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2011 IN REVIEW
GO GLOBAL PROGRAM
The Community Garden Project at Ananda Niketan Society for Mental Health Care - India
Director’s Report
T his
inaugural Go Global Annual
Review provides a report of our
activities and achievements in
2011.
In 2011, eight very successful trips were
made to four countries (South Africa,
Ukraine, China and India) coordinated
and supervised by four very committed
Country Coordinators, Zona Rens (South
Africa), Kirrily Manning (Ukraine), Dr B-K
Tan (China) and Jane Bahen (India).
These trips were only possible with the
involvement of other supervisors from
various disciplines across the Faculty of
Health Sciences including Dr Annette
Joosten (School of Occupational Therapy
and Social Work), Alma Dender (School
of Occupational Therapy and Social
Work), Peter Robinson (School of
Physiotherapy), and also Alexander
Hitchcock (Occupational Therapist) and
Ryan Dalby (Physiotherapist) who both
are Go Global alumni.
Student Participation
Eighty students from six schools from the
Faculty of Health Sciences participated in
the 2011 Go Global program. 21 were
awarded Curtin Community Development
scholarships.
As a result of a successful application by
the Faculty and University to the
Department of Education, Employment
and Work Relations, 15 received
Department of Education, Employment
and Work Relations (DEEWR) Short-
Term Mobility Grants.
Go Global Vision
To provide international fieldwork
learning opportunities that
contribute to sustainable health
services for communities
This international mobility program
enables students to learn about the
complexity of different healthcare
systems and appraise their own
cultural awareness and competence,
whilst practising leadership and
discipline-specific skills in
interprofessional teams.
Above: Weight-bearing exercises while
having fun - Ukraine
Left : Mat work and play - Ukraine

DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Initiatives in 2011
Some new initiatives were implemented,
with the primary aims to further improve
the students’ experience and to expand
Go Global placements to enable students
from across various disciplines to
participate.
Alumni mentors: Discipline specific
alumni members were available for our
Go Global students while they were on
placement. Students could contact ex-Go
Global students who had been on prac at
the host sites for advice regarding
treatment and /or follow-up on projects
that had been previously implemented.
New host site in Shanghai: 2011
marked the 10 th anniversary of
collaboration between Go Global and
Shanghai BoAi Children’s Centre. After
10 years and with growing interest from
students in visiting China, Go Global had
to secure a new host site. Hua Shan
Hospital, our new student destination, is
an affiliate of Fudan University in
Shanghai, China. It provides both
community and hospital-based
rehabilitation.
Postgraduate dietetic students in
India and Ukraine! For the first time in
2011, four dietetics students went to
Ananda Niketan, India, accompanied by
Dietetics Course Coordinator Robynne
Snell while three students proceeded to
Ukraine. These students conducted
needs assessmentsat these host sites to
pave the way for more dietetics students
to participate in future.
Making Tomorrow Better - Ukraine: A
member of Curtin’s media team visited
Ukraine with the November Go Global
students to capture the students’
Student Participation 2011
experience working in and with
communities in Ukraine.
Go Global Alumni We now have about
153 registered Go Global Alumni
members since program commencement
in 2001.
New host countries in 2012: In 2011,
Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Petaling Jaya
(Malaysia) and Dumaguete, (Philippines)
were developed and are now ready to
accept our Go Global students in 2012.
Conferences and Publications
Ng P., Pickard C., Goddard T., Gribble
N. International placements
increase the cultural sensitivity
and competency of allied health
students: a quantitative and
qualitative study. Journal of
Physical Therapy Education 2012.
Vol 26, No.1, Winter 2012.
Pickard C., Ng P., Goddard T., Gribble
N. Cultural sensitivity of allied
health students is enhanced when
fieldwork occurs in international
locations. WCPT Amsterdam, 2011.
Chen, Y., Hamilton, B., Haynes, N.,
Golding., S., Luong, A., Manning, K.,
Mawson, A., Newhouse., C., Ngyyen,
V., Paterson, S., Safe, B., Stott, T.,
Swaine., J., Van Wollingen, B., Ford,
N. & Xie, H. Interdisciplinary
pressure care in a Ukraine
orphanage. National Occupational
Therapy Conference 2011.
Life changing program gives
international perspective.
Australian Learning and Teaching
Council, 2011.
Olivia Berry, Paris Champion, Nick
Maisey. Go Global India 2010:
heartache, hope, cricket and curry.
