true The ICOSS Annual Lecture, " Inequality: the Enemy Between us?" will be given by Professor Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level". This book was described by the New Statesman as "One of the top ten books of the year" Wednesday March 3rd, 5pm, St George's Church, Sheffield. All welcome 21 2010-02-10T19:08:35+00:00 2010-03-03T19:00:00+00:00 1 263 569 2010-03-03T17:00:00+00:00 2010-02-11T09:36:16+00:00 true Are you interested in Global Health? Do you want to know more about the challenges faced by people following war and conflict? ...Then come to the Liverpool Health and Conflict Conference on 20th March 2010! Liverpool Conflict & Health Conference 2010 is a conference aimed at educating students about effects of war and natural disaster on health. For more info please join the facebook group **http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=mf&gid=332605895539** This full day event will be held at Liverpool Guild of Students on Saturday 20th March. Speakers include representitives from Medact, Survivors Fund (SURF), Student Action for Refugees and Amnesty International. Organisations such as Medcin du Monde will be available to discuss opportunities to volunteer with humanitarian groups and to give advice about careers working with international humanitarian organisations. Tickets are £5 which includes refreshments and lunch. For details on how to buy tickets please email info.conflictandhealth@googlemail.com or search www.lgos.org for 'Liverpool Conflict & Health Conference'. 16 2010-02-12T17:27:29+00:00 2010-03-20T18:00:00+00:00 0 265 2010-03-20T08:45:00+00:00 2010-02-20T00:30:17+00:00 true Global health and development conference open to all students with an interest in development issues as well as their relationship with health at University of Southampton, Avenue Campus on 6th March 2009. Speakers will include: Benny Dembitzer-author of The Attack on World Poverty, European Director of Ethical Events, former international development consultant, former Director of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and member of the IPPNW team who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984/5 http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cuid/cuid/?q=node/81 http://www.candeadvisory.com/people/Benny Aubrey Meyer-Director and founder of the Global Commons institute, consultant to the IPCC and author of the 'Contraction and Convergence Framework" to tackle Climate Change http://www.gci.org.uk/AubreyMeyer/CV_Aubrey_Meyer_1.pdf Ollie Ross- director of Sohmed, and consultant Anaesthesist at Southampton General Hospital. http://www.suht.soton.ac.uk/sohmed/ Frank Boulton- Medact board member and representative on "the Bioweapons Prevention Project" http://www.medact.org/index.php Julian Oram - head of policy at World Development Movement http://www.wdm.org.uk/ Doors open at 9:30am for a 10am start from a key note speaker. There will be exciting seminars from experts across many fields including health, politics, conflict and development. Lunch will be provided and is included in the price of the ticket The event will finish with an exciting plenary and discussion from 3:15 on the topic of: "What is the greatest challenge in the way to a healthier World?" Tickets: £5 students £7 non-students Available at: www.southamptonhub.org/whidc or from a student representative: Abi Lieberman (Year 4 BM5 Medic): arrl105@soton.ac.uk Will Nevard (Year 4 BM5 Medic): Nathan Hayes (Year 3 Politics and Economics): nh1w07@soton.ac.uk Chris Arrowsmith (Year 3 BM4 Medic): Amelia Cutts (Year 3 BM5 Medic):ac28v07@soton.ac.uk 22 2010-02-13T14:40:16+00:00 2010-03-06T18:00:00+00:00 0 266 516 2010-03-06T09:30:00+00:00 2010-02-20T00:29:57+00:00 true One Step Forward is a new type of conference for medical students, trainees and doctors. One Step Forward is all about letting you decide from an amazing selection of lectures and workshops what you want to see, hear, learn and do: your timetable is completely up to you! Choose from a selection of 24 workshops and presentations which include: * Medicine at extremes * Practical skills * Careers advice * Medical innovations *. MSF Surgeon Mr David Nott will also be sharing his experiences following the Haiti Disaster. Keynote speakers include: Professor Parveen Kumar, Mr John Black (Royal College of Surgeons of England), Mr Stephen Mannion (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon), Professor Averil Mansfield (President, BMA). Held at the Royal Society of Medicine on Saturday March 6th 2010. Please visit the link to register: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/students/sta20.php. 2010-02-22T17:06:03+00:00 2010-03-06T17:30:00+00:00 1 268 W1G 0AE 2010-03-06T09:45:00+00:00 2010-02-23T13:41:01+00:00 true Medsin's Global Health Conference is in Newcastle on 27/28th March. ---------------------------------------- Our theme is **"2050- a healthy future?"** and we have a fantastic line up of speakers, workshops, campaigns, socials and much more! All the plans are coming together nicely and we are really looking forward to having everyone come to the toon! Please see our website for lots more information and to register online. [www.ghc10.org][1] Registration is now OPEN! with love from the conference team! xx [1]: www.ghc10.org 17 2010-03-01T21:25:47+00:00 2010-03-28T16:45:00+01:00 0 270 NE1 7RU 0 2010-03-26T19:00:00+00:00 2010-03-11T15:12:05+00:00