GHEI Global Health Disparities
From straightjacket
Proposed Projects
- GHEI - Breastfeeding for reduction of child mortality
- GHEI - TB in aboriginal communities in Canada
- GHEI - Healthcare for non-status individuals in Toronto
- GHEI - Give a Day for HIV/AIDS campaign
- GHEI - Nutrition & cardiovascular risk reduction for the South-Asian community in Toronto
Links
- Binyavanga Wainaina, How to Write about Africa.
- Also Wainaina's response to the fall-out.
- Chimamanda Adichie, The danger of a single story. Presentation a TED conference July 2009.
- Sick People or Sick Societies (CBC Radio's Ideas 2009) Part 1 | Part 2
- Avaaz.org - an advocacy organization that combines internet-based mass mobilization and fund-raising for specific campaigns with professional PR and lots of creativity to target decision makers at key times and platforms to maximize the force of the message.
- Rachel Marsden: Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics are peddling a politically correct fantasy
- "Forget the 2016 Rio Olympics – there’s a more pressing issue to address: Who is fighting to ensure that the immigrants of European descent are adequately represented at next year’s Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games?"
- The responses at the bottom are also quite interesting.
- CBC My Big Fat Diet (includes video excerpt)
- "Supersize Me meets Northern Exposure in My Big Fat Diet when the Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay gives up sugar and junk food, returning to a traditional style of eating for a year to fight obesity and diabetes."
- If you'd like to burrow a copy please email me at azad.mashari@utoronto.ca.
- "Global Health" Ethics: A collaborative project based on ethical issues encountered in "the field" by medical students.
