PhD students from King's College London, University of Vienna, and the University of Belgrade will give short talks from different perspectives and backgrounds such as epidemiology, law, ethics, social medicine, and history of medicine, regarding the diverse approaches to global health, as well as the issues found in different countries and cultures.
The workshop is structured as six 15-minute lectures on various global health topics from different perspectives, with a comparative analysis of partner states.
Additionally, the students will be asked to fill in a KAP questionnaire prior to the lectures, which will serve as the baseline (pre-test), and another questionnaire after the lectures, primarily comprised of repeated questions from the first questionnaire (post-test). The idea is to assess whether the workshop influenced any changes in the KAP of the participating students regarding the topics discussed.
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Programme
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Introduction of the project and pre-test |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | Basic concepts |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Risk factor distribution across partner states - Are our challenges the same? Aleksa Jovanović - University of Belgrade |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Social determinants of health: A global health perspective Andrija Pavlović - University of Belgrade |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Discrimination and equality in global health: An international law perspective Ivana Nikolić - University of Belgrade |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | The health-security nexus: The need for an international approach Dewi Delf - King's College London |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Discussion |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Public debates in Austrian, British and Serbian newspaper articles on swine flu vaccines in the 2009 pandemic - A critical revision Sophia Bauer - University of Vienna |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Equity in infection prevention and control: Bridging resource gaps worldwide Vladimir Nikolić - University of Belgrade |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Discussion |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Concluding remarks and post-test |
About VersaHealth
VersaHealth is a Circle U. seed funded project with the aim to analyse the diverse perspectives and challenges in global health. VersaHealth wants to identify and critically assess the different perspectives and approaches to challenges in global health, and to distinguish the differences and similarities in contemporary challenges in public health in each of the partner universities' countries and beyond.
