Partnerships & Collaborations

Our focus on internationalisation has led us to explore partnership with organisations all over the world. Here are some of the crucial partnerships that help us to carry out our work:

International Training Partners

RedR
RedR is an international charity that improves the effectiveness of disaster relief, helping rebuild the lives of those affected by disasters by training relief workers and providing skilled professionals to humanitarian programmes worldwide.
www.redr.org.uk

The Management Centre
InterHealth and The Management Centre collaborate on our popular programmes for international NGOs including ‘Building resilience under pressure’, and ‘Team dynamics and conflict management’. The Management Centre (=mc) is the UK’s leading training and consultancy organisation working to transform the results of ethically driven organisations worldwide – including charities, not-for-profit organisations, local authorities and arts and cultural organisations.
www.managementcentre.co.uk/

The British Red Cross
InterHealth and British Red Cross are pleased to be collaborating in delivering quality first aid training to those working internationally. As a volunteer-led humanitarian organisation, the BRC helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. They enable vulnerable people at home and internationally to prepare for, and respond to, emergencies in their own communities. When the crisis is over, they help people recover and move on with their lives.
www.redcross.org.uk

Amani Counselling Centre and Training Institute, Nairobi
Amani Counselling Centre and Training Institute, Nairobi. The partnership originated from InterHealth’s desire to work with an organisation providing psychological health services in the East Africa region. InterHealth researched three potential organisations and met with two during a visit to Nairobi in November 2010. Amani and InterHealth shared their organisational visions, experience and strategy. Both identified the opportunity for mutual learning and collaborative strategic development. Since the initial meeting we have exchanged emails and had a second member of InterHealth staff visit Amani. Both organisations have signed a MoU stating our intent to explore partnership opportunities.

Royal Geographical Society
InterHealth and Geography Outdoors at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) collaborate on training that builds venture leader skills, including the popular one-day workshop ‘Recognising and coping with psychological health issues in volunteers in the field’. Geography Outdoors support field research, expeditions and outdoor learning. It is the Society’s first point of contact for anyone seeking information, advice or training for expeditions and fieldwork. It has been actively involved in promoting the use of the new British Standard BS8848, to benchmark a safety management system for a wide range of educational, research and adventurous activities outside the UK.
www.rgs.org/GO

Research Collaborations

International Society of Travel Medicine
InterHealth is a member of this worldwide body and doctors lecture regularly at their international conferences.

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, USA

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
In association with NaTHNac InterHealth is a recording site for this recently established European public health agency.

The Health Protection Agency
InterHealth is engaged in joint research projects with the HPA

GeoSentinel
InterHealth is a major European recording site of this worldwide body set up by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control USA and the ISTM to monitor diseases in travellers and migrants.

Memberships, Committee & Chair Positions

The Faculty of Travel Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
InterHealth doctors are among the founding fellows and members and play an active role in the Faculty.

Royal College of Nursing
An InterHealth staff member is a committee member of the 5000 strong Travel Health Forum.

British Travel Health Association (BTHA)
InterHealth is a member.

Other Partnerships / Affiliations

People in Aid
We are a members of People in Aid and collaborate in training and writing on topics related to the health and wellbeing of aid workers.

Christian Medical Fellowship
Largely through CHGN, we work closely with their overseas section known as Healthserve.

World Health Organisation (WHO)
InterHealth’s Community Health Global Network has attended and joint chaired consultations with WHO in the past 2 years on primary health care and the role of faith based organisations.

In addition InterHealth members lecture at courses at The University of Oxford, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, and Brighton and Sussex Medical School, mainly on travel medicine and primary health care.

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