Past eventsStudents for Global Health RVC will be hosting a variety of events throughout the year, details of which will be available below.
Our biggest event of this year was our annual symposium with the title of 'Future of Food' which was held on the 21st October in the Camden Campus. Other talks and events will follow, involving both external and internal speakers. |
Future of Food Annual Symposium 21st October 2017 |
This was our third annual symposium, and for this we had the theme of Food Security. It was a hugely successful day filled with a series of speakers of different disciplines discussing different aspects of food security and the impact of things such as Climate change, Antimicrobial resistance, Disease and much more. We are very grateful to the wonderful speakers who came as well as everyone else who attended the event.
Here is a list of the speakers of the event: RICHARD KOCK Wildlife Veterinary Ecologist, Infectious disease researcher and Conservationist at the RVC Broken food systems and their role in emerging diseases JAVIER DOMINGUEZ Veterinary Director and head of Foodborne Disease Control of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Novel food surveillance techniques LEE DANKS Scientific Affairs Manager for Royal Canin Pet Food safety and quality... Societal impacts and beyond HELEN BROWNING Chief Executive of the Soil Association How organic farming techniques and good husbandry generally can substantially reduce the need of antibiotics DR NICK PALMER Head of Compassion for World Farming Post-brexit farming: Interweaving animal welfare, the environment and public health LIZ ROBINSON Professor of Environmental Economics in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading Climate change, food security and health ANA MATEUS Lecturer of Veterinary Public Health at the RVC Antibiotics and intensification of animal production - Risks to food security and to public heath Below are some photos from the day: |
Our other events |
One Health Day- 3rd November 2017
For One Health Day this year, we have gone mainly to Facebook and Twitter (@SfGHRVC) sharing information and raising awareness of One Health issues facing us today. Additionally, we collaborated with RVC Zoo Society in the social learning space in Hawkshead and the Lightwell in Camden putting up boards of information and asking staff and students their thoughts on One Health, and what it means to them! AGM- 26th October 2017 We had a successful AGM held at our hawkshead campus, and are very excited with the new committee which have formed. We are looking forward to their plans for the society, so keep an eye open for news and upcoming events! Short Film showing, pre-symposium event - 10th October 2017 This was the first event of the academic year, in which we watched the short film 'Unbroken Ground'. This discusses the important role of food and agriculture in efforts to improve the deteriorating environment. The film brought up some good discussion topics which have built up nicely for our annual symposium, taking place on the 21st October, with the theme of food security. The Global Health and Welfare of Livestock: A case study of the international live sheep export trade - 9th May 2017 Dr Liz Jackson, a senior lecturer in Business management at the RVC, was kind enough to come and give us a half an hour talk on the global health and welfare of livestock with a focus on sheep trade; followed by a 15 minute Q & A and discussion. It was a fascinating talk, followed by a very thought provoking discussion, everyone who came along found it a great event. Epidemiology and Zoonotic Disease - 14th March 2017 Nell Grey (MSF) and Camilla Benfield (RVC) came to give some brilliant talks to discuss the epidemiology of zoonotic diseases and how this relates to social sciences as will as human and veterinary medicine. RVC and UCL Collaborative Medsin Workshop - 9th March 2017 Our two medsin branches came together for an multidisciplinary workshop. This was a fantastic and interactive day in which we were able to highlight the strengths of each discipline, showing why we need to work together. We hope to have more events like this in the future. Anthropology and Zoonotic Disease Research - 6th March 2017 Anthropologist Annie Wilkinson from the institute of development studies came to discuss her research into Lassa Fever. She educated us all on the importance of anthropology in zoonotic disease research and showed how human behaviours impacted on the spread of Lassa Fever and the measures which they were encouraged to take both personally and as communities. It was extremely interesting to learn how simple methods which they employed (such as not eating rats) had such a positive impact on preventing people from becoming infected with Lassa Fever. It was fab to see many students there- especially from the One Health MSc course. It provoked some great discussion and highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary global health approaches which will be covered more in our workshop with UCL. Photos from the event can be found