GHI Workshop – Access to Essential Medicines
Hi everyone! Our FINAL GHI Workshop of the year will be taking place this upcoming Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 at the MSAC. A friendly reminder that these workshops are MANDATORY for GHI members, so if you have missed one or two recently, it would be great to see you on Tuesday! We will also be taking a […]
Global Health Workshop – Gender-Based Violence and MSF
Hi everyone! Excited to announce that our next workshop is coming up on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. This workshop will focus on Gender-Based Violence and life with MSF. The talk will be taking place at the MSAC at 7pm. Our speaker will be Sharon Janzen, an RN, who completed her first 6 month mission with MSF/Doctors Without Borders in Somalia. She […]
GHI Workshop: Ebola and XDR-Tuberculosis: Ebola with Wings – February 17, 2015
The GHI team is excited to announce that our second part of EBOLA SERIES will be taking place next Tuesday, February 17th at 7pm. While talk of Ebola starts to dwindle in the news, the total number of cases currently remains in the thousands, with individuals worldwide continuing to be infected by this aggressive virus. Extensively-drug resistant TB […]
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Acute Disaster Relief- January 27, 2015
The GHI team is excited to announce that our next workshop on Acute Disaster Relief will be taking place on Tuesday, January 27th. Our speaker will be Dr. Karen Joughin, who was a member of the Queensland Health team sent to Banda Aceh, Indonesia three weeks after the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. This experience […]
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 […]