Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 29th November @ 5:53pm
Speakers:
- Dr Evan Harris MP
- Camilla Smith of THT
- Memory Tapfymaneyi, a THT service user
- Glen Williams from Strategies for Hope
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 29th November @ 5:26pm
Come join us, the Belles, on Monday of 8th week for a spectacular evening of a cappella delights! Still officially the best female a cappella group in West Europe and with a brand new mix of repetoire, a whole load of new belles to show off and proceeds from the concert being shared with Stop AIDS Society & An evening with the Belles&is not to be missed!!
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 29th November @ 5:21pm
Free red pango, all money raised going to Jeevadan HIV/AIDS care centre, South India. Wear RED!
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 29th November @ 5:18pm
Wear Red!
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 29th November @ 2:19pm
Oxford Student Stop AIDS brings you World AIDS Week '08!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=36800992&ref=profile#/event.php?eid=35158866434
Containing a solidarity stunt, a concert, speaker events, panel discussion and film screening, this will be a way to remember World AIDS Day for an entire week.
The programme:
Saturday 29th November (7th week):
SOLIDARITY STUNT: Creating a HUMAN RED RIBBON around the RADCLIFFE CAMERA! Meeting at 2.30pm. Wear red!
RED BOP: 8.30pm Hertford Bop Cellar. £5 entry incl. a free red pango, all money raised going to Jeevadan HIV/AIDS care centre, South India. Wear RED! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=35843626251&ref=ts
Sunday 30th November:
5.30pm Ferrar Room, Hertford College: FILM SCREENING of 'The Blood of Yingzhou District', hosted by Medsin (that's us!) - a moving film about children orphaned as a result of the AIDS epidemic in China
MONDAY 1st DECEMBER - WORLD AIDS DAY:
An Evening with the OXFORD BELLES - an evening of a cappella from the best all-female a cappella group in Western Europe! 5.30-7pm at Wesley Memorial Church. Tickets to go on sale shortly, proceeds to Oxford World AIDS Week charities.
http://en-gb.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36878808814
Tuesday 2nd December (8th week):
6 pm at Medical Sciences Teaching Centre - Oxford Global Health Group hosts a SPEAKER EVENT - talks including information on small scale projects in Ghana, Zambia and South Africa, the latest in HIV vaccination and the economics of AIDS.
Wednesday 3rd December:
8pm Saskatchewan Room, Exeter - PANEL DISCUSSION on "Stigma" as part of OxHub Series -
Speakers: Dr Evan Harris MP, Camilla Smith of THT, Faith Leader Memory Tapfymaneyi, a THT service user, Glen Williams from Strategies for Hope
This should be an amazing week - there's a load to get involved in. Let's raise awareness about HIV/Aids in Oxford and end stigma surrounding the virus. RESPECT AND PROTECT.
For more information, visit:
http://www.worldaidsday.org/
http://www.stopaidssocieties.org.uk/
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E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Sunday 12th October @ 2:08pm
Hello everyone,
Welcome to Week 1 of MT 08, things in the Medsin world are hotting up as we await the National Conference 2008! Drop us an e-mail to let us know if you're going!
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E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Tuesday 7th October @ 12:24am
Power & Politics in Global Health
University College London, 25th-26th October.
This year, the Medsin National Conference will revolve around the theme of Power and Politics in Global Health. Our aim is to inspire, empower and arm delegates with the knowledge and skills necessary to fight for global health equity.
Global health inequality is one of the most demanding issue of our age. HIV/AIDS ravages southern Africa, whilst in Europe it is a managed chronic disease. Malaria has been eradicated from most of southern Europe, yet it is still one of the biggest killers of under 5 children in many tropical areas. In 2008 food production reached an all time high, yet famines and food shortages raged across the world.
We all want to eradicate HIV, to stop TB and to have enough food for everyone. Each issue can be fought seperately, head on, by dedicated campaigners. And we are proud of Medsin's work on tackling these issue at home and aboard. Medsin's experience, however, suggests that these problems all share underlying causes, and require many overlapping solutions.
The 2008 Medsin National Conference programme will go straight to the heart of what connects all these issues together. Over 4 Plenaries, 16 speakers and 80 Workshops we aim to take a step back, and consider: Who controls our health? What is the impact of poverty on health? Why are some countries poor and healthy and others rich and sick? Why do pharmaceutical companies bend over backwards to meet the lifestyles of the rich but fail the needs of the poor? Why do some countries provide health for all, and others seem to leave their poor behind? What is the role of the media, religion and ideology in shaping our global health views?
In examining these questions, we hope to enable Medsin members to understand the injustices of global health, and to become leaders in finding future solutions.
