The People Say ‘Yes’: A Victory for Abortion Rights in Ireland
The Irish Global Health Network (IGHN) co-hosted this year’s Global Health Exchange Conference with the HSE, Irish Aid, Oxfam Ireland and Dublin City University. The conference was held under the theme: Reaching the furthest behind first: addressing gender and other inequalities to meet the SDGs.
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Brief Introductions
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Morning Plenary
Keynote Speakers
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Addressing the health consequences of
Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia
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Dr Ailbhe Smyth and Ms Ifrah Ahmed
Afternoon Plenary
John Kevany Memorial Lecture
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Health Equity and Rights – Local and Global
Plenary: Key Issues for Global Health
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Implementation of BPHS/PHC
Afghanistan’s experience
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Tackling the global challenges on Human Resources for Health from a student and early career perspective:
The GHWN Youth Hub, a platform to speak your voice
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The International Council of Nurses
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Dr Mohammed Norwoz Haqmal, Ms Sherly Meilianti and Ms Annette Kennedy
Morning Parallel Sessions: A, B, C & D
Stream A: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (1)
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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Meeting the Challenge of Universal Healthcare Beyond ICPD25
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NWCI – Women’s Health Strategy – Gender Equality
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Rights and Rites: The potential of alternative rites of passage in contributing to FGM abandonment in Tanzania
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Exploring Adolescents’ Perspectives on Adolescent Pregnancy and Contraceptive Use in Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Teens, families, communities and clinics: A socioecological approach to reducing teenage pregnancy in rural Sierra Leone
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Inequalities in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare services – an impediment to achieving SDG 3 & 10
Stream B: Leadership in Global Health
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Growing the Global Health Impact of Irish Academic Institutions – The RCSI Global Surgery Experience
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Health Security and Health Diplomacy – Leadership imperatives 2020-2030
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Promoting Health in the Youth Sector
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Global Health Diplomacy in Practice
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Is survival enough? Strengthening Rehabilitation towards the 2030 Agenda
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Stream C: Nutrition and Health
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Sociocultural influences on the health and nutrition of women and children: The key role of grandmothers
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Exploring the factors that contribute to high levels of stunting in children under five years, in a highly productive agricultural region
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Family MUAC (formerly MUAC by Mother)
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Address Inequality among the urban extreme poor – experience from EU funded Urban Health & Nutrition project implemented by Concern Worldwide with BRAC in Bangladesh
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Municipality led digital Health Voucher increasing health access for the urban extreme poor in Bangladesh
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Banking on Milk: Maternal generosity and the global expansion of human milk exchange
Stream D: Inequalities, Inclusion and Global Health (1)
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A twinned audit of severe preeclampsia in Mayo and Londiani- Same condition, same treatment, different outcomes
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MAMaZ against Malaria, Zambia – A community driven approach
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Learning for Lives Ghana
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In the quest for sustainability: who might we be marginalising?
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Statelessness in Africa; Health Rights, Feminism and thorny funding issues
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Lessons from the Humanitarian Disability Audit in the Northeast of Nigeria
Stream A2: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (2)
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Trauma Informed Maternity Care following Childhood Sexual Abuse
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Girls for Girls Programme in rural Kenya – Brighter Communities Worldwide
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Gestational Diabetes and Maternal Mortality in Liberia
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A Study of the Irish Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 using the Walt-Gilson Policy Analysis Framework
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Community conversations for gender role transformation
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Sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights in Northern Ireland
Stream D2: Inequalities, Inclusion & Global Health (2)
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Disability and Healthcare: Intersectional Access or Invisible Problem?
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A qualitative study of Irish Travellers’ perceived mental health needs
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Gender equity in surgery
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Chad: Access to and provision of quality health care
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Access to Medicines – A global right
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Reducing inequalities in surgical care: The mobile phone clinic saving lives in Malawi
Stream E: Environment and Health Inequities
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Stakeholder and community perspectives on scaling up cleaner fuels in South West Cameroon
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Climate Changes Health – the inequalities we pay for
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Clean Cooking Conference
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Planetary Health and Women; Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Planetary Health: The opportunities and barriers for decarbonization of the healthcare system in Ireland
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The development of a new community-led approach to improved stove adoption
Stream F: Conflict, Crisis & Rehabilitation
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Conflict interrupts Health service delivery in West Darfur, Sudan – Concern with partners overcoming challenges
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Bridging the Health Inequality gap in a Protracted Conflict Situation in South Sudan, Aweil North and West Counties by Concern Worldwide
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A profile of patients attending rehabilitation services of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) over 40 years, (1979-2018)
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Communities finding their own solutions Northern Uganda
Chairs and Co-chairs
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Co-chair for Keynote speakers
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Co-chair for Keynote speakers
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Chair for Plenary: Key Issues for Global Health
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Chair for Stream A: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (1)
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Chair for Stream B: Leadership in Global Health
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Co-chair for Stream C: Nutrition and Health
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Co-chair for Stream C: Nutrition and Health
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Chair for Stream D: Inequalities, Inclusion and Global Health (1)
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Co-chair for Stream A2: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (2)
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Co-chair for Stream A2: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (2)
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Co-chair for Stream D2: Inequalities, Inclusion & Global Health (2)
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Co-chair for Stream D2: Inequalities, Inclusion & Global Health (2)
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Co-chair for Stream E: Environment and Health Inequities
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Co-chair for Stream E: Environment and Health Inequities
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Co-chair for Stream F: Conflict, Crisis and Rehabilitation
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Co-chair for Stream F: Conflict, Crisis and Rehabilitation
GHE Coordinator 2019
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