Global Health

Cambridge Global Health Year

The Humanitarian Centre is hosting a year of events and activities on current Global Health issues. This includes conferences, networking opportunities, training, seminars and workshops, and an online database to increase collaboration and impact in Global Health. Our blog captures the thoughts of ‘Global Health’ students, researchers, practitioners and others. Please contact Anne Radl to contribute.

“We are proud that over 1000 people have participated in the Global Health Year either through events or online. 72% of attendees at the 3 largest Global Health Year events said it would have a postive impact on their future practices and procedures.” -Anna-Joy Rickard, Director of the Humanitaran Centre

Launch of the 2012 Cambridge International Development Report!

Posted on October 24th, 2012 by anne

The 2012 Cambridge International Development report was launched on Monday 22 October at Murray Edwards College.
‘Partnerships for global health: pathways to progress” includes contributions from:

Dr Peter Singer, CEO of Grand Challenges Canada
Lord Nigel Crisp, Former Chief Executive of the NHS and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health
Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Dr Shelly Batra, co-Founder of Operation Asha
and many more . . (more...)

A Global Roadmap to Address Birth Defects at the Local Level

Posted on August 1st, 2012 by The Humanitarian Centre

A pioneering resource to help tackle birth defects, particularly in low and middle income countries (LMICs), is now fully available free and online to health and policy professionals and patient groups across the globe.
The PHG Foundation Health Needs Assessment Toolkit for Congenital Disorders (also known as birth defects), is a comprehensive database, information resource and roadmap to creating essential services in this neglected area. For the first time, health professionals in LMICs have (more...)

Getting in the Access Loop: a Series of Reflections

Posted on July 18th, 2012 by The Humanitarian Centre

Last month, the Humanitarian Centre successfully organized this webinar called “Getting in the Access Loop” – which explores how health research from Africa can have greater representation in journals, and therefore greater influence and impact – with the support from PLoS and HIFA2015.
Anne Radl, the Projects Manager of the Humanitarian Centre, wrote the first of a series of reflections: Getting in the Access Loop: Time for Research and Action. She points out that one of the key (more...)

Schedule & Discussion Questions for “Getting in the Access Loop”

Posted on June 1st, 2012 by anne

This is the schedule for “Getting in the Access Loop” and some of the questions and topics you have suggested for discussion (below). For biographies of the discussants, click here.
4pm BST (3pm GMT): Introduction to the seminar/webinar by Sacha DeVelle
Neil Pakenham-Walsh to introduce HIFA2015 webinars
4:05pm: 1st Session: Strengthening Pathways for Dialogue

Facilitator: Ginny Barbour

Discussants:

Janice Pedersen, RAND Europe
Cecil Haverkamp, University of Botswana (via computer)
Neil (more...)

Discussant Biographies: Getting in the Access Loop

Posted on June 1st, 2012 by anne

Many thanks to the following people for facilitating the discussion on “Getting in the Access Loop:”
Sacha DeVelle has an extensive teaching and research background in education and linguistics gained from working in Australia, the United Kingdom, Latin America and East Africa. Her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Spanish at the University of Queensland, Australia was the impetus for further postgraduate study into the psychology of language. It was there that she co-ordinated the (more...)

Organisational Networking for Getting in the Access Loop

Posted on May 29th, 2012 by anne

The following is a list of organisations that were mentioned in the discussion on “Getting in the Access Loop: Enabling more Health Researchers in Africa to Publish Effectively.”
Each of these organisations was highlighted for successfully addressing key issues in building research capacity and promoting dissemination of research findings–and we hope it is a useful resource for those who wish to work on these issues in their own institutions.
To download the recording of “Getting in the Access (more...)

Visionary inventor of sutureless cataract surgery retires from CBM

Posted on May 10th, 2012 by anne

Dr. Albrecht Hennig has been working with CBM, the overseas disability charity, since 1981. He has been changing lives in Pakistan, North India and Nepal for nearly 30 years by performing thousands of cataract operations every year and training local staff.
When he began his work in Nepal, Dr. Hennig was working under the harshest conditions: “There was no electricity or imported goods. Sometimes I was close to quitting,” he recalled. Adapting to the conditions he was working in, Dr. Hennig (more...)

Getting in the access loop: Enabling more health researchers in Africa to publish effectively

Posted on March 30th, 2012 by anne

On 1 June 2012, The Humanitarian Centre will be hosting a seminar/webinar to explore real ways in which African research and researchers can have greater representation in journal publications. The discussion will take place from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and concurrently, over the web using Elluminate Live!, so that colleagues in Africa, and in other places, can join and share ideas about how to increase accessibility to African research. This seminar (more...)

Cambridge Aid 4 Health 2012

Posted on March 21st, 2012 by Tom Hird

Fifty students from over twenty UK universities took part in the UK’s first Aid 4 Health Simulation in Cambridge on March 9th & 10th. The simulation, organized by the Humanitarian Centre, aimed to capture the complex dynamics of the negotiations for aid and wider aid processes. Students played the role of a multitude of actors and institutions including, amongst others, ministries of the Malawian Government, the World Bank, UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and USAID.

Prior to the (more...)

Idea Transform partners with Humanitarian Centre and CUTEC to support Global Health Hack Day

Posted on March 12th, 2012 by anne

As part of its programme to help develop innovative ideas that can make a positive difference to society, Idea Transform is joining forces with the Humanitarian Centre and the Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC), to support the forthcoming Global Health Hack Day.
Being held as part of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival the Global Health Hack Day is an exciting ‘open innovation’ event that will see eight teams of bright, enterprising students presenting their (more...)