AMSA Global Health Conference - Newcastle 2016
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Are you ready for a New Adventure? Coming to you from 2pm, the 26th to late night on the 30th August 2016 in Beautiful Newcastle. Starting off in 2005 as the Developing World Conference, GHC has grown every year highlighting the passion and enthusiasm medical students have for being involved with Global Health. Our vision is to create a conference where delegates leave inspired and connected but also with the skills to make effective change, and a direction for their future in global health. The phrase, “As individuals we can create ripples, but together we can create waves” is at the heart of this conference.
With its vibrant cosmopolitan beating heart, golden surf beaches, exciting social venues and the iconic City Hall, home to our academic plenary, Newcastle is the perfect city for GHC. Our team welcomes you and delegates to our wonderful city, one of Australia’s hidden gems, to experience all it has to offer.
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facebook.comThe Kunduz Hospital Attack: A Doctor's Story
We had the immense opportunity to listen, first-hand, to Doctor Kathleen Thomas's horrific experience in Kunduz a year ago at GHC2016. This week, her story is being widely circulated on Facebook. We have a different story for you today. After her talk, Dr Thomas sent our Academic Team an email, which we promised to publish some time away from the end of GHC2016. This is the email, word-for-word. ––– Hi Abbi and Stephanie, Thanks again so much for having me at the GHC. It was such an honour to present to such a wonderful group of students. Due to my emotional state at the end of my talk, I completely forget to add an addendum about "not scarying people off doing MSF work." Because I didn't do this, I have left the conference feeling really worried that your delegates have been put off MSF and other global health work. I can't think of a worse outcome for my presentation. I was wondering if it is possible for you to read the following addendum at some point during the final day of the conference. It will not take long. If this is not possible, is it possible to email it out to all the delegates? I have been asked some questions that made me realise that I may have scared people, or put people off doing humanitarian medical work in the future. I just want to say that this was not my intention. I want to make you aware that my situation was extremely unusual and rare. It was unprecedented in MSF’s history. MSF, and other aid organisation, do everything in their power to minimise any risk to their staff. So for example, at the moment in Syria and many parts of Yemen, there are no expats working in the MSF hospitals because they recognise that hospitals are targeted and therefore they will not send their international staff into that situation. So instead, they support the hospitals from a distance and staff the hospital with locals who are aware and accepting of the risks. The Kunduz takeover was totally unexpected and a surprise to everyone. If they had have anticipated that acute change in the conflict, it is likely they would have pulled us out earlier. In addition, you don’t have to work in a warzone to work with MSF. They have projects all world in all types of settings from stable urban environments such as Beirut or Cairo, refugee camps in South Sudan, TB programs in PNG, public health projects in Nairobi, to immigration ports in the Greek Islands. And there are so many other organisation which do medical programs in stable developing countries. So please, don’t let my story put you off. Make no mistake, that despite the horrendous tragedy I witnessed, working in Kunduz was the best thing I have ever done, and my experience there continues to enrich my life in ways I could never have anticipated. I feel so privileged and so honoured to have had such an incredible opportunity and I would encourage everyone to consider it in the future. Thanks so much again for the opportunity to speak at the GHC. You guys should feel so proud of yourselves for organising such an incredible event. I look forward to working with you in the future. Cheers! Kass ___ Listen to Dr Thomas's full story below. https://soundcloud.com/everydayemergency/the-kunduz-hospital-attack-a-doctors-story
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Delegates, check your email inboxes ASAP!
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It has been a bit of a #tbt here at the NewGHC HQ. We've just about regrammed all our photos on our Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/newghc/) and we've updated our website (https://newghc.com.au) one last time to include brand new post-GHC content. However, this is not our biggest post-GHC update. We recommend you keep an eye on your email inboxes on Monday, the 26th of September (exactly a month since NewGHC started)!
HappyBooth! Australia
Here are some photos from Gala Night thanks to HappyBooth! Australia to help you relive a wonderful social night. More photos from our official GHC2016 photographers will be coming soon!
#thisisjusthebeginnning
Having the Post-GHC blues? Hopefully this recap/snapshots video played at our Closing Ceremony will cheer you up! Our #newghc adventure to inspire you has been so worthwhile and we cannot wait to see what AMSA Global Health Conference - Adelaide 2017 will have in store for all of us!
GHC2016, a playlist by Ming Yong on Spotify
NewGHC was full of fantastic new sounds, and as the conference comes to an end, those sounds live on, and hear is where you can find them: David Wallace (www.facebook.com/czarenne) was an ongoing star throughout our conference, and you can hear the beautiful sounds of his voice forever more for just a small donation towards the very-deserving MSF here: https://czarenne.bandcamp.com/ Open Mic on Monday night would have been nothing without Josh, David and Sophie, providing the best backing track to all those fantastic voices on stage, and was a definite highlight of the week ❤ Huge shoutout to them all for being awesome! Free Willy and The Grace Brothers (facebook.com/freewillygracebrothers) were the fantastic follow-up on Monday night, and had absolutely everybody grooving to nostalgic beats: they’d love any videos you took on the night so please send them through on their page! Soundabout (facebook.com/Soundaboutband) helped finish our conference with bang at Gala ball, as we danced away the end of conference blues Finally, the best PPIT man out, Ming Yong, put together the playlist of the conference, so everyone with those post-GHC blues can listen in to remind you of the best week that ever was at http://amsa.co/newghc-playlist
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What an incredible way to end an incredible academic program with our final speaker, Anh Do #newghc
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Get your day started right with an early morning walk along Newcastle Beach and breakfast at Estabar Newcastle Beach Check out Estabars Instagram: http://www.hunterhunter.com.au/newcastle/estabars Check out Estabar's Reviews on Hunter Hunter: https://www.instagram.com/estabar.newcastlebeach/
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We're excited to have Dr Sudhvir Singh speaking to us at #newghc today! Dr Sudhvir Singh is the Policy Director for EAT, a Foundation based in Scandinavia focused on bringing public health and environmental sustainability expertise together to design global food system solutions. Sudhvir graduated top of his class at the Auckland School of Medicine, where he also studied a postgraduate degree in Environmental Health. Sudhvir spent several years leading the organisation ‘Generation Zero’, winning campaigns for better transport, urban design & climate change policy, as well as chairing the Doctors-in-Training Council of the New Zealand Medical Association.
OzHarvest Newcastle
Good food, great cause at #newghc
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What an incredible day at #newghc. First, Khadija Gbla shared her honest story with us about FGM and how she became the advocate she is today, next, Dr Kathleen Thomas shared her harrowing first hand experience of the Kunduz Trauma Centre bombing, ending with a standing ovation from the crowd. What a whirlwind of emotions, but more importantly, we've been inspired by their stories to speak up and speak out.
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