Date: Wednesday September 28th at 6:30 pm
Location: Medical Student and Alumni Centre at 2750 Heather St. (located at the corner of 12th Avenue and Heather Street near Vancouver Hospital).
This event will also be teleconferenced to distributed sites at the University of Victoria (MSB 131) and the University of Northern BC (NHSC 9-370).
To attend this event, please RSVP using the form below:
Are you interested in becoming involved in a global health project?
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.
Students will present brief summaries of the GHI projects and information on how to apply to be on a project team will be provided at this event.
Global health is about connecting study, research and practice across borders in order to improve health throughout the world. Global health highlights the importance of an integrated and holistic approach to the social determinants of health such as healthcare access, education, economic development, environment, agriculture and business management on both a population and an individual level.
The demand for experiences and education in global health amongst students is increasing as globalization and communication brings people of the world together.
UBC Medicine Global Health Initiative (GHI) and the Division of Global Health are committed to strengthening global awareness on campus and to increasing international learning opportunities as a way of fostering global citizenship. UBC GHI provides opportunities, support, and guidance for education, research, and service activities, and demonstrates social accountability towards creating equity and reducing health disparities within our global community with a focus on sustainability.
GHI students have been involved in global health projects in Uganda, India and Kenya. Other projects have focused on working locally with a focus on improving health care delivery within a Canadian low-income context. Since global health emphasizes an integrated approach to health and wellbeing across different disciplines, the UBC GHI projects select students from different faculties such as engineering, architecture, nursing and nutrition to ensure that the needs of the community they are working in are met.
For example, this past summer, a group of students travelled to Spiti Valley, India to work on the community’s water and sanitation system, construct green houses, as well as health screens and education.
If you would like to be involved in UBC GHI’s projects this year and find out more information, please come to the recruitment night.
Date: Wednesday September 28th at 6:30 pm
Location: Medical Student and Alumni Centre at 2750 Heather St. (located at the corner of 12th Avenue and Heather Street near Vancouver Hospital).
This event will also be teleconferenced to distributed sites at the University of Victoria (MSB 131) and the University of Northern BC (NHSC 9-370).
To attend this event, please RSVP using the form below: