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The Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research and McGill University, in partnership with HealthBridge, Université Laval, and the Regroupement stratégique en santé mondiale of the Réseau de recherche en santé des populations du Québec, invite your views on two issues: 1) women, adolescents and children’s health (WACH) priority themes for which harmonized metrics are needed and 2) your work on partnership assessment.

Are you involved in WACH projects? Do you assess how your global health partnerships work? If so, we invite you to participate in this 10-20-minute online survey! Your input will guide the development and field testing of harmonized, best evidence tools.

A hygiene intervention to improve mothers' weaning food handling practices in rural Gambia

Dr. Buba Manjang, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

The global Sustainable Development Goals require us to make sure “no one is left behind.” That means reaching the hardest to reach. We know how to deliver health to the so-called lowest hanging fruit, but what about the highest hanging fruit – the poorest of the poor, those who lack formal identification, the marginalized, the invisible? In this talk, Professor Wong will discuss the challenges of delivering health to the hard to reach, the innovations to reach, and the political and economic obstacles in our way.

January 31, 2019 at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.

Participation is free. Registration is required as space is limited.

Event details and registration is available at https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/the-sdgs-a-political-economic-take/

Annual General Meeting of members of Global Health Policy and Innovation Research Centre

The first annual general meeting of the GHPI will occur on Monday December 3rd, 2018 in LHN 2723. Students, staff, limited-term faculty are welcome to become limited term members of the Centre and to attend the meeting. To ensure we secure an appropriate sized room, please RSVP to sehorton@uwaterloo.ca by Wednesday November 28, 2018.  

At the Global Health Policy and Innovation Research Centre (GHPI), we are excited to announce the launch of a brand new course called Global Health Innovation that will be offered in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo from fall 2018.

The course will be available to fourth year undergraduate and graduate students in public health and is directly connected with the GHPI mandate to provide training and mentoring to create effective health leadership that meets current and future global health challenges.