MISSION
Work on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.
The Global Health Standing Committee serves as a collaborative environment to create meaningful events and initiatives that promote Global Health through an equity lens.
CALENDAR
View Global Health events, opportunities and deadlines here!
STRUCTURE
Canada has two main medical student associations. The Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) and the Fédération Médicale Étudiante du Québec (FMEQ). The CFMS represents all Canadian medical schools outside of Quebec plus McGill and the FMEQ represents all medical schools in Quebec, including McGill. Therefore, McGill is part of both CFMS and FMEQ.
Each of these organizations has an international branch that works on global health topics only: FMEQ has IFMSA-Québec and CFMS has CFMS-Global Health. The international branches of all medical student associations are under the umbrella of an international organization that only works on global health projects: The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA). So as you probably noticed, the nomenclature used to name the international branch of each medical student association is not consistent. Indeed, some use IFMSA and then add the region (e.g., IFMSA-Qc), while other add global health to the name of the student association (e.g., CFMS-GH). This might cause some confusion, but remember that IFMSA-Qc and CFMS-GH are equivalent organizations, but they simply represent different schools. They also have the same internal structure.
Each organization has an executive council and one national officer for each portfolio. In each school, there are local officers for each portfolio. The national officer oversees the work of the local officers in his or her portfolio.
OUR TEAM
MSS VP GLOBAL HEALTH
Edouarda Taguedong
- vpglobalhealth.mss@mail.mcgill.ca
CFMS LOCAL OFFICERS
| Emily Ajit-Roger LO of Indigenous Health Sr  | Yamine Benabdesselam Global Health Advocate Sr | Kiana Yau LO of Global Health Education Sr  |
Jasmine Leung LO of Reproductive and Sexual Health Sr  | Vaidehi Nafade LO of Reproductive and Sexual Health Jr  | Yilin Zhang Local Exchange Officer Sr  |
| Natasha Odessa Grimard Global Health Advocate Jr | Nour Kabbes Global Health Advocate Jr  | Bryden Bukich LO Indigenous Health Jr  |
| Clara Wang LO of Public Health Sr |
IFMSA-QC LOCAL OFFICERS
| TBD LO of Global Health | TBD LO of Medical Education | TBD LO of Clinical Exchanges |
TBD LO of Clinical Exchanges | TBD LO of Research Exchanges |
PORTFOLIOS
HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE
Responsible for leading and implementing projects and initiatives at McGill that advocate for human rights issues of their choosing, such as refugee health and access to essential medicines.
REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH
Responsible for leading and implementing projects and initiatives at McGill that promote knowledge and awareness of reproductive and sexual health, such as awareness days (World AIDS Day, International Women’s Day), workshops, and electives.
- Examples of projects
- Sexual health workshops in high schools (SEXPERT);
- HIV/AIDS awareness activities;
- Raising awareness towards sexual diversity;
- Dinner talk on urban health.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Coordinate awareness initiatives revolving around major public health issues, such as organ donation.
Raises awareness towards global health issues and health injustice, as well as train a generation of students aware of their role on the global scale and their impact on health.
- Examples of projects:
- Talks on global health matters;
- Climate change awareness workshops;
- Attending global health conferences such as the Canadian Conference on Global Health.
INDIGENOUS HEALTH
Works to raise awareness of the health issues of the Indigenous peoples of Montreal, Quebec, and Canada. Approaches human rights through a health perspective and demonstrates the direct link between human rights and the social determinants of health.
GLOBAL HEALTH EDUCATION
Aims at promoting and preserving health by acting upstream on the social determinants of health, such as life habits, access to proper healthcare, education and environment.
- Examples of projects:
- Mental health awareness activities;
- Nutrition workshops in primary schools;
- Talks on public health matters such as non-communicable disease and epidemiology;
- Mental health workshops in high schools.
GLOBAL HEALTH
Works in conjunction with the Global Health Committee to coordinate awareness initiatives revolving around major global health issues, with particular focus on the IFMSA-QC global health theme of the year.
GLOBAL HEALTH ADVOCACY
Coordinate local and national advocacy initiatives around the CFMS advocacy theme and participate in promoting collective action for various causes. The Global Health Advocate also has an executive (voting) position on the Government Affairs and Advocacy Committee (GAAC) as the representative of global health in advocacy work.
- Examples of projects:
- Work with the VP GH and the GAAC president to organize global health advocacy for Provincial and National Lobby Day to represent the MSS at these initiatives.
EXCHANGES
RESEARCH EXCHANGES
Responsible for organizing the IFMSA research exchange program (SCORE) at McGill, by helping prepare the outgoing students’ applications, facilitating the application process, and more.
CLINICAL EXCHANGES
Responsible for organizing the IFMSA clinical exchange program (SCOPE) at McGill, by helping prepare the outgoing students’ applications, facilitating the application process, and more.
QUICK LINKS
List of global health opportunities @ McGill
Contact the VPs Global Health at vpglobalhealth.mss@mail.mcgill.ca to add McGill-based global health opportunities to the list.
List of summer opportunities in global health
Contact the VPs Global Health at vpglobalhealth.mss@mail.mcgill.ca to add regional, national and international global health opportunities to the list.
RECRUITMENT
Recruitment is currently closed, please check back in early September for available positions