HIPE conference, Curtin University
2011.
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Chloe Scherini. Learning to work
interprofessionally – health
promotion and other allied health
students. HIPE conference, Curtin
University 2011.
Kirrily Manning, Tamara Green, Regina
Bochat, Kelsie Davis, Carmel
McDougall, Naomi Isaacson, Kathryn
Spry, Jordan Lynn & Victoria Bishop.
Who is your client? Developing
partnerships to promote
sustainable change in Ukrainian
orphanages. HIPE conference,
Curtin University 2011.
Mohammad Mosayed Ullah Importance
of interprofessional education in
developing country context for
therapists: a case study of
Bangladesh. HIPE conference,
Curtin University 2011.

Achievements in 2011
Grants/Scholarship
1. 2011 round 1- DEEWR short term mobility
grant - $25000 (12x$2000 student
and 1 staff travel grant).
2. 2011- round 2 - DEEWR short term
mobility grant - $25000 (12x$2000 student
and 1 staff travel grant).
3. 2012 - round 1 DEEWR short term mobility
grant - $43000 (20x$2000 student
and 2 staff travel grant).
Current Research
Kristy Tomlinson, MPhil project. An
investigation into whether Curtin
University’s Go Global program
improves the employability of
students in the community.
Perceptions of Go Global
graduates, course leaders and
employers. Supervised by Dr B-K
Tan and Dr Helen Flavell.
Alma Dender, Torbjorn Falkmer, Nigel
Gribble, Emma Lawrence and Kirrily
Manning. Informing allied health
education: the use of structured
reflective journals in international
fieldwork.
Nigel Gribble, PhD Project. The
influence of Australian and
international work integrated
learning placements on the
development of emotional
intelligence in occupational
therapy, physiotherapy and
speech therapy students.
Supervised by Professor Rick
Ladyshewsky and A/Professor
Brenda Scott-Ladd through the
Graduate School of Business at
Curtin University.
Thank you Zona
Staff Updates
We would like to thank and farewell Zona
Rens our Go Global South Africa Country
Coordinator for her excellent passion
work and passionate commitment to the
Go Global South Africa Host Site -
Uitenhage. Zona and students completed
many groundbreaking projects and
achieved set goals at our South African
Host Sites from 2007 to 2011.
We also warmly welcome Kristy
Goodchild, our new Cambodia Country
Coordinator. Kristy will be taking our Go
Global 2012 students to their inaugural
clinical placement in Cambodia in July
2012.
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Welcome Kristy
Kristy Goodchild is a part-time
Lecturer at the Centre for
International Health, Curtin
University.
She is a Community Health Nurse,
working with refugees and
humanitarian entrants at the
Humanitarian Entrant Health
Service.
Kristy has postgraduate degrees in
Emergency Nursing and International
Health. She has also worked in and
volunteered in Cambodia for many
years.
From left to right : Jane Bahen (India Country Coordinator); Carolyn Mulkearns
(Administrator); Kirrily Manning (Ukraine Country Coordinator); Dr B-K Tan (Director &
China Country Coordinator), Peter Robinson (China Supervisor); Kim Coleman (India Supervisor)
and Kristy Goodchild (Cambodia Country Coordinator).

Go Global students and staff with Professor Wu Yi and Associate Professor Julia Gao
(third from right) at Huashan Hospital, Shanghai, China
CHINA
During a four-week period in July and
August of 2011, Dr B-K Tan and 11
students travelled to Shanghai, China.
The group was joined by four more
students and Kee Hean Lim, an
academic supervisor from Brunel
University in London, England.
Four students had their placement at the
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at
HuaShan Hospital and Yonghe
Community Hospital.
HuaShan Hospital is a tertiary hospital
that provides both inpatient and
outpatient services. The hospital has a
wide range of clinical departments and
health services, providing care to over
20,000 inpatients and over 1.5 million
outpatients annually.
Yonghe Hospital is a community-based
hospital setting operated by HuaShan,
from where many patients are transferred
for long-term rehabilitation.
While on placement at HuaShan and
Yonghe Hospital, students were
encouraged to actively engage with
patients, therapy staff and local students.
It was also an invaluable opportunity for
students to observe intervention
techniques by specialist members of the
Rehabilitation Medicine Department, and
note the contrast of rehabilitation practice
in Australian and Chinese hospital
settings.
Go Global students also conducted
educational and training sessions during
after-hour presentations to therapy staff
members of the HuaShan and Yonghe
Hospital. These sessions highlighted the
differences and similarities between the
roles of occupational therapists and
physiotherapists in China and Australia.
The BoAi Children’s Centre is a nongovernment
organisation that provides
care, education, physical therapy and
rehabilitation to children.
At BoAi Children’s Centre, Go Global
students engaged with children with a
range of disabilities. It was an excellent
opportunity to work as an
interprofessional team, integrating
practice to provide multidisciplinary
therapy.
Working in an international hospital and
children’s rehabilitation setting can create
a number of personal and professional
challenges. Communicating with fellow
staff members, children or patients and
their families to gather information and
referring to medical notes were
significant challenges due to a significant
language barrier.
Barriers also existed as people in China
have different values around
independence, disability and care. This
created many assessment and
intervention challenges, as well as issues
with accepting different guidelines of
ethical practice and best-practice
principles. Finding a defined role and
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independently guiding clinical practices
were the other significant challenges
confronting students.
Through addressing the immediate
barriers and continuously reflecting on
their practice, the students quickly turned
challenges into achievements.
They formed positive and strong
relationships with leading members of
the hospitals and children’s centre,
paving the way for future students to
engage in interprofessional and
intercultural education.
New projects include:
communication booklets
manual handling guide
language-based computer software
and group song time.
Go Global China 2011 provided students
with the invaluable experience of:
professional and personal discovery;
understanding and defining the roles of
members in an interprofessional alliedhealth
team; and learning how to adapt
specific practice components to work
effectively within an intercultural and
interdisciplinary setting.
Report by
July 2011 Go Global China
Student Group
BoAi Children’s Centre

INDIA
Students have been travelling to India
with Go Global since 2002 and the
program continues to grow. During this
period students from a number of
disciplines have participated, including
occupational therapy, physiotherapy,
nursing, pharmacy, speech pathology,
dietetics and health promotion.
This interdisciplinary (IPE) fieldwork
placement takes students to the beautiful
rural area of West Bengal, four hours by
train from Kolkata.
Ananda Niketan (AN) is a mental health
facility with approximately 300 residents
Group activities in the Boys’ Shelter
with a range of mental health conditions
and dedicated staff all of whom are
overseen by the Director, Mr Subrata
Sinha.
With India’s many religions, languages
and cultures, students live and work in a
diverse and exciting rural setting. At AN,
Go Global students make a valuable
contribution to the health and wellbeing
of the staff and residents.
Some of the projects students have
been involved in include:
1. Improving the vocational opportunities
for residents by supporting the
construction of a chicken coop and
sensory garden.
2. Improving the overall health status of
residents by working closely with AN
nursing staff to implement better
management of medical records.
3. Pharmacy students have made a
significant contribution, working with
other students and local staff to
improve the overall management of
the pharmacy. For example they have
introduced a filing system for patient
records and improved medication
administration.
4. An cccupational therapy screening
tool was developed and conducted to
assess and observe an array of
important factors to support students
in the school on site at AN. Some of
those factors included handwriting
skills, social skills, gross and fine
motor skills and basic cognitive skills
and sequencing.
In 2011 two exciting new programs
commenced:
Dietetics students attended the
placement for the first time and
conducted an extensive needs
assessment
Nursing students implemented a
Health Promoting Schools (HPS)
initiative. Future students will
continue to work in these areas.
Students from 2011 are currently
developing a funding proposal that will
look at a dairy cow project using some of
the funds they raised prior to their
placements. This has the potential to
improve the nutritional status of
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“India is a country that at first
stops you dead in your
tracks..both wonderful and
chaotic! For students and staff ..
an extraordinary experience and
they have an opportunity to
make a genuine contribution to
the people at Ananda Niketan.”
- Jane Bahen, India Country
Coordinator
residents and also provide an income to
AN. Watch this space for updates!
Students often focus on the help they
can offer the residents at AN but what
slowly becomes evident to us all is that
we quite simply learn equally as much
from them if not more.
Thank you to all who have supported our
students and the residents of AN!
By Jane Bahen
India Country Coordinator
Assessing the ride of the wheelchair

SOUTH AFRICA
Group 1 - May 2011
As a member of the 2011 May Go Global
team, I can safely say that all who
attended had an unforgettable
experience. We had a mix of allied health
students, with occupational therapy,
physiotherapy and speech pathology
undergraduates; all of whom were very
motivated to build on and share their own
knowledge while in South Africa.
As our knowledge of the South African
culture grew, we were more able and
confident in delivering therapy to meet
the needs of the people.
The three projects proposed occupied
most of our time at host sites. In addition
we also provided assessment and
treatment for patients at these sites
The projects were as follows:
Building a sandpit for the children at
Orsmond TB Hospital. (See Photo)
Developing therapy activities
embedded into class routines for
children at Association for the
Physically Disabled (APD) Day
Centre.
Introducing alternative augmentative
communication devices to non-verbal
children at APD Centre.
In Australia, major adaptation or
extrapolation is often not required during
therapy sessions. In contrast, we faced
many challenges when implementing
therapy in South Africa. While we are so
proud of the little things we left behind,
we also acknowledge that South Africa
has given back to us more then we gave,
as we have developed immensely,
personally and professionally as a result
of the experience.
The personal and professional skills we
have built, including strengthening
awareness of other allied health
professions, ability to change practices
based on culture, time management
skills, and flexibility, will help us all as we
embark on our careers in the future.
Report by Laura Krynen
Group 2 - July 2011
The July group was the second group to
travel to South Africa in 2011. Our team
included 8 occupational therapy students
and 1 speech pathology student.
After an amazing week of orientation in
Cape Town, we then flew to Port
Elizabeth for the remaining 4 weeks of
our placement. Our time was split
between 3 different sites: Uitenhage
Provincial Hospital (UPH), Association of
the Physically Disabled Day Care Centre
(APD) and Orsmond Tuberculosis
Hospital (TB Hospital). The contribution
at each site is as follows:
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1. Uitenhage Provincial Hospital (UPH) -
designing plans and programs for
patients
2. Association of the Physically Disabled
Day Care Centre (APD):
Designing an assessment tool for
occupational therapists and speech
pathologists facilitating children to
transition into mainstream school.
Designing visual stimulation board
and mobile for children with low
trunk control.
3. Orsmond Tuberculosis Hospital (TB
Hospital) :
Painting of Murals e.g. alphabet,
hand prints, shape and ice cream
shop.
Painting hopscotch for the children
to upgrading play areas and
designing a manual for types of
activities for playground equipment.
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UKRAINE
The key objective for Go Global Ukraine
is to upskill care staff within orphanages
for children with disabilities, aged 0 - 5
years. Using the Community Based
Rehabilitation approach, the goal is to
improve the care with a focus on
positioning, play and feeding.
Children are generally not provided with
any treatment or rehabilitation, other than
basic medical care, speech and exercise.
The overall lack of proactive care means
that children with the most significant
disability experience a decrease in their
level of function over these first 5 years.
As children within the state system are
assessed at aged 6 and sent to an
orphanage based upon their function
level, it is important that function is
maintained and improved where
possible.
These orphanages are funded based
upon the function level of the children,
with the most functional being given the
most funding.
Team 1, 2011 contributed to the
development of these objectives by
participating in the following:
1. Developing a relationship with
Dzerehlo Rehabilitation Centre, Lviv -
where a key contact (Ms Lesya
Kalandyak) who has successfully run
carer training in state orphanages for
older children with disabilities (aged
5 to 18), is based.
2. The team obtained feedback
regarding a training DVD they had
developed prior to travelling.
3. Students spent 13 days working at the
orphanage in Novograd Volynski with
a focus on developing the content for
the training package, including the
DVD.
4. The team spent half a day at the ARK
Centre, a private rehabilitation school
for street children, to get a better
understanding of alternative care
facilities within Ukraine. They
undertook fun activities with children
of a variety of ages.
Team 2, 2011 was the first team to have
dietetics students participate and
undertook the following:
1. Completion of the training manual
and video footage ready for the next
team to pilot staff training in 2012.
The timing is perfect as the Ukrainian
government has legislated
Go Global team and interpreter conducting a group activity at a school for street
children, Kiev, Ukraine
improvements to the facilities and
standard of care of children in these
orphanages.
2. Dietetics students completed an
important needs assessment. These
students made a significant
contribution to the care, health and
nutrition of the children in the following
way:
Their findings showed significant
problems in the adequate nutrition
of children with severe disabilities;
feeding techniques; food variety and
texture suitable for safe ingestion for
children with dysphagia and
significant deformity and postural
impairments; bottle feeding
practices; and nutrition of premature
babies.
The dietetics students made a clear
and valued place for themselves in
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Positioning child at play—orphanage in
Novograd Volynski
the Interprofessional Education
(IPE) team, and worked closely with
occupational therapists for
positioning for feeding and making
food times fun with play. They
formed a very close working
relationship with the speech
pathology student in regards to the
oromotor aspects of feeding and
hydrating children, and augmenting
speech at mealtimes.
3. The students also worked with
individual children to improve
children’s activities of daily living
which include self-feeding, mobility,
and play. The students reported that
some of the staff showed there is
carry-over of education from previous
teams and desire to learn was
expressed.
4. The team also spent a half day at ARK
Centre.
Finally, throughout the year, there were
ongoing discussions in regard to Curtin
nursing and midwifery students being
involved in Go Global Ukraine.
There is also continued discussion with
the Head of Social Work School at Lviv
Polytechnic pertaining to Curtin Social
Work students being able to undertake
fieldwork in Ukraine as part of Go Global.
Report by Kirrily Manning
Ukraine Country Coordinator

The sausage sizzle at Bunnings The bake sale
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The time we spent in South Africa
was an unforgettable experience. We
not only learnt about ourselves but
also learnt so much from the South
African people. The cultural
competency skills and
communication skills we acquired are
invaluable and we will take these
skills into our careers as graduated
therapists.
Report by Anu Chatterjee
Students Go Global 2011
2011 has been a productive year for
Students Go Global (SGG) consisting of
an entirely fresh committee. With our
visions to contribute significant funds to
all trips that would be travelling in 2012,
we organised and hosted various
fundraisers.
The first event was a bake sale and
wood raffle in the small country town of
York, where one of our committee
members is from. This was an awesome
opportunity for everyone to rekindle their
love for baking and to provide information
regarding Go Global and SGG to the
people of York.
On the weekend of the semester two
study week we hosted a ‘Jungle Jam’ -
an awesome party night where everyone
got in touch with their inner wildness and
came dressed to an African theme (as
decided when South Africa was still a
host site).
We have also practised our sales skills
by selling an overwhelming amount of
Cadbury chocolates and wine which was
graced with our own personalised SGG
label. Definitely a favourite as a pre-
Christmas product.
Most recently a sausage sizzle was held
at Bunning’s accompanied by much
labour and sweating over a hot grill of
sausages and onions whilst wearing
aprons donned with our SGG name and
logo. It was an enjoyable day filled with
teamwork and enlightening the
community about who we were and what
we were doing.
Our final fundraiser was held at ‘Movies
by Burswood’ the outdoor cinema where
everyone watched ‘New Year’s Eve’
under the starry sky!
We will be handing over our fundraising
duties to a new 2012 committee as we
begin to prepare ourselves to travel on
our Go Global placements to Cambodia,
China, India or Ukraine.
All in all it has been a wonderful year,
with a wonderful committee and we are
all ecstatic to put all the funds raised to
good use in 2012!
By Jess Carroll
2011 SGG President
Go Global Alumni Report
The Go Global Alumni Chapter has had a
very successful year and is growing from
strength to strength.
Our first event of the year was a quiz
night, which was very well attended and
raised over $3000. A big thank you to
Nigel Gribble, for being a fantastic
quizmaster on the night!
Our alumni membership numbers are
also on the rise, with many more
graduates contacting Curtin University's
Alumni Relations to resume their
involvement with the Go Global program
through our alumni chapter.
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In December 2011 the Go Global Alumni
Chapter hosted the first ‘Reconnect &
Reflect’ event at Curtin University.
This event was well attended by
graduates who had participated in the Go
Global program between 2007 and 2011.
The night was a great success and
students who participated in the Go
Global trips during 2011 presented
updates on the progress of the host sites
they visited and spoke about their
highlights and challenges of the
experience.
A common theme was evident
throughout all of the students’ updates in
that they all regarded the Go Global
experience as a fantastic opportunity to
develop skills around teamwork, being
creative and working in a resource-poor
environment.
It was wonderful to see so many people
attend the event and keep the Go Global
passion alive!
CONTACT:
By Kristy
Tomlinson
President
Go Global
Alumni
Chapter
Go Global Program
Curtin University
Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102
Building 400 Level 2
GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845
Tel: +61 8 9266 3627
Fax: +61 8 9266 9155
Email: goglobal@curtin.edu.au
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