Claire Parris and Claire Stirling are this years Queen's University co-presidents. Contact the committee here.

Medsin QUB in a nutshell

Medsin QUB has been operating for approximately five years, and in that time we have gone from strength to strength. Perhaps our biggest success to date has been our Global Health Short Course where we ran a six week series of lectures, with a curriculum covering a wide spectrom of areas within global health. Also, our ambitious CPRiS project cannot go unmentioned as a great achievment, which aims to teach 25,000 children basic life support each year, meaning that in 10 years time, 10% of the population in Northern Ireland will be capable of performing CPR.

Medsin QUB is also affiliated with Marrow Belfast, last years top recruiting branch throughout the UK. We have also recently set up Teddy Bear Hospital, the Global Health Project which has written the course curriculum for three SSCs and we have also had participants in the IFMSA project Unite for Sight in the past.

Medsin QUB has been working closely with a number of national and local HIV/AIDS charities for the past number of years to promote World AIDS Day and other stop AIDS efforts. We have also had a number of novel fundraisers in the past for WaterAid including a soak-a-thon, and we continue to promote Fair Trade within the university and hospitals.

We are also busy forming links with Medecin Sans Frontieres Ireland which has a new national office serving the organisation. Click on the link to visit their website!

Upcoming events!

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Update on recent activities!

  • We had 5 members attend the Medsin National Conference: MDG10 in Swansea
  • Held a cake sale and sold red ribbons in the SU raising £186 for the National Aids Trust
  • Have a Birthing Kits Workshop coming up on December 15th, creating packs to be sent to Africa this coming summer

For the year 2009/2010 we some marvellous activities take place:

We:

  • hosted first MEDSINEMA film screening of the year in recognition of World AIDs Day
  • hosted an information evening with MSF Dublin
  • had an evening with speakers addressing the "Defend Primary Healthcare" campaign
  • had 11 members attend the GHC in Manchester
  • 3 members attend the Medsin National Conference in Nottingham
  • visited the N.I HIV support centre and became familiar with it's work

  • ran a Global Health Short Course which included:

    -The Causes and Cures of Global Inequality

    -Conflict and health + the health of displaced persons

    -Climate change and health + Emergency humanitarian relief

    -Access to essential medicines

    -Women’s and children’s health

    -Neglected and tropical diseases

How do I get involved?

If you are interested in getting involved please contact us through e-mail

Who runs Medsin QUB

This year's committee includes:

*Co-presidents - Claire Parris & Claire Stirling

*Secretary -

*Treasurer -

*Publicity officer -

*CPRiS Coordinators -

*Pharmaware Coordinators -

*TBH Coordinators -

*Marrow Coordinators -

*Webmaster -

Queen's University Belfast Committee

  • Gerard Millen - Past Medsin National VPE
  • Gemma Owens - Past Medsin National President
  • Martin McClatchey - Webmaster
  • Eiméar McGovern - Past President
  • Maria Ward - President
  • Claire Parris - current President

Medsin projects at Queen's University Belfast

Medsin campaigns at Queen's University Belfast

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Last updated on Friday 10 December 2010 at 09:55