Newsletter 187
Contents
National News and Events
- Trainers Database and email list
- Healthy Planet News
- Medact AGM & Conference - 21st June 2008
- Medsin Magazine
- Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project
Anything Else
- Conference on Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
- ESC Conference
- Oxfam campaigning training opportunities
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe - volunteers needed
- The International Malaria Exchange in August
- Carbon Reduction and Health Conference
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! Join in Medsin discussions at http://www.medsin.org/discuss
National News and Events
Trainers Database and email list
If you are a Medsin trainer (i.e. have done TNT or a similar training workshop or given training sessions or workshops previously), would you please email me from your preferred email account. The old database is a little out of date and it would be great to update it so it's a really valuable resource and also so I can contact you in the future if training opportunities arise. If you could email and let me know your name, region/med school and if there any particular specialist topics you give training on or whether you are a general medsin trainer that would be fab!
Thanks,
Daze
Healthy Planet News
Saving Carbon, Improving Health Draft NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy launched for consultation.
Climate change is a serious and urgent health challenge for all of us as individuals and organisations within the NHS. Inactivity will cost the NHS; action to mitigate climate change will produce savings and benefit health in many ways. The NHS is the UK's largest public sector contributor to climate change and is responsible for 18 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. This draft Strategy for consultation sets out how NHS organisations can reduce emissions from energy and heating, staff, patient and visitor travel, and the products used every day, at the same time as saving money that can be used for direct patient care. It sets the ambition for NHS organisations to meet and exceed the government target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. You are strongly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the Strategy to ensure that the NHS is the leading public sector organisation on tackling climate change. For more information go to: www.sdu.nhs.uk.
If you would like to get more involved in these issues, please get in touch with the NHS SDU.
Medact AGM & Conference - 21st June 2008
Disarmament, Denial and Distraction: the psychology behind nuclear weapons and their retention
To register for the Conference and AGM please download and return the registration form available here.
Medsin Magazine
At the Medsin National Conference 2008 in October, Medsin and the Lancet Student will be launching a global health magazine.
This magazine will be published twice a year and distributed to Medsin members at our two conferences. Furthermore, the theme of each magazine will coincide with the theme of the conference.
We are now soliciting articles for the first edition which will be entitled 'Medsin and the Lancet Student present Power and Politics in Global Health' and we would love YOU to contribute.
The publication of this magazine will coincide with the most politically charged months seen in years. With elections in the US, Russia, the Olympic Games in China, the shifting political landscape of Latin America; the flux of emerging and established powers are likely to have huge implications for global health. It is a very interesting theme and it is important to discuss these issues among medical students and health care professionals.
As well as being released in print, this will also be available online on the Medsin and the Lancet Student websites.
Your articles should be no longer than 1000 words and should be submitted by the end of July.
Please send your submissions to: student@lancet.com or rhona.macdonald@lancet.com.
Please visit www.medsin.org/magazine or www.thelancetstudent.com for further details. And please forward this to your local members!
Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project
30th June - 2nd July 2008, Brussels
Learn how lobbying for a nuclear weapon free Europe works! We are finalizing the booking of accommodation and registration at the EU Parliament. So we would need to know your full name and how many days you would like to stay.
If you would like to come to Brussels please contact Ursula
Anything Else:
Conference on Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
July 2-4th
A conference hosted by the University of Liverpool & Liverpool John Moores University on behalf of the British-Irish Section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social ontrol.
2008 marks Liverpool's celebration of its status as European Capital of Culture. In preparation, Liverpool has been ndergoing a physical and cultural regeneration that has in many ways transformed the city as private capital and expertise has poured in. The transformation of the local state into a growth machine has been accompanied by shifts in crime control and community safety, spatial regulation, forms of policing and discourses of urban belonging.
Like in other cities, there are significant undersides to urban regeneration and the culture it seeks to impose - undersides which rarely figure in official and academic discourse. Much of Liverpool and its surrounding areas remain scarred by poverty, under-employment, and racism. At the same time, whilst the marginalised are subjected to criminalisation, the social and criminal justice supports for the victims of the crimes and harms of the powerful either remain virtually non-existent or under threat. We wish to critically explore the extent and direction of change in our cities and how these are re-framing practices of power, justice and the right to the city.
- Conference is free to students, unwaged, voluntary-sector organisations.
- Otherwise £35 for the full conference, or day rates are: £20 for Thurs 3rd, £10 each for Wed 2nd & for Fri 4th
For more information visit here or to register click here or email here
ESC Conference
19th European Students’ Conference (ESC) and Berlin Medical School – members of IFMSA – would kindly invite you to this years conference:
29th Sep – 03rd Oct 2008
Berlin – Virchow-Klinikum
Call for Abstracts: 15th of June
For further information, please visit our website or send us an email.
Your ESC- and IFMSA-TEAM Berlin, May 2008
Oxfam campaigning training opportunities
Oxfam's famed 'Change' campaigning training is now open again for applicants, deadline for application 23rd of June. The session will be running in Birmingham from the 19th-22nd of September. Several Medsin folk have in past years completed the training and would thoroughly recommend it for anybody keen on campaigning in their community!
Secondly, a new form of training entitled 'Video Change' is an online-based seminar for people who want to learn how to use online media such as Youtube etc to promote their campaign messages and gain support in doing so.
Click here for more details on the above!
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Volunteers Needed
Following two years of the successful Fringe show, 'get up stand up' the show will be running for the third year in 2008 on August 3-25 2008. There will be top comedians every night plus the best of Edinburgh's musicians and Hollywood Award winning film, 'Anthropology 101'.
The venue is the jazz bar in the heart of the festival. Volunteers are needed in the following areas: hospitality, front of House, sound desk and promoting the show.
For further information email
The International Malaria Exchange in August
SCORE CIMSA Indonesia offers all medical studenst worldwide a great opportunity to take part of a unique Research Exchange Project: The International Malaria Exchange in August!!! (there are still some open places...apply NOW!!!
What is it? Theme: Comprehensive study on Malaria in Western Lombok, Indonesia, An Approach to Diagnosis, Clinical and Epidemiological Survey. Program: 1 week of summerschool, 2 weeks of field research, 1 week of research discussions and a great social program with a group of 25 International Medical students.
When? - August 4th-31st August 2008
Where? - Indonesia, East Java and Western Lombok
Participants? - for 25 students only....There are still OPEN places!! Apply now!!
Fee? - 530 euro.
More information about the program? - visit here or email
Carbon Reduction and Health Conference
30 June 2008 Carbon reduction and health - a guide to reducing the footprint of the health sector Venue: RCPCH, London Contact: Aaron Barham London
Registration (including lunch and refreshments): £50
Last updated on Wednesday 18 June 2008 at 22:13.
