Global Health Initiative: Predeparture Training Workshop, March 27, 2011
Are you adequately prepared for your volunteer experience? What are the ethics of taking photos or video of people in your host community? Are you culturally competent? What does cultural competence mean? How do you plan for a safe health and travel experience? What if there is an emergency? Join us for presentations and discussion at the GHI Predeparture Training Workshop Day.
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Nutrition, March 17, 2011
This workshop will feature Dr. Judy McLean, an expert in world nutritional issues. The workshop will address the key issues affecting nutrition in low-resource communities, common mistakes that international workers make when implementing nutritional programs, and also introductory approaches to improving a community’s nutritional status.
Legal Empowerment of the Poor for Sustainable Livelihoods: The Canadian Agenda for Change
Round table dialogue March 11, 2011 in Ottawa. “Over 4 billion people are “robbed of the chance to better their lives and climb out of poverty, because they are excluded from the rule of law.” LEP, conceptualised broadly in terms of access to justice, property rights, labour rights and business rights, is proposed to provide the opportunity for those living in poverty to improve their conditions and secure more sustainable development. This Roundtable Dialogue (March 11, 2011) aims to involve major Canadian stakeholders in an open discussion on how key Canadian actors are contributing to the realisation of the LEP agenda, and what more can be done.
Universitas 21 Graduate Research Conference 2011: Food
We are delighted to announce the date of the third Universitas 21 Graduate Research Conference.
This will be the third research conference organised by and for postgraduate research students from across the U21 network. The topic “Food” represents an interdisciplinary topic that allows diverse and complementary research specialism’s to contribute to solving some of the most important questions that face humankind.
Global Health Initiative Workshop: TB and Advocacy, February 23, 2011
This is a two in one workshop in that it will cover two different topics (TB and Advocacy). Dr. Cheryl McDermid will talk about TB, concentrating on its management and treatment, particularly in the low resource and global settings. Our CFMS Global Health Advocates (Saama and Nancy) will be talking about the different types of advocacy and the role students have in advocacy (especially health care students).
Global Health Initiative Workshop: HIV/AIDS, February 9, 2011
There will be a brief introduction to the medical aspects of HIV/AIDS but the workshop will be concentrated on working with populations and communities with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in terms of education/prevention, approaches to management and other related issues. Dr. Bedell and the team leaders for GIVE project will use the example of the GIVE project in Kenya to discuss the challenges of providing HIV prevention, care and treatment in a resource-limited setting.
OPSEI Presents: Global Health Movie Night
On February 10, 2011 at BC Children’s Hospital, OPSEI presents Global Health Movie Night presenting the Academy Award Winning documentary, Smile Pinki. Dinner will be available by donation after the film. View movie trailer:
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Water and Sanitation, February 3, 2011
Joel Melanson will review the role of water and sanitation practices in the prevention of the spread of disease in the developing world and in post disaster situations, focusing on the practical methods of breaking the disease cycle. He will also share his experiences in the field. Joel Melanson currently works as a Civil Engineer with Metro Vancouver and has worked with Doctors Without Borders on and off since 2005 as a water and sanitation specialist in various disaster relief efforts, most recently in Haiti after the earthquake in January 2010.
Global Health Initiative Workshop: Program Evaluation Workshop
This workshop will be beneficial to anyone who will be participating in a global health project in near or distant future and will be of great importance to those planning and evaluating their projects for the coming summer.
GHI Workshop: Aboriginal Health
Dr. Joseph Copeland will talk about key issues that affect Aboriginal populations and will help us understand how to successfully partner with aboriginal peoples to improve health outcomes. The Aboriginal Health Initiative (a medical student led group) will be presenting on a unique and very inspiring First Nations Health Program in Whitehorse, Yukon.