The next GHD
event:
When:
Thursday
13th May
from 6.15pm
Where:
bellevue hotel
159 hargrave street
paddington
Entry is free, drinks and refreshments provided
Great speakers
Dr Jane Hirst (O&G)
Dr Nikki Wong Doo (Haematology Reg)
See below for more...
All members of the health and public health communities are welcome
future dates for global health drinks will be:
thursday 6th may 2010
thursday 2nd september 2010
next committee meeeting
If you have a passion for global health, an ability to organize a group of unruly doctors, nurses, physios etc and are living in Sydney then contact JJ Thompson (Chair GHD)!!
PLUS....
Upcoming series from ‘GlobalHome’ (USyd)
Our guest speakers at GHD in May 2010
Dr Nikki Wong-Doo
Dr Wong-Doo is a 3rd year Haematology Advanced trainee, trained at POWH / RPAH. She volunteered with Austrailan Volunteers International in 2009 to work as a general medical doctor for 12 months in a clinic on the Thailand / Burma border. This was an amazing year of general adult and paediatric clinical medicine, teaching, curriculum planning and development work in a very under-resourced clinic with little on-site medical back-up. The highlights were working in a locally-run organisation, working with amazing colleagues against a challenging backdrop of the local and regional political, economic and social issues. She would do it again in a heartbeat, and is going back for a visit in June!
Dr Jane Hirst
Jane is a specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist with a strong interest in population health, particularly in the area of safe motherhood and stillbirth prevention globally. Working in Australia, Nepal, the United Kingdom and Vietnam has given her an appreciation of the cultural and contextual challenges faced in delivering best evidence based medical care in diverse settings. With the Hoc Mai Australia-Vietnam Medical Foundation of the University of Sydney, she has conducted five teaching workshops in essential maternal and newborn health in remote and urban Vietnam and Malaysia. She was awarded the Shan S Ratnam Young Gynaecologist Award in 2008 for research into evidence based teaching in maternal and child health in remote Vietnam and currently holds a RANZCOG Research foundation scholarship to examine causes of stillbirth in Vietnam. Currently she is working as a lecturer at the Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney and is commencing a PhD in biomarkers to predict adverse pregnancy outcomes in South East Asia. She is one of the recipients of the inaugural Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards.