Thursday, November 14, 2013

Dr Meegan lectures in Nepal

The International Director of ICROSS is lecturing this week at the first Global health course ever to be held in Nepal.  As a specialist in International and Global health Dr Meegan gave a series of lectures at the invitation of the Global health committee of Nepal’s renowned Institute of medicine. 
 
 
The Global Health course is the first of its kind in the Kingdom of Nepal. Dr Meegan lectured on global health partnerships, changes in the patterns of disease and the role of culture and epidemiology in health planning.
 
ICROSS has a long relationship with Nepal. This International event directed by Professor Archana Amatya and Drs Prasad Agrwal and Dr Santosh Timaisina has brought students from four continents.
 
Dr Michael Meegan spoke on creating long term effective evidence based health services guided by results based management and rights based framework.
 
The Director of ICROSS Public Health research spoke of his 34 years experience in epidemiological studies. He spoke of the latest modelling and global health planning as well as the latest advances in International health. The Institute of Medicine, the oldest  institute of its kind in Nepal recognised Dr Meegans contribution to the Global health course and ICROSS International continues to share its work through the Public health  search engines and through  our wide range of public health publications.   As part of the Dept. International health in Tampere Dr Meegan continues to share the important messages of the dynamic growth in the science of Global Health as part of an international collaboration across 4 continents.  The close partnership  between ICROSS NWI UK and  Nepal continues to  develop as  new  partnerships in Global health are created.

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