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.The People Say ‘Yes’: A Victory for Abortion Rights in Ireland
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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
Professor Anne Matthews, DCU, IGHN Chair
Professor Brian MacCraith, DCU President
Mr Ruairà de Búrca, Director General of Irish Aid
Brief Introductions
Dr David Weakliam, HSE Global Health Programme Lead
Mr Jim Clarken, CEO of Oxfam Ireland
Morning Plenary
Keynote Speakers
Dr Ailbhe Smyth, Activist and Academic, Co-Director of Together for Yes
Ms Ifrah Ahmed, Founder of the Ifrah Foundation
Addressing the health consequences of
Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia
Morning Plenary Q&A
Dr Ailbhe Smyth and Ms Ifrah Ahmed
Afternoon Plenary
John Kevany Memorial Lecture
Professor Diarmuid O’Donovan, Queen’s University Belfast
Health Equity and Rights – Local and Global
Plenary: Key Issues for Global Health
Dr Mohammad Nowroz Haqmal, Country representative, University Research Co, LLC and Center For Human Services
Implementation of BPHS/PHC
Afghanistan’s experience
Sherly Meilianti, WHO Global Health Workforce Network Youth Hub
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
Ms Annette Kennedy, President International Council of Nurses, Commissioner on WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs
The International Council of Nurses
Afternoon Plenary Q&A
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)
Maeve Taylor, Director of Advocacy and Communications of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA)
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Meeting the Challenge of Universal Healthcare Beyond ICPD25
Dr Cliona Loughnane, Women’s Council Ireland (NWCI)
NWCI – Women’s Health Strategy – Gender Equality
Gill Carter, Maastricht University
Rights and Rites: The potential of alternative rites of passage in contributing to FGM abandonment in Tanzania
Marie Hallissey, GOAL
Exploring Adolescents’ Perspectives on Adolescent Pregnancy and Contraceptive Use in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Adèle Fox, Concern
Teens, families, communities and clinics: A socioecological approach to reducing teenage pregnancy in rural Sierra Leone
Dr Tochukwu Igboanugo, University College Cork
Inequalities in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare services – an impediment to achieving SDG 3 & 10
Stream B: Leadership in Global Health
Deirdre Mangaoang, RCSI/COSECSA
Growing the Global Health Impact of Irish Academic Institutions – The RCSI Global Surgery Experience
Dr Sebastian Kevany, Centre for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy
Health Security and Health Diplomacy – Leadership imperatives 2020-2030
Lisa Harold, National Youth Council of Ireland
Promoting Health in the Youth Sector
Baher Higazy, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Global Health Diplomacy in Practice
Dr Cliona O’Sullivan, University College Dublin
Is survival enough? Strengthening Rehabilitation towards the 2030 Agenda
Sara McQuinn, EUPHAnxt
Stream C: Nutrition and Health
Sheila Garry, World Vision
Sociocultural influences on the health and nutrition of women and children: The key role of grandmothers
Whitney Mphangwe, Trinity College Dublin
Exploring the factors that contribute to high levels of stunting in children under five years, in a highly productive agricultural region
Hatty Barthorp, GOAL
Family MUAC (formerly MUAC by Mother)
Breda Gahan, EU Health and Nutrition Concern Dublin on behalf of Concern Bangladesh
Address Inequality among the urban extreme poor – experience from EU funded Urban Health & Nutrition project implemented by Concern Worldwide with BRAC in Bangladesh
Mosarouf Hossain, PROSHOMON Concern Bangladesh
Municipality led digital Health Voucher increasing health access for the urban extreme poor in Bangladesh
Dr Tanya Cassidy, Dublin City University
Banking on Milk: Maternal generosity and the global expansion of human milk exchange
Stream D: Inequalities, Inclusion and Global Health (1)
Katie Moran, NUI Galway
A twinned audit of severe preeclampsia in Mayo and Londiani- Same condition, same treatment, different outcomes
Dr Paula Quigley, DAI Global Health
MAMaZ against Malaria, Zambia – A community driven approach
Joe Kelly, UL Hospital Groups
Learning for Lives Ghana
Alan Reade, GOAL
In the quest for sustainability: who might we be marginalising?
Patricia Erasmus, Supreme Court of Ireland
Statelessness in Africa; Health Rights, Feminism and thorny funding issues
Dr Israel Adekunle Balogun, CBM Disability Inclusive Development Adviser
Lessons from the Humanitarian Disability Audit in the Northeast of Nigeria
Stream A2: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (2)
Hazel Larkin, Dublin City University
Trauma Informed Maternity Care following Childhood Sexual Abuse
Dr Yvonne Finn, NUI Galway
Girls for Girls Programme in rural Kenya – Brighter Communities Worldwide
Zoe Taylor Doe, Trinity College Dublin
Gestational Diabetes and Maternal Mortality in Liberia
Ellen Corby, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
A Study of the Irish Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 using the Walt-Gilson Policy Analysis Framework
Dr Brynne Gilmour, Centre for Global Health, TCD
Community conversations for gender role transformation
Dr Sarah Morgan, Association of Medical Students Ireland
Sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights in Northern Ireland
Stream D2: Inequalities, Inclusion & Global Health (2)
Caroline Jagoe, Trinity College Dublin
Disability and Healthcare: Intersectional Access or Invisible Problem?
Jacopo Villani, HSE Mental Health
A qualitative study of Irish Travellers’ perceived mental health needs
Deirdre Mangaoang, RCSI/COSECSA
Gender equity in surgery
Adèle Fox, Concern
Chad: Access to and provision of quality health care
Sheila Fitzgerald, Access to Medicines
Access to Medicines – A global right
Dr Chiara Pittalis, SURG-Africa/RCSI
Reducing inequalities in surgical care: The mobile phone clinic saving lives in Malawi
Stream E: Environment and Health Inequities
Dr Debbi Stanistreet, RCSI and Oluwakorede Adekoje, RCSI
Stakeholder and community perspectives on scaling up cleaner fuels in South West Cameroon
Eunice T. Philip, University College Cork
Climate Changes Health – the inequalities we pay for
Conor Fox, Hestian
Clean Cooking Conference
Dr Sadhbh Lee, Irish Doctors for the Environment
Planetary Health and Women; Sexual and Reproductive Health
Dr Aoife Kirk, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Planetary Health: The opportunities and barriers for decarbonization of the healthcare system in Ireland
Emily Hosford, Vita - Fighting hunger and climate change in Africa
The development of a new community-led approach to improved stove adoption
Stream F: Conflict, Crisis & Rehabilitation
Franziska Clevers, Concern Sudan
Conflict interrupts Health service delivery in West Darfur, Sudan – Concern with partners overcoming challenges
Michelle O’Dea, Concern South Sudan
Bridging the Health Inequality gap in a Protracted Conflict Situation in South Sudan, Aweil North and West Counties by Concern Worldwide
Dr Cliona O’Sullivan, University College Dublin
A profile of patients attending rehabilitation services of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) over 40 years, (1979-2018)
Geraldine McCrossan, GOAL
Communities finding their own solutions Northern Uganda
Chairs and Co-chairs
Professor Anne Matthews, DCU, IGHN Chair
Co-chair for Keynote speakers
Dr Enida Friel, GOAL
Co-chair for Keynote speakers
Professor Ruairi Brugha, RCSI
Chair for Plenary: Key Issues for Global Health
Dr Anne Nolan, IGHN
Chair for Stream A: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (1)
Rosie James, IGHN/AMI
Chair for Stream B: Leadership in Global Health
Dr Brynne Gilmore, Centre for Global Health, TCD
Co-chair for Stream C: Nutrition and Health
Jacinta Greene, Tallaght Hospital
Co-chair for Stream C: Nutrition and Health
Dr David Weakliam, HSE Global Health Programme Lead
Chair for Stream D: Inequalities, Inclusion and Global Health (1)
Ann Nolan, Trinity College Dublin
Co-chair for Stream A2: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (2)
Cliona Loughnane, Women’s Council Ireland (NWCI)
Co-chair for Stream A2: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (2)
Dr Hasheem Mannan, UCD
Co-chair for Stream D2: Inequalities, Inclusion & Global Health (2)
Sinead Murray, Misean Cara
Co-chair for Stream D2: Inequalities, Inclusion & Global Health (2)
Niall Roche, IGHN
Co-chair for Stream E: Environment and Health Inequities
Dr Aileen Kitching, HSE
Co-chair for Stream E: Environment and Health Inequities
Breda Gahan, EU Health and Nutrition Concern Dublin on behalf of Concern Bangladesh
Co-chair for Stream F: Conflict, Crisis and Rehabilitation
Dr Israel Balogun, CBM
Co-chair for Stream F: Conflict, Crisis and Rehabilitation
GHE Coordinator 2019
Jane O'Flynn, IGHN