GLOBAL HEALTH EVENTS
UCL Institute for Global Health Symposia
We invite your attendance and participation at the UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) Symposia.
This series of challenging and stimulating multidisciplinary global health symposia aims to encourage you to learn more about, and get involved in, the new UCL IGH.
The underlying philosophy of our work is that the solutions to achieving sustained long-term health improvement reside equally in all our faculties, from the arts and humanities, built environment, engineering and law, to basic and applied biomedical sciences.
Join with colleagues across the university, policymakers and members of the broader community in a series of global-health symposia. These will explore controversial subjects related to global health and the barriers to long-term sustained health improvement. They are your opportunity to hear from important commentators and for your voice to be heard in creatively moderated public events.
2009/2010 symposia
19 May 2010 - The global burden of mental health disorders: taking a primary care approach
Why do many middle and low-income countries devote less than 1% of their health expenditure to mental health, when mental health disorders represent a substantial proportion of the world's disease burden? This symposium will explore why mental health legislation, policies, community care facilities, and treatment is not given the priority it requires, and what can be done to address this neglected issue.
19 May 2010, 4.30-6pm followed by drinks, JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL.
For details of previous Institute for Global Health symposia please visit previous events.
Other UCL Global Health events
UCL Global Disability Research Group UCL Futures Seminar Series
18 March 2010 – Disability and Poverty: A Perspective from the World Bank
5–7pm followed by drinks
For more information please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-disability-research/futures.
Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health 'Work in Progress' Seminar Series
16 March 2010 - Mental health law discriminates unfairly against people with mental illness
23 March 2010 - Second Best Treatments in Health Research
4-6pm, Lecture Theatre, UCL Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, on the 5th Floor of the Wellcome Trust building, 183 Euston Road. Please contact Jo Wolff for details of access.
For more information please visit the Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health website.
WHO Global Health Histories Seminars 2010
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL are pleased to announce the latest series of WHO Global Health Histories Seminars, in conjunction with the World Health Organization. Each seminar offers lessons learned from history and implications for current health policy-making.
Seminars will be held at the WHO Library Meeting Room, Geneva, 12.15 - 2.00pm, and you will be able to join this seminar via webinar, or watch it soon afterwards on the global health histories website.
24 March 2010 - Climate change
23 April 2010 - Mental Health
12 May 2010 - Viral haemorrhagic fevers
23 June 2010 - Aging
7 July 2010 - Influenza
15 September 2010 - Diabetes
13 October 2010 - Tobacco
17 November 2010 - Obesity
8 December 2010 - Plague
For more details visit the Global Health Histories website.
16 March 2010 - In solidarity with the people of Haiti: directions and challenges for inclusive recovery and reconstruction of Port-au-Prince
As recovery efforts are getting underway after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, this panel discussion (hosted by the UCL Development Planning Unit) will look at how the international community can best support recovery and reconstruction that is inclusive, and that protects the rights and needs of the people.
Speakers include Camillo Boano (UCL Development Planning Unit), Jo da Silva (ARUP International Development), John Twigg (UCL Engineering) and
Ben Wisner (UCL Aon-Benfield Hazard Research Centre). For more information contact Cassidy Johnson or visit the Development Planning Unit website.
24 March 2010 (World TB Day) - The Challenge of TB: UCL's Contribution
World TB Day commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), and provides an opportunity to describe problems and solutions related to the TB pandemic and to support worldwide TB control efforts. The Institute for Global Health is hosting 'The Challenge of TB: UCL's Contribution' on World TB day. The afternoon will feature plenary presentations including:
Dr Marc Lipman (UCL Medicine) – What's going on with TB in London and the UK?
Professor Stephen Gillespie (UCL Infection and Immunity) – Trials and tribulations to get better TB treatment
Professor Graham Rook (UCL Infection) - Immunotherapy: Possible solutions to the trials and tribulations to get better TB treatment
Dr Carole Reeves (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine) - In search of the lost children of Craig-y-nos
Full details of the agenda are available here.
24 March 2010, 1.30-6pm, Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, UCL.
31 March 2010 - Why are unequal societies socially dysfunctional? Darwinian insights
This event will explore how evolutionary psychology contributes to an understanding of persistent health inequalities in UK society. How do health inequalities relate to poverty? What matters more, relative income or social status? If social status matters, does greater inequality make it matter more? How does poverty contribute to teenage pregnancy and teenage male violence? In general, how does an evolutionary perspective help in answering questions that epidemiologists are asking concerning public health? An understanding of these issues might help develop policies to foster public health.
Speakers include Professor Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham), Professor Kate Pickett (University of York), Professor Martin Daly (McMaster University, Canada) and Professor Stephen Suomi (National Institutes of Health, USA).
10am-5pm G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, Malet Place, UCL
Booking is essential. Contact iish@ucl.ac.uk to register.
For more information on this and future International Institute for Society and Health (IISH) public events please visit the IISH website.
15 April 2010 - UCL Institute for Global Health - Vulnerable Populations Town Meeting
'Vulnerable populations' is a term often used to characterize groups whose needs are not fully addressed by traditional service providers. 'Vulnerable populations' can be defined as people who feel they cannot comfortably or safely access and use the standard health resources offered. They include but are not limited to those who are physically or mentally disabled, migrant populations, culturally isolated populations, medically or chemically dependent, homeless, frail/elderly and children.
A wide range of disciplines addressing vulnerable populations are strongly represented at UCL; disability, maternal and child health, women's health, international health and development, and ethnic and minority health. The UCL Institute for Global Health aims to build on this strength by developing a Vulnerable Populations 'theme', encouraging debate and stimulating new interdisciplinary collaborations to provide solutions to, or open up new areas of enquiry related to vulnerable populations.
We invite UCL researchers, whose work focuses on, or relates to, all aspects of vulnerable populations to a Town Meeting. In addition to researchers in the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, we would especially like to meet researchers from other faculties. The aim of the event is to highlight the vast range of research in progress and identify potential areas of connectivity. We wish to explore how the Institute for Global Health can help with new research or related activities.
1-4pm, 15th April 2010, Old Refectory, Wilkins Building, UCL.
23 April 2010 – Disability and International Development: Defining the Next Decade of Global Disability Research
A one day international conference organised by the UCL Global Disability Research Group. For more information please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-disability-research/futures.
7-25 June 2010 - Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy Course
UCL's annual masters-level infant feeding course is the only advanced-level international training course on breastfeeding and related topics available worldwide. To find out more visit the short course website.
12-16 July 2010 - UCL Health & Society Summer School
For more information or to join the mailing list please email graduateinfo@public-health.ucl.ac.uk
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