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 […]
Growing failure of anti malaria drug treatment linked to parasite mutations
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit releases paper describing new evidence for resistance.
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.
Wonderful full story of an HIV, TB Patient/Hero Joseph Jeune
If you’ve ever seen a presentation by the UBC student group, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, or any by, Dr. Kishor Wasan or any NGDI member, you’ll probably recognize the picture of Joseph Jeune below. His is a story of “Lazarus rising” from the ashes through the treatment of his HIV/AIDS in Haiti. When I first […]
Protecting Health Workers from Infectious Disease Transmission
New article by NGDI members, Drs. Annalee Yassi, Jerry Spiegel and Lyndsay O’Hara explores a 10-year Canadian-South African partnership.
UBC School of Journalism releases “Million Dollar Meds”
The UBC Graduate School of Journalism has partnered with the CIHR New Emerging Team for Rare Diseases to develop this intense look at rare diseases and the issue of access to medicines. They state that one in 12 Canadians suffers from a rare disease, which means that rare diseases as a group are in fact, […]
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.