BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261028T124519EDT-3649VFDrnW@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20261028T164519Z DESCRIPTION:From January 23-25\, McGill will be hosting its first ever Glob al Health Film Festival!\n\nRSVP now to let us know you are coming!\n\nFor current updates on the Global Health Film Festival please consult our Fac ebook page.\n\nIn coordination with the Pulitzer Centre for Crisis Reporti ng\, the Festival will screen a variety of films pertaining to Global Heal th. In addition\, this event will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about health related groups on campus through tabling and special present ations.\n\nBeginning at 5:30 PM in the 6th floor atrium of the McIntyre Me dical Building\, we will have tabling for global health related student gr oups and programs\, the films will begin at 6:00 PM in the Charles Palmer Theatre. Listed below are the films\, presentations & special guests for e ach evening. Click on the film titles for the official trailers and more i nformation!\n\nSchedule & Film Line-up: \n\n\n \n \n Date\n Films\n Presentatio ns & Special Guests\n \n \n \n \n January 23\n \n 6:05 PM: The Role of Visual Jou rnalism in Global Health (7 minutes)\n\n 6:20 PM: The Life Equation (97 min utes) \n\n Bonus Feature\, 8:35 PM: Erison and the Ebola Soccer Survivors ( 12 minutes)\n \n \n 5:30- 6:00 PM: Global health student groups fair\, movie snacks\, and exhibits in McIntyre 6th floor atrium\n\n 6:00- 6:20 PM: Prese ntation and Introduction given by the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting and Mr. Rob Tinworth\, director of The Life Equation\n\n 7:50- 8:35 PM: Q&A with Ann Peters\, representative from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Repor ting and Mr. Rob Tinworth\, director of The Life Equation\n \n \n \n January 2 4\n \n 6:00 PM: Fire in the Blood (87 minutes)\n\n Bonus Feature\, 8:30 PM: B aseball in the Time of Cholera (27 minutes) \n \n \n 5:30- 6:00 PM: Global he alth student groups fair\, movie snacks and exhibits in McIntyre 6th floor atrium\n\n 7:30- 7:45 PM: Presentation from Vidya Krishnan on reporting do ne after the release of Fire in the Blood\n\n 7:45- 8:30 PM: Expert panel o n access to medicines with Prof. Rachel Kiddell-Monroe\, Ms. Chloe Hogg\, Dr. Diane Singhroy and Ms. Vidya Krishnan moderated by Dr. Madhukar Pai\n \n \n \n  January 25\n \n 6:10 PM: Bending the Arc (102 minutes)\n\n Bonus Featu re\, 8:35- 9:15 PM: First\, Do No Harm (45 minutes)\n \n \n 5:30- 6:00 PM: Gl obal health student groups fair\, movies snacks and exhibits in McIntyre 6 th floor atrium\n\n 6:00- 6:10 PM: Introduction given by Mr. Mark Brender\, Director of Partners in Health Canada\n\n 7:50- 8:35 PM: Panel on careers in global health with Mr. Mark Brender\, Dr. Theresa Gyorkos\, Ms. Madlen Nash\, Dr. Jose Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz\, Dr. Julia von Oettingen and Dr. Madh ukar Pai\, moderated by Katherine Duncan\n \n \n \n\n\n*the above times are a pproximate and subject to change\n\nMeet our panelists! \n\nBelow are the experts who will participate in the panels scheduled above!\n\n\n \n Rob Tin worth\n Chloe Hogg\n Rachel Kiddell-Monroe\n Vidya Krishnan\n Diane Singhroy\n Mark Brender\n Theresa Gyorkos\n Madlen Nash\n Jose Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz\n Juli a von Oettingen\n \n\n \n Rob Tinworth\n\n January 23: introducing The Life Eq uation and participating in the Q&A on the filming and production followin g the movie\n\n Rob Tinworth is a filmmaker with broad experience in indepe ndent film and broadcast television\, including documentaries for Nova and Frontline. In 2012 he travelled through Sichuan documenting life in China ’s leprosy villages. That film inspired 'The Life Equation'\, and he has b een following this story for almost three years. Rob is a five-time Emmy n ominee\, winning in 2014 for 'Nova: Manhunt Boston Bombers.' Other awards include two Best Documentary honors at the Asian Television Awards\, and t wo Cine Golden Eagles. His last feature documentary followed punk band Gre en Day’s foray into the world of musical theater. The award-winning 'Broad way Idiot' premiered at SXSW 2013.\n \n\n \n Chloe Hogg\n\n January 24: Partic ipating in the expert panel on access to medicines following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Chloe is a recent graduate of McGill University w ith a BA in Economics and International Development. She has been involved with Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)\, a global access to medicines organisation\, since 2016 when she co-founded the University of Melbourne chapter. She has since become a member of the North American Coordinating Committee and is involved in writing submissions\, attending policy meetings\, drafting legislation\, and planning access to medicines events in Canada. She is passionate about health economics and policy and hopes to work on public-private partnerships to improve access to medicin es for all.\n \n\n \n Rachel Kiddell-Monroe\n\n January 24: Participating in t he expert panel on access to medicines following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Rachel Kiddell-Monroe\, a lawyer and an activist\, specialize s in humanitarian assistance\, global health\, governance and bioethics. S he is currently a member of the MSF International Board of Directors.  Rac hel was President of the Board of Directors of Universities Allied for Ess ential Medicines from 2007 to 2013 and now serves as UAEM’s Senior Policy Advisor.  She was recently appointed to the McGill University Health Centr es Clinical Ethics Committee (adult).  After working on indigenous rights and East Timor independence with grassroots organisations in Indonesia fro m 1989 to 1992\, Rachel joined Médecins sans Frontières. With MSF she head ed emergency humanitarian missions in Djibouti\, Democratic Republic of Co ngo (then Zaire) and Rwanda before\, during and after the genocide. After becoming programme director of MSF Canada\, she was appointed Regional Hum anitarian Affairs Advisor for Latin America based in CostaRica from 1999-2 003. Returning to Canada in 2003\, she led the MSF Access Campaign in Cana da until 2007.\n\n Rachel has also lectured on international development at McGill University and consulted for the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Init iative (www.dndi.org)\, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network on the Canadia n Access to Medicines Regime (www.aidslaw.ca) and MSF (www.msf.org).  Rach el has specialised her academic and professional career on global health a nd institutional governance. She completed her LL.M in Bioethics at McGill in 2013 and her thesis focused on a multicentric approach to global gover nance for health. Rachel has authored several peer-reviewed publications i n this field and most recently a working paper on her proposal for multice ntric global governance for health was published and presented at the inte rnational ISGlobal (www.isglobal.org) governance seminar in November 2013. \n \n\n \n Vidya Krishnan\n\n January 24: Participating in the expert panel on access to medicines following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Vidya Krishnan is the Health & Science Editor for The Hindu. Vidya is a New Del hi based journalist\, with over 15 years of experience in covering public health in India. \n\n She completed her Masters degree from the School of O riental and African Studies\, University of London in 2011. After returnin g to India\, she consulted with the Indian Health Ministry’s think tank Pu blic Health Foundation of India while writing for Mint.  In 2014\, she aut hored India’s National Health Profile for the India office of the World He alth Organization\, SEARO.\n\n For PHFI & WHO\, her work was mainly to gath er health intelligence\, document India’s epidemiological changes in the p ast decade\, map health financing and policy trends to help government dec ision making.\n\n Previously\, she covered public health for national daili es like The Indian Express and The Hindustan Times. She has also contribut ed to the British Medical Journal and Caravan Magazine.\n \n\n \n Diane Singh roy\n\n January 24: Participating in the expert panel on access to medicine s following the screening of Fire in the Blood\n\n Dr. Diane Singhroy is th e Scientific and Technical Advisor at Knowledge Ecology International (KEI ).\n\n Prior to joining KEI Diane worked as a graduate student researcher i n Dr. Mark Wainberg’s laboratory at the McGill AIDS centre studying drug r esistant HIV and innate immune interactions. She also taught for a microbi ology laboratory sciences and collaborative drug discovery course as a tea ching assistance for McGill university.\n\n Diane has worked on access to m edicines issues for University Allied for Essential Medicine (UAEM) as a c hair of the Trade group and member of the North American coordinating comm ittee (cc). There she advocated on issues ranging from the TPP\, the R&D T reaty and academic activism. In her final year at UAEM\, she was a UAEM cc fellow and served on the global governance council.\n\n Before starting he r PhD at McGill Diane worked for the Office of Clinical trials at Health C anada as a screening officer.\n\n Diane holds a BSc in Health sciences (con centration in biochemistry and molecular biology) from Carleton University \, Ottawa\, and a PhD in Immunovirology from McGill University\, Montreal. \n \n\n \n Mark Brender\n\n January 25: participating in the panel on careers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc at McG ill\n\n Mark Brender is National Director of Partners In Health Canada\, a Toronto-based global health NGO relentlessly committed to improving the he alth of the poor and marginalized. Starting from a one-room clinic in Hait i 30 years ago\, Partners In Health now serves millions of patients each y ear across 10 countries\, working to deliver high quality health care\, ad dress the root causes of illness\, train service providers\, advance resea rch and advocate for global policy change. Mark opened the PIH Canada offi ce in 2011 and is passionate about raising awareness and funds for this ef fort\, and empowering Canadians to join the movement for social justice an d global health equity. He previously held leadership positions with natio nal and international charitable organizations. Prior to his career in the non-profit sector\, he spent more than a decade as an award-winning hocke y journalist\, writing about those who practice a different kind of justic e.\n \n\n \n Theresa Gyorkos\n\n January 25: participating in the panel on car eers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc a t McGill\n\n Dr. Gyorkos has been a researcher in global health and parasit e disease epidemiology for over 25 years and has conducted population-base d primary epidemiological field research both in Canada and abroad.  Her g lobal health research activities include: 1. deworming control programs in high risk population subgroups (e.g. preschool-age children\, school-age children and pregnant women)\; 2. interdisciplinary approaches to the prev ention and control of endemic infectious and parasitic diseases\; and  3.  the interrelationship between infection and (mal)nutrition in child popul ations and pregnant women. She has worked with WHO\, PAHO and national gov ernments in developing and promoting health policy focusing on reducing th e burden of disease attributed to worm infections.  She has published over 140 scientific peer-reviewed papers.  She is currently a Full Professor i n the Department of Epidemiology\, Biostatistics and Occupational Health a t McGill University\, a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Parasit ic Diseases\, a member of the STH Advisory Committee and the Director of t he WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Parasite Epidemio logy and Control. In June 2017 she organized an  international Advisory Gr oup meeting at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio\, Italy on deworming in girls and women of reproductive age.\n \n\n \n Madlen Nash\n\n January 25: par ticipating in the panel on careers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc at McGill\n\n Madlen Nash completed her Honour s BSc in Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University and is now pursu ing a Master’s in Epidemiology. Working at the McGill International TB Cen tre\, Madlen has conducted field research in India and authored several pu blications on TB diagnostics and HIV viral load monitoring. She is also in volved with Universities Allied for Essential Medicines working to improve the accessibility and affordability of medicines and diagnostics.\n \n\n \n José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz\n\n January 25: participating in the panel on care ers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc at McGill\n\n José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz is a Steinberg Global Health Postdocto ral Fellow in the Institute of Health and Social Policy at McGill Universi ty. He received his PhD in Sociology and a Masters of Arts from McGill Uni versity. His doctoral thesis Inequity on the roads: the interplay of globa l forces and road safety policy diffusion and traffic fatalities and injur ies was awarded the 2016 Arts Insight Dissertation Award for the best diss ertation of 2015 in the Social Sciences at McGill. His research has been p ublished in journals such as International Journal of Comparative Sociolog y\, Injury Prevention and Traffic Injury Prevention\, cited in United Nati ons’ resolutions (i.e. General Assembly A/68/368)\, public policy reports and peer-reviewed journals. He received the John D. States Award for the t op student paper at the 58th Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Conference in Munich Germany in 2014. He has worked as consultan t for the Pan-American Health Organization\, the Economic Commission for L atin America and the Caribbean\, and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research expertise includes global health\, globalization\, road safet y\, road users’ vulnerable populations\, policy diffusion\, and policy eva luation.\n \n\n \n Julia von Oettingen\n\n January 25: participating in the pa nel on careers in global health\, following the first screening of Bending the Arc at McGill\n\n Julia von Oettingen is a pediatric endocrinologist a t the Montreal Children’s Hospital\, Assistant Professor at McGill Univers ity\, and Junior Scientist at the McGill University Health Center Research Institute. Originally from Germany\, she completed her MD-PhD at Leipzig University\, her pediatric residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston\, and her endocrine fellowship training at the Boston Children’ s Hospital. She obtained her master’s in clinical and translational invest igation from Harvard University. Her research focuses on phenotypes and so cial determinants of pediatric diabetes in non-Caucasian populations\, and on pediatric endocrine care delivery in global health settings. She is a site adviser to the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child p rogram in Liberia and Haiti\, technical adviser to Partners in Health in H aiti\, executive committee member of Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Di abetes\, and a member of the Pediatric Endocrine Society International Rel ations Council where she leads the Haiti subcommittee. \n \n\n\n \n\n \n\n  \n\n\nWe recognize that everybody has different accessibility needs\, so i f you require assistance getting to and from the Global Health Film Festiv al\, please feel free to ghp.med [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Global%20Health% 20Film%20Festival%20Special%20Requirements) (email our office).\n\nIf you are not yet registered for STM Para-Transit\, you can do so here\, but pl ease keep in mind that this can take several weeks to process. If you are already registered\, you can pre-order your transit for the Global Health Film Festival here. If you have any questions or concerns\, don’t hesitate to ask us!\n\nBelow is the accessibility information for McIntyre Medical Building\, for the campus accessibility guide please click here.\n\nWe wo uld like to acknowledge that McGill University is located on land which ha s long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples \, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg nations. McGill honours\, recognizes and respects these nations as the traditional stewards of the l ands and waters on which we will meet.\n\n\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180125 LOCATION:Charles Palmer Amphitheatre\, McIntyre Medical Building\, CA\, QC\ , Montreal\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler SUMMARY:McGill Global Health Film Festival URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/channels/event/mcgill-global-health- film-festival-282917 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR