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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.
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.
Nicaraguan Children’s Foundation – recruiting students and residents
The Global Health Initiative at UBC is forming a partnership with the Nicaragua Children’s Foundation. This charity, based in Vancouver, sponsors three schools in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. The Nicaragua Children’s Foundation has asked us to partner with them to improve the health of the community, focusing on the children at these schools. One of these schools provides education for children with special needs.
Afghanistan making health progress despite overwhelming challenges
Despite extraordinary circumstances there are indications that the health of Afghans is improving. This report from the World Health Organization in Afghanistan shows the remarkable progress that has been made but also the day-to-day struggles the people face. Dr Soraya Dalil, Afghanistan’s acting health minister, talks about the co-ordination needed at every level of the health system.
Refugee website project for Residents/Medical Students
I am a family physician at Bridge Refugee Clinic in Vancouver. I am pursuing the development of a refugee medicine website that provides resources relevant to the care of our local refugee population to clinicians. Some funding has been secured and another grant application is in process.
Global Cancer Control
The International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) “is dedicated to helping to build capacity for cancer treatment and research in countries in which such capacity is presently limited, and thereby to create a foundation on which to build strategies designed to lessen the suffering, limit the number of lives lost, and promote the highest quality of life for children and adults with cancer in these countries, and to increase the quantity and quality of cancer research throughout the world.”