Events
2011
World AIDS Day 2011. Official launch of a photo-book on women who inject drugs in Vietnam: Hanoi and Melbourne
The Nossal Institute, together with its research partners at Hanoi's Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI), recently held two events to launch a photo-book documenting key findings, images and voices of women who have injected drugs and agreed to talk about their challenges and hopes. The book, in both English and Vietnamese, is entitled Women Who Inject Drugs: Beyond the Numbers. It is the first major output of a collaborative study funded by an Australian Development Research Award (supported by AusAID). The research brought together the Nossal Institute and the Institute for Social Development Studies and SCDI (both in Hanoi) and an independent researcher in Ho Chi Minh City. http://www.ni.unimelb.edu.au/inclusive_development/gender_responsive_development/ausaid_adra_grant
The photos were taken by a renowned Hanoi-based photo-journalist, Pham Hoai Thanh, who has previously documented the lives of people living with HIV and injecting drug users, both men and women. The publication aims to create better understanding of the life circumstances of a group that is highly stigmatised. It includes concrete recommendations for policy-makers and programmers, including the effectiveness of self-help groups. The book was launched to mark World AIDS Day 2011 both in Hanoi (on 16 Nov at the Hanoi Press Club) and in Melbourne (at a seminar on Women and Harm Reduction in Asia at the Nossal Institute on 30 Nov 2011.
Further details are available from:
- Dr Martha Morrow (Nossal Institute): martham@unimelb.edu.au;
- Dr Khuat Thi Hai Oanh (SCDI, Hanoi): oanhkhuat@scdi.org.vn; and
- Mr Pham Hoai Thanh (SCDI, Hanoi): thanhdesigner@scdi.org.vn
Photos from Vietnam, Hanoi Launch....
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Thuy, Hong, Minh, Nhat, Khanh- members of The Bullet Point, an IDU self-help group in Hanoi- perform a song they wrote, called 'Friends, please stay away'. It begins: There young friends, so unhappy they dont care about their lives, looking for 'the brown fairy' to foget sorrow... ('the brown fairy' is a local term for opium-derived drugs)
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Dr Pham Chien Khu, Director, Institute for Public Opinion Surveys of the Communist Party of Vietnam, addresses the gatering for the book launch
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Official Hanoi launch of the bi-lingual photo book, Women Who Inject Drug: Beyond the Numbers, by Mr Michael Wilson, Minister Counsellor, Mekong and Regional, AusAID
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Book launch, Hanoi Press Club, 16 Nov 2011. Left-to-right: Dr Khuat Thi Hai Oanh (Vietnam chief investigator, SCDI); Ms Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai (You, Me and Us and IDUself-help group in HCMC); Ms Nguyen Nguyen Nhu Trang (Ho Chi Minh City research partner); Mr Michael Wilson (Minister Counsellor, Mekong and Regional, AusAID); Dr Martha Morrow (principoal investigator, Nossal Institute); Mr Pham Hoai Thanh (book photographer, SCDI) |
Photos from Melbourne launch.....
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Mr Le Duc Hien, Vietnam Ministry for Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, at seminar with interpreter, Ms Huong Nguyen.
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Ms Ngo TM Linh from NGO You, Me & Us, featured in photo-book, at seminar
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Prof Lisa Maher, Kirby Institute, Sydney, introducing Dr Khuat TH Oanh at seminar
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Vietnam team visits community drug control programs in Footscray. L-R Le Duc Hien, Ngo TM Linh, Martha Morrow, Anh Dang (Interpreter), Khuat TH Oanh, Mia Urbano |
Women and Harm Reduction in our Region
A seminar sponsored by the Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne
All day seminar to convene researchers, support groups and advocates on the issue of
meeting the harm reduction needs of women who inject drugs in Asia
Women who inject drugs in Asia are a minority of drug users, but often face greater risks of HIV infection and transmission than their male counterparts. This seminar will feature dissemination of research findings, a photo exhibition, and discussion on the challenges and opportunities for delivering effective harm reduction to women who inject drugs in selected countries of our region.
Speakers include Australian and Vietnamese researchers who collaborated on an Australian government-funded investigation in Vietnam, representative from a Vietnamese drug user support group, technical advisors to the research, and a Vietnamese photojournalist who has documented the lives of male and female injecting drug users. The seminar also offers a "workshop" session featuring related research, program and advocacy initiatives being undertaken more broadly in our region.