Plenaries:
1. Politics
2. Economics
3. Status, inequality and class
4. Civil Society
Confirmed speakers include:
*Clare Short MP (Former Minister for International Development)
*Dr Richard Horton (Editor, the Lancet)
*Prof Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley)
*Elizabeth Pisani (Author, "the Wisdom of Whores)
*Martin Wolf (Associate Editor, the Financial Times)
*Prof Maureen Mackintosh (Open University)
*Prof Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham)
*Prof Jonathan Wolff (UCL)
*Prof Colin Leys
*And many more
There will also be film screenings, a Global Health Futures Fair and a fantastic world music social.
Tickets are on sale at www.medsin08.org. There you can also choose your workshops for the conference.
Student tickets are £20 and Non-Student tickets are at £35. Tickets include lunch, the evening social and accommodation if required.
To find out more, please go to www.medsin08.org or contact nationalconference08@gmail.com
For a poster: http://web.mac.com/medsinucl/iWeb/Medsin%20UCL/Poster.html
We look forward to seeing you in soon at UCL.
The Medsin National Conference Committee.
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Wednesday 24th September @ 10:16pm
As you may know by now, University College London are hosting Medsin's annual National Conference. This year's conference, on the 25th and 26th of October, is on Power, Politics and Global Health and is sure to be a great weekend!
Confirmed speakers include:
Clare Short MP (Former Minister for International Development)
Dr Richard Horton (Editor, the Lancet)
Prof Nancy Scheper-Hughes (UC Berkeley)
Elizabeth Pisani (Authour, "the Wisdom of Whores)
Martin Wolf (Editor, the Financial Times)
Prof Maureen Mackintosh (Open University)
Prof Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham)
Prof Jonathan Woolf (UCL)
And many more
With over 50 workshops to choose from, film screenings, a careers fair and a world music social we hope you can make it for the weekend. Please keep checking www.medsin08.org which will be live and running within a few days. There you can purchase your tickets and choose your workshops.
In the meantime, get booking your tickets to London as registration will be up and running VERY soon!
Please don't hesitate to contact the team if you have any questions at nationalconference08@gmail.com!
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Friday 19th September @ 4:44pm
This year the infamous Sexpression conference is being held in Newcastle on the 18th and 19th of October in Newcastle Upon Tyne. The theme is 'Screw That Taboo' and it promises to be an exciting, fun and inspiring weekend of workshops, speakers and sharing ideas. It is always a popular weekend with over 120 delegates last year from the UK and Europe. We would love to see you all there, whether you are a Sexpression/Medsex/Shag etc member, keen to join/set up a branch or are just interested in the field of sexual health.
Please look at our website www.screwthattaboo.com for more info and the application forms
don't be a fool, wrap your tool!
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Friday 19th September @ 4:42pm
Registration closes on the 22nd September. If you do not register you will NOT have place. Places are limited so groups can take up to 10 people only - NB: if groups wish to bring more then any spare places will be given to those who request them with priority to those who let us know first.
If you wish to run for national committee 2008-2009 then you need to send a 250 word motivation statement to us by 21st September. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch & looking forward to seeing you all there.
Application form can be found at http://www.medsin.org/newsletter/191
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Friday 19th September @ 4:35pm
There will be a video conference with students in Malawi from 8-10pm on the Friday night. Starts at 8.45am on Saturday and finished 5pm on Sunday. As always, there will be training, voting on bylaw changes, policy statements and guidance statements, mini-meetings, branch presidents meeting, activities board meeting, some campaigns planning, networking and much, much more.....not forgetting the Saturday night social!
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 10th May @ 3:06pm
Hello and welcome to another Medsin newsletter. Not quite so packed this week, but still several interesting things coming up.
- MEDSIN COMMITTEE ELECTIONS!
- RESTART SESSIONS
- GLOBAL HEALTH FORUM NEXT TUESDAY
Continue reading this e-mail newsletter
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 26th April @ 11:41am
The Medsin Newsletter is finally back! Sorry for the hiatus; the Global
Health Conference was dominating Medsin activities for a a few weeks. But
there's lots going on, locally and nationally. This week:
- RESTART IS RESTARTING
- READ ABOUT THE GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE IN THE STUDENT LANCET
PUT YOUR STUFF ON THE NATIONAL MEDSIN WEBSITE
MEDSIN'S SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIS WEEKEND
- BE A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR
- SHORT COURSE IN GLOBAL HEALTH AT IMPERIAL
- INTERESTING GLOBAL HEALTH TALKS COMING UP
- PAEDIATRICS QUESTIONNAIRE
- LANCET ESSAY COMPETITION
- RESTART IS RESTARTING
Restart is a student society which teaches basic first-aid and CPR to secondary-
school children in schools near the JR. Great for OSCE practice, MTAS points,
feeling good about yourself and fun! No prior experience required; we'll
remind you of BLS if you're rusty. Next session is THIS WEDNESDAY at Cheney
School, with many more (at Cheny and Oxford Community School) to follow. For
more information or to volunteer, please e-mail restart.oxford@googlemail.com.
