Calls for Proposals: Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development - Round 5
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.
Funding opportunity: Canada-Brazil Awards - Joint Research Projects
"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.
Social Innovation in Health Initiative 2015
"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.
Consortium of Universities for Global Health 6th Annual Conference
Mobilizing Research for Global HealthSheraton Boston Hotel | Boston, Massachusetts
March 26 – 28, 2015
with Special Satellite Sessions March 25, 2015
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RRSPQ graduate student and postdoctoral fellow travel award
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
A face-to-face with our research leaders: Interview with Dr. Madhukar Pai
Read the most McGill University Health Centre interview with Dr. Madhukar Pai
Call for proposals: The Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
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.
New Grand Challenges funding opportunities
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now inviting applications for three new Grand Challenges:
Grand Challenges Canada Annual Report 2013−2014 released
Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, supports Bold Ideas with Big Impact in global health. Since their launch in 2010, Grand Challenges Canada has supported 538 projects in more than 70 countries, totaling $148M, and leveraged $190M in additional funding, including signiThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now inviting applications to Grand Challenges Explorations
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now inviting applications to Grand Challenges Explorations, which has awarded over 1070 grants in over 58 countries to date. Grand Challenges Explorations seeks innovative global health and development solutions.Canada Gairdner Global Health Symposium: A New Dawn for Tropical Disease
The annual Canada Gairdner Global Health Symposium is upcoming on Wednesday October 29, 2014 at the MaRS Auditorium. The symposium will be celebrating the work of Dr. Satoshi Omura, who discovered the microorganism that would lead to the development of ivermectin, by focusing on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The event will be webcasted for those who cannot attend in person, and will be posting that information in the coming weeks.
Dr. Peter Small, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish, 1-2pm
As part of its 2nd Annual Trainee Research Day invites you to hear our keynote speaker:
Dr. Peter Small, MD
Deputy Director, TB, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Modernizing DOTS
Wednesday June 18, 2014
Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
President Obama opens the Consortuim of Universities for Global Health annual meeting in Washington D.C.
President Barack Obama Welcomes the 2014 CUGH Conference to Washington, DC The president and his administration support and acknowledge the work being done around the world by CUGH and its members, and affirm CUGH's partnership with the US government.Professional training for humanitarian health workers at McGill!
The 2014 Canadian National Disaster and Humanitarian Response Program is
Canada's first comprehensive and collaborative professional humanitarian training
program involving humanitarian NGO, UN, government and academic faculty and
partners across North America. The professional certificate course is run over two
consecutive weeks. It comprises 3 modules: a 5-day Introductory Course (May 5-9), a 3-
3rd Annual McGill Global Surgery Conference, May 17th 2014 at McGill University’s McIntyre Building: Palmer Theatre
The 3rd Annual McGill Global Surgery Conference is an interdisciplinary conference focused on the field of surgery in global health, which is happening on Saturday, May 17th 2014 at McGill University’s McIntyre building: Palmer Theatre.
Registration is now open and payable via Paypal. Registration fee for students is $20.00 and non-students is $25.00
