Global Health Access & Equity Issues in LMICs and HICs: Compare & Contrast
We would like to invite you to attend the symposium on Global Health Access & Equity Issues in LMICs and HICs: Compare & Contrast. Dr. Peter J. Hotez will be the guest speaker. There will be a student presentation competition and a panel discussion featuring health science researchers and professionals. The event is scheduled for […]
2019 UBC Tropical and Geographic Medicine, Intensive Short Course
UBC Tropical and Geographic Medicine, Intensive Short Course March 20, 2019 The main purpose of this Tropical and Geographic Medicine course is to train health professionals to learn an approach to preventing, diagnosing, evaluating, treating and managing tropical diseases. This course is the first of its kind in western Canada. Over 250 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and […]
UBC Global Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium
March 1st, 2018 This event has passed. Location: The Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, UBC Vancouver Campus 1-5PM Antimicrobial resistance develops when antibiotics are overused, or misused, and encourage mutations in pathogens that will allow them to become resistant to current medicines. Bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics at an alarming rate. Excessive or misinformed prescribing […]
1st World Sepsis Congress
Challenges and Opportunities in the Fight Against Sepsis. A completely online congress to be held on Sept 8-9, 2016.
Peter Hotez Centennial Session on Global Health Presentation Available
The Neglected Global Diseases Initiative was pleased to present an evening with world-renown global health expert, Dr. Peter J. Hotez. He is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine as well as a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology. He holds an Endowed Chair of […]
NGDI hosts Peter J. Hotez: Centennial Session in Global Health
April, 28, 2016 from 7:00 – 8:30 PM at Paetzold Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Pattison Pavilion, VGH Campus, 899 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC.
Progress in maternal and child health in Bangladesh
Dr. Shams El Arifeen from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh will be speaking Feb 24, 2016.
UBC Tropical and Geographic Medicine, Intensive Short Course
Opportunity to learn an approach to preventing, diagnosing, evaluating, treating and managing people with tropical diseases: May 2-6, 2016.
Join us for World Sepsis Day Event
Please join us on Sept 11 for an early event in recognition of World Sepsis Day on Sunday Sept 13, 2015. The UBC community has recently made breakthroughs in the treatment and diagnosis of Sepsis and in our understanding of the disease.