- READ ABOUT OUR CONFERENCE ON THE LANCET WEBSITE!
Okay, this item is really just a boast. The Global Health Conference two weeks
ago went really well. Apologies to those who couldn't get a ticket! Read
about it on the Lancet Student website
(http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2008/03/31/medsin-global-health-conference-p),
or see http://globalhealth2008.org or http://www.medsin.org/conferences/ghc/2008
to see what you missed.
- PUT YOUR STUFF ON THE MEDSIN WEBSITE
If you're involved in a project, a campaign or anything vaguely Medsin related,
the Medsin website is for you. Discuss with like-minded students at
(http://www.medsin.org/discuss), or send in updates on what your organisation's
up to.
- MEDSIN'S SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY - THIS WEEKEND!
Saturday 26th-Sunday 27th April, Leeds, £7 (excluding socials)
Two intense days of debating, training, networking, voting and socialising -
play your part in deciding Medsin's future! Register at
http://www.medsin.org/conferences/sga/2008. Apologies for the absurdly late
notice.
- BE A NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS COORDINATOR
Medsin needs you! Campaigning is a big part of Medsin's work, and each campaign
need a coordinator for the next academic year. Campaigns include Save our NHS,
Stop AIDS, Arms Trade, Universities Allied for Access to Essential Medicines,
and more. Contact campaigns@medsin.org for more info on what the job involves -
ASAP, because there are only a few days before the applications deadline.
- GLOBAL HEALTH SHORT COURSE AT IMPERIAL
Monday 23rd-Friday 27th June, at Imperial Medical School - 50 places, going
fast - applications from non-Imperial students welcome from May 1st.
I'm afraid I haven't got a website for this one, but google it…
- GLOBAL HEALTH-TYPE TALKS IN LONDON AND WARWICK
- Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, 22nd May, 1pm, at the Royal Geographical
Society in Kensington, London: "Careers and Opportunities in Tropical Medicine
and International Health Research". www.rstmh.org
Royal Society of Medicine, 29th April, 6pm: "Abuses of Care Under Israeli
Occupation", £5, c.j.green@imperial.ac.uk
Royal Society of Medicine, 25th April: "Medicine Overseas" (especially for
students and junior doctors). www.rsm.ac.uk
Economics and Social Research Council, 5th-6th June, University of
Warwick: "Global Substantive Health Issues",
http://www.medsin.org/events/show/147
- PAEDIATRICS QUESTIONNAIRE
The WHO and the International Federation of Medical Students Associations want
to find out about Paediatrics teaching worldwide. Please help them by filling
out a quick questionnaire at http://tools.ifmsa.org/surveys/survey.php?sid=39,
user name and password both "pediatrics".
- LANCET ESSAY COMPETITION
In conjunction with the Global Forum for Health Research, the Lancet's holding
an essay competition: "Climate change and health: research challenges for the
health of vulnerable populations". You have to be under 30 to enter. E-mail
susan.jupp@globalforumhealth.org.
As ever, if you'd like to put anything in this newsletter, please e-mail
dora.steel@medschool.ox.ac.uk. Have a good week!
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 23rd February @ 4:52pm
Oxford Global Health Conference Tickets – NOW ON SALE!!!
See www.globalhealth2008.org to find out more, and to buy tickets! Students are
already booking tickets from across the UK and beyond, so book your tickets now!
www.globalhealth2008.org
400+ students, 50+ speakers – all in the JR!
The annual Medsin Global Health Conference is being held in Oxford on the
29th-30th March (weekend after Easter). It'll be a truly massive national
event, and we hope to see you ALL there!
Exciting and dynamic lectures, within the plenary themes of:
1. Tackling HIV/AIDS in Resource-Poor Settings
2. Disaster Relief and Emerging Epidemics
3. International Aid – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4. Mental Health in the Global Community
Also featuring 60+ interactive workshops – with the widest possible choice of
themes – to educate and to inspire!
Eminent speakers confirmed from America, Africa, WHO, UN and across the UK.
For only £15 (£30 for non-students)! Including two free lunches, and a
mini-ball with dinner buffet, entz, comedy, music, games and more at the Oxford
Union!
Please check out the website for more info, and to buy your tickets!
Contact enquiries@globalhealth2008.org for more.
PS: We are also looking for lots and lots of Oxford students who are willing to
host non-Oxford students in their house, on the Friday and/or Saturday night.
This is the Medsin tradition, and we would be EXTREMELY grateful if you could
help us, as the conference kind of relies on this! If you are willing (and one
happy house has already offered to take 15 delegates!!!) then please email us at
ghcaccommodation@globalhealth2008.org.
www.globalhealth2008.org
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Friday 18th January @ 12:21am
400+ students, 50+ speakers – one weekend!
