Careers in Global Health & Emergency Medicine: Panel Discussion

TGH: UHN Foundation Boardroom 1st floor RFE Building, Toronto, Canada

We hope you can join us for GHEM's next Open Meeting on Tuesday October 6th from 5:00-6:30pm in the UHN Foundation Boardroom (1st Floor, RFE Building - entrance to RFE located near Elizabeth and Gerrard). The focus of this meeting will be a panel discussion involving different perspectives on "Careers in Global Health & Emergency…

TAAAC Gala

Arcadian Lofts 401 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Please join TAAAC for a gala to recognize 50 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and Ethiopia as well as all of the accomplishments of TAAAC. The evening will feature a special performance by Ethiopian-born, legendary singer, Netsanet Melesse. To purchase tickets please click here

$325

Gairdner Global Health Symposium – Global Preparedness for Pandemics: Lessons from Ebola

MaRS Centre Auditorium 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Growing from his landmark co-discovery of Ebola and a lifetime of global health excellence, 2015 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award Winner Dr. Peter Piot and the Gairdner Foundation have built a one-day symposium on what has been learned and what needs to be done to address future pandemics. Emerging from a century of unprecedented human…

The Art and Science of Leadership: Building your Emergency Medicine Career

Yaya Village Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The skills we learn in medical school, and after this, our residency, allow our medical knowledge to flourish. After graduation, with experience, we become better clinicians, more able to meet our patients' needs. However, this contact does not mean we know how to build a successful life. That is the real work, and so much…

Complexity and the Ethics of Systems Thinking in Global Health

Munk School of Global Affairs

Global health is inherently complex, comprising as it does of a myriad of biological and social features. The complexity of health, however, lies not only in the countless ways biology and society – including economic and political forces – interact, but also in the nonlinear, dynamic, and, at times, counter-intuitive manner such factors affect each…

GHEI Alumni Alliance Event

Boardroom 6th floor 500 University Ave., Toronto, Canada

Global Health Education Initiative (GHEI) graduates, registrants, faculty and staff are invited to attend a special event of the GHEI Alumni Alliance ~a network of global health leadership~ Our guest speakers are GHEI graduates who will share their initiatives and experiences. Vanessa Redditt and Melanie Henry from Family Medicine on Family Health Teams in Brazil: Lessons in Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Community-based Care Thomas PIggott from Public Health and Preventive…

Sustaining Ethiopia’s Progress in Health

Center for Strategic and International Studies 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., United States

On Thursday, March 3, 2016, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center will host a conference on Ethiopia’s health system, its successes, and enduring challenges. This event will feature three expert panel discussions on the challenges to the U.S. – bilateral relationship, the major infectious diseases that continue to plague the country, and Ethiopia’s efforts to…

Think global, act local! A Global Health in Emergency Medicine (GHEM) Open Meeting

Toronto General Hospital, Conference Room RFE-1S-425 200 Elizabeth St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

One of the ways to address the challenge of global disparity, as a health care provider, is to  pack your bags, say goodbye to your family, your practice, and put yourself at the bedside of people who suffer its ills. Even if you are able to do this, how do you integrate the themes that inspired you…

Health Beyond Borders: 2016 GH Day @ PGME

McLeod Auditorium, Faculty of Medicine

The goal of the 2016 PGME Global Health Day is for participants to better understand the challenges presented from across local and global borders of various kinds; those between countries or those within the field of global health work. Opening address on the ‘State of Humanitarianism’ by Dr. James Orbinski OC, MSC, MA, MD Register for FREE at: http://pgmeglobalhealthday.eventbrite.ca/ More info at: http://gh.pgme.utoronto.ca/?page_id=7901