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SUMMARY:Beyond Hospital Doors: A Deep Dive into Post-Discharge Mortality Among Rwandan Children
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Institute for Global Health at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre on Thursday\, May 8\, 2024 from 12:00 – 1:00PM for a global health special seminar by Dr. Christian Umuhoza on “Beyond Hospital Doors: A Deep Dive into Post-Discharge Mortality Among Rwandan Children”. He will present the Smart Discharges study findings on the neglected burden of post-discharge mortality among Rwandan children. A meet and greet with Dr. Umuhoza will follow from 1:00-2:00PM and refreshments will be served. \nDr. Umuhoza is a consultant pediatrician at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) and senior lecturer at the University of Rwanda (UR). With a keen interest in medical education\, Dr. Umuhoza plays an invaluable role in teaching medical students and residents in pediatrics. In 2022\, Dr. Umuhoza partnered with the Institute for Global Health as the Co-Principal Investigator for the Smart Discharges Digital Health Research Program aiming to improve hospital-to-home transitions among children recovering from sepsis. He is also involved in the Arrowsmith\, UBC\, and UR Global Health Partnership\, supporting medical resident education through shared virtual learning activities. \nWe would love to see you in-person at the CSB V2-222\, but if you are unable to attend in-person\, the Zoom details are provided below. \nClick here to attend.
URL:https://canwach.ca/event/beyond-hospital-doors-a-deep-dive-into-post-discharge-mortality-among-rwandan-children/
LOCATION:Hybrid\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events and Conferences,Webinars and Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240511T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240511T170000
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SUMMARY:Youth Vision Summit 2024
DESCRIPTION:Empowering youth-led global change for the world’s most vulnerable children and youth! \nThis hybrid conference is free for youth to attend (thanks to our generous sponsor)! You can attend in person or virtually. Lunch and refreshments are included for in-person attendees.  \nHere is what you can look forward to at the Youth Vision Summit: \n– Build advocacy skills in public education\, political engagement\, storytelling\, and digital and artistic mobilization. \n– Be inspired by Young Global Changemakers and connect with like-minded youth and global impact professionals locally and nationally. \n– Be involved in big-picture conversations including solving global hunger\, protecting children’s rights\, building sustainability for the next generation\, and influencing policy change. \n– Discover how to amplify Canada’s role in advancing global equality and the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals through engaging with decision-makers and the public. \n– Learn how you can affect change in the lives of children across the globe and advocate for a better future to end extreme poverty\, improve global health\, advance gender equity\, strengthen environmental protection\, and improve global food systems. \nDon’t miss this life-shaping opportunity to explore how you can be part of global conversations and impact. You’ll have the chance to engage with impressive youth changemakers\, like-minded peers\, and humanitarian practitioners to network and make valuable connections! \nClick here to register!
URL:https://canwach.ca/event/youth-vision-summit-2024/
LOCATION:Centre for Social Innovation\, 192 Spadina Avenue\, Toronto\, ON\, M5T 2C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events and Conferences,Webinars and Online Events,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240521T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240522T150000
DTSTAMP:20240103T141751Z
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SUMMARY:From Evidence to Impact: Fundamentals of Global Health Advocacy
DESCRIPTION:COURSE FORMAT\nOnline or in-person. Enrollees will need to pick which section of the course to attend:\n-Online: May 21 & 22 9:00am-3:00pm (Montreal time). The online course will be recorded and available until July 1\, 2024.\n-In-person: May 23 & 24 9:00am-3:00pm (Montreal time). The in-person course will not be recorded.  \nDESCRIPTION\nAdvocacy has a crucial role to play in shaping priorities and policies in global health\, yet figuring out how to get started in advocacy can be daunting. Through a combination of lectures\, interactive activities\, case studies and guest speakers\, participants will leave this course inspired by the potential of advocacy for positive change and confident in their ability to incorporate it into their own work. Focusing on both the theory and practical steps behind effective advocacy\, this course is relevant for both global and Canadian audiences as well as those brand-new to advocacy or those who want to build on their existing skills. \nCOURSE DIRECTOR\nLeigh Raithby\nPolicy and Advocacy Officer\, Results Canada and Stop TB Canada \nCOURSE FACULTY\nTaryn Russell\, Deputy Executive Director\, Results Canada\nEkatha Ann John\, Global Health Policy and Advocacy Manager\, Results Canada\nDominique Denoncourt\, Policy and Advocacy Officer\, Results Canada\nFaculty are still being confirmed and there may be changes to the above list. \nCONTENT\nAdvocacy is democracy in action – it can play a powerful role in influencing and shaping priorities and policies in global health. An effective advocacy campaign consists of several strategic components\, that together\, can effect change at national\, regional\, and international levels. In this session\, participants will learn to identify opportunities for policy change in different contexts\, and the tools to influence decision-making to bring about specific changes in global health. This will include an overview of advocacy\, key components to build high-impact campaigns in different settings\, working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders\, ways to communicate effectively with target audiences\, engaging parliamentarians and policymakers\, and campaigning through digital advocacy. The session will include relevant experts from different country contexts sharing their experiences advocating for healthy lives and human dignity for everyone\, everywhere. \nWe will utilize case studies that are global in nature and have guest speakers from a variety of countries so participants can be inspired about how they may apply advocacy in their own contexts and have a good understanding of the breadth of advocacy work that is happening around the world. \nOBJECTIVES\n– To foster a nuanced understanding of advocacy\, decision-making processes\, and translating evidence-based knowledge into policy action in global health\n– To equip participants with the ability to develop a step-by-step advocacy strategy – from developing an “ask” to identifying appropriate targets\, tactics and allies and measuring impact.\n– To explore and share different strategies\, tactics\, challenges and barriers to influence decision making in global health.\n– To encourage participants to apply advocacy using an anti-oppression and equity lens to their areas of work. \nTARGET AUDIENCE\n– Public health graduate students and faculty with an interest in global health advocacy\n– Health researchers and practitioners\n– Policymakers\, administrators\, and policy advisors\n– Community advocates and civil society
URL:https://canwach.ca/event/from-evidence-to-impact-fundamentals-of-global-health-advocacy/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events and Conferences,Webinars and Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240522T140000
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SUMMARY:Ensuring global access to affordable diagnostics for tuberculosis: A Canadian perspective
DESCRIPTION:Before patients can be effectively treated\, they need to be diagnosed. The GeneXpert is an effective diagnostic tool for diseases like drug-resistant tuberculosis\, HIV and hepatitis that is also suitable for low-resource environments. Unfortunately\, high prices for the cartridges used for each test mean it does not reach all who could benefit. This session will explain the “Time for $5” campaign calling on GeneXpert manufacturers Cepheid and Danaher to lower the price of cartridges; discuss the importance of diagnostics in settings from Canada to Lesotho; and highlight Canada’s pledges\, and shortfalls\, supporting the global push to end TB.
