New Collaborations in International Health

St. George’s Global Health Forum, and local UAEM Chapter

Global Health Forum (GHF) was set up by graduate students on the MBBS 4 course in 2007. On coming to St Georges these students felt there could be more opportunities to learn about global health issues, and share news and ideas within the medical school. Through sending monthly emails about various Global health events in London and getting speakers in to St Georges twice termly GHF aims to be a platform from which these ideas can be discussed and spread.

Since its start in 2007 Global health forum has expanded. Closer ties with staff members within the university have been developing. For instance Global Health has become closely affiliated with the Access To Pharmaceuticals (ATP) project. Thanks to their input a series of seminars educating students on problems with access to essential medicines worldwide are being developed at the moment. GHF have also started a St George’s chapter of Universal Access to Essential Medicines (UAEM): a student movement aiming to put pressure on universities to take into account the global public health impact of their pharmaceutical research. Finally GHF are currently fighting, again with the help of more senior academics within the institution, to get more global health teaching on the current medicine curriculum.