Concern, in collaboration with the IFGH and the Development Studies Association of Ireland, hosted its first learning seminar in Dublin on December 10th, 2012 on the topic of Scaling Up Nutrition.

The Irish Aid Father Michael Kelly World AIDS Day Event 2012 'Education, sports and music - social vaccines against AIDS' was held on 28 November 2012

To mark Global Handwashing Day on October 15, 2012, the IFGH held a Health Dialogue entitled Back to Basics: Washing Hands = Saving Lives: Handwashing and its role in achieving Public Health and Nutrition Outcomes.
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On 6 June, 2012, Prof Father Michael Kelly presented his Honorary Degree Conferring Acceptance Speech at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Continue reading for the text of the speech.

IFGH Health Dialogues Podcast - Episode 1. Dr Kunal Patel, Ian Hodgson, and Carlos Bruen discuss the IFGH 2012 International Conference: 'The Global Health Workforce: Pathways to Health.'

The first IFGH Development Debate was held on March 15 at Trinity College Dublin. The event was a great success, with teams of students from global health and development-related courses representing Trinity College Dublin (Kate Brady and Melaine Kermarc, TCD/UCD Masters in Development Practice) and NUI Maynooth (Luke O'Sullivan, MSc Immunology and Global Health and Eamonn Keaveny, BA Anthropology). The students debated the motion "Foreign Aid should be cut from countries whose human rights record is poor." The competition was fierce, with the TCD team winning the event.

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On March 8, 2012, the IFGH and the Irish Joint Consortium on Gender-Based Violence held an event at the Chester Beatty Library entitled "International Women's Day 2012: Health and Social Consequences of Violence."

Auni Amin from the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alwiye Xuseyn from AkiDwA presented at the event.