URL:https://canwach.ca/event/ensuring-global-access-to-affordable-diagnostics-for-tuberculosis-a-canadian-perspective/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Webinars and Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240528T110000
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SUMMARY:Changing the international conversation through qualitative research: the case of World Health Organisation maternity care guidelines
DESCRIPTION:Please join Maternal and Infant Health Canada (a global public health collaborative devoted to improving wellbeing of the environment\, young ones and those who identify as women) and the Global Women’s Health Network (an alumni group of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Takemi program in International Health) for a webinar by Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist\, Mahmuda Rahman Khan. The webinar is open to all and free of charge. We host webinars every two months. All welcome! \nLearning Objectives from Webinar: \n– Have a basic knowledge of Qualitative Evidence Synthesis techniques\n– Understand the process of World Health Organisation guideline creation\n– Appreciate how research impact emerges
URL:https://canwach.ca/event/changing-the-international-conversation-through-qualitative-research-the-case-of-world-health-organisation-maternity-care-guidelines/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Webinars and Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240528T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240528T140000
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SUMMARY:Bridging Advocacy and Research - Perinatal Care & Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will include:  \n– An introduction to the current state of affairs related to perinatal care and women’s reproductive health as it relates to incarceration\, including a small review of interesting findings in the literature applicable to the topic at hand.  \n– A recount of the current issues related to mother-baby provincial programs and how they affect the mother-baby connection in BC and Canada. Legal and psychosocial issues women and babies face with the current policies surrounding mother-baby programs\, from the perspective of both someone with a lived experience and someone involved in this area day-to-day.  \n– A call for action to bridge research and policy\, including an introduction of a new hub aiming at addressing these issues in a way that involves communities\, policy-makers and researchers (IMPACT Hub). \nAbout the Speakers: \nAllison Campbell is a Registered Midwife and Associate Professor of Teaching in the Midwifery Program at UBC. She is currently completing PhD studies at the Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice (aka the Social Justice Institute). Combining her professional and political interests: social justice in perinatal health care and incarceration practices in Canada\, and informed by many years of learning\, practicing and teaching midwifery\, her PhD work focuses on perinatal experiences and reproductive justice in prisons in BC\, specifically with regards to parenting behind bars. Allison has received funding from SSHRC and the UBC Public Scholars’ Initiative for her research and is a 2023-24 recipient of a Killam Teaching Prize.  \nMo Korchinski is the Executive Director of Unlocking the Gates Service Society (UTG). Mo has had a long history of substance abuse and incarceration. Mo has a Bachelor of Social Work from Nicola Valley Institution of Technology. Her life’s work is now dedicated to helping others break the cycle of incarceration. She is an advocate for people involved in the criminal justice system and continues to push for change at a policy level and increased support for her community. Mo feels strongly about the need to address trauma and support healing for people who experience incarceration.  \nDr. Jessica Liauw is a Maternal Fetal Medicine clinician-scientist at BC Women’s Hospital and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University. She completed her Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship\, Masters of Health Sciences in Population and Public Health\, and the Clinician-Investigator fellowship at UBC. Her research interests include fetal growth restriction\, preterm birth\, medical decision-making\, and the reproductive health needs of marginalized populations.  \nClick here to attend!
URL:https://canwach.ca/event/bridging-advocacy-and-research-perinatal-care-incarceration/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Webinars and Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240530T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240530T193000
DTSTAMP:20240524T131816Z
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SUMMARY:Rise & Thrive: Empowering East African Youth through Education
DESCRIPTION:Education has the power to shape the course of a person’s life. But access to this fundamental human right is often threatened by harmful gender norms\, fragile institutions\, and other systemic barriers. This is especially true for girls living in vulnerable communities. Addressing these challenges requires the cultivation of inclusive\, resilient\, and adaptive learning environments. \nJoin AKFC and Canada-Mathare Education Trust on May 30 as we embark on an exploration of innovative approaches\, challenges\, and triumphs in promoting educational access for girls\, in East Africa and beyond. We’ll discuss the role of Canadian cooperation in expanding gender-equitable education and skill-building opportunities for youth in the region. \nBe a changemaker. Join us at Rise & Thrive and be inspired to advance gender equity and access to education. \nREGISTER HERE AND LEARN MORE \n 
URL:https://canwach.ca/event/rise-thrive-empowering-east-african-youth-through-education/
LOCATION:199 Sussex Drive\, Ottawa / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events and Conferences,Webinars and Online Events
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