By Peace Post Staff/ Image: UNESCO The 6th International Jazz Day is taking place on April 30, 2017 in Havana, Cuba. Hosted with world jazz ambassador Herbie Hancock, the Havana concert takes place at the Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of …

By Peace Post Staff/ Images: United Nations “Peace without mine action is incomplete peace,” says United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. In remembering April 4 as International Mine Awareness Day, the United Nations called for this year to be “Needs driven” and “People Centered.”   Secretary-General António Guterres further noted, “I urge …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Images: Peace Post “We don’t have anything like this back in Portugal,” says Prof. Madalena Patricio, Director of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon and former president of Association of Medical Education of Europe (AMEE). Before her are several medical simulation training machines—from sonograms to …

By Christopher Cottrell and Ralph Novotney/ Images: Peace Post The thirty-sixth Sino-Luso International Medical Forum opened last night with the signing of major medical MOUs. These MOUs entail cooperation with high skills medical education, simulation training, and faculty and student exchanges between Macau, Portugal, and Australia. And, like the past …

PRESS RELEASE: The 36th Sino-Luso International Medical Forum in Macau from March 30 – April 2 2017 is titled, “Best Practice in Medical Education and Surgical Skills.” President of the Forum Prof. Manson Fok comments, “It is my pleasure to welcome international and local healthcare providers to this special medical …

By Christopher Cottrell /Photo Credits: Sino Luso International Medical Forum Doctors from Macau, Hong Kong, and Taipei joined together in Macau to address poison treatment, including auto accidents where drug driving was involved. Over 120 Macau medical frontline providers were organized by the the Sino Luso International Medical Forum led …

Seychelles Founding President and global citizen dies. By Christopher Cottrell/ Photo Credits: Christopher Cottrell Sir James Marie Mancham’s passing on January 8, 2017 and memorial yesterday in his native Seychelles close an important chapter on the life of one of the Indian Ocean’s and Africa’s greatest leaders. As the Seychelles …

By Christopher Cottrell/Photo Credits:UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré “Even hospitals and aid convoys are targeted,” said newly sworn in United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the first day of 2017—which also happened to be his first day on the job. On his first day in the role of U.N. Secretary-General, he delivered …

High tech medicine and training called for by 2030 By Christopher Cottrell / Photo Credits: Christopher Cottrell The time for a new era of advanced global medical training is now. That was the message at the 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai held in late November. Indeed, according …

By Christopher Cottrell / Photo Credits: UNICEF In the canals of Lagos, Nigeria, children of the Makoko fishing community begin their days early. The days are long as they ply polluted waters where raw sewage floats untreated. From these waters they subsist on the fish. It is the source of …