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Guest Blog Post By: Sumayyah Khalid This year’s Students for Global Health Annual Conference took place from 25th-26th March at Manchester Royal Infirmary’s Undergraduate Centre. The conference aimed to provide opportunities for students with an interest in global health to network with one another, and with professionals in the global health field. These professionals delivered … Continue reading Students for Global Health Annual Conference 2023

On the 15th of February, I was pleased to be asked to attend Medics 4 Rare Diseases annual symposium in person. This year’s event, entitled ‘The Unusual Suspects: rare disease in everyday medicine’, brought together students, health care professionals, researchers, people with lived experience of rare diseases, advocates, and other interested parties together to learn … Continue reading Medics 4 Rare Diseases – The Unusual Suspects

This is a guest post by medical student Amit Singh Attending the UN Climate Talks (COP27) for the second year in a row brought a busy week filled with highs of meeting old friend and colleagues, and lows, of observing hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists disrupt negotiations.  Through the efforts of collective civil society action, … Continue reading Reflecting on the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 🌍

Click here to take part The Big Green Youth Survey has been developed by Students for Global Health. Students for Global Health is a student led charity tackling local and global health inequalities through education, advocacy and community social action. Our main focus this year has been on climate change, because climate justice is health … Continue reading The Big Green Youth Survey: Our Voice. Our Planet. Our Future.

March 2021 Update After our last update in November 2020, our new COP26 National Working Group has been hard at work with events, campaigns, collaborations, and everything climate! Read below what we’ve been up to, what’s coming up, and how you can get involved... Our work so farThere have been a number of exciting updates … Continue reading Climate Change and Health Coordinated Theme March 2021 Update

To Mark International Women's Day 2021 Students for Global Health Partnered with our Action for Global Health to explore the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the gender health gap. Here we explore impacts of healthcare workers, gender-based violence and menstrual health and hygiene. Over recent decades there has been enormous progress made for women worldwide especially in regards to maternal, sexual and reproductive health … Continue reading Secondary impacts of COVID-19: widening the gender health gap

by Kurchi Mitra COVID-19 has left an indelible mark on nearly every country-sparing close to none in terms of the lives lost, the jobs impacted, the extended months of social isolation. However, countries in the Global South such as those in Africa, which experts feared would be ravaged by the pandemic due to their underfunded … Continue reading Global Health’s colonial roots & Lessons to learn from the Global South

by Rae Halliday Credit: Steve Eason/Flickr The National Health Service was founded in 1948 on the principles of providing a ‘universal service for all based on clinical need, not ability to pay’. Today, the first guiding principle for the NHS remains that ‘the NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all’. Despite this, every year … Continue reading The NHS and Migrant Health

Dr Michael FitzPatrick, co-chair of the trainees committee at the Royal College of Physicians, explains how and why the RCP is helping to reduce inequalities in health In 1980, the Black Report was published by the (long-since replaced) Department of Health and Social Security. ‘Black’ was Sir Douglas, president of the RCP at the time, … Continue reading The Royal College of Physicians and health inequality: where we were, where we are, and where we’re going