CDPC immunologist Dr Martina Schroeder will be part of the NUI Maynooth Library's Science & Engineering Festival 2010, which is taking place in the John Paul II Library from Tuesday 26 January until Friday 29 January 2010. Dr Schroeder will speak about the CDPC's work in a talk entitled 'Basic science and global health: an Irish perspective' on Thursday 28 January from 1.10pm - 1.50pm. All are welcome.

Prof. Dennis Pringle of the Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth, gave a seminar entitled 'The geographical search for aetiological clues: a study of first episode psychoses in Cavan and Monaghan'. The seminar was held on Tuesday 21.04.09 at 3 PM in the Ehrlich Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Biosciences Building at NUI Maynooth, and the CDPC are very thankful to Professor Pringle for his time.

Short biography

Dennis Pringle joined the Department of Geography in Maynooth in 1974. He 'discovered' medical geography at an international conference in 1978 and introduced it into the teaching programme shortly after. It has proved to be one of the most popular options amongst students ever since, several of whom have gone on to complete postgraduate research degrees on medical geography. Maynooth is still the only university in the
country to offer courses on Medical Geography. Medical geographical research in Ireland has always been hampered by the absence of good quality spatially encoded health-related data, so he has been involved in
recent years with the HSE in a project to develop /Health Atlas Ireland/, an online open source Geographical Information System for the health services.

April 25 is World Malaria Day -  to raise malaria awareness, the CDPC, along with the BioSoc, AnthroSoc and Amnesty International, are sponsoring a week of malaria-related events. Download the poster for full details!

Monday 20.04 - Friday 24.04: Malaria Tag - all over campus **prize of an iPod shuffle will be awarded to player who evades infection the longest!**

Tuesday 21.04: Debate, 'The positive benefits of DDT for malaria control outweigh environmental and other risks' - 7 PM, JH lecture hall 3

Wednesday 22.04: Film - 'Survival: Malaria!' - 7 PM in CS1, with refreshments

Thursday 23.04: Lecture - Dr Anne Moore, UCC, 'Virus vector based malaria vaccines' - 4 PM, Education Hall, Education House

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and early in May:

Tuesday, 04.05: Lecture - Dr Angus Bell, TCD, 'New malaria drugs for the 21st century' - 3 PM, Erlich Seminar Room, Biosciences Bldg.

The CDPC seminar series continues today, 7th of April, with a presentation by Sharon Jackson, Trinity College Dublin.

Jackson is a research associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies, TCD, and is on the steering committee of the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI). She will be speaking on HIV and gender-based violence in Tanzania and Ethiopia, and discuss priorities and opportunities in research on those topics.

‘HIV and gender in East Africa'

Today, 3pm, Ehrlich Seminar room, Biosciences Building
NUI Maynooth

All welcome to attend.

Earth Hour 2009 took place on Saturday, 28 March 2009 at 8.30 local time, globally. View images from the event at the Earth Hour website, www.earthhour.org.