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Seminars 2011/2012

  • 'The Dark Side of Humanitarianism' with Harry Verhoeven, doctoral researcher
  • OGHG Film Night: 'Distant Places, Forgotten Lives' followed by live Q&A with Prof Joanne Webster, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
  • 'Lessons in Healthcare from Around the World' with Lord Nigel Crisp, former Chief Executive of the NHS
  • 'Drug Resistant TB: Back to the Future' with Dr Amber Arnold, SpR in Infectious Diseases at St George's Hospital London and former employee of MSF
  • 'Education Under Occupation: Dispatches from the Occupied Palastinian Territories' with Dr Omar Abdel-Mannen and Dr Imran Mahmud
  • 'Wild Frontiers: Behind the Headlines with Medicins Sans Frontieres' with MSF Nurse Alison Criado-Perez
  • 'Turning the tide on TB: new tools to tackle an old enemy - but are they enough?' with Professor Ajit Lalvani
  • 'The Ethics of Global Health Research' with Professor Mike Parker
  • 'Doctors in the 'City of God': Brazil's Favela Clinics' with Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan and Dr Nawaz Ahmad
  • 'The Health and Development of Young Children born to Mothers with HIV' with Alan Stein, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Oxford University
  • 'Tackling the Growing African Cancer Burden: Present Realities on the Frontline and Future Goals' with Prof David Kerr, Dr Lorna Renner, and Professor Tim Eden. Joint hosted with Trinity Medical Society
  • Friends of MSF Film Night: 'The Positive Ladies Soccer Club' followed by talk by Dr Sarah Duncan, Specialty Registrar in Genitourinary Medicine & HIV

Seminars 2010/2011

  • Tropical First Aid (Andy Haynes and Joe Piper)
    Click here to download Joe and Andy's guide to tropical first aid
  • MSF nurse: Notes from the Field (Fiona Dudley)
  • Conducting Clinical Research in Resource-Poor Settings (Dr Trudie Lang)
  • MedicineAfrica.com: the architecture for global health (Alexander Finlayson)
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  • New Insights into the Russian Mortality Crisis (Professor Martin McKee)
  • Non-communicable Diseases: the Elephant in the Room? (Mark Lodge, Dr Sanjay Kinra, Vanessa Baugh)
  • Public Health and the Socially Marginalised: Time for a Global Movement? (Dr Alex Gatherer)
  • Injecting Drug Use: the Impact of Methadone (Professor Matt Hickman)
  • Working Abroad: Ethical and Cultural Challenges (Dr Ed Moran, Dr Chris Lavy)
  • Health and Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Hadas Ziv, Sir Ian Chalmers, Andrea Becker)
  • Asking the Right Questions: Why the Cuban Healthcare System is so Effective (Dr Peter Bourne)
  • Halving Premature Death (Sir Richard Peto)
  • Surgery in The Developing World (Miss Kokila Lakhoo, Mr Tim Goodacre)
  • The Dark Side of Humanitarian 'Crises': How Democracy and Justice are Being Undermined by Self-declared Experts (Harry Verhoeven)
  • The Healthcare Model: Truth, Lies, and Truthful Lies (Ernest Darkoh)

Seminars 2009/2010

  • A Long Flight to the Hospital: Trauma Management and First Response Training in Subarctic Canada (Dr Aaron Orkin)
  • The Campaign for Greener Healthcare (Dr Frances Mortimer)
  • The Health Impact Fund: Incentives for improving access to medicines (Dr. Amitava Banerjee)
  • Survival: Who lives, Who dies, And Why? (Professor Hugh Montogomery)
  • New Developments in Malaria Vaccination (Professor Adrian Hill)
  • Technology and Tele-Health in Extreme Environments: Medecins Sans Frontieres along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border (Darryl Stellmach)
  • The Killing Season (Mark Honigsbaum)
  • International Committee of the Red Cross (Geoff Loane)
  • Diagnosing TB in the 21st century: from bench to bedside to public health policy (Professor Ajit Lalvani)
  • Global progress in TB vaccine development (Dr. Helen McShane)
  • Extreme Skin Medicine: Problems, Opportunities and Achievements in Five Continents (Professor Terrence J Ryan)
  • Belleh Woman, Go de Right Side - Maternity Care in Sierra Leone (Dr Richard Kerr-Wilson)
  • "Health and Human Rights" or "How I Learned to Love the Junta and Stop Worrying" (Dr Chris van Tulleken)
  • Swine Flu and the Media (Dr Mary E. Chamberland)
  • Hustling for Health: Sex Work in London (Dr Helen Ward)
  • Experimenting with Humanitarianism in Africa (Harry Verhoeven)
  • Cuba - an Alternative Perspective on National Health (Dr Stephen Wilkinson)

Seminars before 2009/2010

  • Cancer in Africa (Professor David Kerr)
  • The University of Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine (Professor Nick White)
  • Schistosomiasis and the NTDs of Africa (Professor Alan Fenwick)
  • Fair and Ethical Trade (Mahmood Bhutta)
  • Metabolic Diseases in the Developing World (Professor Andrew Neil)
  • Healthcare for Asylum Seekers (Professor Cornelius Katona, Dr Mina Fazel, Gabriel Cantanhede, Menaki Sharma)
  • Threats to humanitarian intervention in Sudan - a case for divestment? (Hamish Falconer, Harry Verhoeven, Joe Piper)
  • Psychiatry in the Former Soviet Union (Professor Robin Jacoby)
  • Buruli Ulcer (Dr Mark Wansbrough-Jones)
  • Trachoma (Professor David Mabey)
  • Polio (Dr Matthew Harris & Manisha Nair)
  • Financing & Governing Global Health (Dr Devi Sridhar)
  • Spot Diagnosis in Tropical Medicine (Dr Chris Conlon)
  • Working in the refugee camps of Sudan (Professor Chris Bulstrode)
  • The Business of AIDS (Dr Elizabeth Pisani)
  • Immunisation and Global Health (Dr Vasee Moorthy)

Careers Fairs

  • Careers Fair 2011
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  • Careers Fair 2010
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