Global Strategy Lab

02/28/2016

Check out a video made by a few Global Strategy Lab research assistants on refugee mental health, an extremely important issue for Canadian policy at the moment.

"The refugee mental health crisis is an extremely pressing issue that affects millions of individuals around the world. However, the mental health of refugees is underrepresented in discourse on refugee issues."

This educational video was created by four Bachelor of Health Sciences students at McMaster University for the 2016 Canadian Coalition for Global Health Rese...

02/03/2016

The World Health Organization just declared a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" for the microcephaly cases linked to the Zika Virus. This has some interesting legal ramifications which the reporter Julia Belluz broadly outlines in this article:

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/1/10871562/zika-health-emergency-who

Answers to wonky questions about what this means.

01/15/2016

We're hiring!

We're currently looking for a full-time, 12-month paid post-bachelor research fellow to help lead some of our global health research projects. Possible research topics include: access to medicines, antimicrobial resistance, health news misinformation, pandemics and to***co. More information below:http://globalstrategy.ninja/news/gsl-hiring-post-bachelor-fellow-0

Applications due February 16. Please share with anyone you think might be interested!

The Global Strategy Lab is offering a 12-16 month post-bachelor fellowship to engage a recent university graduate in our research program that is focused on designing global regulatory strategies that better address transnational health threats, social inequalities and human rights challenges, such…

01/15/2016

Sadly, the day after Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were declared Ebola-free, a new Ebola case is identified in Sierra Leone: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/new-ebola-case/en/