Newsletter 147

Content

National News and Events

  • ukAM2007 in Canterbury - help needed
  • Advance warning of AGA
  • Nuclear Weapons awareness raising events- Get involved!

International News and Events

  • Call for application for internship with Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) in Geneva
  • WorldHSS2007

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National News and Events

ukAM 2007 in Canterbury - help needed!

ukAM is less than two weeks away and over 900 delegates from all around the world will be descending on Canterbury for a week to discuss Access to Essential Medicines. The OC have worked incredibly hard for over a year now to make this GA a reality and it is shaping up to be the biggest and best GA in the history of the IFMSA.

Everything is coming together in these last few crucial weeks and we need your help for one big part of it. On the 31st of July and the 4th of August, hundreds of delegates from around the world will be arriving in London and will need to be transported to Canterbury on OC buses. We need people to meet the delegates at the airports and bus stations and direct them to the OC buses, as well as some people to travel on the buses to and from Canterbury.

It would be a huge help if anyone who lives near London or will be near there on the 31st/4th would be willing to help. Alternatively, if you are free the weekend of the 4th and 5th and would like to come to Canterbury to help out both days, that would be great too. If you are interested, please email Gerard with the subject "OC Transport Help".

Advance warning of the AGA

The date for the Autumn General Assembly has been decided. It will be held at Southampton on the 22nd and 23rd September. For more information click here

Nuclear Weapons awareness raising events- Get involved!

Have a look at the following amazing events:

  • Bike Tour- Calais/Dover/London (28/9- 30/9)
  • Dance for Abolition (boat party)
  • Bed run (paralleling money better spent on NHS)
  • Video Messages from around the world
  • Flying a blimp over London with message
  • Double decker bus hire displaying/ delivering message
  • Meeting with FCO/MOD officials
  • Candle lighting in shape of radiation sign
  • A lively demo in Trafalgar Square
  • Global Essay Contest on nuclear abolition- Prize €50,000!
  • PR- flyers, logo’s, website

These are all set to take place around the IPPNW/RSM (Royal Society of Medicine) Conference- Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition. October 3-4th 2007. London

A team of international students really need some UK student support in the above events.

For more info and to get involved please contact Kiran

International News and Events

Call for application for internship with Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) in Geneva

If you are interested in:

  • International research experience at a renowned centre of health research in Geneva (Council on Health Research for Development)
  • Opportunity to present findings in an address at an international health research conference (Global Forum for Health Research – Beijing, China, October 2007)
  • Publication of results through COHRED in high level research journal
  • Research will be used to develop youth health researcher award

Then click here for more information.

WorldHSS2007

On the behalf of the Organising Committee (OC) and the Joint Working Group (JWG) of the World Healthcare Students' Symposium 2007 (WorldHSS 2007), we would like to invite you to take part on this event, which intends to gather 400 Healthcare Students, between the 26th of November and 1st of December 2007 in Albufeira (Algarve, Portugal).

The constant demand of Healthcare Systems for quality, efficiency and security relies on the fact that collaboration and communication between all health professionals is essential to act patient-centred. This Symposium aims to discuss and promote multidisciplinary healthcare teamwork from various points of view.

WorldHSS 2007 is a joint initiative of the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF), European Pharmaceutical Students' Association (EPSA), International Nursing Students' Association (INSA), European Nursing Students' Association (ENSA), International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), and the European Medical Students' Association (EMSA). It will be hosted by the Portuguese Nursing, Medical, Pharmacy and Health Technology students' associations.

Please visit our website! For any questions please don't hesitate to contact your IFMSA representatives Emmaline Brouwer and Nora van Merendonk!

Last updated on Tuesday 24 July 2007 at 22:19.