Resident & Physician Global Health Night, December 9, 2014
Join us for an intimate networking event tailored to the unique needs of physicians interested in global health work. You’ll meet in small groups with experts from a range of disciplines who’ve learned through experience what every resident should know before entering the field—practical advice, resources, and stories from the ground to help you be successful and make a real difference.
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Ebola Outbreak, October 28, 2014
The next GHI workshop will be on the Ebola outbreak, taking place on Tuesday, October 28th at 7pm. As you may be aware, this outbreak has received extensive media coverage over the past few months. The death toll has exceeded 4,000 in West Africa, and on September 30, the CDC confirmed the first travel-associated case […]
Ebola
Several Ebola Education events are being hosted by UBC groups…..
NGDI: Ebola Information Page
The UBC Neglected Global Diseases Initiative has created an Ebola information page to keep you up to date on news, information and events about Ebola. Neglected global diseases are infectious diseases and other conditions that disproportionally affect the poorest of the world’s populations. They include: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, a list of 18 neglected tropical […]
Webinar on Caring for Kids New to Canada: October 22, 2014
The Canadian Paediatric Society will present the second in a series of webinars on pediatric immigrant and refugee health on October 22. Presented by members of the Caring for Kids New to Canada editorial board and funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the series provides practical information for delivering and improving care to newcomer children, youth and families.
Global Health Initiative
The Global Health Initiative (GHI) is a UBC student-led initiative involving students from a diverse range of backgrounds including Medicine, Dentistry, Arts, Science, Journalism, Engineering, Food and Nutritional Sciences, and Midwifery. GHI seeks to enhance global health education and provide hands-on skills training to UBC students via a series of monthly skill-building workshops. GHI also offers […]
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Refugee Health, October 8, 2014
The Global Health Initiative’s first workshop of the year will take place on Wednesday, October 8th, 2014. The topic of our first workshop is Refugee Health and our speaker will be Dr. Maureen Mayhew, a Clinical Associate Professor at UBC and Johns Hopkins School of Population and Public Health. Dr. Mayhew has 25 years of experience practicing medicine in a […]
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Global Health Initiative Project Recruitment Night, October 1, 2014
The Global Health Initiative hosts the 2014-2015 Recruitment Night event. Participants and project leaders will present a short introduction and summary of several global health projects followed by an interactive session and display of each project. Information about how to apply for these projects and the global health workshop series will be available. Dr. Gavin Stuart, Dean of Medicine, will present the keynote.
Free Harvard Global Health Course
Our team at Harvard, led by Professor Ashish Jha, is launching PH555x “Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety” an online course on the edX platform beginning September 16th. The course is free and open to anyone, it will run for 8 weeks over the fall. It includes leading global health experts from around the […]