Dr Amy Hughes, Prof Mukesh Kapila and Prof Tony Redmond on the fight against Ebola
In November 2014, Professor Mukesh Kapila was one of the panellists in HCRI's Understanding Ebola Event [more information about the event including recording on the HCRI website] alongside Vickie Hawkins from MSF, Anne Kelly from the University of Exeter and Prof Tony...
Dr Bernard Manyena addresses EU Parliamentary Committee on post-Hyogo Framework for Action
Dr. Bernard Manyena will be one of the keynote speakers at the workshop that will contribute to the preparations for the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction that will be held in Sendai, Japan on 14-18th March, 2015. This involves a review of the current Hyogo...
PG Cert Global Health: End of program testimonial
by Victor AdamuThe PG Cert Global Health has been a very challenging and enriching experience. Very useful links were provided for additional reading, and the course was very interactive with discussion sessions that were very rich in content and arguments, where...
PG Dip Global Health – End of Course Testimonial
by Fiona O'Meara After many years of working as a clinical physiotherapist in private practice, an opportunity arose to accompany my humanitarian, shelter delegate husband to take up a position on a longer term basis in the developing world. Initially visa restricted...
PG Dip Online Global Health Module Review: Research Methods in Global Health
by Fiona O'MearaI was looking forward to this final subject of the taught course work to learn about the different research methods available and their applications to provide a sound platform from which to base my research proposal for the final dissertation.As...
PG Cert Online Global Health Module Review: Ethics, Human Rights and Health
by Victor AdamuThis course module "Ethics, Human Rights and Health served to enrich my knowledge on the right to health being an inclusive right, and the underlying social determinants of good health. The module also provided a forum for in-depth analysis of the...
Chinese doctors & health administrators visit HCRI
A delegation of senior Chinese doctors and health administrators visited the HCRI for two days in December to learn about the delivery of emergency care and disaster management in the UK. With presentations from HCRI and Northwest Ambulance Service, together with...
A Country-of-Origin-Report on Eritrea & human rights politics
But my trip is still not over, because I don't get the rights I am entitled to what the row over a Country-of-Origin-Report on Eritrea reveals about human rights politics Dr Tanja Miller writes about Eritrea and the narratives around human rights.The general truth...
Are all lives valued equally? – Human Rights Day
Dr Roisin Read writes about the ethics and issues surrounding humanitarian aid for World Human Rights Day.Both human rights and humanitarianism are moral concepts based on a notion of a universal ideal of shared humanity. This universal ideal tells us we have...
December Updates
by Dr Maura DuffyDecember has been a busy and exciting month at HCRI. Some of the highlights so far include:"Afghanistan: The transition" Photography ExhibitionOn Thursday 4th December HCRI launched Afghanistan: The transition the Medecins Sans Frontires/Doctors...
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