Exploring commonalities in Global Health Research 2 Event

Time:: 08:45 - 17:00
Date:: 16 June 2016
Venue:: Hilton Hotel Southampton, Bracken Place Chilworth, Southampton. SO16 3RB

For more information regarding this event, please email Frances Clarke at fmc@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Seizing opportunities for research collaboration and capacity-building. Bringing together expertise from Brazil, Africa, Canada & the Middle East.

08.45 - 09.15: Registration. Tea and coffee and networking
09.15 - 09.30: Welcome and Introduction: Professor Marie-Louise Newell, Director, Global Health Research Institute
Research Theme 1 - Nutrition and Development
10.00- 10.30 Dr Lara Nasreddine, Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut: 'Public Health Nutrition Research in the Middle East and in particular, Lebanon'

Respondent Professor Mark Hanson

Research Theme 2 - Infections
10.45 - 11.15 Professor Antonio Luiz Ribeiro, Head of Research and Innovation, Hospital das Clínicas, UFMG, Brazil: 'Current challenges to healthcare in Brazil'

Respondent: Professor Robert Read

Coffee/tea and refreshments will be available throughout the day

Research Theme 3 - Population
11.45 - 12.15 Professor Osman Sankoh, Executive Director, INDEPTH Network: 'The role of health and demographic surveillance systems in global health research.'

Respondent: Professor Nyovani Madise

Research Theme 4 - Right to Health/Governance/Ethics
12.30 - 13.00 Dr Lisa Forman, Assistant Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division, Office of Global Public Health Education & Training, Toronto: 'The right to health, and global health policy'

Respondent: Professor John Coggon

13.15 Lunch and Divide into working groups:

1.Nutrition and development: Group leader Dr Sarah Kehoe/Dr Danielle Lambrick

2.Infections: Group leader Dr Myron Christodoulides

3.Population: Group leader Dr Fifi Amoako-Johnson

4.Right to health/Governance/Ethics: Group leader Dr Claire Lougarre

NB Mark Hanson and Marie-Louise Newell to be floating facilitators across all four groups

14.00 Groups discuss their input into a PhD fellowship application for submission as a Southampton based PhD programme of work: Identify Gaps in knowledge in the subject area, identify Southampton strengths and opportunities for filling those gaps, Identify specific PhD opportunities. This then will generate a draft proposal for contributing towards a DTC Global Health at Southampton: report back to plenary. Tea and coffee will be available during the afternoon.
16.00 Group leaders report back
17.00 Close

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