Education

Climate Change and Health – the Challenges and the Opportunities

by globalhealth on Jul 30, 2017 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, News, Uncategorized

About this conference Climate change is “The greatest threat to global health in the 21st century”*. The direct and indirect impacts of climate change threaten to hinder progress in global health and destroy some of the gains made over the last 150 years. As always, it is the most vulnerable including children, who...

Guest Editorial: The World Report on Health Policy and Systems Research

by globalhealth on Jun 8, 2017 in Education, Health Workforce/HRH, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, News, Policy, Reports & Publications

Professor Ruairí Brugha, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Board member of the IFGH, has written a special guest editorial focusing on the recently-published World Report on Health Policy and Systems Research. Prof. Brugha notes some of the...

Engaging Health Systems by Improving Access to Health Information

by globalhealth on Aug 6, 2015 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, News, Past Events, Student Outreach Group

GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES Citizen Journalist: Sanskriti Sasikumar Artwork by Charles Isabirye for Partnerships in Health Information. Retrieved from: http://www.phiinafrica.org/ Knowledge empowers individuals to make informed choices. However, in our search for the perfect solution to improve global health, we rarely speak...

Please become a signatory to the Dublin Declaration on HIV Self-Stigma

by globalhealth on Jun 16, 2015 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, News

Calling Advocates and Changemakers! We are pleased to support a new online petition – The Dublin Declaration on HIV Self-Stigma, that it is hoped will increase knowledge and awareness at all levels – government, academic, NGO, and among the general public – of this phenomenon, which continues to cause...

Shit Stunts: Refocusing Priorities in Nutrition and WaSH

by globalhealth on May 27, 2015 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, News, Past Events

GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES Citizen Journalist: Siobhan Nestor Nutrition and WaSH Integration, Research and Future Challenges Integration of Nutrition and WaSH programmes was the key topic discussed at the multi sectorial panel seminar hosted by Irish Aid, the IFGH and the Development Studies Association of Ireland on...

Joint DSA Ireland / Irish Aid / IFGH Nutrition-WASH Seminar

by globalhealth on May 27, 2015 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, News, Past Events

Following the first meeting of the Joint DSA Ireland / IFGH Child Health Study Group earlier this month, we were pleased to co-host another great event with DSA Ireland, and Irish Aid: a half-day seminar focusing on Nutrition and WASH Integration, Research and Future Challenges. For in-depth coverage of this great event,...

Resolving the Contradictions of Growth and Capabilities: A rights-based approach to health

by globalhealth on Feb 16, 2015 in Admin stuff, Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, News, Past Events, Policy, Research, Resources

GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES Citizen Journalist: Bianca van Bavel Applying a human rights approach often calls into question a series of contradictions; particularly when it is introduced by the nation’s President to open up public discourse on health system reform against a backdrop of economic austerity. In this...

Ireland’s HPRA Stands to Engage Scientists of All Ages

by globalhealth on Jan 28, 2015 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, Multimedia, News, Opportunity, Past Events, Research

Global Health Writes Citizen Journalist: Richeal Nic An Ri Here in an energetic atmosphere and a full house of eager students, exhibitors and teachers from all over Ireland—yes, it is the BT 2015 Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS)! Now in its prime 51st year of exhibition,...