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The Global Health Night 2014 was held at the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Faculty Club (3450 McTavish), on Monday, November 3rd, from 6 to 8:00pm. This annual event is held to highlight and foster the involvement of students and faculty at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ in global health-related activities.

The evening featured a guest lecture by Dr. Christy L Hanson and also included the announcement of the Global Health Programs Photography Competition winner, the Faculty of Medicine’s Chan Prize winner and the Travel Awards Fall 2014 winners.

During the wine and cheese reception, guests had the opportunity to browse student poster presentations and to vote for the best poster presentation of the night.ÌýStudents and student groups from all backgrounds and disciplines presented posters about their global health-related experiences, clinical rotations and projects!

See the agenda for the evening

Keynote Speaker

"The greatest story rarely told: how global health is ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ lives and nations"

Christy Hanson, MPH, PhD

Distinguished Lecturer in International Studies
Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship
Macalester college

"Christy Hanson is the Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship and a Distinguished Lecturer in International Studies. Dr. Hanson joined Macalester during the 2011-2012 academic year as the Hubert H. Humphrey Professor and taught courses in international public health, and poverty, health and development. Dr. Hanson has nearly 20 years’ experience as a practitioner of international public health. Her primary area of expertise is tuberculosis (TB) control and has provided technical support to countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America through her previous positions with the World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank, PATH, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She has published and presented widely on various aspects of TB control. Dr. Hanson has also published on the economic burden of neglected tropical diseases and was USAID's technical and policy lead on the Agency's NTD Initiative for 5 years. Prior to taking up her role as the Dean of the IGC, Dr. Hanson was the Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at USAID. Her division included the President’s Malaria Initiative, the NTD control Initiative, and the TB team. She is currently a member of the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's technical review panel, and is the chair of a WHO task force on the impact of neglected tropical disease control.Ìý Dr. Hanson received her MPH from the University of Minnesota, and her PhD in international health systems, with a concentration in health economics, from Johns Hopkins University."

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Award winners

ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University Undergraduate Medicine Travel Awards

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The Medical Class of '84 Student Bursary
Stéphanie Marcil
Medicine Year 3

The Medical Class of '65 Student Bursary
Bhairavi Balram
Medicine Year 4

The Ashworth Student Travel Award
Alessandro Carini Gutierrez
Medicine Year 4

The Ashworth Student Travel Award
Salim Korban
Medicine Year 4

The Dr. Yuk Chan Ma and Dr. Yuen Kok Chan Prize in Multicultural and International Medicine

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Samantha Liauw
Medicine Year 4

Bhairavi Balram
Medicine Year 4

Mary A. Metcalf International Travel Fund

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Matthew Secrest
MSc Epidemiology Year 1

Abbey Mahon
MSc(A) Direct Entry Nursing
Global Health Nursing Year 2

'The Global Lens' Photography Competition

Zoë Greenwald
MSc Epidemiology Year 1

Anne-Josée Côté
Medicine Year 4

Nour Khatib
Medicine Year 4
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Global Health Poster Fair Awards - Initiative category

Comparative Healthcare Systems Program: Inspiring Changes in Public Health Through First-hand Experiences of the Quebec and Taiwanese Health Systems
Presented by Gordon Hua
Medicine Year 2

Catering Health Care for Aboriginal Peoples in Quebec
Presented by Harrison Saulnier
Medicine Year 2

ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Internal Medicine Global Health Initiative: Haiti 2014
Presented by Niall Filewod
PGY Internal Medicine Residency Year 3

Global Health Poster Fair Awards - Research category

Presented by Robyn Lee
PhD Epidemiology Year 3

Presented by Nicolas Radomski
Postdoctoral RI-MUHC Year 3

Presented by Erica Seccareccia
Medicine Year 2

Photo Gallery

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