Project Pool

Below is a collection of projects which have been completed by individual Global Health Groups. Click on the title of each to view a report of the project (in .doc or .docx form).

• Interhealth Teddy Bear Hospital - Teddy Bear Hospital (TBH) is a community medicine strategy aimed at developing the clinical skills of medical students and reducing the anxiety of doctors and medical settings in young children. These objectives are achieved through engaging children in play, featuring a simulated ‘Visit to the Doctor’, where the child – who takes the role of parent to a sick teddy – visits the Teddy Doctor – played by a medical student. Fun is central to the Teddy Bear Hospital.


• EnSIGN FVP - The Fiji Village Project (FVP) is a medical student initiative that combines Australian, New Zealand and Fiji School of Medicine students for the first time to work together on the health of the South Pacific Region. As a branch of the South Pacific Village Project, the Fiji Village project is the first sub-project in a series of projects in the South Pacific.


• Insight Birthing Kit - Zonta Birthing Kit Workshop is a one day event, in which we aim to assemble a number of birthing kits to send to developing countries. The aim of the kits is the provision of a clean birth, for many women who would not otherwise have this opportunity.


• Interhealth ICRC - ICHRC is a multi-centre project delivering the evidence basis behind World Health Organisation guidelines for use by paediatricians in Developing Countries. The aim of the project is to produce concise and reproducible systematic reviews of the guidance contained in the publication “WHO Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children: Guidelines for the Management of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources”. The project includes systematic reviews on a number of important topics, incorporating diagnosis, therapeutics and surgical questions, outlining the evidence that exists on the subject and providing rapidly and easily accessible information for Paediatricians in limited resource settings.


• MSAP Aid Project - The Medical Students’ Aid Project allows medical students at the University of NSW the opportunity to contribute positively towards developing world health via sending targeted aid to hospitals in the developing world during their elective term. To ensure that we are supplying appropriate and effective equipment, the hospitals are asked to compile a ‘wishlist’ of the medication and equipment that they require. These donations are then delivered when our medical students arrive at their elective placements. The personal presence of our students allows assessment of suitability and efficacy of our donations.


• TIME Elective BBQ - This is a simple BBQ which invites 1st and 2nd yr students together, the location where the 2nd years attended elective is advertised and 1st years have the opportunity to discuss the experiences which were had on elective.


• VSAP Short Course - The Short Course is intended to provide interested health sciences students with a comprehensive introduction to the historical, political, economic, social and medical issues pertaining to global health. It has been created to meet a demand for this sort of course among University of Melbourne students.


• IHSP Birthing Kit Assembly Day - It is estimated that half a million women die annually giving birth, usually from related infection, tetanus or haemorrhaging. In response to this alarming statistic, the Zonta Club of Adelaide Hills began the Zonta Birthing Kit Project with the support of AusAID. What began as merely 100 birthing kits being send to Papua New Guinea in 1999 has now evolved to over 400,000 birthing kits being sent to over 25 counties including Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Madagascar, Sudan, Malawi, DR Congo, Tibet, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Laos, West Timor and East Timor. Since 2007, the Project is now coordinated for Zonta by the Birthing Kit Foundation Australia (BKFA).