{"id":689,"date":"2016-06-02T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/?p=689"},"modified":"2016-06-02T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:39:35","slug":"olivia-anderson-2nd-year-medical-student-attends-peoples-health-movement-in-colombo-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/2016\/06\/02\/olivia-anderson-2nd-year-medical-student-attends-peoples-health-movement-in-colombo-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Anderson, 2nd year medical student, attends People&#8217;s Health Movement in Colombo, Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/files\/2016\/06\/PHN.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-690\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/files\/2016\/06\/PHN-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"PHN\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Olivia Anderson, second year medical student, attended the People\u2019s Health Movement workshop \u201c<em>Building the Health Movement for Health in Asia and Pacific<\/em>\u201d in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 26 &#8211; 29 April 2016. The workshop was attended by health activists from 9 different countries across the region. Each country had the opportunity to present on their movement for health. Stories on campaigns such as anti-privatisation, access to essential medicines and grassroots campaigning were told from a diverse range of healthcare workers, unionists, activists and others. The participatory sessions demonstrated that there were many similarities in the struggle for health between the countries, from both the global South and North.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia attended as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/medicine\/courses\/medical-course\/study-program\/advanced-studies.cfm\">Advanced Studies program<\/a>, where she is undertaking research into the role and impact of global health activists in health activism for health and human rights, under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/fran.baum\">Professor Fran Baum<\/a>, Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/medicine\/sites\/southgate\/\">Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the People\u2019s Health Movement, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phmovement.org\/\">http:\/\/www.phmovement.org\/<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/phmoz.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=People%27s_Health_Movement_Australia\">http:\/\/phmoz.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=People%27s_Health_Movement_Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Anderson, second year medical student, attended the People\u2019s Health Movement workshop \u201cBuilding the Health Movement for Health in Asia and Pacific\u201d in Colombo, Sri Lanka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,7,8],"tags":[28,35,53,218,246,306,319],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-visitors","category-phd","category-research","category-staff-activities","category-uncategorized","tag-advanced-studies-program","tag-anti-privatisation","tag-building-the-health-movement-for-health-in-asian-and-pacific","tag-peoples-health-movement","tag-prof-fran-baum","tag-social-determinants-of-health","tag-southgate-institute"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}