Global Health Academy

Palliative Care in Fragile Settings - Lunchtime Seminar

Chronic disease care is often missing from humanitarian response planning and implementation yet it is a major driver of multidimensional poverty in humanitarian settings.  As part of the GHA partnerships we have been exploring and mapping issues of multi-morbidity, health needs and palliative care various humanitarian settings.

We will present work from South Sudanese populations who are refugees in Northern Uganda, and Rohingya communities in Bangladesh. This will include rapid participatory situational analysis, needs assessment, educational interventions and qualitative experience from children and adults. 

Join us to widen this community of practice, engage in discussion, meet key colleagues from Uganda and Bangladesh.

The speakers have a lifetime of experience working in fragile settings:

  • Ms Vicky Opia:  Working with the Ministry of Health in the Adjumani District, Northern Uganda supporting the host and large South Sudanese refugee population.
  • Dr Peace Bagasha:  A renal and palliative medicine physician based in the national referral hospital, in Kampala, Uganda
  • Prof Julia Downing: Chief Executive of the International Children’s Palliative Care network.
  • Dr Mhoira Leng:  A specialist palliative care physician working in Uganda with wide experience in global health in fragile health settings including humanitarian settings in Uganda and Gaza.
  • Dr Farzana Khan: A Palliative care specialist working with the Rohingya communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

 

Refugees
Oct 03 2019 -

Palliative Care in Fragile Settings - Lunchtime Seminar

Speakers and informal roundtable discussion: Chronic disease care in Uganda and Bangladesh

Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre,
Doorway 1 (Medical School, Teviot)

University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh