2025/26 Webinar Series
Join Our Monthly Webinar Series
The Faculty of Remote, Rural, and Humanitarian Healthcare invites you to join our 2025–2026 webinar series, running from April 2025 to March 2026. Each month, we’ll bring together experts to discuss key challenges, innovations, and best practices in delivering healthcare in remote, rural, and humanitarian settings. Stay informed, gain new insights, and connect with professionals dedicated to improving healthcare access worldwide.
Explore the topics and register for upcoming webinars below.
2025
April - Austere and Prehospital Ultrasound
3rd April 2025, 18:00 to 19:00 BST
Join Dr Tom Mallinson, Dr John Quinn, Dr Slaven Bajic and Aebhric O’Kelly for an insightful webinar on austere and prehospital ultrasound, which has emerged as a transformative tool in improving healthcare delivery in prehospital and low- to medium-income countries (LMICs), where access to advanced diagnostic imaging is often limited. Portable ultrasound devices offer a cost-effective, versatile, and non-invasive means of supporting clinical decision-making in remote or resource-limited settings. In prehospital care, ultrasound enhances the rapid assessment of critically ill or injured patients by facilitating early diagnosis of conditions such as internal bleeding, pneumothorax, or pericardial effusion, guiding timely interventions.
May - Diplomatic Skills and Conflict Mediation for Physicians and Surgeons
7th May 2025, 19:00 to 20:30 BST
Surgeons and physicians may find themselves called upon to act as conciliators or mediators in conflict situations by dint of their medical and humanitarian work. The trust they inspire is often unparalleled. Notably, such trust may be shared unexpectedly amongst and across opposing and even belligerent parties. Most medical practitioners have not been trained to fulfil this role. Nevertheless, it is hard to turn away once asked.
Separately, surgeons and physicians operating in humanitarian, global, or public health setting, especially those where non-governmental organisations are prominently involved, discover that they must constantly and vigorously champion the best interests of their patients. This situation also calls upon advocacy and mediation skills rarely provided in undergraduate or postgraduate training.
This webinar introduces the core skills needed to function effectively in peace-making, mediating, negotiating and advocacy roles.
June - Prolonged Casualty Care
10th June 2025, 18:00 to 19:00 BST
Join Dr Tom Mallinson, Dr John Quinn, Dr Sean Keenan and Aebhric O’Kelly for an insightful webinar on the challenges facing the remote healthcare provider who is treating a critical casualty for prolonged periods of time. Prolonged casualty care (PCC) is a critical capability for remote and austere providers who may face extended patient management due to delayed evacuation, limited resources, and challenging operational environments. This webinar explores key principles of PCC, equipping clinicians with strategies to optimise patient outcomes when evacuation is prolonged or unavailable.
July - Topic TBC - Association of Surgeons of Rural India
9th July 2025
August - Topic TBC - International Maritime Health Association
11th August 2025
September - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Healthcare in the Global South
4th September 2025
October - Building Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Healthcare
8th October 2025
November - Topic TBC - Association of Surgeons of Rural India
6th November 2025
December - Development of low fidelity simulators for surgical training in low resource areas (In Partnership with the Faculty of Surgical Trainers)
9th December 2025
2026
January - Topic TBC
14th January 2026
February - Topic TBC
9th February 2026
March - Topic TBC - Association of Surgeons of Rural India
11th March 2026
