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International Development Research @ Cambridge

 

Programme

9.00- Registration, poster viewings and coffee

9.30- Session 1 “Africa”: Talks chaired by Aliko Ahmed, Public Health England

  • Welcome by Professor Carol Brayne, Cambridge Institute of Public Health
  • Dr Caroline Trotter, Department of Veterinary Medicine - “Controlling epidemic meningitis in Africa”
  • Dr Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi,  Cambridge Institute of Public Health and Infectious Diseases Institute, Uganda- “Testing and utilising new technologies in LMICs; opportunities and challenges from Uganda”
  • Dr Laurie Denyer-Willis,  Centre of Governance and Human Rights- Title TBC
  • Dr Alice Reid,  Department of Geography- “Pictures of Ageing in Uganda: a multi-disciplinary research project”

 11.10- Coffee

 11.45- Session 2 “Asia”: Talks chaired by Dr David Good, Department of Psychology

  • Professor P John Clarkson FREng, Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre- “A systems approach to global healthcare redesign”
  • Rajiv Chowdhury- Title TBC
  • Dr Shailaja Fennel, Department of Development Studies- "Nutrition and Public Health in Developing Countries"

12.45- Lunch and poster session 

14.00-  Round table exercise

15.30- Tea

16.00 Lightning talks and Latin America: Talks chaired by Professor James Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine

  • Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa- Department of Sociology- Title TBC
  • Dr Nigel Unwin, MRC Epidemiology Unit and  Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network - Title TBC
  • Lightning talks

16.30-  David Dunne, Department of Pathology - Capacity building

16.50 Close

17.00 Wine reception

 

Please register here.

 

 

Date: 
Tuesday, 8 May, 2018 - 09:00 to 17:00
Event location: 
Fitzwilliam College

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Cambridge Global Challenges is the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) of the University of Cambridge that aims to enhance the contribution of its research towards addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, with a particular focus on the poorest half of the world’s population.

 

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