Global Child Health Program, McGill

Engaging in global health advocacy, medical education, research, capacity-building, and knowledge tr Lancet).

Global health is an “area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide” (Koplan et al, 2009. Although progress has been made in recent years, globally 7.6 million children under 5 died in 2010, mostly from preventable illness (Liu et al, 2012. The Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) serves an increasingly large mul

ticultural population, has renowned expertise in medical education and research, and has a long-standing commitment to the health of vulnerable children within Quebec and in low-income countries. The Global Child Health Program aims to capitalize on the strengths of the MCH and the McGill Department of Pediatrics to help sustainably meet the needs of children in low-income countries, and improve the care provided to its multicultural clientele in Quebec. The McGill Department of Pediatrics and the Montreal Children’s Hospital’s (MCH) has over four decades of engagement in global health. This began with a project in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 1970s, where the first academic Department of Pediatrics in East Africa was established. This was followed by an eight year (1987-1994) initiative in Ethiopia which assisted in founding a Department of Community Health at Addis Ababa University and strengthened the country’s public heath capacity through the training of nearly 300 district health officers and over 50 Masters of Public Health graduates. From 1998 to 2003, MCH faculty led a population child health project in Chelyabinsk, Russia. This project assisted the local state medical university to transition to modern approaches in assessing the health of their under 14 population, identifying important determinants and establishing evidence based priorities and programs. In addition to these large-scale projects, many Department of Pediatrics and MCH faculty and staff have worked and continue to work on global health initiatives either individually, or via their divisions and departments. In 2009, a multi-disciplinary global child health steering committee, the “Global Child Health Initiative”, was formed at the MCH and included pediatricians, surgeons, residents, nurses and a physiotherapist with experience and interest in global health. This initiative obtained official program status in 2014 as the Global Child Health Program, under the McGill Department of Pediatrics, and its multi-disciplinary steering committee remains operational to this day.

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04/08/2022

Please share widely with Ukrainian health care colleagues:

The Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Montreal Children’s Hospital has developed Trauma and Acute Care videos for use in conflict and disaster areas.

Currently available in Ukrainian, translation work on the videos will continue into many other languages to equitably support the care of children experiencing trauma worldwide. These videos are open access and the platform will adjust to local bandwidth capabilities to ensure access.

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Медичне травматологічне втручання Портал про травми та реагування надає можливість переглядати, завантажувати та ділитися вмістом екстреної медичної допомоги в дорозі

Book Launch: "Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine"

05/28/2019

After years of careful writing and editing, this new essential reference book about Humanitarian Medicine is finally out!
Come have a look on May 31 12-13h, and meet some contributors and experienced field workers who will be present: Saleem Kassam, Jennifer Turnbull (former co-director of the Global Child Health Program), Chris Houston, and Patrick Robitaille.

The book will be available for purchase on site. Plus, you will have the opportunity to have it signed by the authors!

For more info on the book: https://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199565276.html
For a preview of the book: http://bit.ly/2WF5ySF

Event open to all - invite your friends!
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Please note that the event will be on the 3rd floor at the ULaval Montreal Campus, during the lunch break of the clinical day, innovation fair and PSN training prior to the MSF Canada General Assembly.

Book Launch: "Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine" Après des années d'écriture et de révision, ce manuel de référence indispensable sur la médecine humanitaire est enfin disponible! Livre auquel un total de 92 experts en aide humanitaire et santé mondiale ont contribué à sa création! Représentant des organisations reconnues mondialement ...

On ne peut plus refuser l’accès aux soins de santé aux enfants migrants

04/17/2019

Saviez-vous que "des enfants habitant au Québec, dont plusieurs sont citoyens canadiens, n’ont pas accès à des soins couverts par l’assurance maladie en raison de leur statut d’immigrant ou de celui de leurs parents" ?

On ne peut plus refuser l’accès aux soins de santé aux enfants migrants Il est de notre devoir de leur permettre de mener une vie en santé.

Can you spare a minute to help Virginie Clavel?

02/26/2019

Signez la pétition afin de réinstaurer l'accès aux services de garde pour les familles demandeurs d'asile.
Sign the petition to help and reinstate access to daycare for asylum seekers in Quebec.

Can you spare a minute to help Virginie Clavel? 214 signatures are still needed! Réinstaurer les services de garde subventionnés aux enfants demandeurs d’asile

Enfants de demandeurs d'asile: «En prendre soin», mode d'emploi | ALEXANDRE SIROIS | Alexandre Sirois

02/26/2019

L'impact d'exclure les demandeurs d'asile (dont plusieurs obtiendront le statut de réfugié) du réseau de garderies subventionnées est « dévastateur » pour leur intégration, disent-ils. On voit mal comment on pourrait leur donner tort.

Enfants de demandeurs d'asile: «En prendre soin», mode d'emploi | ALEXANDRE SIROIS | Alexandre Sirois Les élus de la Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) répètent à satiété qu'ils veulent « prendre soin » des immigrants. Ils ont absolument raison d'insister sur l'importance...

Demandeurs d'asile et CPE: Québec se tourne vers Ottawa | AGNÈS GRUDA | National

02/20/2019

The participants of our advanced curriculum in global child health and our very own co-director, Dr Gillian Morantz, bring attention to a very important issue touching refugee claimant families in Quebec. It is time to act and reverse this policy.

Demandeurs d'asile et CPE: Québec se tourne vers Ottawa | AGNÈS GRUDA | National En refusant d'admettre les enfants des demandeurs d'asile dans les garderies subventionnées, le Québec retarde inutilement leur intégration, les maintient dans un état...

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08/09/2018

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03/20/2018

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