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UCL Grand Challenge of Global health (GCGH): Previous Events
| 25 March |
UCL World TB Day Conference - Targeting Zero Deaths from TB: Progress, Reality and Hope This year’s World TB Day event was run in conjunction with The Lancet Infectious Diseases and reflected the activity of UCL and its collaborators. |
| 7 March |
Disability and the Life Course Series: Disability and Adulthood Barbara Murray, Senior Disability Specialist at the International Labour Organisation joinedthe UCL Global Disability Research Group to discuss issues surrounding disability and adulthood. |
| 27 - 28 February |
International Conference on Homelessness, Health and Inclusion Professor Sir Michael Marmot speaks at the UK Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health’s first international conference on improving the health of the poorest fastest. |
| 8 February |
Global Food Security: Creating resilience in the face of catastrophic climate change This event provided an opportunity to bring together expertise in health, policy, agriculture, ecosystems and climate science to explore and debate these linkages. |
| 2 February |
Introduction to Global Health The first Introduction to Global Health Conference organised by UCL's Global Health Societies and hosted by the Institute for Global Health. The conference looked at he key issues in child and maternal health care, what is it like to work in a war zone and what does the job of a public health specialist entail? |
| 29 January |
Grand Challenges Showcase Reception The showcase displayed the range of cross-disciplinary work that has been funded under the Grand Challenges Small Grants programme. All of the previous recipients of small grants funding have prepared posters covering their cross disciplinary work. |
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4 December |
Panel debate in Parliament: The Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Time Bomb |
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21 November |
Institute of Child Health Open Day & Poster Competition With special guest lecture by Prof Eleanor Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging |
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13 November |
UCL Lancet Lecture With Mr Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS |
| 30 October |
Festival of Chinese Film and the Body 2012: Love for Life (Global health theme) With Q & A with Director, Gu Changwei |
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25 October |
A Seminar Focussing on Disabled
Children in East Africa Eleanor Challenger, Julia McGeown and Leonie Farrow |
| 3 October |
Challenges for Mother and Child Health:perspectives from Southern Africa Prof Ebrahim memorial lecture with Dr Zawairi, WHO Representative in Malawi |
| 3 October |
Contemporary Debates in Global Health: the UCL perspective UCL Institute for Global Health Grand Symposium |
| 29 September |
Malaria and the African diaspora Malaria workshop |
| 2-3 July |
Current Legal Issues Colloquium: Law & Global Health Convened by Prof Michael Freeman (UCL Laws) with Dr Sarah Hawkes (UCL Institute of Global Health) and Prof Belinda Bennett (University of Sydney) |
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20 June |
Lessons for Global Health from India UCL Interdisciplinary Society for International Development, UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health and UCL Public Policy joint symposium and poster exhibition |
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13 June |
Beyond Social Exclusion: Emerging Logics of Expulsion Joint Grand Challenge of Global health and Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities event with Prof Saskia Sassen |
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11 June |
Launch of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Secretariat at UCL With lecture by Dr Francis Collins with introduction by Prof Sir John Tooke |
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7 June |
Postgraduate/PhD Employer Forum - Careers in UK & Global Health
Forum For research students to network with employers from the UK & global health sector |
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29 May |
Tackling Depression: The Most Common Global Illness 22nd UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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4 May |
The Central Place of Adolescence in Global Health Joint symposium with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UCL Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne and the Lancet |
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23 March |
Tuberculosis: Local and global UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH One-Day Conference to mark Worl TB Day |
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22 February |
Tackling the Health Divide: From Western Europe to Eastern Europe and Central
Asia 21st UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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15 February |
Transformative Education for Global
Health One-Day Symposium |
| 15 February |
How Can We Set Priorities in Health Fairly? UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice & Health Conference |
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14 February |
Shareholder Engagement in the Embedded Business Corporation: Investment Activism, Human Rights and TWAIL Discourse UCL Centre for Ethics & Law |
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13 February |
Global women's rights: A Journey Dr Laura Nelson, Womankind Worldwide |
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18 January |
Child
Maltreatment: A six-country comparison of trends and policy 20th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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28 November |
Economic Growth and Women’s Health Outcomes: A deepening divide? Professor Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and the International Development Economics Associates UCL Lancet Lecture |
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15 June |
Reducing
Maternal Deaths: China's efforts since the 1950s 19th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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25 - 26 May |
UCL-Leverhulme Trust Population Footprints Conference A UCL and Leverhulme Trust conference on human population growth and global carrying capacity |
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25 May |
21st Century challenges: Addressing population, development and climate change UCL-Leverhulme Trust Population Footprints Lecture |
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24 May |
My Vision of the World UCL-Leverhulme Trust Population Footprints Debate |
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24 March |
Tackling Tuberculosis on a Global Scale Marking World TB Day |
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23 February |
Renaissance
in AIDS Prevention: Advances in new technologies 18th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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19 January |
Ecocide: The
