This study aims to develop, test and refine a framework to map Health Promotion capacity in developing countries. The framework will lead to the development of a tool that can be used to map Health Promotion capacity at a national level.

Collaboration between academic Public Health departments in higher educational institutions in the North and South will facilitate: (i) health worker career development (ii) capacity strengthening in teaching and learning for higher education & (iii) capacity strengthening in research. The outcome of such collaboration(s) will strengthen public health practice from a global perspective.

The overall aim of this study is to identify issues impacting on the journey and experience of overseas students studying in a Western medical school. We aim to identify and clarify challenges facing cohorts of students at all stages of the programme and build on existing supportive mechanisms and to assist the College in further development of student welfare policies and provision of support. This study is being conducted in 3 phases and we would like to present the preliminary findings of Phase 1 – the impact on the newly arrived student.

This article demonstrates the culmination of partnerships both nationally and internationally which led to the development of an institute of Ear , Nose an Throat Surgery as a result of a specific need identified in Zambian society in 2003. The paper serves to illustrate how in a poverty stricken sub - Saharan African country such as Zambia how significant and sustainable changes can be brought about for ENT Health care for the region.

The aim of this paper is to propose an ICRCT(Implement a Cluster Randomized Control Trial) of HBB (Helping Baby Breath) into rural Sudan, focusing on training 14,000 Village Midwives (VMs), distributed over 18 Regions/provinces and covering a rural population of 25 million.

Research into the "branding" of NGOs and how it's use helps and/or hinders objectives, with a psychological experiment which looks at different communication approaches with donors and the congnitive systems they trigger.