Newsletter 149
Content
National News and Events
- ukAM2007 in Canterbury - a success!
- Medsin National Conference 2007 - Population and Health
- Discuss nuclear weapons with the MoD and FCO!
- Advance notice of Marrow AGM
- The Lancet Student
- Financing and Action for Global Health conference
International News and Events
- Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system constraints
Website and News
The website is for YOUR events being held by YOUR branches, projects and campaigns. It is really, really easy to submit events and news, so please do, and let everyone know what wonderful things you are up to!
National News and Events
ukAM2007 in Canterbury - a success!
It's the final day of the conference and the clean-up has begun. Many thanks to the OC and delegates, more news once everything has got back to normal (i.e. next weeks newsletter)
Medsin National Conference 2007 - Population and Health
Cheap train tickets up to Dundee for the Medsin National Conference are now on sale. Check out www.thetrainline.com to book. 26th-28th October!!! A weekend not to miss.
Discuss nuclear weapons with the MoD and FCO!
You have the opportunity to discuss nuclear weapons with Ministry of Defence and Foreign Commonwealth officials! This follows similar discussions betweens MEDACT UK and IPPNW Russia with MOD and FCO officials a couple of months ago. They are very keen to hear students views as this is their opportunity to hear our perspective on the issues.
This will take place on the 2nd October before the RSM and IPPNW conference Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition.
If interested please get in touch with Kiran.
Advance notice of Marrow AGM
Just a reminder that the AGM which is scheduled for 24-25th November this year. It will be held in Exeter, please could you let us know how many people from your group will be attending, whether you will be arriving on the Friday night of the Saturday morning and whether any of your group have special dietary requirements.
Please get back to us a.s.a.p. so we have an idea of numbers.
The Lancet Student
The Lancet has wanted to do something for medical students for a long time especially as many of you have already told us that you would like us to do something more geared towards your interests and needs. So TheLancetStudent.com is it. It is a beta ie. a pilot or experimental site so we can try out new things and see what works and what doesn't maybe work so well—and we are relying on you to let us know your thoughts and views. So let me tell you more about TheLancetStudent.com
You can read more details in the About us section but basically, we want TheLancetStudent.com to most focus on global health issues for a number of reasons: 1) Global health is SO important especially as we are all supposed to be citizens of the global village now. We should know about the issues, conditions, and diseases that affect all of the world's population. 2) The Lancet (our parent!) is the champion of global health issues, and so it makes sense that TheLancetStudent.com focuses on this too 3) You have told us (in your 100s at the conferences and events we have attended) that you want more on global health. In many countries, global health plays only a very small part in the curriculum so theLancetStudent.com aims to help fill that gap.
At the moment, you can write for us, submit your elective reports, use our global health resources (which we are still building so please send us your suggestions), vote in our polls, and read a weekly summary of the what's in The Lancet every week (The Lancet Digest). And of course you can share your thoughts and views by posting your comments to this blog.
As I think many of you will be very keen to write for TheLancetStudent.com ( I used to be the senior editor of the studentBMJ so I know that medical students love to write), let me explain a bit more about the writing process. TheLancetstudent.com wants to tap into your enthusiasm and get you writing about global health issues. This is a very broad area so it is best to run your ideas by us first so you can best focus your article and so that you don't waste any time and energy. Initially, all submissions will be reviewed by me and some other editors at The Lancet but we very much hope that YOU will want to be more involved in TheLancetStudent.com by reviewing submissions as well as writing them. More of that in a month or so , once we have had a chance to see how many submissions you are sending us, what you are focusing on, and your writing style.
Finally, as it is the IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students Association) conference in Canterbury this weekend, and one of the main topics is access to essential medicines, this seems to me like a great topic for you to start writing about. The LancetStudent.com will be at the conference, so more blog entries on that to come. Bye for now!
Financing and Action for Global Health conference
13-14th September, London
The conference aims to catalyse action on global health. It will address key issues in health systems strengthening in developing countries such as ensuring human resources for health, gender and health and research and development for new tools and technologies; providing an opportunity to hear the latest in policy, practise and research from both international and developing country perspective.
For more information click here
International News and Events
Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system constraints
Improving maternal health remains the most elusive of the Millennium Development Goals. Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy-related causes: 99 percent of these are in developing countries. The majority of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, and are avoidable through using standard interventions and health care which all pregnant women and their newborn babies need.
For more information click here
Last updated on Friday 10 August 2007 at 10:48.
