The first IFGH Development Debate was held on March 15 at Trinity College Dublin. The event was a great success, with teams of students from global health and development-related courses representing Trinity College Dublin (Kate Brady and Melaine Kermarc, TCD/UCD Masters in Development Practice) and NUI Maynooth (Luke O'Sullivan, MSc Immunology and Global Health and Eamonn Keaveny, BA Anthropology). The students debated the motion "Foreign Aid should be cut from countries whose human rights record is poor." The competition was fierce, with the TCD team winning the event.

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This paper outlines how the new area of Humanitarian Work Psychology can contribute to addressing challenges in Human Resources for Health in low and middle-income countries.
It describes and summarises the results from 3 recent studies.

Damien chat to Eamon Delaney, Freelance Journalist, and Justin Kilcullen, Director of Trocaire about the cost of overseas aid from Ireland and future of our ongoing aid commitment.

IFGH strongly encourages the Irish government to continue to lead by example by not suspending its funding and ensuring it meets its commitments to the Global Fund.

On 1 March 2011 UK’s International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced the key outcomes of two aid reviews [bi-lateral and multi-lateral] and set out the results that UK aid will deliver for the world's poorest people over the next four years.

The Irish Forum for Global Health expresses concern at the further cuts to the overseas aid budget in the Government's four-year plan.