Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers    

Three McGill scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

96 Global Health NOW: Climbing Temperatures, ‘Growing Negative Impact’;​​ Don’t Leave Thando Behind as PEPFAR Retreats; and Helberg, Right Ahead! ‘No sign of respiteʼ in global climate crisis, report finds View this email in your browser May 29, 2025 Forward Share Post An aerial view of cracked soil due to lack of rain is shown as Big Cypress National Preserve and the Florida Everglades experience a severe drought on May 19. Joe Raedle/Getty Climbing Temperatures, ‘Growing Negative Impact’
Global temperatures are expected to persist at or near record levels in the next five years, with “no sign of respite,” per the climate report published yesterday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

• “There will be a growing negative impact on our economies, our daily lives, our ecosystems and our planet,” said WMO Deputy Secretary-General Ko Barrett.

Felt impacts: The relentless warming is expected to lead to intensifying heatwaves, droughts, extreme precipitation, and continued melting of ice caps and glaciers, reports France24. 

• The Amazon is likely to face more drought, while northern Europe and South Asia may see increased rainfall.

• Arctic winters may warm 3.5X faster than the global average.

By the numbers: There is a 70% chance the 2025-2029 average global temperature will exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels—the more hopeful benchmark set by the Paris climate accords.

• For the first time, there is a 1% chance of a single year exceeding 2°C of warming by 2030—a “shocking” finding, climate scientists say, per The Guardian. 

• There is an 80% chance that at least one year will break the global heat record set in 2024. 

• And 2025 is likely to be one of the three warmest years on record. 

“1.5C is not inevitable,” said WMOʼs Chris Hewitt, noting that it is not too late to limit warming if fossil fuel emissions are cut.

Related: 

German court rejects climate case against energy giant RWE – DW  

Q&A: Kiley Bense on Climate Journalism in a New Information Environment – Columbia Journalism Review GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners
Global AIDS-related deaths could jump from 6 million to 10 million over the next five years unless drastic cuts to HIV-related funding are reinstated, an analysis of UNAIDS forecasts finds. The Independent 

The UN may cut 20% of jobs across the UN Secretariat, which employs ~35,000 people, and may slash its budget by ~20% in 2026 in response to the reduction in U.S. financial support, per the UN comptroller. Devex

Rat-borne diseases are spreading in Sarajevo, as health experts blame a failure to control the city’s rodent population for a spike in infections like leptospirosis. BBC

A new Texas bill could make it easier for parents to exempt their children from all vaccinations required to attend public school, despite the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas. ABC News GHN EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY A health worker manages supplies in a PEPFAR-funded AIDS clinic in Johannesburg. January 27, 2012. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images Don’t Leave Thando Behind as PEPFAR Retreats
Thando* is 11 years old. She lives in Giyani, South Africa. Her mother died of AIDS when Thando was a toddler. Now, her grandmother—who sells tomatoes by the roadside—walks with her each month to collect the pills that keep her alive.

But in March, the clinic had no HIV medication. No one explained why, write Joseph Tucker, Molly McNairy, and Linda-Gail Bekker, in an exclusive commentary for Global Health NOW.

• Some American lawmakers have refused to reauthorize the program that supports her care: PEPFAR. 

Transition planning: South Africa has long been preparing to completely transition away from PEPFAR support, which funds only 21% of the South African national HIV program, the authors write.

• The sudden and abrupt disappearance of this funding on January 20, 2025, jeopardizes that transition plan, they write, adding it risks undermining years of shared investment, and extending the global threat of HIV.

Sustainability: Some U.S. policymakers have raised fair concerns about long-term dependency, but PEPFAR has always been about building sustainable systems.
 
Action items: Congress must act and reauthorize PEPFAR, the authors write, calling on philanthropists, faith leaders, and everyday citizens to raise their voices.
 
*The authors are not using Thando’s real name or township to preserve her privacy. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH A Mental Health Crisis Follows Government Cuts  
Since January 20, the federal workforce has been cut by 6%—as some agencies have been dismantled and others drastically downsized. 

Growing distress: Following mass layoffs, federal workers and mental health professionals who see them have reported an uptick of panic attacks, depression, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts.

• Many say they believe this is intentional, citing budget director Russell Vought’s statement that “We want bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.”

Heightened risk: Some advocates are especially concerned for veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.

• Phone operators for the Veterans Crisis Line said they’d seen a rise in calls from federal employees. 

The Washington Post (gift link) ALMOST FRIDAY DIVERSION Helberg, Right Ahead!
Last week at his idyllic waterfront home in Norway, Johan Helberg heard the doorbell ring “at a time of day [5 a.m.] when I don't like to open.” He nevertheless obliged—only to find a panicked neighbor and massive cargo ship run aground in his front yard, BBC reports.

As Helberg slept, not hearing a peep, a Cypriot-flagged cargo ship ground to a halt just meters away from crashing into his bedroom, which “wouldnʼt have been particularly pleasant,” he observed.

But thereʼs a fine line—or at least a few meters—between tragedy and adventure. Given that no one was injured, Helberg is simply “very excited” to see the ship set free.   

