Global Café

Venue: 3rd Floor, Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University

Light Buffet Dinner at 18:30

The next Dorset Global Health Network event will be a global café with a series of short talks from a range of speakers and time to network with other participants.

Guest speakers:

Dr Ruth Arnold and Dr Rebecca Smith

Dr Ruth and Dr Rebecca are local GPs and coordinators of a local branch of charity organisation Medact. Medact supports health professionals to campaign against social, political and economic conditions which damage health, deepen health inequalities and threaten peace and security. Medact Dorset has the fossil fuel industry in its sights. Ruth and Rachel will be explaining why and their role in the Divestment movement.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Prof. Edwin is a sociologist, Professor of Reproductive Health Research & joint director of the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health (CMMPH) at Bournemouth University.

Bournemouth University has been invited by GIZ (the German Aid Agency ) to help develop midwifery education in Nepal. Until recently Nepal lacked properly trained midwives and nor were midwives recognised separately from nurses. Edwin will be telling us about this work to upskill midwifery training in one of the poorest countries of the world.

Anna Watkins

Anna is  Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns coordinator at United for Global Mental Health, an non-profit organisation who’s mission is for “everyone, everywhere to have someone to turn to in support of their mental health”. Anna will be telling us about their advocacy work for mental health to be included in global health, especially with the UN’s push for Universal Health Coverage as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. This involves advocating at UN level, government level, and also with lived experience campaigners in civil society organisations. She will also be telling us about their new campaign Speak Your Mind  which now runs in 19 different countries worldwide.

Natalie Mounter

Natalie is an Infection Prevention Nurse at Solent NHS Trust and worked extensively in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. She has a strong interest in emerging infectious diseases and their control measures, and will be providing us with a fascinating update on the new 2019-nCoV virus and how we prepare for outbreaks of potentially serious infections in the UK.