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Applications now Open!
Global Health Scholars
(Undergrad and Grad Students)
Global Health Outreach Projects
Are you an undergraduate student looking for a first global health research experience?
The Global Health Scholars Program for undergraduate students is back for a fourth year! Outstanding McGill undergrads will have the opportunity to conduct global health research under the mentorship of a faculty member and receive funding up to $5,000 CAD.
Students from any faculty can apply to work on one of 20 local, Northern Canada, or International projects in a wide variety of fields including social work, psychiatry, social studies of medicine, management, policy and environmental health.
***New this year, we will be holding four information sessions to learn more about the specifics of the program. Attendance to one of the following is mandatory to apply. ***
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RSVP |
| January 15 |
5:30-6:30PM |
Arts Building Room 150 |
Register here |
| January 25 |
12:00-1:00PM |
Chancellor Day Hall Room 102 |
Register here |
| February 4 |
12:00-1:00PM |
Arts Building Room 150 |
Register here |
| February 13 |
5:30-6:30PM |
McIntyre Medical Building Room 208/209 |
Register here |
Are you a Masters or PhD candidate doing research internationally in a low or middle income country (LMIC) or in Northern Canada and looking for extra funding?
The McGill Global Health Scholars program for graduate students is designed to support McGill graduate students (Masters and PhD) from any faculty engaged in global health research projects. Selected students will receive up to $3,000 CAD to travel costs, dissemination costs, and a small stipend.
Are you looking to get experience in reporting on global health or leading a global health publication?
The McGill Global Health Outreach Projects offer McGill students (undergraduate or graduate) the chance to to either report on an overlooked global health story and receive a $3,000 US stipend as a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Student Fellow or become Editor-in-Chief of the Perspectives on Global Health Blog or Editor-in-Chief of the Prognosis student global health journal and receive a $2,000 CAD stipend.
An optional information session on the Pulitzer Student Fellowship will be held on January 17th at 12:00 in Trottier 1090. You can RSVP here.
Deadline for all three programs: February 17th, 2019 11:59PM
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Happening next week:
How can students use journalism skills to communicate global health issues in ways that get people invested?
Students will explore this question as part of a 1.5 day interactive workshop led by education staff from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and professional journalists Tom Hundley and Marissa Evans who have used diverse media to report on underreported global health issues for the world’s leading publications.
Now open to graduate students: this event is free and aimed at students from secondary 5 (grade 11) and up.
Food will provided for both sessions.
January 17th, 4-8PM and 18th, 9AM-3PM, Bronfman Building, The James W. McKee Jr. Business Lounge (Room 600), 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC
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Deadline extended
The Prognosis is looking for submissions
The Prognosis, McGill's student journal of global health, is looking for submissions for its 2018-2019 edition. The journal features research and articles on topics at the intersection of social, biomedical, environmental, global, and local perspectives on health. We encourage students from all departments to provide submissions!
Deadline: January 18th 2019
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Don't wait to register for the Summer Institute
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Take up to four courses on various topics on infectious diseases and global health! New this year, are courses on Humanitarian Action in the 21st Century and on Quality of TB Care.
When: June 10-21, 2019
Where: McGill University, Montreal, QC
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From the Global Health Community
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Symposium on Building Capacity in Indigenous Research
Are you planning to do any kind of research involving indigenous peoples? If so, you HAVE to join this Indigenous-led symposium presented in collaboration with the Research and Indigenous Scholarship in Education research group at the Faculty of Education.
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Global Health courses in the winter term
Looking to add global health to your Winter Course Calendar? There are over 30 courses related to global health this winter term at McGill including Program Management in Global Health & Primary Health Care and The Anthropology of Critical Public Health.
The Winter 2019 Add/Drop period ends January 22nd, 2019
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Deadline Next week
for McGill ION Summer 2019 Internships
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Less than a week left before the deadline to submit your applications for the McGill Internship Offices Network summer 2019 internships! Don't miss out on these opportunities, this your chance to gain professional experience at the United Nations World Food Programme in Cuba and Panama, and many more international organizations!
Deadline: Monday, January 14th, 2019, 12PM (EST).
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The McGill Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry is back for its 25th year!
Registration for the McGill Summer Program in Social and Transcultural Psychiatry is now open. Since 1995, the program has provided conceptual background for research and clinical work in social and cultural psychiatry to students, trainees, researchers and professionals in the field.
The summer program forms part of the training activities of the Montreal WHO Collaborating Centre and is endorsed by the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology.
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International Internships from the
Institute for Health and Social Policy
The McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP) is pleased to be offering international summer internships through the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee scholarship program. It is an opportunity for senior undergraduate and graduate students at McGill to undertake summer internships aimed at: exploring innovative and promising approaches to addressing key challenges to health and equity across the Commonwealth.
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Summer Opportunities for students at IDRC
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is recruiting summer students for full-time summer work in 2019!
You are encouraged to apply, if you:
- are a Canadian citizen, permanent resident of Canada or hold a student visa with a work permit
- are enrolled in and pursuing full-time post-secondary studies following your employment with us
- can provide an official transcript, if selected for interview
All student positions are full-time (37.5 hours per week) and four months in duration.
More information
Deadline: January 31st 2019 at 11:59 PM EST
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Epidemiology Seminar
"Measuring Progress Towards Increased HIV Status Awareness in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Model for Survey and HIV Program Data"
Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
January 14, 2019, McGill University
More information
Global Health Workshop
Impact 101: Journalism and Global Health Stories
Tom Hundley, Senior Editor at the Pulitzer Center, and Marissa Evans, Pulitzer Center grantee and Health and Human Services Reporter, Texas Tribune
January 17-18, 2019, The James W. McKee Jr. Business Lounge (Room 600), 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC
More information | Register
Research and Indigenous Scholarship in Education Research Group
Building Capacity in Indigenous Research | Symposium
January 18-19, 2019, Jack Cram Auditorium (Room 129), Education Building, 3700 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC
More information | Register
9th annual McGill Sustainability Research Symposium
January 24, 2019, Thomson House
More information | Register | Submit an abstract
McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health
June 10-21, 2019, McGill University
More information | Courses | Apply
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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
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Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS
May 9-12, 2019, Saskatoon, SK
More information | Register
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Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference
July 1-2, 2019, Keble College, Oxford, UK
More information | Register | Submit an abstract
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Global Health Equity Research Fellowship
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine is seeking a post-doctoral fellow for the two-year Global Health Equity (GHE) Research Fellowship.* The Fellow will join the Harvard Medical School Global Health Research Core, directed by Professor Megan Murray, and will be based at a Partners In Health-supported site in Rwanda joining a multidisciplinary team of practitioners, program managers, policy makers, and researchers. During the fellowship, the fellow will conduct high quality research on health needs and program implementation and support a broader research capacity building program and the mentoring of junior researchers in research methods and results dissemination.
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