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W E L C O M E & I N T R O D U C T I O N

Students for Global Health (SfGH – previously known as Medsin) is a national student-led network and charity focusing on global and local health issues and inequalities through education, advocacy and community action.

We have almost thirty branches at universities in the UK; much of our work focuses on global health, however, we are also the representative body of the UK’s medical students to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations, the body who represent medical students globally to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

SfGH is not exclusive to only medical students – we welcome anyone who has an interest or passion in global health to get involved.

At least four national events are organised every year, which include two general assemblies and two conferences. These are held all over the country, and we welcome all students to attend, whether or not your university has an SfGH branch.

This year, Aberdeen are hosting, for the very first time, a national conference, focusing on ‘Drugs: Our Daily Med’. We are aiming for all guests to enrich their knowledge on three topics: ‘Access to Medications’, ‘Illegal Drug Use and Policy’ and ‘Big Pharma’.

We hope you enjoy your time with us in Aberdeen, whether that be getting hands-on in our conference, having a whale of a time at the social held on Saturday evening or exploring the delights of North East Scotland.

T H E O R G A N I S I N G C O M M I T T E E

Peter F. Drucker - “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer”

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John D. Rockefeller - “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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P U B L I C R E L A T I O N S

Iain Doig Amy Hu Emma WhiteleyCo-chairperson Co-chairperson Secretary

Speaker Liaison Speaker Liaison

Hamish CarterTreasurer

Sophie Ettinger Aidan Matthews

T H E O R G A N I S I N G C O M M I T T E E

Peter F. Drucker - “Thepurpose of business is tocreate and keep a customer”

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John D. Rockefeller - “Don’tbe afraid to give up the goodto go for the great.”

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P U B L I CR E L A T I O N SEilidh Maclean Alex Millar Jeremie Juan

Content Co-ordinator Workshop Liaison Publicity

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Fiona MacFarlaneVenue & Accommodation

Mim Inverarity

Declan McCallum

Andrew HayCampaigns Officer

I N T R O D U C T I O N T O S P E A K E R S & P L E N A R I E S

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P U B L I CR E L A T I O N S

Allan Griffiths, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Allan Griffiths is the UK co-ordinator for 'Students for Sensible Drug Policy', which works with students across the nation to promote drug policy reform on their campus. Allan holds a BSc in Forensics and is working full time in a UKAS accredited laboratory. His future plans with SSDP UK is to promote a new national outreach campaign to challenge high risk behaviour and further educate students on new drug trends in modern society. Allan will provide us with an update on their 'Test your drugs, not yourself campaign' first launched in 2016 and will discuss how Universities across the UK handle the controversial issue of drugs policy on their campus.

Steve Moore, Volteface

Steve Moore is the director of Volteface, a policy innovation hub that explores alternatives to current public policies relating to drugs. Volteface cover the policy and politics of drugs from the perspectives of science, health, lifestyle, culture, business and economics. Their ambition is to broaden the range of voices and perspectives to enliven and elevate this debate. His talk will focus on drug policy in a global context.

Kirstie Douse, Release

Kirstie Douse is the Head of Legal Services of Release, the national centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law. Having previously practiced as a solicitor in criminal defence, Kirstie joined Release with a view to tackling the problems at an earlier stage in proceedings by challenging policy and procedure. Release provides free non-judgmental, specialist advice and information to the public and professionals on issues related to drug use and to drug laws.


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Dr Malcolm Kendrick, NHS East Cheshire

Dr Malcolm Kendrick is a GP who has authored books such as 'The Great Cholesterol Con' and 'Doctoring Data'. Dr Kendrick has a blog dedicated to demystifying popular, and often misleading health scares and crazes. 'In a world where the truth can be, literally, turned upside down, how can you know what to believe, and who to believe? This blog will represent my attempt to dig down to find the meaning behind the headlines'. His talk will focus on the results of clinical trials and how they are manipulated to sell medicines across the world.

