Newsletter 151
Content
National News and Events
- ICAN Workshop @ Medact
- Wanted: London Co-Ordinator
- Medsin AGA News!
- TBH Nottingham Questionnaire
- Medsin National Conference 2007 - Population and Health
- Advance notice of Marrow AGM
- The Lancet Student podcasts
- Financing and Action for Global Health conference
International News and Events
- Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system constraints
Website and News
The website is for YOUR events being held by YOUR branches, projects and campaigns. It is really, really easy to submit events and news, so please do, and let everyone know what wonderful things you are up to!
National News and Events
ICAN Workshop @ Medact- TOMORROW!
Now's your chance to get involved in ICAN! You will hear more about ICAN, CND, Trident and get involved in real solutions to a nuclear weapons free world.
Longtime anti-nuclear campaigner Gill Reeve and others at Medact will be holding a workshop to get ICAN off the ground in the UK.
The workshop will be held in the meeting room at the Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square, London N1 (nearest tube Old Street, map available on request). Thursday 30th August, 11am-3.30pm.
If you would like to come, send Gill Reeve a quick email as Medact is providing lunch.
Wanted: London Co-ordinator
Do you want to be the Branch Coordinator for London next year? The aim of the job is to maximise the benefit of London’s unique position as a city that is home to five Medsin branches. This job includes: chairing meetings for all the London coordinators, working out how everyone can best work together – for example, joint events and making sure events don’t clash. You will work closely with Vice President for Branches (this year it’s Helen from Manchester) To apply, please send your letter of motivation (no more than 500 words) to the committee Deadline is Midnight, September 14th. Voting will take place between the London branches at the AGA.
Medsin AGA News
Medsin's Autumn General Assembly 2007 will be held at Boldrewood Campus in sunny Southampton on 22nd and 23rd September.
As always the weekend will include:
- updates on different aspects of the network
- outlining plans for 2007/08
- much discussion through mini meetings & debate
- voting session
- training .....as well as a few surprises!
Registration fee: £10 for 2 lunches, breakfast, tea/coffee biscuits and refreshments, accommodation.
- Deadline for bylaw changes - midnight, Friday 7th September
- Deadline for guaranteed accommodation - midnight, Friday 14th September
Registration form and more information Click here
TBH Nottingham Questionnaire
Look out for a questionnaire being circulated (by e-mail and on the medsin website this coming week) by TBH Nottingham, a study looking to find out how to improve recruitment into paeds, using TBH as an example of undergraduate recruitment.
Medsin National Conference 2007 - Population and Health
Cheap train tickets up to Dundee for the Medsin National Conference are now on sale. Check out www.nationalrail.co.uk for times. 26th-28th October!!! A weekend not to miss.
Advance notice of Marrow AGM
Just a reminder that the AGM which is scheduled for 24-25th November this year. It will be held in Exeter, please could you let us know how many people from your group will be attending, whether you will be arriving on the Friday night of the Saturday morning and whether any of your group have special dietary requirements.
Please get back to us a.s.a.p. so we have an idea of numbers.
The Lancet Student Podcasts
Making it easy to relive the canterbury experience, or just some interesting bedtime listening, there's Richard Horton, Tom Ellman and more!
Click here to go to the Lancet Student Podacast page.
Financing and Action for Global Health conference
13-14th September, London
The conference aims to catalyse action on global health. It will address key issues in health systems strengthening in developing countries such as ensuring human resources for health, gender and health and research and development for new tools and technologies; providing an opportunity to hear the latest in policy, practise and research from both international and developing country perspective.
For more information click here
International News and Events
Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system constraints
Improving maternal health remains the most elusive of the Millennium Development Goals. Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy-related causes: 99 percent of these are in developing countries. The majority of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, and are avoidable through using standard interventions and health care which all pregnant women and their newborn babies need.
For more information click here
Last updated on Monday 03 September 2007 at 18:49.
