Dr. Kapoor receives UBC Alumni Achievement Award for Global Citizenship

Videsh Kapoor directs the UBC Division of Global Health in the Department of Family Practice and is co-founder of the university’s Global Health Initiative. The initiative has enhanced the quality of undergraduate education at UBC by offering skills training to students from a broad range of study areas and providing them with an opportunity to contribute […]

Unite for Sight: Sustainable Eye Health Delivery within Remote Ghanaian Villages

Interview with Dr. Damin J. Duffy, UBC Department of Pediatric Surgery, BC Children’s Hospital   Unite for Sight (UFS) invests human and financial capital to support social ventures aimed at eliminating preventable blindness and improving vision around the world.  UFS applies best practices in eye care, public health, volunteerism, and social entrepreneurship to achieve its […]

The Social Medicine Network BC (SMBC)

The Social Medicine Network BC (SMBC)

Interview with SMBC member Michael Stein, 3rd year UBC medical student (Class of 2015)   What is the Social Medicine Network? The Social Medicine Network is an initiative that brings together an interdisciplinary group of healthcare professionals, trainees, and community-based organizations to work together to enhance the understanding of a broad range of social factors […]

Volunteering in India: Lesley Schwab

Volunteering in India: Lesley Schwab

  Lesley Schwab is an Orthopedic Physiotherapist from Prince George, BC, and has been a Case-Based Learning tutor in the Musculoskeletal block of the undergraduate UBC medial program for the past 4 years.  Her passion for physiotherapy and physical rehabilitation has taken her as far away as Koppal, South India. Lesley’s friend and fellow physiotherapist, […]

École Ébenezer

École Ébenezer

  By Kevin Koopman, 1st year UBC medical student (Class of 2017)   The Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti are two dramatically different nations sharing one island, each with their own culture, government, currency, and language. Sadly, Dominicans have developed a deep-rooted racial prejudice towards Haitians, resulting in on-going exploitation of Haitians on sugar cane […]

Interview with Dr. Tobias Kollmann

Interview with Dr. Tobias Kollmann

Dr. Tobias Kollmann (MD, PhD) is an associate professor in the Division of Infectio…

A Lesson from Kanyawegi, Kenya

A Lesson from Kanyawegi, Kenya

By Clarus Leung, 2nd year UBC medical student (Class of 2016) In the summer of…

The Health Impact Fund – A clever proposal for universal access to essential medicines

The Health Impact Fund – A clever proposal for universal access to essential medicines

    About the author: Sassan Sangsari is a VFMP student in the class of 2017. His passion for global health stems from his background in Infectious Diseases and Philosophy.     Ever wondered why some medicines are so expensive when they enter the market? After all, manufacturing the pills usually costs pennies. The answer, in short, […]

Experiences with Voice of the Children

Experiences with Voice of the Children

Written by Nav Sidhu (Class of 2016, VFMP) This past summer I had the opportunity to travel to Uttarakhand, a province in northern India, as apart of the Voice of the Children (VOC) Global Health Initiative (GHI) project. For four weeks myself and three other medical students worked alongside two local NGOs called AMAN and […]

Spotlights: Dr. Johanna Crane and Dr. Jeff Reading

Spotlights: Dr. Johanna Crane and Dr. Jeff Reading

Written by Natasha Simula, VFMP 2016 The 2nd Annual BC Global Health Student Forum was held in September this year at UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues. Two Professors that are very engaged in Global Health, Dr. Jeff Reading and Dr. Johanna Crane, attended as keynote speakers. The Global Health Dispatch had the privilege to talk to […]