The 5th ESTHER Ireland Partnerships Forum

The 5th ESTHER Ireland Partnerships Forum took place on November 11, 2020.  As part of a live web event, the winners of the UNSUNG HERO 2020 Award were announced at the event. VIEW THE FULL EVENT ROUNDUP The two-hour online event “A Bright Future for Health Partnerships”  brought together a small group of committed individuals […]

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Irish and Sudanese Scientists Partner on Gut Health to Prevent Disease

Irish and Sudanese Scientists have teamed up on an innovative approach to combating a slew of preventable diseases currently crippling Sudan’s population through a strategic partnership centred on gut health. As part of an ESTHER Ireland grant partnership administered by the Irish Global Health Network and funded by the Health Service Executive, APC Microbiome Institute […]

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Innovative Collaboration launched in Bangladesh to Reduce Impact of Dementia

The Global Brain Health Institute, made up of partners in Trinity College Dublin, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the The Neurology Academy in the UK have come together as part of an innovative collaboration on a project in Bangladesh to reduce the impact of dementia on the country’s aging population. A network […]

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New Partnership Shows Strong Promise in Improving Mental Health in India

An emerging ESTHER Ireland grant partnership between Irish partners: Mental Health Ireland and Health Service Executive Office for Mental Health Engagement and Recovery, and Southern partners: Hospital for Mental Health in Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India), the Office for Mental Health (Government of Gujarat, India) and the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy (Indian Law Society) […]

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Simple Treatments Save Lives in Malawi

Sitting in a clinic in Northern Malawi, Dr Peter Harrington—a Wexford-based GP usually practicing in the Palms GP Surgery, Gorey, but also leading an overseas health partnership in Malawi funded by the HSE—remembers witnessing a 12-year-old boy struggling to walk from the waiting room into the clinic room. “He was swollen and short of breath […]

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Sub-Saharan Africa

The first partnership in ESTHER Ireland is the Collaboration Programme between the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) and the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) which joined in December 2012. The RCSI/COSECSA collaboration is a long-term partnership.  The aim is to train and retain more surgeons in sub-Saharan Africa and […]

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ESTHER Partnerships Forum

The ESTHER Partnerships Forum is an annual collaborative networking and learning event which showcases international health partnerships between Irish organisations and institutions and health institutions in the Global South. The forum has been run annually since 2016. The next ESTHER Partnerships Forum will take place in September 2023 under the theme of Global Networking for […]

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RCSI/COSECSA Collaboration Programme

The RCSI/COSECSA collaboration is a long-term partnership that aims to train and retain more surgeons in sub-Saharan Africa and make better surgery available to more patients. The partnership now reaches 14 countries with membership of COSECSA spanning the following: Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.  Highlights in […]

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ESTHER Ireland Is Hosting the General Secretariat of ESTHER Alliance for Global Health Partnerships

From November 2019, Germany handed over its role of Secretariat of the Esther Alliance in Europe to Ireland. This move involves expanding the role of the Irish Global Health Network, as it already hosts the ESTHER Ireland Secretariat. 

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