Thursday 14th March, 2013. 7pm-9pm

Where is it?

The Lord Dudley Hotel, 236 Jersey Road, Woollahra NSW 2025

What is it?

Global Health Drinks presents “Medecins Sans Frontieres- Stories from the Field”  

We are excited to announce our first event of the year! To re-ignite your global health interests we would like to invite you, your friends and colleagues to join us for what promises to be an inspiring night.

Our speakers for the night are Dr Marianne Gale, and Ms Kara Blackburn, who have had incredible careers in MSF. They will be sharing their extensive professional experiences working for MSF; from refugee camps at the Thai-Burma border, to the United Nations.

Expect some amazing stories, important advice, and grounding truths about working in the field of humanitarian medicine.

Come along for some great talks, meet your fellow global-health-minded colleagues and have an easy Thursday night drinks in good company. As usual, some drinks and nibblies will be provided.

We’ve also got some exciting new developments we’re working on for global-health-minded people (like you!) and we’d love to share this with you. All are welcome!

Dr Sam Prince – Doctor, Entrepreneur, Global Philanthropist, Chairman and Founder of NGO “One Disease At a Time“, Sam’s journey embodies the spirit of the road less travelled. Sam has traversed an exciting path combining his entrepreneurial flair to fund his passion for making the world a healthier and better place. Sam was awarded the ACT Young Australian of the year in 2012 and named one of 10 outstanding young people of the World in 2008!

About this talk

Recorded on the 6th September 2012 at GLobal Health Drinks event – “The Road Less Travelled” – read the wrap up here

Thursday 6th December, 2012. 6:30pm for a 7pm start

Where is it?

The Lord Dudley Hotel, 236 Jersey Road, Woollahra NSW 2025

What is it?

Global Health Drinks presents “Medical aid missions: the good, the bad and the evidence”

It’s our last event for 2012 and we are going out with a bang! Joel Negin, will lend his considerable expertise and drop in for a bit of global health controversy on “Medical aid missions – the good, the bad and the evidence”. It’s going to be a great talk. We’d love you to join us for a drink, a bit of inspiration and an opportunity to hang out with a vibrant global health community in Sydney.

Joel Negin is a Senior Lecturer in International Public Health at the University of Sydney. He has worked in a number of countries including Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Liberia, and the Solomon Islands on various health and development projects for UN agencies, government departments and academic institutions.

The talk will be followed by an interactive discussion where you will be invited to share your thoughts, experiences and anecdotes on the topic and global health projects in general.

It has been a great year for Global Health Drinks and we want to celebrate that too. We have chosen this format for our last event so we can also have some time to get to know each other. So come along, be inspired and challenged and have an opportunity to meet and network with the Global Health Drinks community.

If you’re interested in exploring opportunities to volunteer, work or undertake research in the developing world come along and be inspired! All are welcome.

Dr Phoebe Williams – A journey woman in her own right. After an undergraduate degree in Development Economics, Phoebe went onto study Medicine where her passion for global health sparked the formation of “Hands of Help”, an NGO working to improve health through education. Phoebe’s journey down the road less travelled has taken her across outback Australia, through much of Africa, and to the hallowed halls of Oxford University and the World Health Organisation.

About the talk

Recorded on 6th September 2012 at GHD Event, “The Road Less Travelled“.

What a great night it was on Thursday 6th September! Global Health Drinks were very privileged to have 2 amazing speakers come and take us through their journeys of “a road less travelled”. Indeed both have accolades and accomplishments to spare and it wasn’t before long that everybody realised were in the company of 2 incredibly unique individuals who have been brave enough to follow their passions and go beyond the beaten track in medicine.

Dr Phoebe Williams began the night with her story of how her journey started with an unexpected turn whilst she was holidaying in Africa. After that initial encounter (which also rounded off her undergraduate degree in development economics), it left her hungry for more and as a medical student she was self determined enough to fundraise over $100,000 and rally up other students to join her in establishing “Hands of Help”: an NGO who’s aim was to provide support and assistance in education to primary school aged children, then later, public health initiatives. Phoebe spoke of small challenges (the ‘jigger’ fleas that haunt children’s feet) and greater challenges (like trying to convince other NGOs to partner with). After establishing Hands of Help (and all the while still managing and running it) she proved it is possible to do it all and also managed to finish a Masters of International Public Health at Oxford University, a WHO internship, yet another project in Africa, and on top of it all given birth to and raising triplets! She currently has her sights set on paediatrics training and is still heavily involved in global & public health in whatever spare time she conjures.

