240111 VO+UE VM3 / VM8 - International Health and Humanitarian Work (2019W)

This practice seminar will offer an inter/trans-disciplinary overview on
healthcare aspects when working in the so-called 'Global South'
(formerly: developing countries) and will confer basic knowledge on the history, actors and principles in the humanitarian arena. It will be
touching on the fields of infectious diseases, water/sanitation,
appropriate technology, tropical surgery, post-colonial and gender
studies, waste management, sociology - to name a few. The focus will be on providing a deeper insight and a critical reflection on practical aspects of working under resource limited settings and give an overview of existing resources as well as recent international spin-off collaborations.
guest lectures with discussions, supported by audio-visual material,
thematic focus:
- presenting internationally active unconventional initiatives in
international health
- basic introduction to global health
- analysis of practical examples and pitfalls from the field (surgical /
medical /social / technical...)
-aid dependency and humanitarian dilemma
-critical reflection on humanitarianism and development aid
-inter/transdisciplinary approach towards shelter, access to food, water and sanitation and their impact on health - and mitigation strategies
-international players and institutions in essential surgical care and
global health
-access to uptodate information resources and preparation for missions

- Dagmar Schoder (Vétérinaires sans frontières)
- Christoph Lachberger (TU Vienna architecture, clay building of a health care facility in South Sudan)
- Bianca Drepper (Unversity of Leuven Geography, Belgium)
- Fritz Ofner (KSA / documentary movie director)
- Julia Ha (Medica Mondiale - sexual violence in conflict)
- Andreas Hodel (Search & Rescue / Logistics, ETH Zurich)
- Simone Böll (Infectious diseases, Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital)
- Helmuth Hartmeyer (Global Education / formerly Austrian Development Agency)
- Herbert Mushumba (Forensic Medicine, Hamburg / Rwanda)
- Martin Röggla (Emergency medicine, AKH)
- Maximilian Seilern (Ground Truth Solutions)
- Stefan Kienberger (UNOOSA / University of Salzburg Geoinformatics)
- Ursula Trummer (Center for Health & Migration)
- Doris Burtscher (Médecins sans frontières)
- Mina Lahlal (Trauma Surgery / International Development Studies)
- Ruth Kutalek (Public Health, MUW)
- Astrid Erber (MUW)
- Ziad Khatib (AGES)
- Pritsch Michael (LUdwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Chagas disease & art)
- Ibrahim Fortune (Capacare, Sierra Leone)
- Denise Lassar (International Organization for Migration)
- Harald Noedl (World Health Organization)
- Elena Jirovsky (MUW)