The annual, national Medsin Global Health Conference is being held in Oxford on
the 29th-30th March (weekend after Easter), so pencil it into your diaries!
Exciting and dynamic lectures, within the plenary themes of:
1. Tackling HIV/AIDS in Resource-Poor Settings
2. Disaster Relief and Emerging Epidemics
3. International Aid – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4. Mental Health in the Global Community
Also featuring 60+ interactive workshops – with the widest possible choice of
themes – to educate and to inspire!
Eminent speakers from America, Africa, WHO, UN and across the UK.
For only £15 (£30 for non-students)! Including two free lunches, and a
mini-ball with food at the beautiful Oxford Union! Delegates get free
accommodation with the local students!
More details to follow soon – including how to get your ticket – but for now
just make sure you keep that weekend free!
Contact xin-hui.chan@medschool.ox.ac.uk or joel.raffel@medschool.ox.ac.uk for more.
P.S. If you're interested in helping out at the conference, get in touch, too!
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Sunday 13th January @ 4:51pm
Hello everyone, this would be the first Medsin newsletter for a while except I
don't think it counts because it's got only one item, and that isn't strictly
Medsin-related. It's interesting and worthwhile, though, so please read on…
WIDENING ACCESS TO MEDICAL SCHOOL (WAMS)CONFERENCE
On January 25th-26th, WAMS is holding a conference in Leeds entitled "Gateway:
promoting participation in medicine". It's all about helping more people from
non-traditional backgrounds get to medical school, and hopes to inspire and
enable current students to get involved in widening participation projects here
in Oxford.
ABSOLUTELY FREE for students - including all workshops, two meals, overnight
accommodation at the 4-star hotel Weetwood Hall, and even help with travel
expenses.
See www.gateway.co.uk, or write to gateway2008@leeds.ac.uk.
If you've got anything you'd like to go in the next Medsin newsletter, please e-
mail dora.steel@balliol.ox.ac.uk.
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Monday 7th January @ 1:37am
Hello everyone,
Happy New Year and welcome back to Oxford!
Thank you for expressing interest in being a part of the Medsin Global Health Conference team!
Right now, we are in the process of fundraising for the Medsin GHC in March, and we need your help! Would you be able to propose a charity motion to your JCR/MCR to raise funds for the GHC? If the answer is yes, please drop me (Xin Hui) an e-mail at oxford@medsin.org and I'll send you a sample motion.
Any questions at all, please send them my way!
Thank you!
Xin Hui
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Thursday 22nd November @ 8:02pm
What you can do:
1) Come to the events!
2) Helpers needed!
1) Events
World AIDS Week 2007: 25 November – 30 November (8th Week)
The Oxford World AIDS Week ‘07 Coalition (including Oxford Student Stop AIDS Society, Oxford Global Health Group, People & Planet, Medsin Oxford, UNICEF, Amnesty International, U8, Christian Aid, and OxHub) invite you to a week of events to commemorate the annual World AIDS Day (1st December) and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the UK and worldwide!
Sunday, 25 November (11 AM - 4PM, outside the Sheldonian Theatre on Broad Street)
Sign an action card to petition the UK government about access to HIV
treatment. Look for the caged pills and government cronies with
dollar signs!
Monday, 26 November (7:30 – 9:30 PM, Saskatchewan Room at Exeter College)
Hear DPhil students discuss their research on the interconnections
between AIDS and development.
Tuesday 27 November (7:30 pm – 9:30 PM, Oxford Union)
Hear a debate by expert speakers from London about the rights of
asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees in the UK to treatment
access! Suggested £1 donation to support our charities (see below).
Wednesday, 28 November (7-10 PM, venue to be announced shortly online & by email – see below)
Join us for a benefit concert to support our charities. Acts include
troops of salsa, gumboot, and bollywood dancers, your favorite a
capella groups, a samba band and top-notch singers…Entry is only
£2, with yummy drinks and snacks also for sale!
Thursday, 29 November (8 - 10 PM, Old Refectory at Wadham College)
Watch "Pills, Profits, Protest" a fascinating documentary about
grassroots AIDS treatment activists, followed by a discussion led by Christian
Aid.
Friday, 30 November (6-7 PM, Green College Garden (in front of Observatory); rain location:
Observatory/Bar)
Celebrate the tremendous progress we have made in fighting the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, and remember those, living with AIDS, that we've lost along the way.
Our Charities
This year, our coalition is supporting two worthy charity organizations:
Milana is a network based in Bangalore, India providing counseling,
nutritional, educational and economic support and home-based care to
people living with HIV and their families.
Vumani trains poor people living with HIV in Durban, South Africa to
grow their own organic vegetables as part of a continuum of HIV
treatment, care and support services.
