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The McGill Global Environmental Health community invites you to:
Cells to Society Symposium
The annual full day conference that brings together those interested in the environmental health sciences returns for 2018. This year, the event will launch the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) research theme program "Creating Sustainable Materials for the Future". The day will focus on the challenges and opportunities concerning the design, development, evaluation, and use of materials to help address grand challenges of the 21st century.
The symposium will present two keynote lectures:
- "Base Code - How convergent technologies are transforming the future of sustainable materials, and the challenge and opportunities they in turn present" with Professor Andrew Maynard of the School for the Future of Innovation at Arizona State University; and Director of the Risk Innovation Lab;
- "From acceptable risk to safer alternatives: Driving changes in science, policy, and the marketplace that support innovation in sustainable chemicals and materials" with Professor Joel Tickner of the Department of Community Health & Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and the Founder of the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council.
RSVP now for this important symposium!
Friday, October 26, 2018, 8:30AM-5:00PM, McGill Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish Street, Montreal
More information | RSVP
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Registration now open for student global health case competition
After last year’s success, Friends of Médecins Sans Frontières is proud to present their second Case Competition!
This year’s case in focus is “Displaced Populations: Reproductive Health and Intergenerational Consequences”. The event is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all universities across Montreal, and students can register as individuals or as teams. No prior global health experience is necessary.
The competition will push students from all disciplines to develop innovative solutions to a global health challenge.
The winners will be announced at Global Health Night 2018 on November 6th, 2018.
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2018 Universities Allied for Essential Medicines North American annual conference to be held at McGill
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Are you interested in equal access to medicines? This year’s North American UAEM (Universities Allied for Essential Medicines) conference will be held in Canada for the very first time at ~McGill~ on October 19-21. Registration and meals are free!
UAEM is a global network of university students working together to ensure that all people have access to medical innovations, such as drugs, diagnostics, and technologies. Come learn about UAEM's current initiatives and how YOU can help medical innovations from McGill reach those who need them most. Click below to find out more about featured speakers, conference agenda, and registration. All student regardless of University are encouraged to attend!
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October 19-21st, McGill University
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Introducing the NCD Journal Club
The McGill Global Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Program will have its first NCD Journal Club on Wednesday Oct 24, 2018, 12-1PM at the Royal Victoria Glen site, room EM1.2225.
Dr. Louise Pilote will facilitate discussion on the paper: "Fixed Low-Dose Triple Combination Antihypertensive Medication vs Usual Care for Blood Pressure Control in Patients With Mild to Moderate Hypertension in Sri Lanka A Randomized Clinical Trial", by Webster et al.
Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome!
October 24, 2018, 12-1PM, Royal Victoria Glen site, room EM1.2225, 1001 Décarie Boulevard, Montreal, QC
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Over 400 registrations already!
Join us for Global Health Night on November 6
This year, we are extremely lucky to have as our keynote speaker Dr. Margaret E. Kruk, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and current Chair of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era whose report was launched earlier this month. Her lecture is entitled: “High Quality Health Systems: Ready for a Revolution?” As we are getting very close to capacity, we strongly recommend that you do not wait to RSVP for Global Health Night.
Last Call: Volunteers needed for Global Health Night
We need volunteers to help with the set-up, registration, poster fair, ushering of guests and take-down of the event.
If interested, please email Jesse at ghp.med@mcgill.ca by tomorrow October 12, 2018.
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Inaugural recipient of the Dr. Alice Benjamin Global Maternal and Child Health Fund receives award at special celebration
From left to right: Dr. Alice Benjamin, Dr. Céline Giordano, Dr. David H. Eidelman, MDCM, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Photo Credits Joni Dufour for McGill University
On October 3rd, the McGill and Montreal community came together to celebrate the lasting impact that renowned maternal-fetal medicine specialist Dr. Alice Benjamin had on the lives of Montrealers through her 40+ years at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
The evening was the occasion for former students, patients, and parents, including TV personality Patrice L'Ecuyer, to salute how the Meryl Streep of obstetrics touched their lives. It was also during the event that Céline Giordano, a 4th year obstetrics and gynecology resident received the inaugural award. Céline will be traveling to Bolivia next Summer. "I am confident that this experience will not only greatly influence and contribute to my personal and professional development, but will also help in beginning to forge a positive relationship between two very different countries."
Read more
La Presse+ (in French): La Dre Alice Benjamin et ses 10 000 bébés
CJAD Interview: These patients love this doctor so much, they started a fund for her
Contribute to the Dr. Alice Benjamin Global Maternal and Child Health Awards
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The Interprofessional Global Health Course Is Looking for a Medical Student Coordinator
We are accepting applications from medical students interested in being a coordinator for the McGill Interprofessional Global Health Course. This not for credit, student-run course enables students to explore Global Health issues in a collaborative and stimulating Interprofessional environment. More information about the course and the schedule from last year can be found here.
Student coordinators from the various health sciences meet regularly from October 2018 to May 2019 in collaboration with the faculty advisors. Faculty Advisors will guide and mentor the student coordinators through the course development. The course runs for 10 weeks on Tuesday evenings (tentative) from January to March 2019.
Medical students have traditionally been very involved with this course thus, it is imperative to have a medical student on the coordinating team.
Interested applicants are required to submit a one page letter of interest and their CV.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Wednesday October 17, 2018
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Deadline extended:
Fall 2018 McGill International TB Centre Travel Awards
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the McGill International TB Centre now have until October 15 to submit their applications for this special travel award.
The McGill International TB Centre Travel Awards are intended to support trainees in the fields of Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial research. These awards up to $1,500 each are for conference travel to national and international scientific meetings to present the trainee’s own research. Inaugurated in 2015, these awards are co-funded with Global Health Programs and are awarded twice per year.
More information | Apply now
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From the Global Health Community
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Global Health McGillians in the spotlight
Nursing Assistant Professor John Pringle was recently profiled in a McGill Reporter piece on the path led this former(?) backpacker to where he is now.
Read the piece: John Pringle: Researching Bioethics, Humanitarian Health Care and Global Health
Global Health Programs and McGill International TB Centre Director Dr. Madhukar Pai was at the first-ever United Nations High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis held during the UN General Assembly. He provides his impressions here and you can see his interventions in the Multi Stakeholder panel and in the Media zone.
McGill Global Environmental Health Group co-leader Dr. Jonathan Chevrier recently published two papers on his ongoing Venda Health Examination of Mothers, Babies and their Environment (VHEMBE) study which looks at Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) of insecticides, a malaria control measure, and development.
Read the papers now:
School of Physical and Occupational Therapy Postdoctoral Fellow Srikanth Reddy, Ph.D. recently published a post in the Global Health Governance Programme blog entitled "Achieving Global Health Security and Universal Health Coverage: Reflections on the Georgetown- Edinburgh workshop" which recapped the joint workshop held this past May.
Read Srikanth's post here.
Steinberg Fellow Shaun Cleaver has contributed a case study on participatory research with persons with disabilities in Zambia to the recently released book Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries. He is also featured in the latest SPOT GHRI podcast.
At a special announcement made on October 10th on McGill University’s Macdonald Campus, a landmark gift of $5 million from McGill alumna Margaret A. Gilliam, BSc’59 was made to the University’s Institute for Global Food Security which will be renamed in Ms. Gilliam's honor. This donation will help the Institute's ongoing efforts to understand the root causes of hunger and malnutrition, and develop novel solutions to eradicate food insecurity around the world.
Read the press release
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New Course:
The Anthropology of Critical Public Health
Starting in the Winter 2019 term, Professor Sandra Hyde will be teaching a new seminar course which will, after a brief introduction to the social determinants of health, will touch on a variety of topics including Medicine, disability and aging; the anti-vaccine movement and concepts of immunity; the new drug epidemics and addicts’ stories; global health, its metrics and data production; and climate change as a public health issue.
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Funding opportunityfrom the
RRSPQ Global Health Strategic Group
Support for Results Dissemination Activities Abroad
The Global Health Strategic Group of the RRSPQ wishes to support Québec graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows in the dissemination of their global health research results. The goal of this competition is to provide students with funding to allow them to return to their study sites in order to disseminate the results of their research at these locations. Award value up to $3,000.
