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Primary Care Global Health Journal Club for residents and BC physicians
Jan 31st at 8PM is the first-ever UBC Family Medicine Global Health Journal Club. This is a new online meeting place which is being organized through the UBC Global Health Initiative and the Division of Global Health in the UBC Department of Family Practice. The idea started with rural residents looking for ways to stay involved with a global health community.
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Community Health Research, January 16, 2013
This workshop provides students with an introduction to conducting community health research. The workshop is framed within a program evaluation approach for collecting and analysis intervention information.
GHI: Refugee Health Workshop, October 17, 2012
In this session, we will hear from Dr. Scholtens regarding the determinants of refugee health and barriers to health care for the refugee population within Canada. She will also relate her experiences at the Bridge Clinic here in Vancouver while touching on some successes and possible improvements that can be made to better meet the needs of this population.
Global Health Initiative: Recruitment Night, October 3, 2012
Are you interested in becoming involved in a global health project? The Global Health Initiative Recruitment Night will showcase several global health project opportunities for students at UBC.
The UBC Global Health Initiative is a medical student run organization that hosts a series of educational workshops and several global health projects with faculty support and mentorship.
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Acute Disaster Relief, September 26, 2012
Dr. Karen Joughin shares lessons learned from her experience as part of the Queensland Health team sent to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, three weeks after the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. This experience impressed on her the importance of organized and coordinated disaster relief work.
Stop Cuts to Refugee Health Care: National Day of Action, June 18, 2012
As of June 30th, all refugees will be dramatically affected by cuts to their health insurance. It is a drastic change to the existing program and will leave many already vulnerable people in a very tenuous situation. Please join health care workers and others opposed to the cuts in a National Day of Action on June 18th.
Global Health Initiative: Pre-departure training workshop, March 17, 2012
The second annual GHI Pre-departure Training W0rkshop will be held on March 17, 2012. This interactive full-day workshop aims to prepare students participating in global health projects and electives for safe and responsible travel. A series of interactive modules will challenge students to discuss issues of cultural competency, professionalism, and ethical engagement in low resource communities.
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Knowledge Translation and Sustainability
The next GHI workshop will focus on knowledge translation and sustainability. It will be on Wednesday March 7th. As always, food will be served at 6:30 PM with the workshop starting at 6:45. Everyone is welcome to attend! Dr. Charles Larson will share his experiences working in developing countries.
Global Health Initiative: Research and Ethics workshop, February 1st
This session will familiarize students with the importance of understanding how our actions while abroad (both as a volunteer and as a tourist) may result in unintended consequences. Dr. Grant Charles is Associate Professor and Chair of Field Education in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).
They Go To Die: A film and TB/HIV/Human Rights blog by Jonathan Smith
They Go to Die is a documentary film-in-progress investigating the life of four former migrant gold mineworkers in South Africa and Swaziland who have contracted drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and HIV while working at the gold mine, and one American graduate student’s journey to discover what happens to life after the mine.