Matthew Links's List: Timor

• list of ausaid projects - Matthew Links on 2008-04-27

• Professor Zwi focuses on international health and policy and has interests in their interface with equity, social justice and human rights. He seeks to build Australia and Asia-Pacific partnerships and capabilities in public health, health policy, and disaster planning, management and response. He has worked most extensively in the past year in Timor-Leste (East Timor)

• local expert at UNSW with relevant experience in east timor - Matthew Links on 2008-04-27

• In East Timor, the Head of the Northern Territory Clinical School has acted as an advisor to the East Timor government on paediatric services and medical education.
• In 2000, 114 East Timorese medical students were forced to discontinue their medical studies at Indonesian universities. The university, together with the Committee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools and the colleges, is attempting to help these students complete their training and support the professional development of junior doctors.
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians

  The College has an Asia Pacific Committee, with members from PNG, Fiji, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. The committee promotes links with the Asia Pacific region, contributes to development projects, undertakes educational initiatives, and maintains a database of activities and College Fellows in the region.

• The East Timor Project involves the placement of a full-time anaesthetist and general surgeon in Dili, as well as specialist surgical visits.

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• list of projects from australian univerisities - Matthew Links on 2008-04-27

• • The wesite contains thecurrent minister of health anda media releases about the health plan

• • This clinic comes up repeatedly as a well organised health care provider

• • statistical data on prevalece of different tumours . Easttimor not listed but aggregate data for less developed contires as well as some neighbours

• • contains incidene of various diseases at visits to remote communities