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The Centre for Research on Gender, Health and Medicine, and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University
Abortion Beyond Bounds: Self-Management and the Circulations of Knowledge, Technology and Care
Oct 11-12, 2018, McGill University, Montreal
More information | Register
McGill International TB Centre & Repiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit joint seminar
- "The Incubation Period of TB" - Dr. Marcel Behr, MD, M.Sc.Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine McGill University
- "TST and/or Chest X-ray for investigating of household contacts – A cluster randomized factorial design trial" - Dr. Dick Menzies, MD, M.Sc. Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine McGill University
Friday, October 12, 2018, 3–4:30PM, CORE - RI–MUHC, 5252 boul. de Maison neuve Ouest, 3rd Floor, Room 3B, Montreal, QC
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Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security
Special World Food Day Lecture: " The fuel of tomorrow: How nutrition can drive countries, economies and a brighter future "
Lauren Landis, Director of the Nutrition Division at the World Food Programme, Rome
October 16, 2018, 10AM-12PM, Macdonald Stewart-Building, MS2-022, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue
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SPOT Research Seminar
International Health Regulations Compliance in India: The Politics of Global Health Security
Dr. Srikanth Reddy, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
October 17, 2018, 12-1PM, Hosmer House H202, 3630 Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC
More information | RSVP
Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
IDIGH Symposium: From molecules to healthcare
October 19, 2018, McGill University Health Centre, Glen Site, Block E, 1001, Décarie Boulevard, Montreal, QC
More information | Register
McGill Global Non-Communicable Diseases Program
NCD Journal Club: "Fixed Low-Dose Triple Combination Antihypertensive Medication vs Usual Care for Blood Pressure Control in Patients With Mild to Moderate Hypertension in Sri Lanka A Randomized Clinical Trial", Webster et al., 2018
Facilitated by Dr. Louise Pilote
October 24, 2018 12-1PM, McGill University Health Centre, Glen Site, Block E Conference room EM1.2225, 1001, Décarie Boulevard, Montreal, QC
Paper | More information
McGill Global Health Rehabilitation Initiative
Global Health Forum: Motor rehabilitation of stroke survivors in low resource settings; Inferences from an Indian center
Guest Speaker: Dr. John Solomon, Associate Professor, Physiotherapy Department, School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
October 24, 2018, 4:45-6PM, Hosmer House 202, 3654 Prom Sir-William-Osler, Montréal, QC
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McGill Global Environmental Health Group
2018 Cells to Society Symposium: Sustainable Materials
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University and Prof. Joel Tickner from U-Mass Lowell
October 26, McGill Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC
More information | RSVP
McGill Students Friends of Médecins Sans Frontières
Case Competition: Displaced Populations: Reproductive Health
Global Health Night: “High Quality Health Systems: Ready for a Revolution?”
November 6, 2018 4-6PM, Centre Mont-Royal, 2200 rue Mansfield, Montreal
More information | RSVP | Volunteer
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The 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
October 8-12, 2018, Liverpool, UK
More Information | Register
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Achieving Global Mental Health Equity: Making Cultural Psychiatry Count -
5th World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry
October 10-13, 2018, New York City, NY
More information | Register
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World Health Summit 2018
October 14-16, 2018, Berlin, Germany
More information | Register
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UAEM North America 2018 Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2018, Montreal, Canada
More information | Register
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The 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health - Declaring our Rights: Social and Political
October 24-27, 2018, the Hague, Netherlands
More information | Register
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Reaching Across Borders, Building a Better World
November 6-7, 2018, Montréal, Canada
More information | Register
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2nd Annual Women Leaders in Global Health Conference
November 8-9, 2018, London, UK
More information | Register
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5th annual Global Health Students and Young Professionals Summit: Becoming Change Agents in Global Health
Sunday November 18, 2018, Toronto, ON
More information | Submit an abstract | Register
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Canadian Conference on Global Health:
Fragile environments and Global Health: Examining drivers of change
November 19-21, 2018, Toronto, ON
More information | Register
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Canadian Immunization Conference 2018
December 4-6, 2018, Ottawa, ON
More information | Register
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Global Health, Equity & Primary Care
January 16-19, 2019, Toronto, ON
More information | Register
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2019 CUGH Conference:Translation and Implementation for Impact in Global Health
March 8-10, 2019, Chicago, IL
More information | Register
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Global Health & Innovation Conference
April 13-14, 2019, New Haven, CT
More information | Register | Submit an abstract
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Volunteer Opportunities from Academic Without Borders
1. Development of a University Registrar’s Office - African Leadership University, Kigali, Rwanda
The African Leadership University has partnered with AWB in order to help build a new registrar’s office on its campus in Kigali, Rwanda.
2. Strategic Planning - University of Saint Joseph Mbarara, Mbarara, Uganda
The University of Saint Joseph Mbarara has partnered with AWB in order to support a review and update and re-alignment of its recently completed five-year strategic plan and help with its implementation.
More information | Deadline: October 22, 2018
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Opportunity for Graduating Students
The OceanPath Fellowship provides professional leadership training and support for graduating students to lead a community development project anywhere in the world.
Successful candidates will receive up to $25,000 in funding to support all food, housing, travel and project implementation costs.
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Tonight! Book launch: Dissident Doctor by Michael C. Klein, MD.
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Join former Jewish General Hospital Head of Family Practice, Dr. Michael C. Klein as he launches his new book.
October 11, 2018 7:00PM, Montreal Jewish General Hospital, Block Amphitheatre, 3755 Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montreal
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