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This year we have a small number of academic partials up for sale! We have divided the program into morning and afternoon sessions. Please see an exciting line-up below, along with prices. Partial registration will run from June 9th. You cannot buy registration for the academic streams or social events, sorry! Partials also do not include food, so plan on packing your lunch!

If you have any questions about the program or the purchase of partial academic tickets, please feel free to email us at ghc10.convenor@amsa.org.au

See the ‘Plenary Synopses’ page on the side bar for more information on the sessions listed below

Partials Program

Thursday Morning: Conference Welcome

8.45am – 10.30am – $19

Dr Helen Caldicott
The medical implications of uranium mining, nuclear power and nuclear war

Thursday Afternoon

2.30pm – 5pm – $24

Dr Jorian Kippax
Expedition medicine: Everest

Assoc Prof Ngiare Brown (Poche Centre for Indgenous Health)
Indigenous health in Australia: Challenges and rewards

Forum: Globalised medicine – does one size fit all?
Chair: Prof Don Chalmers
Panel members: Assoc Prof Ngiare Brown, Dr Marianne Gale, Dr Helen Caldicott, Dr Craig Hassed, Dr Elisabeth Brophy, Dr Adrian Reynolds
This forum will look at the moral and professional responsibilities of medical students in Australia, and asks our panel members and our audience to consider topic areas including:
-    Access to healthcare in the context of globalised medicine
-    Roles of other models of healthcare both in Australia and around the world
-    The issue of health resource allocation around the world
-    Preventative health care and its place in global health

Friday Morning

9am – 10.30am – $19

Senator Bob Brown
From doctor in Launceston to Greens leader in Canberra; without going past gaol

Rev Tim Costello (World Vision)
Child and maternal health

Friday Afternoon

2.30pm – 5pm – $24

Prof Michael Kidd
First do no harm: global health, leadership and our relationship with our physical environment

Prof Tony McMichael & Assoc Prof Colin Butler
Climate change and its health impacts; The social contexts of global health and climate change

Forum: On Thin Ice
Chair: Prof Don Chalmers
Panel members: Prof Tony McMichael, Assoc Prof Colin Butler, Dr Maxine Whittaker, Prof Michael Kidd, Dr Helen Caldicott and Prof Peter Deutschmann.
This forum will look at the moral and professional responsibilities of medical students in Australia, and asks our panel members and our audience to consider topic areas including:
-    Access to healthcare in the context of globalised medicine
-    Roles of other models of healthcare both in Australia and around the world
-    The issue of health resource allocation around the world
-    Preventative health care and its place in global health

Sunday Morning

9am – 10.30am – $19

Dr Marianne Gale (MSF)
Global health: A fieldworker’s perspective

Prof Rob Moodie
Preventative medicine in global health