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Workshop: Smart Phone Video Skills – POSTPONED DATE TBC

by globalhealth on Feb 10, 2020 in Homepage Featured, Key Correspondent News, Student Outreach Group, Upcoming Events

Calling all Citizen Journalists! WORKSHOP: Smart Phone Camera Skills for Beginners and Improvers POSTPONED Date/Time TBC ATTENTION All Key Correspondents This course is being funded by the Irish Global Health Network in support of the Student Outreach Team’s Key Correspondent Programme. Former and...

Invitation to Tender Evaluation of Health Projects in Kenya: July-November 2019

by globalhealth on May 7, 2019 in Homepage Featured

In 2019, Misean Cara is commissioning an evaluation of health projects in Kenya that received Misean Cara funding from 2012-2018. This evaluation of selected projects will try to evidence that people (including those living with HIV/AIDS) supported by these projects have improved their health status (e.g. live longer,...

Pathways to Clean Cooking II – Wexford

by globalhealth on Feb 27, 2019 in Events, Homepage Featured, Past Events

The second International Pathways to Clean Cooking conference was held on May 29, 30 and 31 in Wexford to examine recent advances on the wider topics related to clean cooking practices and their potential to impact on global health and the environment. Participants of the conference published the Wexford Declaration upon...

Access to Medicines Conference: April 16

by globalhealth on Feb 26, 2019 in Access to Medicines, Events, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Past Events

The third Access to Medicines conference will take place in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Dublin on April 16, 2019. It is being organised by Access to Medicines Ireland with support from RCSI, Comhlámh, Irish Forum for Global Health, Just Treatment and Médecins Sans Frontières. The conference is...

Irish Launch of the Lancet Countdown Report at NUI Galway, 3rd November 2017

by globalhealth on Nov 2, 2017 in Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, News, Resources

On Friday 3rd November, NUI Galway will host the Irish launch of the Lancet Countdown 2017 report on climate change and global health, “Tracking progress on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health”. This special event is organised by NUI Galway’s...

Conference Roundup: Climate Change and Health – The Challenges and the Opportunities

by globalhealth on Oct 14, 2017 in Conference Materials, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, IFGH Multimedia, Irish News and Feeds, News, Past Events, Resources

Climate Change and Health: The Challenges and the Opportunities took place at NUI Galway’s Institute for Lifecourse and Society on Friday 22nd September 2017. Over 80 people from diverse backgrounds attended the conference on the day, which featured expert speakers Dr. Nicholas Watts (Executive Director of the...

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...