fifth crime against peace? 17th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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22 November |
Overcoming Public Health Challenges: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals UCL-Lancet Lecture |
| 20 October |
From 3 by 5
to 0 by 15: HIV treatment in rural South Africa 16th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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14 October |
What Can Students do for Global Health? UCL Medsin |
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June |
The
Pleasures of the Bed: Jeremy Bentham on sex, population and happiness 15th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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19 May |
The Global
Burden of Mental Health Disorders: Taking a primary care approach 14th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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24 March |
The Challenge of TB: UCL's contribution |
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10 February |
Evidence-Based
Decision-Making: Who’s counting the evidence and whose evidence counts? 13th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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26 January |
Sex Workers:
Stigma and barriers to health 12th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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29 November |
Climate Change: The biggest global health threat of the
21st century? The Right Honourable Lord May, member of the UK Government Committee on Climate Change UCL Annual Lancet Lecture |
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24 November |
Climate Change and Global Citizenship: The contributions of human health, pharmacy and veterinary science Institute of Education, the UCL Institute for Global Health, the Royal Veterinary College, the School of Pharmacy and the London International Development Centre |
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8 October |
Disability and Women’s Health: Emerging issues in an overlooked population UCL Global Disability Research Group Seminar Series |
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7 Oct - 16 Dec |
Capability, Health and Measurement UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice & Health Seminar Series |
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9 September |
Coming of
Age for Adolescent Health 11th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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24 - 25 August |
Southern Africa 2020 Vision: Public policy priorities for the
next decade Conference in Windhoek, Namibia, sponsored by UCL Futures and The Wellcome Trust UCL Health & Society Summer School |
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10 June |
Fatal
Neglect: Forgotten issues in child health 10th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
| 8 June |
Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change: What next? UCL and The Lancet symposium at Chatham House |
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14 - 15 May |
The Human Right to Health Conference UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice & Health conference, in association with The Lancet, the UCL Institute of Global Health and the UCL Institute for Human Rights |
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16 March |
Straight
Talking: Population growth and family planning 9th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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21 January |
The Crisis
in Global Finance & Trade: What are the implications for health? 8th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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8 - 9 December |
UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice & Health: Launch Conference |
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4 December |
Too Hot to Handle? The climate change time bomb for public health UCL and British Museum Debate |
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10 December |
Human Rights
and Disability: The missing 10% 7th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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24 November |
Equity, Global Health and the Fight against Disease Prof Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria UCL–Lancet Lecture |
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22 November |
Nigeria: Partnership for Health – Restoring Health to the Agenda Conference hosted by the Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and GPs (MANSAG), the Nigerian Public Health Network, Tropical Health and Educational Trust, the UCL Institute for Global Health and AfricaRecruit |
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26-28 November |
The World Health Organization and the Social Determinants of Health: Assessing theory, policy and practice International conference organised by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, in association with UCL Epidemiology & Public Health and the Global Health Histories Initiative of the World Health Organisation |
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Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health International two-day conference based on the work of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health |
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3-5 November |
Ganesha and Murugan: India psychiatry encounters medical anthropology, Chennai UCL and the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health |
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25-26 October |
Power and Politics in Global Health Medsin National Conference |
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A New Global
Public Health Movement? Managing the health effects of climate change 6th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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16 October |
Launch of Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report UCL Institute for Global Health and Zed Books |
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Global
Health Equity and the World Health Organization’s Commission for Social
Determinants in Health 5th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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24-28 June |
Groundwater and Climate in Africa International conference in Kampala, Uganda, organised by UCL, UNESCO and the Ministry of Water and Environment (Uganda) |
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13 May |
Global
Health Governance: Who is accountable to whom? 4th UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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HIV/AIDS:
With no magic bullet, where to next? 3rd UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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Public
Inconvenience: The politics of toilets in India 2nd UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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12 February |
Global
Health: What’s justice go to do with it? 1st UCL Institute for Global Health and GCGH Symposium |
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