Dr David Healy, Bangor University

Manuel Martin, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

Dr David Healy is an internationally respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author. A professor of Psychiatry in Wales, David studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University. Dr Healy's main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture. He is interested in the adverse effects of medications, the recording of adverse events and the way in which evidence for new drugs is recorded and presented. There is no access to clinical trial data for pharmaceuticals. Dr Healy will illustrate the consequences of this by exploring how it has affected the field of psychiatry via antidepressants.

Manuel is a final year medical student at Imperial College London and has spent most of his time at medical school advocating for access to medicines with Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM). UAEM is a worldwide student-led grassroots organisation which advocates at the university, national and international levels for equitable access to lifesaving medicines. Manuel will discuss clinical trial transparency and technology transfer transparency.


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Professor Wendy Graham, London School of Hygiene

and Tropical Medicine

Prof Wendy Graham is Professor of Obstetrics and Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, & Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen. She specializes in the quality improvement of maternity services and in healthcare-associated infections in mothers and newborns in low-income countries. Prof Graham is one of the co-founders of The Soapbox Collaborative and the charity’s Chief Scientific Adviser, and also serves on expert panels for several international organizations, including WHO, DFID, MRC and the Wellcome Trust.

Dr Ian Gould, University of Aberdeen

Diarmaid McDonald, Just Treatment

Dr Ian Gould is a consultant microbiologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and has interests in antimicrobial resistance and its costs and control and infection control policies. Dr Gould's team is currently working on research analysing the dynamic relationship between antibiotic use, and other related factors, with antimicrobial resistance to detect possible thresholds in the use of antibiotics. His talk will focus on the many paradoxes of antibiotic use, from over-reliance leading to poor infection control practice, to over-use leading to resistance and spread of new resistant clones.

Diarmaid McDonald has been campaigning for equitable access to medicines since 2008. He led the advocacy and campaigns work of STOPAIDS, a UK-based coalition focused on the global AIDS response, for six years and has worked on HIV programmes in Tanzania and Ethiopia. In 2017 he founded Just Treatment, a patient-led campaign demanding fair access to medicines on the NHS and reform of the pharmaceutical industry. His talk will focus on access problems in the UK and proposed solutions to overcome these challenges.

T H E S U T T I E C E N T R E

The Suttie Centre is located in the Foresterhill campus:

The Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare Foresterhill Rd Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD

Buses to Foresterhill: Service 3 - from Bridge Street/Union Terrace Service X40 & 23 - from Union Street Student Bus Day Tickets are £3.50 (with valid ID)

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S A T U R D A Y 3 R D F E B R U A R Y

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Introduction

Plenary 1: Illegal Drug Policy

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Workshops 1

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Plenary 2: Big Pharma

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Plenary 3: Access to Meds

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Come join us on Friday evening to meet everyone, including your hosts andthe committee, and most importantly, to enjoy your first night inAberdeen! We'll be upstairs at The Blue Lamp (the door on the left). Seeyou there!

F R I D A Y N I G H T M E E T U P - 7 P M , T H E B L U E

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The Blue Lamp

Aberdeen Train Station

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Suttie Centre

Mile End School

What conference would be complete without a social!? And in Scotland,what is a social without a ceilidh? We'll be heading to Mile End School forour ceilidh with food supplied by the fabulous social enterprise 'SocialBite'! You don't need to be a pro dancer, just pack your dancing shoes andsome enthusiasm and you'll be good to go! For the endurance athletesamong us, we will top this off with a wee night on the town! Kilts/tartannot essential but actively encouraged.

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W O R K S H O P S

Humanitarian crises due to natural disasters have had a huge impact in recent years. For governments, it presents the challenge of having to rebuild a nation. Step into their shoes as you join the government of a country just hit by disaster and face the challenges of deciding who you can help and what resources you have. Can you work successfully with other nations, can you provide for your citizens, can you make difficult decisions about what medications your population can access?

S f G H A B E R D E E N - C A N Y O U S U R V I V E ?


