Happy New Year - January Newsletter full of ideas, info and opportunities!

January 24, 2010 by admin

Happy New 2010 - the latest newsletter is available for download here!

We hope to see you at an Alma Mata event this year!

Alma Mata Global Health Newsletter - October 2009

September 26, 2009 by admin

Summer School 2009: UCL International Institute for Society & Health

March 24, 2009 by timkilleen

The UCL Health and Society Summer School 13 - 17 July 09 focusing on the social determinants of health and global health is now accepting registrations. Speakers included Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Professor Richard Wilkinson (author of the recently published The Spirit Level - Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better).

Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases

April 19, 2008 by News Editor

WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 - The MPOWER package

February 10, 2008 by News Editor

The report outlines the MPOWER package, a set of six key tobacco control measures that reflect and build on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Poverty problems boost cancer in developing world

January 17, 2008 by News Editor

Cancer is becoming an increasing problem for developing countries, and issues commonly associated with poverty are making it worse.

This was the message from specialists at an online seminar on 'Cancer and the Developing World', organised by the US National Cancer Institute and the American Society of Clinical Oncology last week (20 December).

World Disasters Report 2007 - - Focus on Discrimination

December 27, 2007 by News Editor

The burden and costs of chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries

December 27, 2007 by News Editor

Dele O Abegunde, Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, WHO
Colin D Mathers, Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems, WHO

Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies

December 27, 2007 by News Editor

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank

Street children sniff glue 'to beat hunger pangs'

November 10, 2007 by News Editor

Bhim Pariyar, who grew up on the streets of the capital, Kathmandu, huddled in a corner with other boys like him, all trying to warm themselves around the fire they had made by burning plastic, paper and tyres.

"It's time for fun now," Pariyar told his friends as he took out the packet of dendrite.

"You know, this helps us to get rid of our hunger," explained his friend, 14-year-old Rajen Subba, who fled his home in Jhapa district in southeast Nepal due to grinding poverty and started to work as a rag picker.