“It's a very bulky new neighbor but it will soon go away,” Helberg added. If onły we could say that about the guy next door with the leafblower … QUICK HITS World Health Assembly: Why Multilateralism Needs More Than Solidarity – Think Global Health

After CDC cuts, doctors fear women will lose access to contraception research – NPR

Public health risk of yellow fever remains high in the Americas due to continued occurrence of human cases – PAHO

DOH: Travel-related Zika virus case confirmed on Oahu – Honolulu Star Advertiser

Eliminating kala-azar: 6 African countries sign agreement to ramp up efforts, cross-border programmes – DownToEarth

These countries don't fluoridate their water – here's why – BBC

That small, high, hateful bugle: The malarial conundrum – The Himalayan (commentary)

Bedbugs may be the first urban pest – Science Issue No. 2733
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96 Global Health NOW: Argentina’s Health System Overhaul; The Legacy of Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan; and Novel Mental Health Care in an L.A. Jail President Javier Milei’s “structural review” echoes the priorities of RFK Jr. View this email in your browser May 28, 2025 Forward Share Post Dozens of organizations and public health workers march to denounce the dismantling of public health by Javier Milei's government. February 27, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Miguel M. Caamano/NurPhoto via Getty Argentina Charts an Alternate Route
Argentine officials are signalling a sweeping overhaul of the country’s health system following the decision to withdraw from the WHO, which was ratified yesterday during a visit with U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., reports The Buenos Aires Times. 

• President Javier Milei announced a “structural review” of Argentina’s health agencies, saying there would be stricter oversight of vaccine approvals, a reevaluation of drug authorizations, and “a comprehensive review of the toxic ingredients present in ultra-processed products,” echoing Kennedy priorities, reports the Buenos Aires Herald. 

Lockstep with U.S.: As Kennedy and Milei criticized the WHO, Kennedy announced the two countries would launch an “alternative international health system” to the WHO, which would be “free from totalitarian impulses, corruption, and political control,” per The Hill.

Backtracking on abortion rights: Meanwhile, Amnesty International says Argentina is becoming a “testing ground” for undermining reproductive rights, as access to abortion services and essential medications has declined sharply since Milei took office in 2023, reports The Guardian. GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners   The WHO has designated NB.1.8.1 as a SARS-CoV-2 variant under monitoring (VUM), noting that while it is fueling a rise in cases and hospitalization in some Western Pacific countries, there are no signs that it is causing more severe cases than other circulating variants. CIDRAP

COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women in U.S. CDC guidelines, per a decision by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who did not cite any research or further details that informed the decision. AP
 
The WHA passed its first climate change and health action plan in a committee meeting last night—after the collapse of an hours-long effort to shelve the plan led by Saudi Arabia and supported by other oil-rich Gulf states and Russia. Health Policy Watch

“Dieselgate” pollution killed ~16,000 people in the U.K. and caused ~30,000 cases of asthma in children, per a new analysis that follows up on a 2015 scandal, when diesel car manufacturers were caught using illegal “defeat devices” to cheat regulatory tests. Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air U.S. and Global Health Policy News New Zealand, betting on innovation and economic growth, cuts existing science funds – Science

Federal cuts ripple through a bioscience hub in rural Montana – KFF Health News

As the Nation’s Research-Funding Model Ruptures, Private Money Becomes a Band-Aid – The Chronicle of Higher Education Thanks for the tip, Cecilia Meisner! 

In a county that backed Trump, people depend on Medicaid and are conflicted about cuts – NPR Shots

Read the Full ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report – The New York Times (gift link) 

The pool's open. Trump's laid off the team that helps protect swimmers – Politico MENTAL HEALTH At California Jails, a Different Model for Care
About half the people incarcerated in the Los Angeles County jail suffer from mental illness.

The need for treatment and the chronic inability to meet that need led two incarcerated men to create a peer-led initiative, in which participants are trained to assist others with severe mental illness.

In the Forensic Inpatient Stepdown program, now 4+ years old, the assistants provide emotional support, use de-escalation techniques, teach life skills, and encourage peers to follow treatment plans. 

Impact: Since 2021, the program has expanded to reach 400+ patients. 

• Units using it report 6X fewer self-harm incidents and 35% fewer returns to hospitals.


• Mental health advocates say the program offers a model for improving care and rehabilitation inside jails. 

The Christian Science Monitor GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES RADIATION The Long Legacy of Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan
From 1949 to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan, exposing 1.5 million people to radioactive fallout.

• Generations of people in the region now suffer high rates of cancer, fertility problems, heart disease, and genetic birth defects.

• Researchers have found the radiation nearly doubled inherited gene mutation risks.

Ongoing Struggle: Despite persistent health issues, neither Russia or Kazakhstan has offered long-term, large-scale aid.

The Quote: People near the test site “became unwitting test subjects, and their lives were treated with casual disregard due to racism and ignorance,” said Becky Alexis-Martin, of the University of Bradford in the U.K..

The Telegraph QUICK HITS Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women – The Guardian

With aura readings and a Lauryn Hill concert, Philip Morris rolls out a new tobacco product in the U.S. – STAT

Where Iran and Israel Align: Youth Tobacco Use – Think Global Health

WHO's Big Push To Integrate Traditional Medicine Into Global Healthcare Framework – Health Policy Watch

Climate change driving sexual and reproductive health risks among young adolescents in Kenya – Medical Xpress

WHO Mandated To Update Of 30-Year-Old Review On Health Impacts Of Nuclear War – Health Policy Watch

Eliminating kala-azar: 6 African countries sign agreement to ramp up efforts, cross-borde programmes – Down To Earth

Educating the next generation of global health practitioners and leaders – Keck School of Medicine of USC / University of Southern California Issue No. 2732
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The 78th World Health Assembly concluded Tuesday in Geneva, marking several major milestones in global health. Delegates adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement and approved a significant boost in core funding for the World Health Organization (WHO).