2008 Press Releases
Experts Gather at UCC to discuss Global Health Issues
15.10.2008
Experts from around the globe will gather at UCC next weekend (October 17th-18th 2008) for the Biennial Conference of the Irish Forum for Global Health which will be attended by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Micheál Martin.
15.10.2008
Experts from around the globe will gather at UCC next weekend (October 17th-18th 2008) for the Biennial Conference of the Irish Forum for Global Health which will be attended by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Micheál Martin.
Hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, UCC, the conference will take as one of its central themes the fact one person in four of the world's population continues to live on less than a dollar a day and that the poor have been bypassed to a large extent by technological advances in health and other sectors.
During the two-day conference which begins on Friday next (October 17th) at 11am, speakers will address subjects as diverse as water and environmental health, how traditional practices in Ethiopia can affect health and the implementation of antiretroviral therapy programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. On Friday evening, the John Kevany Memorial Lecture, on Health, Hunger and Global Development, will be given by Tom Arnold, Chief Executive, Concern Worldwide.
Other conference topics will include a discussion on factors that continue to fuel the spread of HIV among female sex workers in Nigeria, how maternal mortality can be reduced by better health systems, and childhood disability in sub-Saharan Africa. Also attending will be: Their Excellencies, Priscilla Jana, South African Ambassador to Ireland, and the Lesotho Ambassador to Ireland, Manete Ramaili; Dr Diarmuid McClean, Irish Aid Health Development Specialist; Irish experts, including Eamon Lenihan, Director, Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, UCC, (conference organiser); Professor Denis Lucey, UCC; Professor Gavin Burnell, chair, International Education Committee, UCC; Dr Charles Spillane, Genetics and Biotechnology Research Group, Biochemistry Department, UCC ; Professor Ivan Perry, Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC and Professor Mac MacLachlan, Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, Dublin.
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During the two-day conference which begins on Friday next (October 17th) at 11am, speakers will address subjects as diverse as water and environmental health, how traditional practices in Ethiopia can affect health and the implementation of antiretroviral therapy programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. On Friday evening, the John Kevany Memorial Lecture, on Health, Hunger and Global Development, will be given by Tom Arnold, Chief Executive, Concern Worldwide.
Other conference topics will include a discussion on factors that continue to fuel the spread of HIV among female sex workers in Nigeria, how maternal mortality can be reduced by better health systems, and childhood disability in sub-Saharan Africa. Also attending will be: Their Excellencies, Priscilla Jana, South African Ambassador to Ireland, and the Lesotho Ambassador to Ireland, Manete Ramaili; Dr Diarmuid McClean, Irish Aid Health Development Specialist; Irish experts, including Eamon Lenihan, Director, Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, UCC, (conference organiser); Professor Denis Lucey, UCC; Professor Gavin Burnell, chair, International Education Committee, UCC; Dr Charles Spillane, Genetics and Biotechnology Research Group, Biochemistry Department, UCC ; Professor Ivan Perry, Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC and Professor Mac MacLachlan, Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, Dublin.
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