In-person class cancellation and work-from-home / Annulation des cours en présentiel et télétravail

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In-person class cancellation and work-from-home / Annulation des cours en présentiel et télétravail. McGILL ALERT! Due to freezing rain all in-person classes and activities on Wednesday, March 11, will be cancelled. Staff are asked not to come to campus tomorrow unless they are required on site by their supervisor to perform necessary functions and activities. See your McGill email for more information.
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ALERTE McGILL! En raison de la pluie verglaçante, tous les cours et activités en présentiel prévus pour le mercredi 11 mars sont annulés. Nous demandons au personnel de ne pas se présenter sur le campus demain, à moins que leur superviseur ne leur demande d’être sur place pour accomplir des fonctions ou activités nécessaires au fonctionnement du campus. Pour plus d’informations, veuillez consulter vos courriels de McGill.

Event

Research Seminar: Making Our Voices Matter in Global Health Solution Building

Monday, November 17, 2025 12:30to13:30

5858 chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, Department of Family Medicine, Montreal, QC, H3S 1Z1, CA

Price:

Free

This session will explore how we can contribute to solution building as students and early career professionals in global health. We will focus on writing and centering creative advocacy efforts to affect change in global health - incorporating what we learn in our classrooms. It will also be a discussion space to imagine solutions and pathways forward.

This session will build awareness and skills related to:

Designing and writing advocacy articles (e.g. academic editorials, commentaries and non-academic op-eds etc.
Building advocacy efforts in global health (for your community, national government and global efforts).

Please note that this event is being organized by the Department of Family Medicine and is therefore a family medicine global health event.

Event title: Making Our Voices Matter in Global Health Solution Building

Speaker: Shashika Bandara, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Global Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University.

Date: Monday November 17, 12.30-13.30pm

Where: Hybrid. In person: 5858 Côte-des-Neiges, room 303. Online: via Zoom.

About the Speaker

Shashika Bandara is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Global Public Health in the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University. His research, teaching, and advocacy focus on global health policy and governance. He co-leads McGill University’s research on policy exemplars addressing structural discrimination to improve health in collaboration with the Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. He is an academic editor of the PLOS Global Public Health journal.