Introduction to Global Health
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The Global Health Humanitarian and Development Workshop took place from 21- 23 June, 2019 in the Achill Outdoor Centre in Achill, Mayo.
This is an introductory multidisciplinary training workshop on Health & Development. It includes technical aspects of humanitarian emergency management – as outlined below in the presentations and videos that you can view to get an in-depth snapshot on the topics covered. The event was organised by the HSE Global Programme, NUI Galway, Comhlamh, Irish Forum for Global Health, ESTHER Ireland, Trocaire, Goal, Concern Worldwide, Medicins Sans Frontieres, VSO and Irish Aid.
Meet the participants: doctors, nurses, dentists, professors, occupational therapists, children’s disability specialists, mental health workers, family planning experts, environmental scientists, drug service workers, trauma case workers, physiologists, community health service workers, economists, logisticians, social workers, cervical screen check workers, Master students, and more…
See more photos from the weekend here.
Day 1
Dr. David Weakliam- National Lead for HSE Global Programme
Professor Diarmuid O'Donovan- Senior Lecturer at NUI Galway
Introduction to Global Health and Development
Niall Roche- WASH/Environmental Health Consultant
Introduction to Humanitarian Response Principles
Day 2
Deirdre McArdle- Trócaire
Vulnerability Assumptions Exercise
Powerwalk
Powerwalk Exercise
The Importance of Community Engagement in a Crisis
SAD-SAD Handout
Marie Hallisey- GOAL
Humanitarian Emergency Scenario Challenge: Ebola
Humanitarian Emergency Scenario Challenge
Ebola Situation Overview
Humanitarian Emergency Scenario Challenge
Ebola Questions
Niall Roche- WASH/Environmental Health Consultant
Humanitarian Emergency Scenario Challenge: Cyclone Idai
Professor Diarmuid O'Donovan- Senior Lecturer at NUI Galway
Humanitarian Emergency Scenario Challenge: Earthquake in Haiti
Day 3
Gareth Conlon- Comhlámh
Technical Aspects of Response
Effective Strategies for Psychosocial Resilience
Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald- HSE Lead for Social Inclusion/ Vulnerable Groups
Deirdre McArdle- Trócaire
Technical Aspects of Response: Personal Health & Safety Security
Brid Boyce- Health Service Executive National Lead for the Policy, Procedure
Technical Aspects of Response: Excreta Management (designing a latrine)
Aileen Kitching- Health Service Executive Consultant in Public Health
Role of UN and WHO in Emergencies
Gongs
Ali Abdalla
#BLUEFORSUDAN
Ajibola Adisa
Cultural Competence
Marie Meaney
Mind Matters and Self-Resilience
Oonagh Bradley
Sexual Abuse Reporting in Pre-Adolescents
Norah Murphy
Are people with high-risk prescribing more likely to experience poorer health outcomes?
Marie Hallisey
GOAL’s work in Syria
Deirdre McArdle
Community engagement during a crisis: SAD-SAD