Global Health Short Course
FREE 7 week lecture series
An exciting opportunity to LEARN AND ACT on Global Health issues
Every Tuesday from August 10th 5.30pm -7pm at Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA for 7 weeks
5.00pm-5.30pm: Over 14 volunteer organizations will have stalls offering specific volunteering opportunities to suit you!
Register at www.interhealth.org.au/ghsc
Week One: Introduction to Global Health; Climate Change
- Dr Jenny Stedmon – Chair, International Humanitarian Law Board Red Cross (Aus)
- Mr John Davis – Climate Change and the Developing World
Week Two: Sanitation, War and Conflict
- Mr Dan Loden – Engineers without Borders - Sanitation in Cambodia
- Mr Graham Forward – War, Conflict and Displaced People
Week Three: Aid
- Professor Peter Devereux –International Aid
- Sr Joan Westblade – Health Promotion and Education in East Timor
Week Four: Health and the media
- Dr Norman Swan - Radio National Health Report - Global Health and the Media
- Dr Trevor Cullen – HIV/AIDS in SE Asia and the Role of the Media
Week Five: TB/HIV/Malaria
- Professor Michael Blakeney – Patents, Antiretrovirals and Big Pharma
- Ms Jayne Martin – TB/HIV – Personal encounters in Sudan, Uganda and Sri Lanka
Week Six: Indigenous/maternal health
- Professor Mike Daube – Indigenous Health Policy – Challenges and Successes
- Ms Kathy Webster – Indigenous Maternal and Child Health
Week Seven: Refugee health
- Mr Jim Sharp- VP of Amnesty Australia – Refugee Health in Australia
- Dr Carmen Lawrence – Refugee Health in Australia
