CGC Round Table – Michaelmas 2017 [8th December 2017, Maxwell Centre]

Speakers are invited to present for 10-12 minutes and all attendees are encouraged to participate in the subsequent 15 minute- long discussions.

14.00 – 14.10: Introduction to Global Challenges Initiative (Lara Allen and Sara Serradas Duarte)

14.10 – 14.35: Bedside to bench: building academic collaboration from Global Health partnerships (Tom Bashford - NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma)

14.35 – 15.00: Hacking Sustainability (Paulo Savaget - Department of Engineering)

15.00 – 15.25: Understanding the short-term and long-term impacts of digital design and fabrication led interventions in low-resource settings for delivering humanitarian and development aid (Lucia Corsini, Department of Engineering)

15.25 – 15.45: Tea and coffee break

15.45 – 16.10: WaterScope: enabling simple, affordable, bacterial testing (Alexander Patto - Department of Physics)

16.10 – 16.35: Developing novel electrochemical biosensors for the clinical diagnosis of infectious diseases (Francis Krampa - Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)

16.35 – 17.00: Advancing and implementing nutrition knowledge to improve health, wellbeing and society: Embracing the challenges of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (Sumantra Ray - NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health)