Want more information about World AIDS Week? Email
alissa.caron@exeter.ox.ac.uk or (students) join the World AIDS Week Facebook group for last-minute updates.
The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A Critical Health and Human Rights Issue
According to UNAIDS, 2.9 million people died of AIDS-related
illnesses and 4.3 million people were infected with HIV in 2006
alone. About 40 million people are living with HIV around the
globe. Young people bear the brunt of this pandemic, as over
half of all new infections occur in people aged 15-24.
The Other Four
Today, HIV is a preventable and treatable illness. Although advances
in medical technology have created powerful new antiretroviral drugs
(ART) that prolong the lives of HIV-positive individuals, for every
one person who receives treatment, FOUR more around the world do not.
Although the current efforts of developed countries (including the
UK) to fund treatment have made some improvements – between 2001 and
2005, the number of people in low- and middle-income countries
receiving treatment increased from 240,000 to 1.3 million - millions
of others have not been so fortunate and will die without access to
therapy. While most live in developing countries - where people not
only need HIV drugs but access to basic health care services as well
– even in the UK some individuals are denied treatment because of
their legal status.
As privileged, empowered and educated young people in the UK, we need
to do everything we can to stop the devastation caused by AIDS at
home and abroad!
What YOU Can Do
Attend our events during World AIDS Week, but don’t stop there!
In 2005, G8 leaders set a target of universal access to treatment for
all people living with HIV by 2010. Nearing the end of 2007, these
goals are far from achieved. The Stop AIDS Campaign and many other
groups have been putting pressure on the UK government ever since to
meet its promises.
Visit www.stopaidssocieties.org.uk for more on the national
campaign.
2) Helpers needed
Sunday 25th November (outside Sheldonian) 11am-4pm Action cards and pills stunt:
- Handing out action cards(6):
(2) 1pm-3pm (1 more) _______________
as pills and government cronies(13):
(5) 11am-1pm
_____________ ______________ _______________
(5) 1pm-3pm ______________ _______________
____________ ______________ _______________
(5) 3pm-4pm ______________ _______________
_____________ ______________ _______________
People to stand on door at Union Chamber collecting donations (2)
People to help with hosting and organizing dinner and meeting speakers (1)
Wednesday 28th Noveber 7pm-10pm Benefit Concert (location TBA):
Help with Sound and technology (2) ______________ _______________
Backstage (4) ______________ _______________
______________ _______________
Drinks/Food stall (2) ______________ _______________
Thursday 29th November Film: Pills, Profits, Protests at Wadham College,
followed by a panel
- Set up, figuring out DVD/AV equipment (1) ______________
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Saturday 17th November @ 5:10am
Hello everyone,
This week, the spotlight's on World AIDS Day (WAD) Week!
1) Events
2) Volunteers Needed!
1) Events
World AIDS Week 2007: 25 November – 30 November (8th Week)
The Oxford World AIDS Week ‘07 Coalition invite you to a week of
events to commemorate the annual World AIDS Day (1st December) and
impact of HIV/AIDS in the UK and worldwide!
Sunday, 25 November (11 AM - 4PM, outside the Sheldonian Theatre on
Broad Street)
Sign an action card to petition the UK government about access to HIV
treatment. Look for the caged pills and government cronies with
dollar signs!
Monday, 26 November (7:30 – 9:30 PM, Saskatchewan Room at Exeter
College)
Hear DPhil students discuss their research on the interconnections
between AIDS and development.
Tuesday 27 November (7:30 pm – 9:30 PM, Oxford Union)
Hear a debate by expert speakers from London about the rights of
asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees in the UK to treatment
access! Suggested £1 donation to support our charities (see below).
Wednesday, 28 November (7-10 PM, venue to be announced shortly online
– see below)
Join us for a benefit concert to support our charities. Acts include
troops of salsa, gumboot, and bollywood dancers, your favorite a
capella groups, a samba band and top-notch singers…Entry is only
£2, with yummy drinks and snacks also for sale!
Thursday, 29 November (8 - 10 PM, Old Refectory at Wadham College)
Watch "Pills, Profits, Protest" a fascinating documentary about
grassroots AIDS activists, followed by a discussion led by Christian
Aid.
Friday, 30 November (6-7 PM, Green College garden; rain location:
Observatory/Bar)
Attend and participate in a reflective memorial service on the eve of
World AIDS Day.
Help us continue to raise funds for our charities at your college’s
end-of-term bop!
Our Charities
This year, our coalition is supporting two worthy charity organizations:
Milana is a network based in Bangalore, India providing counseling,
nutritional, educational and economic support and home-based care to
people living with HIV and their families.
Vumani trains poor people living with HIV in Durban, South Africa to
grow their own organic vegetables as part of a continuum of HIV
treatment, care and support services.