in the gallery and on Facebook. Donkeys and Global Health - 1st March 2017 RVC Global Health co-hosted a talk with SEVA (student equine veterinary association) and SAWS (student animal welfare society) from the Donkey Sanctuary. Alex Mayers originally trained as an economist and is international programme manager came to talk to us all about donkey welfare and the impact of the global donkey skin trade on communities. He spoke all about the different elements which they take into consideration when assessing a donkeys welfare as well as the donkeys role in communities and the positive socio-economic impacts they have in third world countries. The skin trade is an emerging global health issue; if it continues there will be high negative community wide impacts. Women would be most affected by the lack of donkeys. Read more about the donkey skin trade in the report by the Donkey Sanctuary here: https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/under-the-skin/full-report. Alex was an amazing speaker and it was great to see the societies collaborate and a big turn out! The video the talk can be found on Youtube, or under our gallery! Research Abroad - 28th February 2017 Our former committee member Helena Diffey came to talk to some clinical year students all about how to go about doing research abroad. As a global health society we believe that conducting research abroad is an amazing opportunity for all students and vital in improving and understanding global health on an international scale. Hearing about it first-hand from a student enabled us to learn about the practicalities and issues which may be faced when conducting a research placement abroad and how to overcome these. Hopefully it inspired some students to conduct a research placement abroad! Avian Influenza Series - 9th February 2017 The first part in a two part event (2nd date to be confirmed) with RVC's John Fishwick. We had an enjoyable evening talking about the current Avian Influenza outbreak in the UK, it's impact on both human and animal populations and what is being done to control it. One Health Vs Global Health - 19th January 2017 Professor Richard Kock, one of the course co-directors for the One Health Msc at RVC, came to talk to us and lead a discussion on the difference between One Health and Global Health. He also talked about how we can apply the principles of One Health and Global Health in real life, as well as how we as vets can contribute to better health worldwide. As many people are confused about the difference between the two terms, it was a great evening with lots of discussion. Great to see many new faces there!. If you missed this, or want to watch it again, the talk is available on Youtube or in our Gallery The Importance of Reducing Infection Risks - 17th January 2017 A joint event with the Zoological society of the RVC, where we were overjoyed to have Birgitt Rimell from Sterilium, (a clinical nurse specialist in infection control) come to talk to us about the importance of sanitation with regard to spread of disease both to humans and animals, in a clinical setting. AMR: Stop the Resistance - 22nd November 2016 As part of World Antibiotic awareness week, we put on an event discussing Antimicrobial awareness and its impact. We had two speakers come to the Camden campus and their talks where then also video linked to Hawkshead campus and live-streamed on YouTube. Hannah Lishman was the first to talk, discussing: 'A wealth of information: uses of existing data and data linkage to tackle AMR' and she was then followed by Nichola Naylor ('The Future of AMR: Health Economics & Policy') who we were overjoyed to welcome back after she spoke at our Disaster symposium. Following the two great speakers we had a drinks reception. World Antibiotic Awareness Week - 14th-18th November 2016 We spent the week raising awareness and celebrating the first World Antibiotic Awareness Week throughout the university. We spread the word over our Facebook and Twitter pages, sharing information on a daily basis about antibiotic resistance and its importance, and on the Friday (which was also European Antibiotic Awareness day) the society committee spend the day on both university campuses encouraging students and staff to sign up as Antibiotic guardians World One Health Day - 3rd November 2016 Throughout the day we used social media to promote the idea of One Health and advertise the fact that it was One Health Day. At the same time, we had committee members on both campuses speaking to students and members of staff to find out what their ideas where was of what One Health is. Here are some of the ideas that they had! AGM - 25th October 2016 This was a fantastic evening, with pizza and drinks, we elected our new committee and it was brilliant to see so many new and interested faces! With a few people staying on as committee members as well as the newbies we have a great committee of 15 students! Lots of new ideas for the coming months were discussed, so keep an eye out for more information to come! October 22nd 2016 - Annual Symposium - Disaster!
This was our second annual symposium, held at the RVC Camden campus. A half day event involving a series of short talks from 6 fantastic speakers with discussions in between. We also serves a buffet style dinner and a wine reception to finish. We all thought that it was a very enjoyable and informative day in which we discussed a huge range of different disasters thought the world and different ways of defining what a disaster is, in terms of Global Health. We can't stress how grateful we are to the brilliant speakers who attended and everyone else who came along to enjoy this event with us. Below is a list of the speakers and their talk titles: PROFESSOR JOE BROWNLIE, Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the RVC Future of Veterinary Epidemics: Are we prepared? NICHOLA NAYLOR, Antimicrobial Research Collaborative at Imperial College, London The Health Economics of Antimicrobial Resistance DR ILAN KELMAN, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health, UCL London Climate Change Related Health Impacts DR ZUZANA HRDLICKOVA, Goldsmiths, University of London Disasters and Human Societies: From Response to Resilience DR TIM HEALING, DipClinMicro, DMCC, CBIOL, FZS, FRSB Course Director, Course in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine, Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London Disasters and Diseases JAMES FLORENCE, Managing Director of Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS) A Raid Action Veterinary Response to Disasters Meet and Greet - 10th October 2016 We spent an evening in the Haxby (RVC Camden Campus Bar) to meet anyone who was interested in the society. It was great to see so many people, and get to know more people interested in Global health. A very chilled evening with a small amount of promotion for the symposium on the 22nd it was a success. Antimicrobial Awareness - 3rd May 2016 Taking on the topic of antimicrobial resistance and it's issues for the world, the human and the animal populations. We began the evening with 3 speakers (Kevin Queenan, a Researcher at the RVC regarding one health; Dr Katherine Grace of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, and part of the Defra Antimicrobial Resistance Coordination (DARC) group; and Dr Anette Loeffler a Lecturer of Veterinary Dermatology at the RVC) discussing the importance of Antimicrobial resistance for everyone, followed by a question and answer session. This topic is essential to discuss right now, as everyone needs to get involved to help improve the dangerous situations we are fast approaching. Towards Global Food Security: Considerations on Animal and Human Welfare - 28th April 2016 We were joined by the SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) on this event to discuss global food security and what we can do to achieve this. The event began with experts from human health, animal health, and social science fields giving a 10 - 15 minute background on their perspective on the theme, and this will be followed by an informal discussion. Tickets were sold out and the event was a great success! Overseas EMS with RVC SU IVSA - 8th March, Hawkshead Campus Enjoyable and greatly informative evening for all students at the RVC thinking about doing a EMS placement abroad. Current students, BVA overseas group and VetAid are all there to answer questions and give advice, as well as inspire everyone to take the fantastic opportunities that are available for vet students all over the world! SPANA - Improving the Health and Welfare of the World's Working Equids - 17th February 2016 Cecilia Gath from the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA) came in for a lunch time talk on improving the health and welfare of the world's working equids, which we hosted along side the RVC Student Animal Welfare Society. This was an amazing insight into the work done by SPANA and the issues that they face around the world. The veterinary issues along with the people's attitudes towards their animals is so different to what it is here in the UK, making this an eye-opening talk. AGM 19th Janurary 2016 We stated the evening by live streaming the Imperial College talk 'Can we feed the world sustainably?' with Professor Sir Gordon Conway. A fascinating and eye-opening talk about the problems that we will face in the future and what we can do about it. Following this our AGM was successful and a new committee has now been formed. This committee will now stay on until end of October 2016 which from then on will be the usual AGM time. John Hill, president of the British Bee Veterinary Association John Hill MRCVS provided us with a fantastic talk on the importance of bees and the risks to their survival (and ours). Without bees, we could lose 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world! The talk was hosted by RVC Global Health, RVC Zoological Society and IVSA. Many thanks to John for coming! Wednesday 18th November In collaboration with the RVC Animal Welfare Society, Luke Gamble from Worldwide Veterinary Service and Mission Rabies came to give a talk on the exciting opportunities for vets across the globe. He explained the ways vets could help both humans and animals whilst getting to see the world, with a particular focus on the fight against rabies. We are really grateful to Luke for coming and for RVC Welfare Soc for putting the talk together. Saturday 10th October. Launch event - 'Neglect' Our launch event, held at RVC's Camden campus, was an afternoon of short TED style talks followed by integrated debates focussing on some of the key questions surrounding the theme of neglect in Global Health. Staff and students from a variety of disciplines attended and some lively discussions were had! We are extremely grateful to the following speakers who attended. MARK RWEYEMAMU, Professor and Executive Director, Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) ELSA LEGER, Postdoctoral Researcher at Royal Veterinary College, University of London – Pathology and Pathogens Biology Department JEREMY SALT, Head of Research and Development at GALVmed. ELISABETH A INNES, Principal Scientist and Director of Communication at Moredun Research Institute. HANIAH PATANKAR, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines PROFESSOR DEBORAH BRIGGS, Chair of the Board, Global Alliance for Rabies Control UK NATASHA MATTHEWS, Medsin Global Health Education Director LAYTH HANNBALI, Medsin National Director |