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Extreme Weather and Climate Change Among Top Risks Facing World - WEF
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Extreme weather events such as coastal storms and droughts, failure to reduce carbon emissions and build climate resilience, and natural disasters are among the top risks that pose a serious threat to global stability, according the latest Global Risks Report 2018 published by the World Economic Forum.
The intensification of environmental and climate related risks comes on the heels of a year characterized by high-impact hurricanes – Harvey, Irma and Maria – causing major destruction in the US and the Caribbean island states, extreme temperatures and the first rise in global CO2 emissions in four years.
Speaking about the report, Alison Martin, Group Chief Risk Officer of Zurich Insurance Group, said: “Extreme weather events were ranked as a top global risk by likelihood and impact. Environmental risks, together with a growing vulnerability to other risks, are now seriously threatening the foundation of most of our commons. Unfortunately, we currently observe a too-little-too-late response by governments and organisations to key trends such as climate change. It’s not yet too late to share a more resilient tomorrow, but we need to act with a stronger sense of urgency in order to avoid potential system collapse.”
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Equitable access to global health internships: a documentary short
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WHO operates at the centre of the international health system. Its mandate, to promote the health of people worldwide, requires it to build technical and operational skills within the health systems of its 193 member states. For many of these states, particularly those of low income that face growing disease burdens, developing skills in the next generation of public health professionals is imperative.
WHO's Internship Programme exists to support this goal. Each year, about 1000 young professionals from across the world join the programme, of whom the majority (61%) work at WHO's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. However, less than 20% of interns come from developing countries. This imbalance in member state participation has two principal causes: an absence of financial support for interns, which precludes the participation of many from low-income and middle-income countries; and an ad-hoc recruitment process that favours candidates with connections in well-established academic institutions, typically in high-income countries. The result is a missed opportunity for WHO and inadvertently undermines its own objectives on human resources for health.
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Where Pregnancy Is a Prison Sentence
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Inside courtroom number 12, a woman known only by her first name, Wazilfa, looked small and hunched in her black veil. The three male judges looming over her seemed to grow in size as she sunk further and further into the folds of her abaya, while the charges brought against her were read out one by one in Arabic:
Unmarried illicit sex.
Pregnancy outside of wedlock.
Facilitating trespassing into private premises.
There was murmuring between her lawyer and her Bengali interpreter as they explained the implications of each charge. If found guilty, Wazilfa would spend up to one year in prison. Because she is Muslim, the sentence would include up to 100 lashings. She claimed to be divorced from her husband in her home country of Bangladesh, but unless she could prove it, she would be charged with adultery and sentenced to death by stoning. Zina cases like Wazilfa’s are often referred to as “love cases,” a misnomer for the women who fall victim to them.
Based on some interpretations of Islamic legal tradition, zina laws criminalize sex outside of marriage. There are no official statistics on the number of zina cases, but Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that zina laws are applied in varying degrees across most of the Middle East and North Africa.
To read more about this article go to http://pulitzercenter.org
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Why African health policy needs gender mainstreaming
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Disaggregating disease prevalence by gender can go a long way in addressing the continent’s health problems.
Africa has the highest prevalence of communicable diseases in the world – both in terms of mortality (death) and morbidity (illness). This phenomenon has consequences for the health of both women and men, and increased gender mainstreaming in health programmes can help tailor solutions.
A 2016 Institute for Security Studies paper used the International Futures (IFs) forecasting system to explore health trends in Africa. The paper disaggregated disease prevalence data by age, but not by sex. How would sex-disaggregated statistics have affected the findings of that research? Would a different story emerge concerning communicable and non-communicable diseases in Africa? What might account for these differences and how should they guide policy and programme development?
If the different effects of morbidity and mortality between men and women are poorly understood by health agencies and local cultures, then health priorities, analyses and forecasts may be either incomplete or insufficient. Conclusions may rest on shaky foundations, and as a result policies and programmes derived from them may be misdirected and ineffectual.
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Health Specific Events During International Week
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Tuesday, January 30
Telus Centre 131
Changing the World One Toy at a Time
Dr. Michiko Maruyama, Department of Art and Design and Department of Cardiac Surgery
This workshop will involve making paper anatomical models of the heart and other organs. Through the making and use of these models, the audience will learn about anatomy as well as how art, medicine and design can be integrated together.
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Tuesday, January 30
Education Centre North 4-104
Canvas is
Krizia Canvas Carlos, Founder and Creative Director, Canvas is Me; Connie Jakab, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Movement with a Message; Zoe Slusar, student advocate
What role do the arts play in promoting positive mental health and building a resilient community? Join us and experience what it means to ignite creativity to inspire positive mental health. This session includes a mix of listening, learning, and social interaction through music.
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Tuesday, January 30
4:45 - 6:45 pm (Add to Your Calendar)
Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science L2-190
Bending the Arc
Dr. Pamela Brett MacLean, Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine program and Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine; Dr. Jill Konkin, Division of Community Engagement and Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
“Bending the Arc” is a film about the charitable medical work of a team of young people which ignited a global health movement 30 years ago. Fighting entrenched diseases, political challenges, and bureaucratic machinery of established agencies, they took their fight from the village to the world stage to ensure that healthcare is a right for all.
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Tuesday, January 30 - Wednesday, January 31
1:00 - 4:00 pm (Add to Your Calendar)
Students’ Union Building
Doctors Against Tragedies
Dr. Michiko Maruyama, Dr. Cheryl Mack, Dr. Ferrante Gragasin, and Dr. Vivian Ip
The number of fentanyl related deaths is on the rise and this group is determined to do something about it. “Doctors Against Tragedies” is a team of medical students, residents, and physicians who are taking an innovative approach to teach the public about fentanyl use. Come by, play a few games with the docs, ask questions and learn more.
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Wednesday, January 31
2:00 - 3:50 pm (Add to Your Calendar)
Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 2-150
Music for a Healthier World
Dr. Michael Frishkopf, Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology; Kreisha Oro, Intercultural Consultant and Community Based Researcher, Multicultural Health Brokers; Tiffany Sparrow, Music Therapist and Musician with Artists on the Wards, University of Alberta Hospital; Dr. Elizabeth Papathanassoglou, Faculty of Nursing
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Save the Dates of Local Events!
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International Week 2018
Jan. 29 - Feb. 2, 2018
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Annual BGHRN Symposium & Global Health Fair 2018
January 29, 2018
11:00 to 18:00
Room: 2-420 ECHA
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Conversation Cafe
Guest Speaker:
Evelyn Hamdon (PhD Cand.)
January 25, 2018
2-490 ECHA
To view the informative poster please click here.
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Annual Rich Man Poor Man Dinner Event 2018
April 7, 2018
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
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Conferences, Symposiums & Lectures
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"Making the World Safe from the Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases"
Conference
Jan. 29 to Feb 3, 2018
Bangkok, Thailand
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2018 CUGH Conference March 16 - 18, 2018 New York Hilton Midtown,
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Global Health & Innovation Conference April 14-15, 2018
Yale University
New Haven, CT
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Call for Abstracts/Submissions
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Annual BGHRN Symposium & Global Health Fair 2018
January 29, 2018
Location: 2-420 (ECHA)
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Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on
April 14-15, 2018
is calling for abstracts.
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Newsletter & Special Journal Editions
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