{"id":20169,"date":"2012-12-20T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:35:27","slug":"undergrads-got-the-itch-to-do-global-health-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/12\/undergrads-got-the-itch-to-do-global-health-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergrads:  Got the itch to do global health research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20170\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ana-sanchez-banner.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20170\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20170\" title=\"Ana Sanchez\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ana-sanchez-banner-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Brock Prof. Ana Sanchez is organizing a global health research forum to reach out to future researchers.\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock Prof. Ana Sanchez is organizing a global health research forum to reach out to future researchers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Undergraduates interested in doing research on global health issues will have a prime opportunity to learn more at a forum taking place Jan. 26 in Pond Inlet.<\/p>\n<p>The event Discovering Global Health in Your Future is co-produced by Brock and McMaster universities, in alliance with the <a title=\"CCGHR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccghr.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Created to raise awareness of graduate work in fields relating to global health, the forum is a full day of workshops and discussions with researchers as well as experts from international health and humanitarian organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It even comes with lunch. And for Brock undergrads it&#8217;s free. The Office of the Associate Vice-President, Student Services will reimburse their $20 registration fee on the day of the event.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ana Sanchez\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/faculty-directory\/community-health-sciences\/ana-l-sanchez\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Prof. Ana Sanchez,<\/a> a forum organizer and leading scientist in infectious disease research, said the forum will help students better understand global health, which she calls &#8220;a field at the intersection of the medical or natural sciences with the humanities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to reach out to our future researchers,&#8221; Sanchez said. &#8220;Otherwise, how will they ever know that they might like research? By attending the forum, students may discover they are actually interested in doing global health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Local is global, and the health of one person may have collective repercussions. So we have to make this information available to students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The forum will include:<br \/>\n\u2022\taddresses from Luis Gabriel Cuervo, of the <a title=\"PAHO\/WHO\" href=\"http:\/\/new.paho.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Pan American Health Organization<\/a>, and Marilyn McHarg, president of the medical humanitarian organization <a title=\"Dignitas International\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dignitasinternational.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dignitas International;<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\tworkshops on topics including careers in global health, how to select global health graduate programs, and the ethics of global health placements;<br \/>\n\u2022\tdramatic arts interpretation and visual arts exhibitions; and<br \/>\n\u2022\texhibitors such as graduate programs or NGOs dealing with global health.<\/p>\n<p>Registration deadline is Jan 14, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CCGHR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccghr.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the website<\/a> for more information  or contact <a href=\"mailto:asanchez@brocku.ca\">Ana Sanchez<\/a> at Brock or <a href=\"mailto:ccghr@mcmaster.ca\">Helena Collins<\/a> at McMaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduates interested in doing research on global health issues will have a prime opportunity to learn more at a forum taking place Jan. 26 in Pond Inlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[469,3325,440],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20171,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions\/20171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}