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Students for sensible drugs policy UK presents the Harm Reduction Officerworkshop. As a Harm Reduction officer you will understand what isconsidered as risky drug taking behaviour as well as discuss tactics on howto socially change this high risk behaviour in individuals and in yourcommunity. This workshop will briefly cover the following topics:

S S D P U K - H A R M R E D U C T I O N O F F I C E R

A common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug is illegally prescribed tocattle in India, which sets off a chain of events that threatens wildlife, feraldogs and people, especially children. This story is one of the most importantin the movement of "One Health", the call for interdisciplinary collaborationof professionals to protect people, animals and the environment. Theworkshop will follow the narrative of this chain of events and look at how thepolicy of drug prescriptions interacts with religion, the law, conservation,agriculture and medicine.

D R U G S , D E A D V U L T U R E S A N D R A B I D D O G S : H O W

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Profiles of most commonly abused drugs, how they work and cause harm Data/information sources and their reliability Study enhancing drugs and their risks Drink/drug driving and Breathalyser use Festival survival guide Types of drug testing available Deepweb and Silkroad

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An intricate tale of 'medicine, monopoly and malice', Fire In The Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

F I R E I N T H E B L O O D ( F I L M S C R E E N I N G )

Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the hottest topics in the globalhealth arena. It threatens to cause the cessation of modern medicine as weknow it and little stands in the way. It is possibly the only Global Health issuethat is helped by limiting access to certain medications. The workshop ismostly participant led and will look at AMR as a concept, what the globaltrends of its impact is, why this is the case, how agriculture is (and isn't) toblame and what can be done to stop it.

A M R A G E D D O N : D R U G - R E S I S T A N T I N F E C T I O N S T H A T

C O U L D E N D M O D E R N M E D I C I N E

This workshop will explore the idea of global citizenship. Are all humansglobal citizens or only some of us? How do we understand theresponsibilities of active global citizens - in terms of doing good (what do wethink of aid?), promoting justice (why do we support Fair Trade - if we do atall) and avoiding or reducing our contribution to harms in the world. What, ifanything, do we do about climate change and, and why. If we think of globalcitizenship as broadly about our contribution to enabling people all over theworld to flourish/live well, what is living well? In other words what lies at theheart of good/human development? How important is economic growth? Howimportant is health? How important is freedom?

G L O B A L C I T I Z E N S H I P & H U M A N D E V E L O P M E N T

W O R K S H O P S


M A R K E T I N G

Access to water in health facilities is a fundamental requirement forfunctioning services and situations where there is no water are oftenassumed to be rare. However, 2015 saw the first global report on the state ofhealthcare infrastructure and showed that in low- and middle-incomecountries nearly 40% of facilities lacked an adequate water source, 20%adequate sanitation, and 35% lacked water and soap for hand washing. Thispoor state of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) contributes significantlyto healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), which in turn account for up to56% of deaths among hospital born babies and a significant proportion ofmaternal sepsis deaths.

This workshop will discuss access to water in health facilities - the currentcrisis and the drivers, and the options for assessing needs and challenges.The scene will be set by Prof Wendy Graham and medical student, IyaboAdekunle-Olarinde, who will share details of her 'Water@Birth' studyconducted in Aberdeen and Ethiopia. Participants will work together todevelop a proposal to assess water availability and opportunities forimprovement based on the scenario of a maternity unit in a referral

T H E S O A P B O X C O L L A B O R A T I V E

It’s time to put people before profit in the global drug industry and we’regoing to plan to make that happen. We’ve created and will talk through ournew campaign pack with everything you need to know about how to getactive around affordable medicines on your campus. Millions of peoplearound the world suffer and die from treatable conditions because theycannot afford to pay for expensive medicine. Yet the pharmaceutical industryis the most profitable in the world. Drug companies justify high prices byclaiming they need to recoup their research and development costs. But nineof the top ten pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than onresearch and development. And most innovative early-stage research isactually publicly-funded. So come along and we can talk campus pressurepoints, plan stunts and of course go over some of the key points of thecampaign.

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hospital in sub-Saharan Africa.

The session will be facilitated by The Soapbox Collaborative, an NGO working toward preventing HCAIs at birth in LMICs, and promises to be both informative and fun!

What do we mean when we talk about "policy and advocacy"? And how aboutwhen we rave about all the "international opportunities" we have? How onearth do these things come together to allow us to enact change in globalhealth?