Want more information about World AIDS Week? Join the World AIDS Week Group on Facebook for updates, or email alissa.caron@exeter.ox.ac.uk.
2) Volunteers Needed!
Please email Jamila directly at jamila.headley@green.ox.ac.uk if you
will be able to help out - don't forget to let her know where and when,
too. In parentheses are the number of people needed for each event.
- Sunday 25th November (outside Sheldonian) 11am-4pm Action cards
and pills stunt:
- Handing out action cards(6): (2) 11am-1pm (2) 1pm-3pm (1) 3pm-4pm
- Dressing up as pills and government cronies(15):
(5) 11am-1pm (5) 1pm-3pm (5) 3pm-4pm
Mon 26th November 7:30pm-9:30pm Exeter College DPhil Presentations:
Dan will set up AV equipment
Tuesday 27th November 7:30pm-9:30pm Debate in the Union
(JUST COME SUPPORT!!)
Wednesday 28th Noveber 7pm-10pm Benefit Concert (location TBA):
- Thursday 29th November Film: Pills, Profits, Protests at Wadham College,
followed by a panel
People to help with hosting and organizing dinner for speakers (2)
Set up, figuring out DVD/AV equipment (1)
- Friday 30th November WAD memorial/vigil
- Handing out candles etc (2)
For more information, e-mail dora.steel@medschool.ox.ac.uk. Have a good weekend.
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Tuesday 13th November @ 2:58am
Hello everyone,
Many of you have expressed interest in being a part of the GHC organising committee - that's fantastic! There are a few committee meetings coming up this week. Please reply directly to the team leaders if you are interested in attending any of these meetings or joining the team.
1) Design & Publicity Team
(dora.steel@balliol.ox.ac.uk or alma-octavia.iacob@keble.ox.ac.uk)
There are lots of different things that need designing:
1. The website. It's up and running but we need to decide on a colour scheme and so on to make it look a bit nicer. We also need to start writing more content (speaker bios etc) for the website.
2. Posters (once we've got the logo fully sorted - it's been designed, but needs polishing.
3. The booklet with the timetable and so on given to all delegates.
4. All the other freebies: bag, T-shirts, neck-tags and so on.
5. Some other stuff, e.g. publicity video
It would probably be a good idea if we can all have a short meeting to allocate
jobs and decide on things to do with overall "branding". Possible times for me
include Thursday and Friday evenings this week, or any time on Saturday. Could
you please let me know which, if any, of these times would be suitable for you? If not everyone can come, just let me or Alma know what you're interested in doing.
2) Entz Team
(biyun.jiang@magd.ox.ac.uk or nisha.sriram@keble.ox.ac.uk)
Organise a mini-Oxford ball at the Oxford Union on Saturday night of the conference weekend!
Next Meeting is at 14th November (Wednesday) at 1.40pm in town outside Rymans stationer
3) Finance Team
(joel.raffel@green.ox.ac.uk or rachael.burke@bnc.ox.ac.uk)
- Companies that could give us some freebies. Looking for fruit, crisps, breakfast bars, doughnuts! Anything else you can think of - creativity is fine!
- Companies worth approaching for money
- Contacts for printing colour A3 posters for cheap
- Counting the number of seats in LT2 of the John Radcliffe Hospital (seriously)
- Contacts for cheap flights between the US and UK as well as Africa and UK, if not willing to give a discount to a charity, at least someone who can tell us of amazing deals!
- Transport companies that hire out coaches for cheap
- Bigwigs in any of the major train/bus/coach companies who'd be willing to offer a discount to students attending the conference by public transport
(Note from Xin Hui: by contacts, we're mostly referring to people you know personally and would be willing to give you a better price than what'd be listed for the general public, but information about any companies/people who offer stuff at really good prices would be welcome, too, of course!)
Have any ideas for the above? E-mail the Finance Team!
4) General Enquiries - oxford@medsin.org
The Medsin-Oxford & GHC 2008 Committees
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Wednesday 7th November @ 12:47am
Hello everyone, welcome once again to the Medsin Oxford newsletter - there's a
lot going on this week!
This week:
1) Sexpression: information session 8th November; Sexball, 24th November
2) Restart, 9th and 15th November
3) STAR (Student Action for Refugees) Conference, 10th-11th November
4) Universities for Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, 20th November
5) Defend Access to Healthcare for Vulnerable Migrants Campaign
6) Global health conference/careers fair at the Institute of Child Health, 24th-
25th November
7) Meetings at the Royal Society of Medicine, 12th/26th November
1) SEXPRESSION: INFORMATION SESSION AND SEXBALL
If you're interested in helping teenagers in secondary schools understand
sexual health, come to our information session at 12pm on Thursday 8th
November, in lecture theatre 2 at the JR. Find out all about what we do and how to do it, and get some free food into the bargain. If you can't make it, e-mail us at annette.stiggelbout@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Also, on the 24th November we'll be holding an afternoon of great talks on
everything from female genital mutilation to AIDS in Birmingham Medical School,
followed by a three-course black tie dinner and a disco. All-inclusive tickets
are £35. Please contact coordinator@sexpression.co.uk.
