Engaging with students
The EG4Health campaign has seen many developments with UK medicalstudents over the past months, which I want to share in this blog entry.
The UK’s largest medical student association is Medsin, which aims to raise awareness of global health issues and reduce health inequalities. On the 27th September, we presented our campaign at their Annual General Assembly, who unanimously voted to recognize EG4Health as an official Medsin campaign. We then developed the Medsin Campaign website to explain the essence of EG4Health in one page.
On the 25th October, we held a poster display and workshop at the Medsin National Conference. One of the outcomes was to condense onto one A4 all the main pathways of how the current global powers of health and wealth interact with one another to influence health. A rough sketch is ready which we will develop in the near future.
On the 16th November, we attended the “Successful Campaigning for Social Change” conference, which has inspired many new ideas. One we are considering is auditing the little progress done on charter 99 which was set out ten years ago, to re-apply concerted international pressure after Copenhagen. Another recent activity is sharing our thoughts with the EU in its policy on global health. Watch this space.
Overall, it’s been a busy two months.
We’d like to now push on with organizing lectures at our institutions. Lecture materials will be co-developed and shared, to encourage any active members to go and put on their own lectures at their institutions. We remain open to emails from students of medicine, nursing or other health-related domains, should they wish to help our cause.
Taavi Tillmann
