Edwin delivering his presentation in Nepal

Professor Edwin Van Teijlingen has been to Nepal in January to work with the Nepalese Government in promoting good health across the country.

On 11 January he spoke at a conference that he helped facilitate which highlighted the benefits of community-based intervention for health. The conference was shown the results of two projects carried out by Green Tara UK and Green Tara Nepal which proved the success of intervention so the hope is that such schemes can be rolled out nationally.

Professor van Teijlingen said: “Health Promotion is not the same as Health Education or Public Health.  Health Promotion is wider and it aims to help individuals to improve their own health.”

Professor van Teijlingen also attended a five day workshop organised by the Partnership on Improving Access to Research Literature for Higher Education Institutions in Nepal (PARI). Funded by the British Council and DFID, the partnership includes Tribhuvan University, Nepal, the NGO in Kathmandu and two other UK universities – The University of Sheffield and the University of Aberdeen. PARI aims to build research capacity and help higher education institutions in Nepal to access and assess research-based information in health disciplines such as nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and public health.

Professor van Teijlingen  said: “PARI has approached the gap in health research in Nepal in separate stages and we are now training a group of Nepalese academics to enable them to conduct their own systematic reviews of the literature.”