2) RESTART SESSIONS
The Restart session at 8:45am in Oxford Community School is still looking for a
leader and a couple more trainers (no experience needed for the latter!).
On Thursday 15th, there's a session with a difference: Oxford Community School
has asked for medics - not just Restarters - to come and talk to year 11
students and hopefully inspire them. Help much appreciated, even if you can
only come for an hour (the event's running all day).
Contact david.pallot@medschool.ox.ac.uk.
3) STUDENT ACTION FOR REFUGEES (STAR) CONFERENCE
On the 10th and 11th of November, STAR is running the year's only conference on
refugee issues for students, with workshops and speakers from the UN, Amnesty,
the Refugee Council and parliament. Venue in central London; tickets cost £25
including food, basic accommodation and entertainments.
E-mail conference@star-network.org.uk or see www.star-network.org.uk
4) VISIT FROM HEAD OF UNIVERSITIES FOR ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES CAMPAIGN
UAEM campaigns to make drugs more essential in poor countries, and to promote
research into neglected diseases. The executive director, Ethan Guillen, is
visiting the UK and will be speaking in London on Tuesday 20th November. See
www.essentialmedicine.org or e-mail vanessa.jessop@msn.com.
5) MEDSIN CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE FOR VULNERABLE MIGRANTS
The British governement is proposing to change the law so that migrants in
Britain - including some very vulnerable individuals such as victims of people-
trafficking - cannot access primary healthcare. Medsin UK feels that refusing
help to people in such dire straits goes against the duties of a doctor (and
won't even be efficient, since diseases will end up being treated at a later,
more complicated stage). HIV-positive migrants may be denied access to vital
anti-retroviral drugs. We'll be campaigning against the government's changes -
please join us.
See www.medsin.org/defendprimaryhealthcare or e-mail dontcensortom@gmail.com.
6) GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE AND CAREERS FAIR AT INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH
Tickets now available for a weekend of world-class speakers and workshops on
major global health issues at the UCL Institute of Child Health, 24th-25th
November, and the first-ever International Health Careers Fair.
See www.almamata.net/conference or www.medsin.org/events/show/100
7) CONFERENCE AT THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
Royal Society of Medicine: Conference series on Climate Change and Health.
Monday 12th November: Global Warming and Food Production
Monday 26th November: Action for the Health Consequences of Climate Change
Meetings run from 5:45-8pm. See www.rsm.ac.uk/diar/diary.php
The longest yet - well done if you read it all. For more information, e-mail
dora.steel@medschool.ox.ac.uk. Have a good week.
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Wednesday 31st October @ 10:25pm
Hello everyone,
Don't forget our introductory meeting to the Global Health Conference is tomorrow, Thursday 1 November at 8 pm in the Oakeshott Room in Lincoln. Come along to find out about how you can be a part of the biggest student global health conference in the country!
http://oxford.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5375174586
If you're lost, ring Xin Hui (that's my first name) at 07891860649.
If you can't make it, but are still interested in joining the organising committee, reply to this message, or drop us an e-mail at oxford@medsin.org.
For more information, visit http://medsin-oxford.pbwiki.com
See you tomorrow!
The Medsin-Oxford Committee
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Wednesday 31st October @ 10:22pm
Come find out more about being a part of the organising team behind the biggest student global health conference in the country!
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Monday 29th October @ 1:57am
Hello again everyone, welcome to the second Medsin Oxford newsletter!
This week in Medsin Oxford:
1. Global Health Conference Meeting - 1st November
2. Global Health Group masterclass - 29th October
3. Restart sessions coming up - 2nd November
4. Marrow introductory meeting and clinic - 31st October and 1st November
5. Food for Thought Dinner - 19th November
6. Sexpression Sexball - 24th November
GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE MEETING
This Thursday 1st November we'll be holding a meeting for anyone who's
interested in getting involved in the Global Health Conference next March. It
should be an amazing event with hundreds of students from around the country,
and lots of help of every kind is needed. Come along to the Oakeshott Room in
Lincoln at 8pm if you're curious - no commitment and refreshments provided.
E-mail oxford@medsin.org if you'd like more information.
GLOBAL HEALTH GROUP MASTERCLASS: AGEING IN AFRICA
At 7:30pm in Green College on Monday 28th October (TODAY), Dr Adrian Wilson, a
specialist in HIV in the elderly, will give a masterclass on "Successful ageing
in Sub-Saharan Africa: potential or oxymoron?" All welcome; drinks and nibbles
provided.
