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Readers should be aware that while sharing our stories about Pacific health and medical issues, insights into medical training, and things related to PIC disease burden, from time to time, the stories found in this blog may contain images, references to, or voices of deceased persons.
Chair Brett Cowling welcome
Dear Rocketship Members, partners and beneficiaries, What an absolute privilege I have as the Chair of this small organisation with an essential role in Pacific Clinical Workforce Strengthening and genuine community engagement. Thank you, Dr Dan Manahan and Dr Lachlan...
Linkedin article highlights dire impact of climate change on health
Linkedin article highlights dire impact of climate change on health Climate change is set to trigger food shortages, deadly disasters and disease outbreaks that would dwarf the toll of the coronavirus according to medical journal The Lancet. In its annual “Countdown...
Rocketship seeks new projects
Rocketship is looking at new projects. We have further work in “virtual” support in Pacific Island developing countries, including very low resource countries, for medical practitioners with strong clinical experience, Pacific Island experience, mentoring and...
Rocketship founder speaks out on climate change
A Washington Post feature said, “Climate change is set to become the defining narrative of human health,” a top medical journal warned Wednesday – triggering food shortages, deadly disasters and disease outbreaks that would dwarf the toll of the coronavirus. But...
Australian Rural Doctors overcome pandemic obstacles
Press release: Australian Rural Doctors are working to improve the health of many throughout Pacific Island Communities despite the Covid-19 pandemic making travel almost impossible. Working through Rocketship, an international not-for-profit organisation based in...
Rocketship and the rural health workforce revolution in the pacific growing skilled medical general
Research: The aims and outcomes to date of these health workforce initiatives in PICs, focused as they are on improving healthcare access and health outcomes for rural communities, in particular by training specialists in family/community/rural hospital medicine, are...
Philanthropy sustains Kompiam Hospital
Air support critical in the PNG highlandsKompiam District Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr David Mills told David Gilchrist how philanthropy sustained Kompiam Hospital. Dr Mills says that while the Covid-19 pandemic is another addition to the infectious disease...
Leadership key for Pacific Health Education
Dr Sinead Kado develops education leadership models for PacificSolomon Island National University has approved a new Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Medicine offered in collaboration with Rocketship and Australian Volunteers International. With that in mind, Medical...
WHO offers insights for RocketShip
Climate change threatens mental healthRocketship's David Gilchrist found that a 2022 WHO report offers insights for Rocketship Pacific. The report, the Mental health and Climate Change: Policy Brief has recognised the growing threat of the consequences of climate...
Education and Cultural understanding key to health service
Kompiam District Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr David Mills told David Gilchrist why cultural understanding matters. Dr David Mills said the PNGU training facility is important because around 80 % of the PNG population live in rural areas and medical education...
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