About The Project

This 4 week project is a new scheme developed by the Swansea-Gambia Link and Swansea University International Office and is part of the broader Wales for Africa Health Links Network. Ten post-graduate students from the Schools of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences and Arts and Humanities and Media Studies will travel to Gambia to carry out a research project looking at Health in the context of International development. The project aims to consider the inter-dependency between malnutrition and broader environmental and development issues. It will go towards helping the UN Millennium Development Goal paying particular attention to MDG 8 – A global Partnership for Development. The students will work together with students from Gambia University and Medical School to explore the immediate and broader factors that result in malnutrition. To do this they will utilise a case-study methodology, selecting one infant suffering from malnutrition and considering the social, cultural and environmental pathways that have led to the infant's illness.
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Wednesday, 7 July 2010

3 weeks to go!

With less than 3 weeks to go Team Gambia is getting increasingly excited about getting started on the project in hand.

Tomorrow the team are heading to Cardiff to attend the annual Wales for Africa Health Links conference (http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/events.cfm?orgid=834&id=3978) which is based around the Millennium Development goals making it extremely relevant to our project. The Team is also looking forward to having an opportunity to talk to other Health Links projects and finding out some methods of best practise.

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  1. Unknown9 July 2010 at 11:28

    2 weeks today and we will be in the sky!
    The Wales for Africa Health links conference was really interesting and gave us a lot of inspiration for the case study report.... can't wait to be out there now!

    Great work on creating the blog Jimmy !

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