Patan Academy of the Health Sciences (PAHS), Kathmandu Nepal
Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the health care available to many Nepalis is clearly inadequate. One of the main reasons for this is the unwillingness of health care personnel, particularly doctors, to serve in Nepal’s remote and rural areas. The country’s current system of medical education has failed to address this. The Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) is dedicated to improving the health status of the people of Nepal by producing doctors who are willing and able to provide health care to disadvantaged Nepalis living in remote or rural areas.
World AIDS Week 2010 is Happening at UBC!
From November. 22 to December. 02, the UBC campus will host its annual week-long series of events to build bridges between local and global communities in order to help educate the UBC and wider Vancouver community about the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Carrying on Dr. Kerry Telford’s legacy in Peru
Division of Global Health – Peru partnership project. Dr. Kerry Telford believed global health work “should be a mandatory part of medical training”. Her work in the Peruvian Amazon has been the catalyst for the creation of a network of friends and colleagues in Peru and Vancouver to begin the St. Clotilde Health Centre, Peru – UBC Division of Global Health partnership project. It is hoped that this new project will be a fitting tribute to Kerry’s passions for global health and teaching.
GHI Workshop: Refugee and New Immigrant Health
The UBC Global Health Initiative (GHI) presents this year’s first workshop on Refugee and New Immigrant Health on November 17th, 6:30 pm at MSAC. GHI workshops are open to students and faculty from all disciplines. Dr. Martina Scholtens (Bridge Clinic), Dr. Allison Henderson (Family Practice Resident PGY-1, and David Henderson (Kinbrace NGO) present their perspectives on Refugee and New Immigrant Health. The workshop will address the key issues in refugee and new immigrant health and discuss some barriers and challenges. The speakers, all of whom have experience in working with refugees, will share their personal experiences and resources. They will discuss the Canadian policy on refugee intake and various everyday challenges that have an impact on this population’s health (transportation, culture, language, etc). Information will be provided on the types of resources available to you as a health care provider and to your patients in this population.
The Voice of a Movement: Yvonne Chaka Chaka
A few days ago I had the opportunity to attend a private viewing of the documentary “The Motherland Tour: A Journey of African Women” featuring Yvonne Chaka Chaka, a South African singer who is using her voice as a positive tool to bring about awareness of the struggles that women and children go through when facing global injustices. Yvonne’s music has been the forefront of South Africa for twenty years and she is known throughout the world as the “Princess of Africa”. She has sung along side Bono and Annie Lennox and she is considered as the daughter to Nelson Mandela who listened to her music during his difficult times in prison.
Canada’s Role in Improving Maternal and Child Health through the Eradication of Malaria
On November 3rd in Ottawa, The Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), a global partnership with the objective of eradicating deaths caused by malaria hosted an event in collaboration with The All-Party Parliamentary Caucus on Ending Malaria, The HIV/AIDS and TB Parliamentary Caucus and UNICEF to discuss Canada’s role in achieving the UN Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which include HIV/AIDS, malaria and Tuberculosis. This event included a discussion on “the way forward to reach the Health MDGs” by a distinguished panel of experts on global health and a screening of a documentary titled “The Motherland Tour: A Journey of African Women” featuring Yvonne Chaka Chaka.
Global Health Promotion Journal Club – 1st Meeting
Please join us at 6:30pm on November 11th for the first meeting of the Global Health Promotion Journal Club. During our first meeting we’ll be discussing the paper “Sick individuals and sick populations” by Geoffrey Rose.
Dr. Richard Currie – MSF Mission in the Central African Republic – Chapters 1- 6
Dr. Richard Currie writes of his experience on an MSF Mission to the Central African Republic (CAR) from November 2009 to May 2010. He practices as a family physician in Salmon Arm and completed the UBC Family Practice Enhanced Skills R3 program in Global Health in 2006.
Virika Uganda – Mark’s blog about his 4th year elective
In 2007 I spent my last four weeks of medical school on elective in Fort Portal, Uganda. I’m not sure what I was expecting to find. Events taught me much about medicine and, more importantly, about the roles, good and bad, we can fill in developing nations. To read Mark’s blog
Promoting Health Equity: Action on the Social Determinants of Health Call for Abstracts
The Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, is inviting abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations at the “Promoting Health Equity: Action on the Social Determinants of Health” conference to be held in Toronto from February 11-12, 2011.