Medical student Tiffany Paradis writes about her experience traveling to Uganda for a pediatric surgery rotation as a McGill Global Health Scholar. Read more about what she learned working with a devoted and passionate surgical team.
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Given international need for global health efforts, Annalise Mathers and Hayley Mundeva discuss the opportunities for employment in this rapidly growing field.
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Microbiology & immunology student Rafia Bosan writes on the increasing issue of antibiotic misuse and overuse in Pakistan, and its implications for global health.
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In this post, Miss Widmise Jacquecilien discusses the value of community-based care for monitoring non-communicable diseases among pregnant women in Haiti.
Infectious disease resident Samuel De l'Étoile-Morel explains the value of performing clinical electives abroad, using his experience in Kenya as a case example.
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Medical student Julie De Meulemeester writes on the topic of food insecurity faced by Inuit populations in Nunavut.
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Occupational therapy student Chamila Anthonypillai reflects on the lessons she learned from working in a community-based organization for people with disabilities in rural India.
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Claire Styffe shares her thoughts on why boys in the Northern Territories must be included in territorial vaccine programs.
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Dr. Pai discusses the prestigious Stop TB Kochon Prize for 2017, which was awarded to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The award serves to recognize the decades of ground-breaking research conducted by Indians, and the massive DOTS scale-up effort that has helped raise India’s ambition and garner political commitment.
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In this piece, Raymond Downing discusses his experience standing in the shoes of a recipient of donor funding.
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Raymond Downing shares his reflections on global health, after coming back to a conference on the subject after 16 years in the field.
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Natasha Caminsky shares her experience at the Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Yassen Tcholakov writes about the opportunity for the global health community to view the Paris Agreement as one of the most important public health treaties of the 21st Century.
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Claire Styffe discusses her experience working at a needle exchange and the stigmas attached to people using these services.
Read MoreStephannie Covarrubias discusses the impact of the PROSPERA program in Mexico on bettering health outcomes among the country's indigenous populations.
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In clinical research, there is widespread acceptance that surrogate endpoints might not translate into long-term benefits (e.g. lives saved). But in global health, we are often stunned when improvements in surrogate endpoints do not save lives. We do this, despite knowing that silver bullets don’t work in global health.
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Juan Pimentel discusses how an unexpected encounter with an indigenous traditional healer in Colombia introduced him to the importance of cultural safety in medical education.
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