The Vietnam research, undertaken through an Australian Development Research Award, is a collaboration of the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne, the Institute of Social Development Studies and the Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives in Hanoi, and an independent researcher from Ho Chi Minh City.
Please Click Here for the Seminar Program
Date: 9.00am-4.30pm, Wednesday 30 November 2011 (lunch and refreshments served)
Venue: Executive Lounge, Alan Gilbert Building, Corner of Grattan and Barry Streets, Carlton
Detailed program to be available shortly.
Please RSVP to Brooke Riley for catering purposes by Friday 25 November 2011
Email: rileyb@unimelb.edu.au Tel: 9035 4471
Inclusive Development Seminar
On 13 October, 2011, the Nossal Institute hosted a seminar on "Inclusive Development: What is it, and why does it matter?"This seminar offered the opportunity to hear about current approaches to inclusive development, the challenges for its measurement, and case studies on programs explicitly aiming to address exclusion in developing country settings. The day featured academic and development practice staff from the Nossal Institute, as well as Associate Professor Sharon Friel from the Australian National University and Mr Robert Kumar from Emmanuel Hospital Association in northern India.
The seminar was timed with the return visit to the Nossal Institute of Dr Kiran Martin, Founder Director of the Asha Community Health and Development Society, which works with slum communities in Delhi, India. The Nossal Institute has just published a monograph summarising Asha's 23-year history, activities and model: "Asha: Hope and Transformation in the Slums of Delhi." Dr Martin spoke about the alterations she has observed over time, the central role played by women in the program, and the "active peace-making" approach employed by Asha to advance communal harmony and socio-economic change.
Presentations from the program, along with selected audio recordings and the Asha monograph, are available through the links below:
Ms Mia Urbano and Ms Fareen Walji, Nossal Institute for Global Health
Principles and impacts of 'inclusive' development practice
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Dr Michael Palmer, Nossal Institute for Global Health
Challenges of measuring 'inclusion' for program design and evaluation
PowerMs Alex Divine, Nossal Institute for Global Health
Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD) â€" a Toolkit to support Disability Inclusive Development
Ms Beth Sprunt, Nossal Institute for Global Health, and
Mr Robert Kumar, Emmanuel Hospital Association, India
Disability inclusive programming: strategies from education, health, water and sanitation, and disaster settings
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Dr Martha Morrow, Nossal Institute for Global Health
Asha: A model of inclusive transformation in the slums of Delhi
Link to ppt; link to monograph
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Associate Professor Sharon Friel, ARC Future Fellow and Chair, Global Action for Health Equity Network (HealthGAEN), Australian National University, Canberra
The social determinants of urban health equity: opportunities for inclusive and equitable development
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An Interview with Dr Kiran Martin, Founder and Director, Asha Community Health and Development Society, Delhi, India
Including the excluded: involving women in community mobilisation
Link to ppt; link to audio
Please Click Here to view the Final Asha Monograph.
AMS Conference 2011
Ten undergraduate medical studies who completed their Advanced Medical Science (AMS) year in International Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, presented their research projects in a one-day conference on 26 May. The students conducted research in Lao PDR, Cambodia, India and the Burma-Thai Border, on health issues ranging from mental health care, iron supplementation, drug use, dengue, chronic illness, non-ration food, breast feeding and diabetes.
Tess McLure from the 2009-10 cohort, achieved the highest overall mark for that year. She was presented with a prize from Professor Graham Brown at this occasion. Tess undertook her research in Vientiene, Laos. Her research topic was "From Contraception to Quality of Life: Family Planning Knowledge,Attitudes and Practices of Young Unmarried Women in Vientiane, Laos."
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Tess McLure with Professor Graham Brown at the prize giving ceremony. |
AMS in International Health Class of 2010-11 |
News- Education and Learning Unit
Continuing the successful collaboration with the Burnet Institute and the Centre for International Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital, Nossal Institute hosted the 8th delivery of the International Child Health course from 2 - 9 Novrmber. Drawing on the broad array of expertise and commitment to the survival and wellbeing of children found within Melbourne, the course featured sessions on newborn care, case management of a sick child, nutrition and feeding, prevention of HIV and TB transmission to children, data sources for child health monitoring, children's right to health, and protection of children in conflict settings. For further information on this course, please see: http://www.ni.unimelb.edu.au/education__and__learning/postgraduate_programs
