All,

Just a quick post to let you know about the talented creator of the header to this blog, and my good friend, Ben (aka Monkey).

I have promised to put up a link to his portfolio on here, which you can get to by clicking here. Please have a quick look – his website is full of wonderful, quirky and hi-res images! Plus you will be contributing to much needed web traffic. Go on, it’ll only take a second…

Hope you all have a great Easter break, and see you next term.

Best,

Faisal.

On behalf of the trips team, I have now uploaded all presentations that were delivered during the WHO trip last month for your viewing pleasure.

Please note that some of the presentations are rather large in size so do be patient when dowloading.

To find them, click on the sub-page “WHO trip – ppt presentations” which you can find on the RHS column of the blog.

I hope you find them informative and interesting.

Faisal.

To celebrate the end of Lent Term, and teaching proper, the health society will be hosting a party at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, just a short walk from the LSE.

At 7pm there will be pizza and drinks in the Social Policy Common Room (A286, Old Building) followed by bowling at 9pm. There will also be live music, pool, and of course, drinks!

We hope to see many of you there!

Faisal.

All,

The Health Society blog calendar has now been updated to reflect the programme of events taking place at the WHO, on Monday (Central European Time, of course!). Please click here to go straight to the calendar.

Note – these events might be subject to change.

Thanks,

Faisal (on behalf of the trips teeam).

Varun has kindly organised a tour of Fuller’s brewery, to take place on Wednesday, February 24th. To the uninitiated, Fuller’s is one of London’s oldest brewers, and is probably most famous for its ale, London Pride, which can be found in many a pub across London and the South East.

The tour is scheduled for 3pm and is likely to last around 1.5 to 2 hours in total. There is also a provisional plan to go for a pub dinner somewhere local afterwards (Chiswick is a lovely, leafy part of London which has some really nice pubs). Currently there are 44 places available with the price being £10 per person. Email Varun (v.sitaram@lse.ac.uk) if you want to sign up!

Thanks,

Faisal.

All,

please read the message below from Yi-Ding Jiang on behalf of those HPPF students running the Paris half-marathon in March:

For those interested in non-LSE lectures, I organise a series of clinical lectures aimed at pharmacists for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB, although I would be happy to extend an open invitation to any of those who wished to come. They are clinically focused, but it’s all public health, and I do not think that you need to be clinically competent to extract utility from these lectures. There is an hour lecture, followed by a discussion and question and answer session at the end.

Lectures are busy, and take place in North London, but tubes cover it, so all I can say is that you are welcome to join, and we have most lectures delivered by high-profile consultant practitioners. It’s all free (covered by my vastly over-priced RPSGB fees, and under-valued free time), and we even have food provided.

Feel free to drop me a line; or full details here:

http://rpsgbbarnetbranch.weebly.com/index.html

The first lecture of 2010 that I have organised is ‘Coronary stenting and antiplatelet drugs’ on Monday 25th January. It starts at 8pm, and food will be served from 7:15pm. You have to go to the end of the Northern Line to ‘High Barnet’ station, and then go to the local hospital there, but it’s only about 45 minutes from LSE.

Full details on how to get there, and a downloadable lecture event timetable is available via the website. I also have some useful PDF lectures posted up, most specifically a great introduction to clinical treatment of HIV, which was delivered by one of the senior pharmacists in HIV and infectious diseases at the Royal Free Hospital, which hosts the largest but one HIV centre in Europe, with 3,500 patients and a £14 million drug budget just for outpatient care.

Ben Marks.

See below, a message from the Afro-Caribbean society:

On January 12th, Haiti endured a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The capital, Port-au-Prince, was severely damaged and key buildings were reduced to rubble. The catastrophic effects of the earthquake are of such that 3 million people are affected (many homeless, separated from family, and without any form of running water) and 70,000 deaths have occurred, with many buried in make-shift mass graves. The death toll is still rising, following the Haitian Interior Prime Minister’s claims that the disaster would claim between 100,000 to 200,000 lives. Plenty of aftershocks are still felt around the country, and just yesterday, January 20th, a 6.1 magnitude aftershock stuck the already fragile country.

Governments and civilians around the world have risen up and responded to the needs of the Haitian people. However, so much more is still left to be done.

The Afro-Caribbean Society will be hosting a fundraiser on January 22nd and all the proceeds will be donated to ICRC’s Haitian Fund: http://www.icrc.org/eng

Here are the details:

When: January 22nd, 8pm-2am
Where: Bar 242, 242 Blackfriars Road, SE1 9UF
Admission: 10 pounds

Even if you are unable to make it to the event, please do consider donating directly to ICRC(just follow the link above) or any other reputable organization working in Haiti that you feel comfortable giving to.

Thanks!!

A reminder that Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the LSE, former senior health policy adviser to Tony Blair, and author of several pre-eminent books in the field of health policy will be giving a talk on Thursday afternoon this week entitled,”Patient Choice: Illusion or Solution”.

Professor Le Grand no doubt requires little introduction to most of you reading this; his most recent book, “The Other Invisible Hand” is a strong polemic towards the introduction of more patient-centred choice in the NHS (and education) that has had a visible impact on NHS policy over the last couple of years.

We hope you are as excited as we are at the prospect of seeing this talk, and we look forward to seeing many of you there.

The Health Society Committee.