Remembering Dr. Jay Keystone, January 28th 1943-September 3rd 2019
On Tuesday, September 3rd 2019, after a year-long battle against cancer, Dr. Jay Keystone, CM, MD, MSc, FRCPC, passed away peacefully surrounded by family. Dr. Keystone will be remembered and missed by his wife Margaret Mascarenhas and his five children, Danielle and Amos Adler, Kathryn Keystone, Jen Keystone, […]
Tropical and Geographic Medicine Intensive Short Course, May 6-10, 2019
Date: May 6-10, 2019 An intensive, week-long course for physicians, nurses, public health practitioners and other healthcare workers who intend to practice in the tropics or who require an update on infectious, parasitic and other major tropical diseases. The course emphasizes three broad areas: Clinical tropical medicine, Parasitology, Public health
Pollution: a global public health crisis ~ Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health
This week the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health released study reports on the gravity of impact pollution has on health. Pollution has emerged as the “world’s largest environmental cause of disease and premature death.”
The online Global Health Course Platform has been launched!
Have you ever tried to take an online global health course but were unsure whether the course would contain useful content delivered in an efficient and engaging way? The newly launched UBC online Global Health Course Platform could be somewhere to start your global health learning journey. View the introduction video. Go to the platform. […]
The Gulu-UBC Department of Medicine Partnership and Global Health Equity
Submitted by Dr. Jan Hajek The number of field-based global heath electives is increasing as the pressing need to address global health inequities is recognized among trainees, educators, and clinicians. The growing partnership between the UBC Department of Medicine and Gulu Referral Hospital in Uganda serves as a model program of a mutually beneficial platform […]
Global Reporting Centre Receives Grant for New Project on Rh Disease
Submitted by Ashley Nicholson, the Global Reporting Centre One hundred thousand newborns die every year of a condition called Rhesus Disease, a blood condition that occurs when there is an incompatibility between a mother and fetus’ blood type, which can be treated simply and inexpensively. The Global Reporting Centre has partnered with the Toronto […]
The Guyana Asthma Education and Spirometry Program (GASP)
Submitted by Dr. Robert Levy Since 2013, a Vancouver-based respiratory team has been working to empower local nurses and doctors to perform diagnostic testing for asthma and COPD and to deliver education and self-management skills at Georgetown Public Hospital. Getting Started In the winter of 2013, Dr. Robert Levy, a lung specialist and Professor of […]
UBC Global Health Conference
Please look to the bottom of this post for opportunities on how YOU can get involved and help shape the GHC 2016! Even if it is with just a small and quick comment about this post. Global Health Conference The GHC is an annual event that had its greatly successful inauguration as a historic UBC […]
Caring for Syrian Refugees in Canada
As Syrian refugees begin to arrive in Canada, several organizations and leaders in refugee care have compiled useful resources for providing care and support to refugees. Canadian Medical Association – Syrian Refugee Settlement webpage – the right sidebar is a meta-compilation of useful documents on caring for Syrian refugees and includes many of the documents […]
UBC Flexible Global Health Resource (FGHR): An invitation to participate
Submitted by Wafa Asadian The UBC Clinical Global Health Network is currently developing the Flexible Global Health Resource (FGHR), which is a comprehensive, flexible, and curated collection of global health education materials out of pre-existing international online resources. As part of this project, we are inviting you to participate in this project as a […]