Global Health Opportunities

Partnerships Committee (within CFMS)

Stand Up for Health - illustrator *NEW*

• Do you want to help shape the future of health equity and anti-racism education in medicine? Do you have skills in digital art and illustration?
• Stand Up for Health is a not-for-profit organization that creates and delivers immersive training for Canadian medical trainees on concepts related to health equity and implicit bias through a mobile based app.

• We are looking for an illustrator to help develop a series of illustrations for our educational storytelling app. You will join a cross-functional team of physicians, medical students, a product designer, and a developer. We are specifically looking for someone who has experience in digital art.

• Qualifications/skills:

  • - Background in illustration, graphic design, digital art
  • - Experience producing character art
  • - Appreciation for the art of storytelling
  • - Commitment to health equity

If interested, please email [email protected] and include an example of previous illustration work.

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IFMSA

Call for articles: Drugs & Addiction: An Harm Reduction Approach

• Background

  • The European Sting is a political newspaper that aims to bring unbiased and trustworthy information to its readers not only about European Affairs but about almost any political, economical, and social topic. Furthermore, the Sting welcomes its readers to take part in this constructive and critical dialogue! As per the IFMSA's partnership with the Sting, any medical student worldwide is able to voice their ideas, concerns, opinions, and dreams in a global online magazine.

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Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute

in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Our team at The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is currently conducting this study in collaboration with a global team of investigators, researchers, and knowledge users. With two youth partners from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the lead site McMaster University, and funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, we have developed a Plain Language Recommendation format to make COVID-19 recommendations more accessible and understandable for youth globally. We will be testing this format in the trial.

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IFMSA

ScholarRx Brick Builder Grant

• We are thrilled to announce that ScholarRx announced a new grant program for educators and students who want to develop and share new curriculum. Schools and instructors across the globe have begun using Rx Bricks Create to build new learning experiences for students, and we want to offer this groundbreaking $25,000 grant program to support and amplify these efforts. Up to 50 grants of $500 will be awarded based on a competitive process.

The form and application criteria can be found here

Application Deadline: April 15, 2022 11:59 EDT

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• COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Guidelines
• IFMSA + WHO + CDC Infographics in 7 different languages
• WHO Videos + Online Courses Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rH5DdscSr6MhlEDGGpf7kexK1veESFVVk-qzYsHpwg8/edit#

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