ICROSS research 2011-2012

Phlip Sironka, head Comminications ICROSS announced a new initiative to extend the research base and research unit at ICROSS internatonal. Speakng from Longosua , the Dr Joe Barnes Clinic he told programme leaders of the research strategy and the new partnerships that have been developed. The Director of Research Dr Michael Meegan D Med NUI (HC) welcomed the plan to extend the program. Within five years the CROSS research unit will double in size.

Among the long history of ICROSS research has been important international publications in Public health . Thse were in collaboration wth many research institutions ...

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1. Elmore-Meegan M, Conroy RM, Agala CB. Sex workers in Kenya,

numbers of clients and associated risks: an exploratory survey.

Reprod Health Matters 2004;12(23):50-7.

2. Meegan ME, Conroy RM, Lengeny SO, Renhault K, Nyangole J. Effect

on neonatal tetanus mortality after a culturally-based health

promotion programme. Lancet 2001;358(9282):640-1.

3. Conroy RM, Meegan ME, Joyce T, McGuigan K, Barnes J. Solar

disinfection of drinking water protects against cholera in children

under 6 years of age. Arch Dis Child 2001;85(4):293-5.

4. Meegan M, Morley DC. Growth monitoring: family participation:

effective community development. Trop Doct 1999;29(1):23-7.

5. Conroy RM, Meegan ME, Joyce T, McGuigan K, Barnes J. Solar

disinfection of water reduces diarrhoeal disease: an update. Arch Dis

Child 1999;81(4):337-8.

6. Meegan M, Morley D, Chavasse D. Fly traps. Lancet 1997;349(9055):886.

7. Meegan M, Morley DC, Brown R. Child weighing by the unschooled: a

report of a controlled study of growth monitoring over 12 months of

Maasai children using direct recording scales. Trans R Soc Trop Med

Hyg 1994;88(6):635-7.

8. Conroy RM, Meegan ME. Dwindling donor aid for health programmes in

developing countries. Lancet 1994;343(8907):1228-9.

9. Meegan MK. Rethinking famine relief. Lancet 1992;340(8830):1293-4.

10. Konings E, Anderson RM, Morley D, O'Riordan T, Meegan M. Rates of

sexual partner change among two pastoralist southern Nilotic groups

in east Africa. Aids 1989;3(4):245-7.

11. Meegan M, McCormick J. Prevention of disease in the poor world.

Lancet 1988;2(8603):152-3.

12. Meegan M. Starvation and suffering. Lancet 1983;2(8365-66):1506.

13. Meegan M. The reality of starvation and disease. Lancet 1981;1

(8212):146.

For three decades we have been setting the standard of long-term health research

ICROSS shares its research globall including at Internatonal Conferences

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Health care in regions of absolute Poverty

Seminar , Dept International health, Faculty of Medicine

University of Tampere, Finland 30th November 2009

SODIS International Conference Phnom Phen Cambodia

International seminar of the impact of Solar disinfection

International Research Colloquium of the Network to promote

Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS), Twenty years of SODIS in Kenya.

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 21st - 23rd September 2009

Changing dynamics of Morbidity, Mortality and poverty of children in the Third World.

Senate Hearing, Italian Senate, Rome

Senatorial Commission on International Children’s Rights , At the request of Italian Senate Commission, Rome , 31st April 2009

Global health and interdependency,

The Royal College of Surgeons Charter day lecture 2009

Royal College of Surgeons,Dublin. 12th Feb 2009

Emerging mega-trends in Global health

Future shocks; disasters and relief in a changing world, RedR Conference, Royal College of nursing, London, 5th December, 2007

Locally appropriate technologies in low income settings, Dept International health, Tampere University, Finland. 29th Nov 2007

Applied operational study of pain determinants in terminally ill patients in Bondo, Kenya XVI International AIDS Conference,Toronto, August 06 Francis,P,Meegan,M

The 46th Robert Graves Lecture

Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland

Creating long term change through culturally acceptable cost effective public health interventions.

Dublin 10 May 06

IFCW World Forum. “AIDS orphans & Vulnerable Children; an evidence-led response.” Cape Town, South Africa. 2003

Annual Consultative Review, Manitoba and Nairobi Universities Collaborative Conference. “An assessment of home-based care interventions among 2,116 terminally ill patients in Bondo and Siaya using clinically validated scales.

Interim results.” Nairobi, Kenya. 2003

"AIDS and the changing face of Africa: The impact on children, WUSC-Carleton, Médecins Sans Frontières, CARE Carlton University Canada, 25th Nov 2002

Annual Consultative Review, Manitoba and Nairobi Universities Collaborative Conference. “Modeling cultural determinants of sexual behavior” - A Pilot Study. Nairobi, Kenya. 2002

Annual Consultative Review, Manitoba and Nairobi Universities Collaborative Conference. “AIDS, children and poverty, an alternative model to international Aid, ‘Love, evidence and common sense.” Nairobi, Kenya. 2002.

WHO Trachoma conference

. “Effect of fly control using sustainable
 interventions on the prevalence of Trachoma in five pastoral tribes in Kenya.” Geneva, Switzerland. 2001

Child Survival. Alternative strategies in reducing infant mortality” International Conference on Child survival. Nairobi, Kenya. 2001

Identifying emerging needs among AIDS orphans in Kenya. “Multicentre Matched Perspective Control Study of 2,786 Children Orphaned by AIDS, 2,420 other Orphans and 3,400”

Nairobi, Kenya. 2000

AIDS orphans. “An emerging crisis: a USAID sponsored conference.” Nanyuki. Kenya. 2000

Annual Consultative Review, Manitoba and Nairobi Universities Collaborative Conference. “Multi centre Matched Perspective Control Study of 2,786 Children

Orphaned by AIDS, 2,420 other Orphans and 3,400.” Nairobi, Kenya. 2000

East African Association of Anthropologists inaugural Conference. “Anthropology and ethnography.” Nairobi, Kenya. 2000