Welcome Irish Forum for Global Health Biennial Conference 2010 ‘Partnerships to Address Health and Diseases of Poverty Challenges’ 29 & 30 November 2010.

Welcome

Irish Forum for Global Health Biennial Conference 2010

‘Partnerships to Address Health and Diseases of Poverty Challenges’

29 & 30 November 2010

National University of Ireland Maynooth

Irish Forum for Global Health Biennial Conference 2010

‘Partnerships to Address Health and Diseases of Poverty Challenges’

29 & 30 November 2010

National University of Ireland Maynooth

John Hume buildingPlenary SessionsJH Boardroom, 3rd floor (workshops)

Biosciences BuildingIBA room, 1st floorWorkshops

Student Union buildingMeeting Room, 1st floorWorkshops

Welcome and Conference Opening Chairs: Jamie Saris & Noel Murphy, CDPC & NUIM

Prof. Tom Collins, President of NUIM

Dr. David Weakliam, Chair, Irish Forum for Global Health

Tom Arnold, Concern Worldwide‘Innovation in linking food security, nutrition and health’

Dr. Philip Onyebujoh, World Health Organization‘Optimising TB/HIV programme services delivery through TB/HIV research: The WHO/TDR model’

Michael Devlin, Council on Health Research and Development (COHRED)‘Research for Health: Approaches to research system strengthening COHRED’s experience with countries’ 

Plenary Session I: John Kevany Memorial LectureChair: Douglas Hamilton, Irish Aid

Introduction by Fr. Michael Kelly

Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, CEO, International Partnership for Microbicides‘New Science, New Hope: Giving Women Power Over HIV/AIDS’

Closing Remarks: David Weakliam, Chair, Irish Forum for Global Health

Plenary Session II Chair: Eilish McAuliffe, Centre for Global Health TCD

Michael Devlin, Council on Health Research and Development (COHRED)‘Research for Health: Approaches to research system strengthening COHRED’s experience with countries’ 

Professor Robert Thornton, University of Witwatersrand ‘Why “sexual networks”?: The importance of social structure and scale in a sexually transmitted epidemic’

Discussant: Dr Fiona Larkan, NUIM & Trinity College Dublin

Plenary Session III: Father Michael Kelly Lecture Chair: Diarmuid McLean, Irish Aid

Prof. Michael Kelly, University of Zambia‘HIV and AIDS: Accomplishments and Enduring Challenges’

James O’Connor, Open Heart House Dublin‘HIV and AIDS: A Positive Perspective’