Category: Blog Archive 2012

Posted by Adrienne Lee Mon, 13 Feb 2017 The WHO report "Health for the World’s Adolescents" published in 2014 highlights the fact that worldwide, for those between 10 and 19, depression is the predominant cause of illness and disability and suicide is one of the top three causes of deaths. For those countries where survey … Continue reading Adolescent Health and Confidence in Who We Are – Graham Lister – Chair of Board of Trustees

Posted by Liban Ahmed Sun, 12 Feb 2017   Parasite infection and its issues. Why an integrated approach is the way forward? (By Diego F. Najera) Parasitic distribution and infection is an issue of relevance to global and local health, veterinarians and agricultural economy. Parasites can cause death, overt clinical disease and sub-clinical disease in … Continue reading parasite infection and its issues. why an integrated approach is the way forward? by diego f najera

Posted by Andy Pearce Mon, 30 Apr 2012 On the weekend of the 14th-15th April, Medsin KCL hosted over 300 students for Medsin’s global health conference. The conference was entitled Conflicted: The War For Health and dealt with the causes, health effects and responses to violent conflict around the world. It’s been two weeks since … Continue reading post conflict(ed) recovery

Posted by Nikki Scott Mon, 30 Apr 2012 As promised, here is SKIP's account of our General Assembly, which took place up in the wonderful city of Glasgow on the 14th and 15th of April. The keen-eyed amongst you will have noticed that this was the same weekend as the Medsin Global Health Conference, which … Continue reading travel fund and advocacy in glasgow: the skip ga

Posted by James Conroy Sun, 29 Apr 2012 One of two National Coordinators of SKIP. FY1 doctor based in Yorkshire. It was raised this weekend at the Medsin Spring General Assembly that SKIP has been rather lacking on blog contributions. For this, we can only humbly apologise and promise to make amends. Starting now. So … Continue reading skip and looking after member welfare

Posted by Vita Sinclair Wed, 25 Apr 2012 I can nearly stretch my legs out in front of me and to my left the window spans a good metre across. In these times of austerity, when most of the perks of international travel have evaporated, you might think this is a rather luxurious journey back … Continue reading 4 days, 3 cities and a healthy planet

Posted by Benedict Warner Tue, 24 Apr 2012 Ben is a final year medical student at Dundee University, and was previously the national Secretary for Medsin in 2010/11. He battled long & hard with the old website, but much prefers this one now. By the time the Health and Social Care Bill passed into law, becoming … Continue reading building a grass-roots, citizens’ movement for health

Posted by Hollie Kluczewski Mon, 23 Apr 2012 Hollie is intercalating in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research at LSHTM. Ex-national coordinator of Sexpression:UK, current transnational project coordinator of SHAPE, Policy and Advocacy assistant to SCORA. Contact her on hkluczewski@gmail.com As my role as joint transnational coordinator of Sexperience (An international collaboration of projects similar to … Continue reading moving forward from ghana

Posted by Felicity Jones Sun, 22 Apr 2012 Felicity is a fourth year medical student at King’s College London. She is currently Joint National Coordinator of Medsin-UK, along with Dan Knights. Contact her on nationalcoordinator@medsin.org and follow her on twitter: @faejones. It’s the final day of our time in Prague, and looking back over the … Continue reading an emotional rollercoaster at euregme

Posted by Joy Clarke Sat, 21 Apr 2012 Policy and Advocacy Director for Medsin UK. Medical student at Barts and the London. Tweet @joyclarke1 Email policies@medsin.org This article was first published on openDemocracy.net, http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/joy-clarke/when-camaraderie-is-for-show-virgin-loves-london-marathon-helps-dismantle-nhs When camaraderie is for show: Virgin loves the London Marathon, helps dismantle the NHS On Sunday morning London will be alive … Continue reading when camaraderie is for show: virgin loves the london marathon, helps dismantle the nhs