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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...
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Discover stories about our people, and the passion that we have for medical training, health and medical issues, and the health and wellbeing of Pacific Island Countries and more.
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.
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...
PNG Highland hospital growing despite challenges
Kompiam Heath Service David Gilchrist finds out how the Covid-19 pandemic, tribal violence, and the demands of doctor and nursing education impact on the continued development of Kompiam District Hospital in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands. Yet, the remote PNG hospital...
Rural Doctors ideally suited to Rocketship Pacific work in primary health care
RDAA CEO Peta Rutherford Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) CEO Peta Rutherford says Australia’s rural doctors are suited to Rocketship Pacific helping provide primary health care education and training in the Pacific in remote, family, emergency and other...
A Rocketship Profile: Dr James Telfer’s journey to health
“It is not entirely altruistic, that I just want to go out and help and be selfless about it. I do get something out of this. That is, I get to go on an adventure. I get to see part of the world I haven’t seen before. I guess the rewarding part is that I get to help...
Dr David Mills: Life in PNG highlands
Dr David Mills working in Kompiam District - facing a mountain of morbidityJust 5 degrees south of the equator rise the high mountains of the Kompiam District, Papua New Guinea. Here the summers linger and the winters don’t intrude too much. This is where Dr David...
Family medicine education key to healthcare in Tonga
Former Superintendent Vaiola Hospital, Nuku'alofa, Dr Lisiate Ulufonua believes that developing robust family health services is key to the Kingdom of Tonga reaching the quality standard of national health indicators that are typically associated with developed...
Dr Allison Hempenstall plans to test Rocketship health education efficiency
Dr Allison Hempenstall considering Rocketship approachEducator and medical doctor, Dr Allison Hempenstall is planning to examine the effectiveness of Rocketship’s online health education training model. Her study will look at the perceived quality and efficacy of...
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