The IFGH Student Outreach Group is involved in a number of events throughout the year to raise awareness and advocate for global health issues.
This year, pills the group is organising activites around World Toilet Day (November 2013), order World AIDS Day (December 2013) and International Women’s Day (March 2014), among others. If you want to get involved in these events, or organise your own, please email info@globalhealth.ie
Toolkits to help you arrange an event around these global days will be available online soon.
Last year, events included Health Dialogues, Global Health Village 2012 and the Making Time Global Health Debate.
Annual Global Health Debate
The IFGH Making Time National Global Health Debate is an annual competition, organised by the IFGH Student Outreach Group, with generous sponsorship from the Making Time Foundation. It aims to bring global health to a national third-level debating stage.
Last year, over 80 people were entertained by lively debate and rapid rebuttals at the final where it was argued that “This House believes medical aid should prioritise equity of access above outcome”.
Nobel Laureate Dr Harald zur Hausen, who received a Nobel Prize for cancer research, chaired the event, which involved teams from Trinity College Dublin University of Limerick, NUI Galway and Queens University Belfast.
The winners were Gavin Tucker and Liam O’Neill from Trinity College Dublin. They received €800 in order to attend a conference in Europe during summer 2013 and an engraved clock.
If you want to get involved in the 2014 debate, please email info@globalhealth.ie
You tell us…
We also would love to hear from you if you are organising events (workshops, conferences, training) that might be of interest to our membership.
You tell us, we’ll tell over 700 members!