A new year brings a new taskforce: the PIH Canada Working Group – Education Subcommittee (PIHC WG-ES)!
We’re an interdisciplinary and eclectic group – ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to young professionals such as health analysts – who have come together to explore high action-impact ideas and promote the values of PIH in a critical way. We also hope to address the absence of young voices in the space of global health dialogue.
Academic-focused in nature, we seek to publish our thoughts and reflections on historical and contemporary global health topics. Some of our projects include: monthly blog posts on the PIHC website, commentary submissions to journals (e.g. Health & Human Rights Journal and Lancet Global Health Blogs), and poster/presentation abstract submissions to global health related conferences.
The link between all of our projects is that our opinionsare deeply rooted in the PIH model, a biosocial approach to medicine, and the mindset of “health as a human right”. We are currently composed of 10 highly motivated individuals who are excited to be the inaugural committee members, but we are always open to meeting more!