This workshop will take you through the steps to becoming a policy pro onthe international level! We will look at the international opportunitiesavailable to you as Students for Global Health members, and how you canuse these opportunities to write, analyse and act on policy from the local tothe international level to really make a change in global health issues.

Whether you're a newbie to global health, or a well-seasoned SfGH-er, comealong to find out all about the international opportunities we have and getyour teeth stuck into changing health globally!

T A K I N G T H E L O C A L T O G L O B A L : T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L

P O L I C Y M A S T E R C L A S S

On the 23rd October 2017, the NHS introduced upfront charges for itsservices for the first time in its history. Come along to find out what we, aspeople can do to tackle the 'hostile environment' both within the NHS andthe everyday and leave feeling empowered to train others. This training isbased on Doctors of the World's training and the brilliant work that they aredoing for people who are vulnerable.

A C C E S S T O H E A L T C H C A R E T R A I N I N G - M E D A C T

R E F U G E E S O L I D A R I T Y G R O U P

W O R K S H O P S


M A R K E T I N G

Is it completely unethical for drug company representatives to interact withdoctors and medical students? Last year, over 1400 students gave theiropinions about how they interact with the pharmaceutical industry. Find outmore about the results of the PASS study and help the leads form a plan onhow we can act on the results.

E X P L O R I N G T H E P H A R M A W A R E N E S S S T U D E N T S U R V E Y

( P A S S 1 ) A N D W H A T W E C A N D O A B O U T I T

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B R A N D I N G John D. Rockefeller - “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”


P U B L I CR E L A T I O N S

The Trussel Trust is a UK charity helping the 13 million people who live belowthe poverty line in the UK. Their network of over 400 foodbanks across thecountry provided 1,182,954 emergency food supplies to those in need in2016/17.

In 2017 they commissioned the largest study on foodbank use in the UK. Theresearch, conducted by the University of Oxford found that most householdsthat were referred to Trussel Trust services skipped meals and went withouteating, sometimes for multiple days.

You may be asking how this campaign fits into Drugs: Our Daily Med? Drugusers can in part make up the most marginalised in our society withfoodbanks being one of the few services they may have access to. In the US,the heroin epidemic driven by big pharma can drive families into poverty.With the growing use of foodbanks in the UK the charity is tackling a 6 weekwait for people who are referred to their services which range from financialadvice, providing fuel vouchers and nutrition courses. We feel this is acampaign that is relevant not just to Aberdeen but the whole of the UK andabroad. For this reason, all local profits from the conference will be donatedto a local foodbank in Aberdeen. This means even purchasing a ticket hasalready made a difference.

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B R A N D I N G John D. Rockefeller - “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”



Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) are an international network ofstudents working to end the war on drugs. They work to change drug policyso that it is based on justice, liberty, compassion, and reason.

They are currently focusing on harm reduction strategies across campuses.This can involve improving the availability of drug testing kits on campus orproviding harm reduction training so that students can provide basic first aidsupport to those having an adverse reaction to drugs.

We hope those interested can get more involved with this campaign andmake campuses a safer and more accepting place for all.

S T U D E N T S F O R S E N S I B L E D R U G P O L I C Y ( S S D P )

Roughly half of all people in the developing world don’t have affordableaccess to medicines that could save their lives. As not for profit, publicallyfunded institutions universities can help tackle this problem.

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) are a student organisationwith chapters in 46 research universities. They ask universities to direct theirresearch to have the greatest social impact worldwide. In 2001 theyconvinced Yale university and the pharmaceutical company Bristol-MyersSquibb to permit the generic production of a Yale discovered HIV/AIDS drug.This caused a 30-fold decrease of the drug price in sub-Saharan Africa.

Now they work to change the profits over people mentality in biomedicalResearch and Development (R&D) by encouraging alternative R&D modelsand a global R&D agreement by the United Nations.

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S P O N S O R S & T H A N K Y O U S

Professor Alan Denison

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SocialBite , Grub and Upper Krust

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Our speakers , campaigns and workshops

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National Students for Global Health Conference in

Aberdeen would not have been possible .

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