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Global Health and Development Summer Programme 2024

Public Health Crisis Simulation Exercise: Navigating Access Challenges and Misinformation

Summer Programme Highlights

2023

Face-off Against a Deadly Virus and Health Misinformation:
a Simulation Exercise

2023

Face-off Against a Deadly Virus and Health Misinformation:
a Simulation Exercise

Sudden and unexplained deaths have been causing concerns in Chilandia, a town with a population of 50,000. Rumours are quickly spreading about the causes of deaths. Health misinformation and disinformation are harming people’s health and undermining public health’s response. At the request of the government of Chilandia, you will be deployed to support their emergency response and be part of the Country Team.

2021

Vaccine Passports: Step towards normality or inequity?

2021

Vaccine Passports: Step towards normality or inequity?

International travel is still difficult under the pandemic, yet last week over 60 high school students from around the world clustered together virtually at our GHD Summer Programme 2021. From smallpox inoculation in ancient times to the latest vaccines against COVID-19, students learnt about the evolution of and its policy implications. After rounds of interactive discussions and debates, students from each country group delivered their elevator pitches on the issue of vaccine passports. Congratulations Team Uganda on winning the final presentation contest.

2020

Walking through a global outbreak: A live simulation

2020

Walking through a global outbreak: A live simulation

In 2020, the Summer Programme was held successfully online. Through a series of live infectious disease outbreak simulations, students were given chance to work directly with experts from the School of Public Health and elsewhere who have been working on the COVID-19 response to better understand the complex and interconnected health, social, political and economic challenges that governments must consider when making decisions during an infectious disease outbreak.

2019

Global Health and Development Leadership Camp

2019

Global Health and Development Leadership Camp

Our 2019 Global Health and Development Leadership Summer Camp introduced campers to an infectious disease outbreak via a series of table-top exercises. Through multiple scenarios reflecting real situations, campers learnt that outbreaks encompass a complex mix of concerns, perspectives and disputes and developed crucial problem-solving skills such as leadership, diplomacy, investigation, negotiation, advocacy, strategic planning, teambuilding, communication, critical thinking, public speaking and emotional intelligence.

2018

Global Health and Development Leadership Camp

2018

Global Health and Development Leadership Camp

Our 2018 Global Health and Development Leadership Training Camp exposed students to contemporary Global Health and Development issues, with simulation workshops to hone skills in leadership, diplomacy, negotiation, advocacy, research, writing, critical thinking. Students had the opportunity to apply the skills through a model United Nations General Assembly.

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