RESTART
Our first session will be at 8:45am on Friday 2nd November at Oxford Community
School, teaching BLS techniques. Don't worry if you haven't got any
experience; there'll be a leader there in charge. For more information,
contact david.pallot@medschool.ox.ac.uk.
MARROW: FIRST SESSIONS
On Wednesday 31st October we'll be holding an introductory meeting for anyone
who's interested, with a specialist nurse and hopefully a patient to answer any
questions. It's at 1:30pm in LT2.
And on Thursday 1st we've got our first clinic. Come along at 12pm if you'd
like to learn how to be a counsellor and practice blood-taking, and 12:30 if
you'd like to join the bone marrow register.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Randolph Hotel, Monday 19th November.
The annual OGHG Rich-Poor Dinner is an event to raise money for the Oxford
Homeless Medical Fund and Tanzan-Ear, a medical group promoting the education
of deaf children in Tanzania. One in five guests receive the Randolph's finest
three-course meal, while the rest will be dining on simpler, though still five-
star, fare. Ticket price includes a delicious meal with free wine, along with
excellent entertainment including live music, a capella groups and the Oxford
Revue.
Dining tickets are £35. Please e-mail akshay.nair@oriel.ox.ac.uk.
SEXPRESSION SEXBALL
On the 24th November we'll be holding an afternoon of talks on everything from
female genital mutilation to AIDS in Birmingham medical school, followed by a
three-course black tie dinner and a disco. All-inclusive tickets are £35.
Please contact coordinator@sexpression.co.uk.
For more information about anything, or to add items to this newsletter, please
e-mail dora.steel@balliol.ox.ac.uk.
Posted by Xin Hui Chan, Sunday 21st October @ 3:26am
Come find out more about joining the team organising the largest student global health conference in the country!
E-mail newsletter sent by Xin Hui Chan, Sunday 21st October @ 3:09am
Hello everyone, here at long last is the first Medsin Oxford newsletter!
Visit our website: http://medsin-oxford.pbwiki.com &
Join our Facebook group http://oxford.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5231400689
This week in Medsin Oxford:
1. Stop AIDS Speaker Tour - 22 October
2. Restart Training - 22nd October
3. Global Health Conference meeting - 23rd October
4. Medsin National Conference - 26th-28th October
5. Food for Thought Dinner - 19th November
- STOP AIDS SPEAKER TOUR
Join the Oxford Student Stop AIDS Society as we host the campaign’s National speaker tour, an opportunity to meet four young AIDS activists from Africa and the UK! Hear how national and international AIDS policy affects them and other young people worldwide, and learn from their experiences and expertise. Meet members of the Student Stop AIDS Society and learn what motivates young activists in the UK.
Monday - 22nd October - from 1-2 PM at Oriel College’s Harris Lecture Theatre.
Questions? Please email stopaids@herald.ox.ac.uk.
- RESTART TRAINING
Training session for anyone interested in teaching CPR in schools on Monday October 22nd. Meet in Christ Church lodge at 7:30 pm.
All welcome - those who want to brush up on their skills as well as new people.
Contact david.pallot@medschool.ox.ac.uk or ring 07811386155
- GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE - GET INVOLVED
Medsin’s Global Health Conference 2008 will be held in Oxford next March, on the theme of “Evolving Problems & New Perspectives” in worldwide health. Hundreds of students, and many top experts, will be attending - it should be an amazing event, and we’ll need loads of help of every kind.
Come along to an introductory meeting in Osler House on Tuesday 23rd October at 4pm. Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
For more information, e-mail oxford@medsin.org or see http://medsin-oxford.pbwiki.com/medsin+global+health+conference and http://oxford.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5237427837
- NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN DUNDEE
Members of Medsin from medical schools across the UK will be attending the National Conference in Dundee next weekend, 26th-28th October. The theme is Population and Public Health.
For more information and to book tickets for only £20, see http://www.medsin07.org/.
It’s going to be an amazing weekend!
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Randolph Hotel, Monday 19th November.
The annual OGHG Rich Poor Dinner is an event to raise money for the Oxford Homeless Medical Fund and Tanzan-Ear, a medical group promoting the education of deaf children in Tanzania. We’re looking for help - people to sell tickets, look for raffle prizes and waiter.
One in five guests receive the Randolph’s finest three-course meal, while the rest will be dining on simpler, though still five-star, fare. Entertainment will include live pmusic, a capella groups and the Oxford Revue. Dining tickets are £35. To purchase one, or if you might be able to help, please e-mail akshay.nair@oriel.ox.ac.uk.
For more information about anything, or to add items to this newsletter, please e-mail dora.steel@balliol.ox.ac.uk. Or visit http://medsin-oxford.pbwiki.com
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