Global Health

Aims:

  • Primary: Share learning and experience of working in ‘global health’ settings including public health, humanitarian and voluntary work
  • Secondary:
    • Consider wider implications of working in these settings, including ethics and sustainability
    • Developing a ‘good practice code’ for volunteer work, and a repository of existing NGOs as well as other institutions and initiatives offering experience in this area
    • Link this together with Young Doctor Movements on the ground in these areas as well – we may be able in time to share opportunities for young doctors who are interested to work in these fields
    • Teach and develop skills around working in resource limited settings, including as well as expedition/extreme medicine.
    • Raise awareness and collaborate about research possibilities in global health settings

Objectives:

  • Establish group, set up social media/contacts
  • Expand on the themes of our workshop presented in Vienna, continuing at Dublin, around one of the themes listed above
  • Consider linking with other YDMs to co-produce a Global SIG

Leads:

Kerry Greenan

Founding members:

Kerry Greenan
Daria Gheorghe
Fred Thomas
Rogier Steins
Nadia Toumi
Lisa Zangarini
Oisin Brady Bates
Aaron McKevitt
Catarina Gomes Madeira
Nick Mamo
Aliki Traianou