McMaster Brock Global Health Forum

04/02/2013

For recent or upcoming graduates, our colleagues at Amref Canada have internship opportunities for this fall. Deadline is this Friday April 5. Learn more here: www.amrefcanada.org/get-involved/volunteer-and-careers/amref-canada--job-posting-/

Based in Toronto and reporting to the Executive Director, the Marketing and Fundraising Manager will be responsible for managing and coordinating all of AMREF Canada’s Direct Response Marketing activities

03/21/2013

Next Wednesday, the CCGHR's McMaster Liaison Team is hosting it's 4th and final interdisciplinary seminar of the year, "“CULTURAL SENSITIVITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AND WOMEN'S HEALTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH”. This will take place in the McMaster Health Forum from 4:30-6:00pm, and if you are interested in attending, please contact Helena Collins at [email protected]. For more info, visit the McMaster CCGHR website - McMaster CONNECT http://www.ccghrharmonization.com/mcmaster/

On Wednesday March 27th, we’re proud to be collaborating with colleagues from across campus to explore “CULTURAL SENSITIVITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AND WOMEN HEALTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH”” with all who are interested!

03/20/2013

For those of you familiar with Grand Challenges, we're happy to announce that some of our CCGHR colleagues now have their video submissions posted online. Today, we'll share the video of our colleague Colleen Davison (Queens), who is proposing a project to help track mining impacts in Mongolia! "The Canary Network: Using cell phones for health impact monitoring for mining in Mongolia" Check it out, share, and vote to give your support!
http://bit.ly/13c4nwp

A: We propose to support population health in Mongolia by developing a community-based surveillance system using text messaging and an www.opendatakit.org mobile application to collect direct, real-time data about the health impacts of mining.

03/20/2013

Reminder to all of the University of Toronto International Health Program's upcoming conference, taking place this Thursday and Friday. More info below.

UTIHP Health & Human Rights Conference is now in its 15th year and this time we will be focusing on Global Health and Human Right from a Canadian perspective. The conference will take place on March 22-23 on the St. George University of Toronto campus. We have Dr. Samantha Nutt of War Child Canada and James Fraser, Co Founder of Dignitas International as our key note speakers along with a whole host of other panelists, breakout sessions and speakers. Go to our conference website for more details on and register TODAY for $15 dollar tickets before this event sells out! You DO NOT want to to miss this!

Conference Website: http://bit.ly/12OkGtn
Registration: http://bit.ly/YEWdWT

UTIHP's annual health and human rights conference

03/15/2013

We hope everyone is having a great semester and enjoying learning lots about global health and other global issues! Though we've slowed down our posts on this page recently, we've just launched a new CCGHR - Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research page that will be sharing all sorts of interesting global health news and CCGHR updates in the coming months. We hope you can join us and continue the conversation, and thanks as always for your incredible passion for global health!

03/15/2013

Open until May 31, Grand Challenges Canada's "Colour Outside the Lines" call for reverse innovation proposals is quite intriguing! Take a look and share with friends!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k1HCB6ljGk&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

Colour Outside the Lines is open for submissions until May 31. First place will receive $50,000, and second and third will each receive $25,000, to be used t...

02/15/2013

Interested in the themes of Health and Wealth? CCGHR partner organization Amref Canada is holding a public coffeehouse talk on Wed Feb 20th in Toronto. http://amrefscoffeehousespeakerseries-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=1

AMREF Canada Coffeehouse Speakers Series on Global Development Join us on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. for: Wealth and Health in Africa: How does economic growth affect the health and well-being of Africans? There’s been lots of talk recently on social media, and in ne...

02/14/2013

Not only have we started to do more on Facebook, we've also brought CCGHR into the world of Twitter!
Follow us at www.twitter.com/CCGHR

The latest from CCGHR (). The Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) is a not-for-profit organization promoting better & more equitable health worldwide. Canada

02/13/2013

Another reminder for anyone interested in following along with the CCGHR that we now have TWO other pages dedicated to Global Health! One is specific to McMaster University (http://www.facebook.com/McMasterCCGHR) and the other is a CCGHR-wide page, that we encourage you to follow for Coalition-wide updates here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CCGHR-Canadian-Coalition-for-Global-Health-Research/208025502669029

Our goal is to raise awareness of the broad range of research in global health taking place on campu

02/05/2013

Still energized from the Forum and wanting to learn more?!?!? MCMASTER CCGHR will be hosting an interdisciplinary session on "Stories of Sustainability" on Feb 25th at McMaster. More to come on the Mac CCGHR page...

01/31/2013