Dr Sam Prince was an equal match in impressiveness with his multitudes of achievements- he opened up his own restaurant at age 21 whilst in medical school, and is now an entrepreneur, philanthropist, aid worker and founder of the NGO “One Disease at a Time”- an organisation that works on the principle that by focusing skills, knowledge, and resources on one particular disease, in addition with working closely with a community, a disease with a significant burden can be completely eradicated from that population. Sam spoke of the need to ‘first do no harm’ and not make the mistake of disempowering local communities by not allowing them to be a part of or take ownership of projects. He told incredible stories of his hard-working, resilient mother who inspired him, and others of fateful chance encounters with individuals that surprisingly changed the course of his life. Throughout, he urged us all to be aware of that “fire” inside of us and to take courage to listen to and act upon it- a belief which has gotten him to where he is today.

Both speakers spoke sincerely about their experiences, and opened up about their personal thoughts and struggles. And both were in agreement that perseverance and dedication are necessary in getting the job done. We were captivated by their stories and will think of their words for many days to come, as their work and passion for global health continues to inspire and encourage others to do the same.

Q&A

Thanks to our sponsors who made the night possible.

Thursday 6th September, 2012. 6:30pm for a 7pm start

Where is it?

The Lord Dudley Hotel, 236 Jersey Road, Woollahra NSW 2025

What is it?

Global Health Drinks presents “The Road Less Travelled”  

As the name suggests, our aim for the night is to inspire our audience to consider opportunities and avenues in global health that may involve deviating from the “straight and narrow”, i.e. safer clinical training path.

Our speakers will share with us their personal experiences, motivation and inspiration. This will be followed by an interactive “Q&A” style panel discussion.

About the speakers

• Dr Sam Prince – Doctor, Entrepreneur, Global Philanthropist, Chairman and Founder of NGO “One Disease At a Time“, Sam’s journey embodies the spirit of the road less travelled. Sam has traversed an exciting path combining his entrepreneurial flair to fund his passion for making the world a healthier and better place. Sam was awarded the ACT Young Australian of the year in 2012 and named one of 10 outstanding young people of the World in 2008!

• Dr Phoebe Williams – A journey woman in her own right. After an undergraduate degree in Development Economics, Phoebe went onto study Medicine where her passion for global health sparked the formation of  “Hands of Help”, an NGO working to improve health through education. Phoebe’s journey down the road less travelled has taken her across outback Australia, through much of Africa, and to the hallowed halls of Oxford University and the World Health Organisation.

If you’re interested in exploring opportunities to volunteer, work or undertake research in the developing world come along and be inspired! All are welcome.

Thursday 14th June, 2012. 6:30pm for a 7pm start

Where is it?

The Lord Dudley Hotel, 236 Jersey Road, Woollahra NSW 2025

Registration

To help us manage catering and numbers, please register for a free ticket
NOTE: We will not turn anyone away from the door!

What is it?

Global Health Drinks presents “Into Vietnam; Global Health Opportunities with the Hoc Mai Foundation”.
Come and hear about the great work of the Hoc Mai Foundation in building links between Australia and Vietnam and learn how you can get involved with short or long term clinical, education, research projects in Vietnam across specialities including O&G, Medicine, Surgery and more. Find out more about the Hoc Mai Foundation

We welcome anyone interested in global health, so if you’re interested in exploring opportunities to volunteer, work or undertake research in the developing world come along and be inspired!

Dr John F Kennedy, a card carrying Emergency Medicine Staff Specialist at RNSH. As Director of Emergency Medicine Training he has worked to develop accredited rotations for Emergency Registrars to Mandang, PNG. He is also the Director of international operations for Emergency Life Support Course Inc – running ELS courses in PNG, Solomon Islands, Myanmar. JFK extols his wisdom, experience and thoughts on building meaningful training links in the Pacific and beyond.

This is our first attempts at filming our talks. We know the quality is not great but we assure you, we’ll be improving every step of the way. We hope you enjoy it anyway!

Recorded at Global Health Drinks event, March 22nd 2012

About the speaker

President of the College of Lifestyle Medicine, Advanced Trainee in emergency Medicine and global explorer. Bishan has spent the better part of his youth pursuing a PhD in International Emergency Medicine whilst at the same time cultivating a philosophy best expressed in the poetic form. Be inspired and entertained by his stories of Research and International Medicine. Be careful – this may lead you off the straight and narrow!

This is our first attempts at filming our talks. We know the quality is not great but we assure you, we’ll be improving every step of the way. We hope you enjoy it anyway!

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.