UBC Global Health Online Network
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Four gut bacteria decrease asthma risk in infants
New research by scientists at UBC and BC Children’s Hospital finds that infants can be protected from getting asthma if they acquire four types of gut bacteria by three months of age.
UBC Speaks Up
UBC`s Mental Illness Network for Destigmatization recognizes World Suicide Prevention Day
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.
NGDI awarded Peter Wall International Roundtable 2015
Ethical Implications in Ebola Research and Development: Does This Change Everything for Neglected Diseases?
NGDI Honours the Closing of Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools reaches ceremonial end.
Biomedical Engineering Student Team Public Debriefing
The team brought back potential projects for improving the existing medical technology and solving some clinical challenges.
UBC Engineering Students Contributing to Global Health
Replacing bolt cutters, device offers better patient recovery.
Global Health Partners Call on G7 for NTD Action
The Neglected Global Diseases Initiative has joined over ninety other global health groups, institutions and individuals in supporting the elimination of neglected tropical diseases.
NGDI Member Urs Hafeli to Lead International Professorship
Lundbeck Foundation will create a joint five-year professorship in drug delivery and nanomedicine.