Recent activities
The first Global Health Forum of the year took place on 20 October on Big Data Decision Support. The event discussed big data in medicine and healthcare and the best ways we can use what is available. Watch the full event here.
On 17 November we had our second Global Health Forum focusing on ‘Water and health’. Speakers included Dr Alexander Webb, Simon De Stercke, Dr Pauline Scheelbeek and Dr Michael Templeton covering a range in issues related to water such as salinity in drinking water and sanitation.
Latest IGHI Blog articles
Practitioner and patient-targeted interventions to address excessive antibiotic use
By Dr Olga Kostopoulou, Reader in Medical Decision Making and Professor Brendan Delaney, Chair in Medical Informatics and Decision Making at Imperial College London
Introducing ‘Exosonic’, a new device to combat pancreatic cancer
By Student Challenges Competition 2015/16 Audience Choice Award winners, Antonios Chronopoulos and Tyler Lieberthal
What is the role of social media in health policy?
By Sabine Vuik, Policy Fellow and Head of Analytics, Centre for Health Policy, Institute of Global Health Innovation
By Professor Desmond Johnston, Vice Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Medicine atImperial College London
BIOTOPE (BIOmarkers TO diagnose PnEumonia)
By Dr John O’Donoghue, Senior Lecturer in eHealth & Deputy Director of Imperial’s Global eHealth Unit
Putting TB to the test: My journey so far
By Harriet Gliddon, winner of the IGHI Student Challenges Competition 2015-16
THET Annual Conference – Rethinking International Health Partnerships
By Hamdi Issa, PhD Candidate, Institute of Global Health Innovation
Director for the BDAU interviews the founder of the Open Data Science Conference in London
By Joshua Symons, Policy Fellow, Big Data & Analyitcal Unit, Centre for Health Policy
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