News and updates archive for June, 2010

Ireland, MDGs and health: A drop in the ocean or a real contribution?

‘Health Dialogues’ 16 June 2010, 2.00 – 4.30pm

How is Ireland doing in its contribution to the health MDGs and where do we go after 2015?

• Why are we not reaching our targets: The gaps in maternal child health (based on research findings from Malawi and Tanzania), Eilish McAuliff, Centre for Global Health, Trinity College (TBC)
• NGO’s contribution to the health MDGs: The experience of Concern, Rosalyn Tamming, Head of the Health Support Unit, Concern Worldwide/Lecturer Centre for Global Health
• The effect of global HIV initiatives on country health systems: what is the evidence? Ruairi Brugha, Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons

• Chair: Diarmuid O’Donnovan, Chair Irish Forum for Global Health

RSVP: info@globalhealth.ie

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