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 gathering a range of leading […]
The second International Pathways to Clean Cooking conference is being held on May 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. REGISTRATION OPEN: GET YOUR TICKET Globally, up to four million people die prematurely […]
GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES CITIZEN JOURNALIST: Viveka Guzmán Based on life expectancy, mortality and morbidity rates, we can state without exaggeration that today’s world population has better health than ever before. However, looking between the lines drawn by the statistics, it is evident that this is not true for everyone. Significant inequalities persist between and within […]
GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES CITIZEN JOURNALIST: Rosie James On Wednesday May 2nd, over 160 delegates gathered at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in Dublin city to discuss the problems and solutions of the high prices of new medicines in Ireland and around the world. The one-day conference was organized by Dr Kieran […]
In honour of World Tuberculosis Day, the Irish Forum for Global Health has created this handy infographic, with facts and figures on this leading infectious killer.
GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES CITIZEN JOURNALIST: Jennifer Trainor For five days, at the Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, delegates were presented a variety of topics on the theme of building and improving the capacity of future healthcare personnel. Specialists from different backgrounds presented on topics from the delivery of healthcare in rural […]
GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES CITIZEN JOURNALIST: Jenny YC Lee In a roundtable discussion at the 4th Global Forum on HRH, Dr. Tana Wuliji from the WHO shared facts about the pressing issues in health workforce. If we add up all the shortfall of health workers around the world, the number would be 18 million. This […]
GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES CITIZEN JOURNALIST: Loice Epetiru The Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health brought together stakeholders from around the globe to discuss the Human Resources for Health agenda with the aim of attaining universal health coverage, health security and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More than 1000 delegates gathered at the […]
GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES CITIZEN JOURNALIST: Jenny YC Lee What does “gender” mean to you? It is different from sex, which refers to the anatomy of an individual’s reproductive system. Gender varies across social context and over time. Nowadays, many researchers around the globe incorporate “gender analysis” to ensure equity in health system research. At the […]
GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES CITIZEN JOURNALIST: Tsion Fikre The Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health came to an end on November 17th, 2017. Over 1000 people from 90 countries attended around 90 sessions during the week that kicked off with the first ever Youth Forum, and the first instance where frontline health workers […]
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