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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Thursday 29 July 2010

Project Mission Statement



Yesterday we had a really productive morning session with the Gambian students. We decided it would be helpful for ourselves, and extremely beneficial for the project, if we composed a mission statement for the whole project. Together we came up with five key points that we all wanted to complete within the project time-frame. This way we would have a working structure in place, and a set of goals to work towards, which as we are only here for four weeks will enable us to set a daily itinerary specifically focused to completing these goals.

The Mission Statement is:

To explore the multidisciplinary factors which contribute to the pathway of a child with malnutrition

1. To develop and maintain a cohesive international multidisciplinary team.

2. To gain the trust and participation of the case

3. To understand the past and current medical history of the case, and the future expectations.

4. To explore the social, economic and cultural history of the case.

5. To understand the link between the global, regional, national and local influencing factors and their application with the case and the conceptual model of globalised health.

View the mission statement in the video above.

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  1. Unknown6 August 2010 at 04:37

    Hi Mariam,

    Thoroughly enjoying this blog!!! Cant wait for you to tell me all the stories when you return!!

    Kalib

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