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February 2018 Newsletter
UCL Global Health
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I am delighted to welcome you to our February newsletter.
We have had a busy beginning to the new year completing the internal consultation on our new five-year strategy, which outlines our teaching and research priorities to be delivered by the Institute for Global Health's ten centres.
Our Centre for Gender and Global Health continues its ground-breaking leadership and efforts to move the agenda on equality. Read below about the launch of the Global Health 50/50 Report on International Women's Day on 8 March 2018. Our work on HIV and tuberculosis, in collaboration with the African Health Research Institute (AHRI), was on display during the highly successful AHRI symposium - Towards HIV and TB elimination in South Africa - jointly organised with UCL and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine this month.
Following the successful Global Health Day conference, which brought together scientists from UCL, LSHTM, Imperial College, King’s College and the Wellcome Trust at the Francis Crick Institute in December 2017, Dr Jenevieve Mannell and colleagues have summarised some of the key issues discussed during the day in The Lancet, commenting on the UK's role in global health research innovation.
Our work in global health is even more important in the face of current challenges – xenophobia, belligerence and ignorance seem to have become common features among many leaders nationally and internationally. In light of this, our research and teaching in the subjects that affect the most vulnerable groups globally is ever more pertinent.
Professor Ibrahim Abubakar (@ProfIAbubakar)
Director, UCL Institute for Global Health
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7 February 2018
Wellcome funds new global urban health project
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UCL and Imperial College London are to lead a new research project to understand how cities around the world can be transformed to support healthier lives, whilst also protecting the planet. Set up with a £10 million grant from the Wellcome Trust as part of its Our Planet, Our Health programme, the partnership will bring together research from London, Rennes, Beijing and Ningbo, Nairobi and Kisumu, Dhaka, Vancouver, and Accra and Tamale to create one of the world’s leading research hubs on urban health, sustainability and equality. The partnership will be led by UCL's Prof. Mike Davies and Imperial College London’s Prof. Majid Ezzati.
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18 April 2018
UCL Grand Challenges to celebrate cross-disciplinary work
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The UCL Grand Challenges is proud to present Showcase 2018, an afternoon of presentations, discussion and celebration of its unique cross-disciplinary research and engagement. Exploring joined-up solutions to address societally complex problems, the Grand Challenges programme has achieved impact within UCL and externally. Come along and hear from some of the project groups on 18 April 2018, 14.00-15.00, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building WC1E 6BT.
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21 February 2018
Paving the way to major UCL-Japan conference
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In 2019 UCL will host a major conference on the ‘Super-ageing society’ jointly with Kyoto University and other Japanese universities, as a result of collaboration between UCL Grand Challenges and the Embassy of Japan. Following a call for proposals in 2017 on ‘Society’s response to ageing’, Grand Challenges has awarded five grants to UCL researchers to organise and deliver workshops and public events on the difficulties we encounter as we age, and how society responds.
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1 February 2018
Film engages communities to talk about child marriage
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With one of the highest rates of child marriage globally, the Government of Nepal has set a goal to end child marriage by 2020. A team from UCL has worked with a local film maker and couples who were married young to engage rural communities on the causes and consequences of child marriage, and discuss how the problem can be addressed locally. Around 1,800 people have attended community screenings with trained facilitators leading conversations on this complex issue, and the film has had over 50,000 views on youtube. An additional screening has already been held in Kathmandu for development partners and non-governmental organisations working on child marriage, and plans are underway to hold more community screenings to continue the debate and encourage change.
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14 February 2018
New prize for excellence in health research
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UCL’s Populations & Lifelong Health Domain has launched a competition to recognise excellent peer-reviewed, published research by UCL early career researchers on populations and lifelong health. The winner will receive £5,000 to support their research or career development, with £2,000 awarded for second prize. Winners will be invited to present their research at the Populations & Lifelong Health Symposium in May 2018. Applicants are invited to submit original research papers published in a peer reviewed journal since February 2016. The deadline for submissions is 17.00 on 19 March.
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