Promoting equitable diversity at the Faculty level: Winners of the yearly Maude Abbott, Haile T. Debas and Rosemary Wedderburn Brown Prizes were recognized in November 2022. Read more
The Community of Support program (CoS) aims specifically to increase the representation of Black students within medicine.
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The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences hosts several outreach programs encouraging underrepresented groups to McGill's Health Professional programs.
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Global Vaccine Equity: Reflections, Lessons and a Way Forward
This discussion covers topics related to historical inequities, vaccine hoarding, patent laws and vaccine manufacturing challenges, the role of higher education institutions, and a productive way forward to mitigate global vaccine inequity.
Panellists:
Madhukar Pai, MD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
Marina Salvadori, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University
Joyeuse Senga, Master of Science in Public Health candidate, McGill University
Black History Month| February 2022

You are warmly invited to join the sixth celebration of Black History Month at McGill this February. This year’s theme is Reflections on Race and Medicine, and the Faculty is grateful to feature Keynote Speaker Dr. Damon Scott Tweedy, MD. Dr. Tweedy is a physician who is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. In 2015 Tweedy published his memoir, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine. Please visit the SACE events page for a complete list of Black History Month events.
Racial Capitalism, Segregation, and the
Historical Roots of Health Inequities, 1880-1950
With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the ensuing pandemic, racial health inequities in infectious disease once again came to the fore.
In this lecture, Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor of History (Columbia University School of Arts & Sciences) and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Mailman School of Public Health), provides some historical context and reflects on the roots of our current crisis.
Kenneth Melville: A man of many firsts
