This webpage provides UQ medical students, teaching staff and other users of this website core information on Global Health

All information on this website is freely available to the public.  If you wish to use any resources for personal or teaching purposes please feel free to do so, acknowledging the relevant source.

Many of the resources here have been created specifically for the UQ UNMDG Project.  Although the resources cover a range of important issues, they are concise and identify key references for further learning are identified - for personal interest or if, for the purposes of teaching the UQ Medical Curriculum, more detailed knowledge is required.

Teaching staff are encouraged to be familiar with the documents in this section of the UNMDG website.  Where relevant and appropriate, please try to make reference to various aspects of Global Health by planning your activities within the context of these resources.  In the coming months, School Learning Objectives will be linked to these resources.

Through a better understanding of the various players and issues in the global arena, we hope that UQ medical students will be able to effectively direct their involvement Global Health, while working anywhere in the world.

1. Core Resources for STUDENTS and STAFF.  Documents are split into the following broad topics (click on the title to jump straight to those resources)

• Developing World Health and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals: click here
• Australian Indigenous Health: click here
• Global Ethics and Law: click here
• Climate Change and Health: click here
• Disease Factsheets: click here
• Courses available right here in UQ School of Medicine HIV & HCV Projects to address HIV/AIDS [MDG 6]: click here

2. For TEACHING STAFF

• Tips for teaching staff on how to incorporate Global Health into your existing teaching plans: click here
• See 1. "Core Resources for STUDENTS and STAFF"
• Coming soon!  Course Map that outlines where and how aspects of Global Health are addressed throughout the UQ Medical Curriculum
• Coming Soon! Online quizzes

3. For STUDENTS

• See 1. "Core Resources for STUDENTS and STAFF".  In addition, the items listed below might be helpful in your practical development and future planning:
• Opportunities for Students - use the LHS quick link or click here to find out about your many options: as part of the Medical Program and Extracurricular
• Manali Medical Aid Project: use the LHS quick link or click here
• Careers in Global Health: Post Graduate Pathways: click here
• Coming soon!  Course Map that outlines where and how aspects of Global Health are addressed throughout the UQ Medical Curriculum

CORE RESOURCES

Developing World Health and the UNMDG

• Health and the Millennium Development Goals: click here
• Key Players in Global Health and Development: click here
• Health Funding and Resource Allocation for fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals: click here
• What is a "Developing Country?" Click here for maps of the world showing the spectrum of development

Australian Indigenous Health

• Australian Indigenous Health and Culture: essential information to understand Indigenous Health: for the complete Australian Indigenous Health Report 2008, click here
  
  Each section of the Report can be accessed separately by clicking on the titles below:
           1. Historical Timeline: Health in Context
           2. Social / Cultural Determinants of Health
           3. Health Status
           4. Health Services
           5. Ethics
           6. Research and Data
           7. Reference List

• The national framework to coordinate improve health for Australia's Indigenous people is the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 2003.  It was endorsed by the Australian, State and Territory governments and signed by all Health Ministers in 2003.  Click here for the Framework (44 pages, useful to have an at-a-glance understanding of the structure). 

• Also helpful is to check out the website for the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH), which is an office within the Australian Federal Government Department of Health and Ageing.  Go to: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Aboriginal+and+Torres+Strait+Islander+Health-1lp

    Australian medical schools are *formally* committed to substantial teaching in Indigenous health. 

• Click here for the Indigenous Health Curriculum Framework, guidelines that were set out to improve the content and delivery of Indigenous Health in all Australian medical schools.  It is officially endorsed by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) and all Deans of Australian medical schools.  
• Go to the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) network to learn more at: http://www.limenetwork.net.au/lime_network

Global Ethics and Law

• The full set of learning resources for Ethics and Law can be downloaded as a single document: click here
  
  Each topic can be accessed separately by clicking on the titles below:
           1. Introduction: the Language of Rights
           2. Developing World Health
           3. Australian Indigenous Health
           4. Global Ethics and Law

Climate Change and Health

• Climate Change and Health: click here for a brief and unbiased overview of this topical issue
• See also the Letters to the Editor on Climate Change in the Medical Observer (reproduced with full permission of the Medical Observer Editor and authors, for the UNMDG Pre-Electives MBBS 1 Workshop)

Disease Factsheets

• CDC Yellow Book:
  Check out the excellent factsheets in this online publication by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Apart from the Infectious Disease factsheets in Chapter 4, look through the other chapters at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/ybToc.aspx

• World Health Organization Factsheets:
  Quick overviews on the burden of various diseases throughout the world at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/en/
• Dedicated World Health Organization websites on specific diseases:
  HIV/AIDS (factsheets on LHS link): http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section18.htm
  Tuberculosis (factsheets on LHS link): http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section2097.htm
  Malaria (factsheets on LHS link): http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section21.htm

Courses you can do right here at UQ to address UNMDG 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Disease

The team in the HIV & HCV Education Projects, School of Medicine, support and applaud the focus by the University of Queensland Medical Society and School of Medicine on contribution to the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.   These goals provide a vision for a healthier world and contribution to their achievement is each individual’s responsibility.

Click here for a synopsis on the work of the HIV & HCV Education Projects group of the UQ School of Medicine.

To assist the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, especially Goal 6 – combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases – clinicians are able to access courses to better equip themselves for work in these areas. These include:

• The "Education Course in HIV Medicine" is a two day detailed course on all aspects of HIV medicine;
• The "Prescribers’ Course in HIV Medicine" is a two day concentrated course on prescription of HIV antiretroviral therapies. 
• Dates and locations of both the courses above may be found at www.som.uq.edu.au/hivandhcvprojects and clicking on the ‘Course Dates’ link. 
• In addition, the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) offer other courses in  HIV medicine.  Information may be found at www.ashm.org.au/hiv-courses/.
• There are many education and training activities that may assist in this area – from personal safety while in HIV prevalence environments to treatments to antenatal care. 
• Contact the team at the HIV & HCV Education Projects for more information on hivandhcvprojects@uq.edu.au