For the first time, the Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) program and McGill Global Health Programs are distributing travel awards to medical residents! Without further due, here are our first cohort of winners.
Congratulations to the awardees and to all applicants!
Congratulations to our Spring Travel Awards winners!
Medical Class of '84 Student Bursary: Tina Madzima
Medical Class of '65 Student Bursary: Alexandre Dostaler
Ashworth Student Travel Award: Esther Vaugon and Jonathan Morasse
Osler Medical Aid Foundation Scholarships: Annie Lalande and Collins Oghor
Ambassador Paul Frazer Travel Award for Global Health: Vanessa Brombosz and Danielle Cazabon
Dr. Theresa Dankovich discovered pAge during her PhD in Chemistry at McGill University. She is now on a mission to help create a drinkable book, which "educates as it purifies". Dr. Dankovich has currently teamed up with a non-profit organization to help make these books available for use in the real world. For more information and to help fund this excellent initiative click here!
You can now find research teams and individual faculty members more easily in our NEW Research and Training section. In addition McGill-based Global Health team can apply for funding! Learn more here.
Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals for its latest application round.
Proposals are being accepted on the following topics:
• Addressing Newborn and Infant Gut Health Through Bacteriophage-Mediated Microbiome Engineering
• Explore New Ways to Measure Delivery and Use of Digital Financial Services Data
The World Health Organization has released its third report on neglected tropical diseases. Its main recommendation: for governments to increase domestic investments to address social and health inequities. To learn more: http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/Third_report_2015/en/
USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and DFID have joined together to launch Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, to find the tools and approaches to help the mothers and newborns during their most vulnerable hours.
"Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) is pleased to launch the competition for the Canada-Brazil Awards - Joint Research Projects for research projects taking place between June 2015 and August 2017. The Canada-Brazil Awards-Joint Research Projects provide scholarships for exchanges of researchers and graduate students in support of reciprocal, team-based research projects between Canadian and Brazilian universities in key areas of mutual cooperation.
"The Social Innovation in Health Initiative is an international collaboration between various partners. The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University lead the implementation of this initiative and TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, hosted at the World Health Organization in Geneva, provides technical and financial support. Together, we are searching for novel solutions that have improved healthcare delivery in the Global South.
Sheraton Boston Hotel | Boston, Massachusetts
March 26 – 28, 2015
with Special Satellite Sessions March 25, 2015
Deadline: 20 February 2015
Le Regroupement Stratégique Santé Mondiale du RRSPQ is pleased to announce its competition to support Québec graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in disseminating the results of their global health-related thesis research. The goal of the competition is to offer fellowships to graduate students to travel to their study site to present their results.
APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED AS ONE PDF FILE
Read the most McGill University Health Centre interview with Dr. Madhukar Pai
"In its broadest sense, global health is about making the world a healthier place. Each of us can choose to make a contribution here, regardless of our discipline, training, or specialization. In addition to excelling in our chosen field, optimism is a key quality – we need to believe that we can make a difference."
On May 28 to 30, 2014, Canada made a committment of $3.5 billion to improve the health of mothers and children for the period of 2015–2020 to end the preventable deaths of mothers, newborn and children younger than age five. These efforts are threefold, focused on strengthening health systems, reducing the burden of leading diseases, and improving nutrition.
