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Hyderabad/ Chandigarh, November 17th 2020:
The Edinburgh Futures Institute & Global Health Academy, a medical education arm of the prestigious, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, one of the top universities in the world, is collaborating with different stakeholders like public health experts, NGOs & medical fraternity in low- and medium-income countries to understand the inequities in dealing with the pandemic.
In one such collaboration, the Edinburgh Global Health Academy had collaborated with Hyderabad based NGO, Helping Hand Foundation.
The academy educators conducted tutorials for the undergraduate medical students from the live discussions through the video feeds on the health inequities encountered during the pandemic in some of the low-income countries.
The video recordings of the online discussions with HHF were very well received by the undergraduate students at Edinburgh University who are completing a course on Global Challenges said Dr. Jenny Reid, Course lead & coordinator at Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Reid, added that the University is collaborated with Royal college of Physicians, Edinburgh, Public Health experts in SE Asian Countries like Singapore & an NGO in Hyderabad, India to put together the module that will help the Undergraduate students get a broad understanding on the inequalities in the COVID pandemic, that will help them make informed choices about the future needs in public health policy in tackling the COVID Pandemic.
The students came up with lots of ideas in response to the tutorials. We asked them to think what they would include on a poster to educate people who may be illiterate about coronavirus and to try and reduce the stigma around the virus said Professor Liz Grant, Head of Global Head Academy, Edinburgh University.
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