Inaugural Global Health Symposium

Queens University Belfast

Friday 22nd April 2016, Riddel Hall

8.30 am Registration, tea, coffee and scones

9.15 am Conference Room 2 Welcome and opening remarks - Professor Stuart Elborn, Dean of School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

9.30 am Development and Health – Fellow Travellers, Chair: Professor Frank Kee, QUB Dr Hasheem Mannan, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Systems University College Dublin, Ireland Transitioning from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Enabling Social Inclusion Dr Malcolm McNeil, Senior Health Advisor, Department for International Development, UK New problems, new funding approaches – Research for emerging challenges in Global Health

10.30 am Tea, coffee and shortbread

11.00 am How Global Health Research can Transform Global Health, Professor Colin McCoy Professor Scott Rozelle, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, USA With the one child policy gone, does china need a 50 million child policy? Identifying the source of China’s huma capaital inequality Professor Kamija Phiri, Dean of Public Health, University of Malawi Post discharge malaria chemoprevention in children with severe anaemia in Africa: studies driving policy Professor Nathan Congdon, Ulverscroft Professor of Global Eye Health, Queen’s University Belfast Solving the childhood refractive error problem in China

12.30 pm Lunch, served in the Courtyard

2.00 pm Conference room 2 “Migrant Health – what do you think we should be doing” – interactive session led by Professor Nathan Congdon and Dr Jillian Johnston

2.30 pm Parallel Session 1 – Conference Room 2 Chronic Disease in low and middle income countries, Chair: Professor Liam Murray, QUB Professor Richard Sullivan, Institute of Cancer Policy and Prof, Cancer and Global Health, King College London Can affordable and equitable cancer care really be delivered in low and middle income countries? Dr Shitaye Alemu, Department of Internal Medicine, Gondar University Hospital, Ethiopia Burden of chronic disease in Africa/Ethiopia Dr Yun Yun Gong, Reader, School of Biological Sciences, QUB The health risks of mycotoxin exposure in sub-Saharan Africa

2.30 pm Parallel Session 2 – The Courtyard Evidence Based Humanitarian Aid, Chair: Dr Sue Kinn, Head of Health Research and Team Leader, Research and Evidence Division, DFID Professor Mike Clarke, Queen’s University Belfast Research and Evidence in Disasters Mr Jeroen Jensen, Director of Evidence Aid Evidence Aid Professor Therese Murphy, School of Law, Queens University Belfast Human Rights in the Disaster Context

4.00 pm Closing remarks – Professor Liam Murray, tea and coffee