Events in and around Cambridge
- May 22 8:00 pm 9:30 pm
Tackling extreme poverty: 1.4 Billion Reasons - May 30
First Aid and Travel Health 30th May - May 31 5:00 pm 6:30 pm
Drugs, Deceptions & Disasters – the challenge of poor quality essential medicines
- May 22 8:00 pm 9:30 pm
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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...]
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 [more...]
By Michaela Collord Racy dialogue, slapstick humour, tragic encounters, true courage and base cowardice, a sudden turnaround and a happy ending. This is not exactly the emotional roller-coaster ride one might expect from a story about AIDS. And yet The Dreams of Elibidi, screened at the 2011 Cambridge African Film Festival, plays on these ups [more...]
The Rwenzori Community Trust is well aware of the challenges it faces in building self reliant communities in Ntoroko, Western Uganda. It was nevertheless refreshing to hear the Trust’s founder, Mr. Kasiringi Eryeza, deal even-handedly with challenges and solutions alike at Wednesday’s lunchtime talk put on by the Humanitarian Centre. Mr. Eryeza, likely uncertain of [more...]
Once labelled a basket case for international development, Bangladesh “has turned things around in a spectacular way,” announced LSE professor David Lewis at Cambridge University International Development’s event last Friday. Drawing upon the work in his new book, Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society, Prof. Lewis gave a crash course on the country he believed [more...]
Foreign aid has done Africa more harm than good. This was the motion before the Cambridge Union Society on the 3rd of November 2011. One of the evening’s key-note speakers, Lord Paul Boateng PC, put this motion in a national context by pointing out at this point in time both the political elite and the [more...]