Global health                                                            

As improved communications and travel have increased people’s mobility, health education must now be seen in a global context.  Hospitals need to be equipped to treat diseases not traditionally seen in the UK, and health care staff require the training to identify them.  Countries need to work together to share solutions to common problems.

Our Centre For Global Health, Emergency Mediciane and Humanitarian Assistance is looking at the health impact of a range of challenges such as global warming, pandemic disease and the British government’s commitment to global health. The centre is also working with the University of Manchester to host the Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute.

The Undergraduate department has appointed Professor Tony Redmond (right) as Global Health and Interprofessional Learning Advisor, with links into the United Nations. Professor Redmond has been involved in international emergency medical assistance for over twenty years, responding to natural disasters, major incidents, conflicts and complex emergencies throughout the world. In 2008, he headed a medical team sent to China following the 2008 earthquakes. 

He is co-Director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, Hospital Dean at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor of International Emergency Medicine at Manchester Medical School within the University of Manchester.

How do we work in global health?

• - Raise awareness of global health issues nationally
• - Active relationship with Gulu University School of Medicine in Uganda and its referral hospital involving education, health delivery and management - click here to see more.
• - Exchanges to Gulu are open to any member of staff in the UHSM trust wanting career development – not just in clinical or medical areas
• - Manchester Medical School's new curriculum starting 2011 includes an option on global health.  We are working towards the development of an MSc or an MB ChB (Global Health)
• - Funded by NHS Manchester to look at the delivery of primary care in Gulu
• - Conference organisation
• - Planned training for staff from any trust wanting to work in Third World countries