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...
Developing online postgraduate programme in Global Disaster Management
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute recently signed a collaborative agreement with PolyUs School of Nursing, to jointly develop an online postgraduate programme in Global Disaster Management. This programme aims to provide students with an opportunity to...
Third year at the Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium
For the third year in a row intercalating medical students at HCRI (BSc and MA) have attended the annual Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The event this year took place on Tuesday 25th November 2014 and we...
Merlin History Project
The UK medical NGO Merlin has recently agreed to join forces with Save the Children.To ensure that Merlin's story is recorded and its achievements and contributions to the humanitarian and health sectors are properly recognised and understood, Merlin has commissioned...
Band Aid 30: Buy the song. Stop the virus. Just don’t ask how.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute or The University of Manchester.by Dr. Roisin ReadSince Bob Geldof announced he was...
Humanitarian aid after Ebola
Professor Bertrand Taithe has written a blog for ALNAP about the Ebola crisis. The current Ebola crisis will end one day and we will have to think about its significance for humanitarian aid. Is this a turning point? What does it reveal for the societies where Ebola...
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