the Annual Lecture: Saving Lives, Building Resilience and the UK
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Reflections on the Annual Lecture: Saving Lives, Building Resilience and the UK Words by Rose Beale, Photos by Elizabeth Wagemann Chris Austin MP -Head of Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department – began by emphasising the deep roots of the UK’s approach to humanitarian relief: built on our ‘collective humanity’. In response to the Portuguese earthquake [more...]
The Cambridge Science Festival has a unique offering this year for anyone interested in exploring the relationship between science and entrepreneurship. The Global Health Hack Day is an “open innovation” event being run by the Humanitarian Centre, in partnerhsip with the Cambridge University Technology and Entreprise Club (CUTEC). The Global Health Hack Day is based [more...]
The 2011 UN Summit on NCDs highlighted the pressing need to address NCDs globally, particularly in developing countries which are the hardest hit but have the least resources. The Cambridge Post-UN Summit Conference on 20th January 2012 explored next steps for the UK by gathering experts from academia and civil society with representatives from the [more...]
Part 3. Debates and Reflections By Alexa Zeitz The conference threw up many questions, as is to be expected at this early phase in the NCD movement. Among these was the role of the private sector and conflicts of interest. While the tobacco industry has been roundly rejected from debates about NCDs because of its [more...]
Part 2. Mental Health and Partnerships By Alexa Zeitz The topic of mental health had been largely off the agenda at the UN Summit, the Humanitarian Centre conference recognized the importance of addressing this most neglected chronic disease. Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, explained that mental health goes unaddressed because [more...]
Part 1. The UN NCD summit: Frustrations and Optimism. By Alexa Zeitz “Shocking”. This is what Richard Howitt, MEP for East of England, called the global incidence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Howitt, who gave the welcome address that opened the Humanitarian Centre’s Post-UN Summit Conference on NCDs and Mental Health in Developing Countries on January [more...]
Invitation to Parliamentary Reception on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health
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 [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 [more...]
By Anne French Professor Al-Rasheed, professor of anthropology at King’s College, London, on Human and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia and native of Saudi Arabia, began a wide-ranging talk by arguing that although Saudi Arabia was rarely reported on in the Western media, compared to the “hotspots of the Arab world” such as Egypt and [more...]