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…a 1- to 3-minute speech that tells your audience what your project is and why it’s important. Alex Bruton says we pitch our passion so that others join us to change the world! Omer Imtiazuddin gives a short video on the elements of a pitch – tailored to your audience, engaging, concise and persuasive.  

…that was written by non-Indigenous people.  Canada’s legacy of colonization has made it even more complex—who, how and where we as Indigenous people are identified shifts and changes depending on context but has important personal, cultural, and legal implications for us all.  People and organizations crave clear distinctions and clear lines of identity, but human…

…the 3 cities across Zimbabwe. In addition, The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is providing the team with an additional $150,000 USD to test changes in HIV viral load on a 1000-2000 person cohort over a period of 6 months. Potential for Transformation: The current treatment gap for common mental health disorders…

…as the Syria conflict, the 2013 Philippines Typhoon, the Ebola crisis and, most recently, the Zika outbreak, providing a neutral space for local and international actors to exchange information and access relevant technical guidelines, programme resources and coordination information. [caption id="attachment_22194" align="aligncenter" width="800"] MHPSS.net online hosts and board members at their annual meeting in Sri…

…decade since she has lost all touch with her family. “I desperately want to see my parents, my sister and brother,” she would tell me. Sanchi (name changed) was just one of many women I spoke to in Chennai who had lost all hope, but have slowly begun to rebuild their lives. During my conversations…

…find work in factories, manufacturing products such as electronics, garments, footwear, and textiles for export. The 2009 Population and Housing Census, Vietnam, showed that 6.6 million people changed their place of residence between 2004 and 2009, an almost 50% increase from the 1990s. This flood of migrant workers has come with the rapid modernization and…

…Impact that are rendering results. Through our Stars in Global Health Program, we are supporting an innovation in Uganda addressing maternal mortality. Uganda’s maternal mortality has hardly changed over the past ten years, with a rate of 438 deaths per 100,000 births. This translates into over 6,000 women dying every year. A major factor responsible…

…involved since then in this incredible movement. Looking back, it is clear to me that the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative was a watershed and it changed the course of global health. Before 2003, there was skepticism that world-class discovery science had a legitimate role, despite the fact that some of the greatest scientific…

…“Drugs for Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection” which was led by Douglas Young of Imperial College.  Although this project never produced the new drug candidates envisioned, it changed the scientific perspective on the pathogenesis of TB, which is no longer viewed as either active or latent, but is now understood as a disease with a…