Student Outreach Group

Cultural Exchange: The ‘one-way’ street of Global Health

by globalhealth on Nov 19, 2014 in Conference Materials, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, IFGH 2014 Conference, News, Past Events, Student Outreach Group

IFGH Conference 2014 Emerging Voices-Early Perspectives Key Correspondent: Michael Johnson What can we learn about healthcare from the Global South? With many of our resourced hospitals, high-end technologies, and long established healthcare systems, this question may leave some perplexed. However, it would appear that...

A Need for Reciprocal Partnerships not Aid

by globalhealth on Nov 17, 2014 in ESTHER Alliance, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, IFGH 2014 Conference, IFGH Multimedia, Key Correspondent News, News, Past Events, Resources, Student Outreach Group

IFGH Conference 2014 Partnerships Panorama Key Correspondent: Jessica O’Dowd In Sudan, maternal mortality has been reduced by 86%, with neonatal and stillborn deaths reduced to nearly 50%. The childhood survival rate of cancer has increased to 50% in Tanzania. These were just some of the benefits cited from large...

Let’s Get Visual! Conference Video

by globalhealth on Oct 15, 2014 in Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, IFGH 2014 Conference, Multimedia, Student Outreach Group

The International Conference is less than a month away! In case you were on the fence about attending what is going to be an amazing conference. Chiedza McClean, one of our professional interns has put together a short video clip about the conference. This is a quick video to give a little bit more …...

Key Correspondence – UCD School of Social Justice Graduate Conference

by globalhealth on Oct 13, 2014 in Homepage Featured, Key Correspondent News, News, Student Outreach Group

On Saturday the 4th October, in the run up to the 25th anniversary of Equality Studies and Women’s Studies in UCD (and the 10th anniversary of the formation of the UCD School of Social Justice) the graduate students of the school organised the UCD Social Justice Graduate Conference. The focus of the conference was:...

Information evening with Projects Abroad at the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre

by globalhealth on Jul 3, 2014 in Education, Homepage Featured, Irish News and Feeds, Opportunity, Student Outreach Group, Students Corner

On Tuesday 1st July, at the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, Projects Abroad held an information evening, which gave an overview of the wide range of projects offered, spread across almost 30 countries around the globe, in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. Recruitment...

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Story of Promise

by globalhealth on Apr 22, 2014 in Education, Key Correspondent News, Student Outreach Group, Students Corner

“TB is the child of poverty—and also its parent and provider” Archbishop Desmond Tutu It can be easy to overlook that certain diseases are curable, when their disproportionately high prevalence and incidence rates suggest otherwise. Tuberculosis is one of those diseases; under-represented, and insufficiently...

The Making Time National Debate on Global Health 2014

by globalhealth on Apr 17, 2014 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, News, Student Outreach Group, Students Corner

Last Thursday, April 10th, the University of Limerick (UL) chapter of the Irish Forum for Global Health Student Outreach Group (SOG), had the pleasure of hosting the All-Ireland Final of the 2nd Annual Making Time Debate on Global Health, at the Graduate Entry Medical School, UL. Two students from each of Queen’s...