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25.01.2022 Ever wondered how countries without universal healthcare access are dealing with COVID-19? Take a read below as the ABC touch on how countries in warzones, remote areas and in highly-populated regions are facing the crisis. https://mobile.abc.net.au//coronavirus-countries/12085816
25.01.2022 USYD med revue 2019 is supporting the HARK clinic for Refugee children at Westmead Children's hospital. If you're after a laugh and want to support a good cause, buy tickets through the link below!
23.01.2022 Wondering what constitutes as a second wave? Wondering how we got to this point? Wondering where else in the world we are seeing this second surge of infections like in Victoria? The COVID-19 Taskforce has broken down the complexity of 'second waves' for you in this series of graphics!
21.01.2022 Have you ever felt like you were unprepared to diagnose a rash or jaundice on a POC patient? Many textbooks tend to show only one image of a lesion, and online ...resources must cover the rest of our learning - but how many images of POC patients do you see with every online search? Malone Mukwende, a second year medical student at St George's University London, felt alienated as a black student. He noticed a lack of discussion around clinical signs in non-white patients, and has been working on a project looking at clinical teaching on black and brown skins. The yet-to-be-published booklet, titled "Mind the Gap", will showcase a range of clinical conditions that often present differently on black and brown skin, in order to better educate the medical community. The images used in this post were taken from Don't Forget The Bubbles, which is in the process of creating an online resource filled with images clinical signs on POC patients!
21.01.2022 Have your say about nutrition education in medical school!! We are faced with a global epidemic of nutrition-related conditions including cardiovascular disease diabetes and obesity. Despite doctors being at the front-line of preventing and managing these conditions, we currently dont receive adequate nutrition education in medical school. AMSA Healthy communities are asking that you take part in a survey assessing medical students perceptions and preferences around nutrition and nutrition education! Your valuable contributions will help us advocate for the implementation of worthwhile nutrition education into the medical curriculum. Plus, you will go in the draw to win one of five $30 Coles/Myer gift vouchers! https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cT25Aydkkvs0JKt
21.01.2022 AMSA Global Health positions are OPEN for next year!
21.01.2022 If you are interested in learning about unconscious racial biases in medicine, check out the event run by BAMEdical on zoom next Wedneday night! BAMEdical is a society at the University of Manchester that seeks to raise awareness of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic experiences in medicine.
20.01.2022 AMSA Code Green Posters attached Link to this Friday's online AMSA Code Green Climate Change Rally: https://www.facebook.com/events/228535121767362/ #climatechangeshealth
20.01.2022 UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE TO THE VICTIMS OF SLAVERY AND THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE 2020 As a medical community, it is our duty to acknowledge the role that non-consenting African-American slaves played in developing medical procedures and clinical practice. It is sobering to compare these historical cases with our four tenets of medicine: autonomy, justice, benefice and non-maleficence. Link to article below:... https://www.washingtonpost.com//american-medicine-was-bui/ #blacklivesmatter
20.01.2022 Hello friends, this Friday AMSA's Code Green Climate Rally will be held online! If you're keen to get involved: take a photo of yourself holding one of our rally signs (message us and we'll send it over or make your own!) and post it on your personal social media account and tag AMSA Code Green or send it to AMSA Code Green or Global Home directly. AMSA Code Green will then put all the photos together in a rolling Instagram story. Make sure you follow AMSA Code Green on Instagram to keep up with the Rally! If you're not comfortable having your face in the photo that's fine, feel free to take photos without your face in it or take a photo of your doggo with the sign, be as creative as you like! #climatechangeshealth
17.01.2022 Hi guys, hope you're all well! AMSA Code Green are running a Hackathon on July 17 - this is an online event where teams come together to brainstorm ideas on "Greening Hospitals". We'd love to whip together a USYD team - if you're keen, feel free to DM or email our Code Green Officer Carla De Pasquale at [email protected]. Would love to see you guys there https://www.facebook.com/events/3262399730470652
15.01.2022 If you work or volunteer with an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation you are invited to participate in a short Headspace online survey and share your v...iews on issues of access, engagement and cultural safety of mental health supports for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. All participants go into the draw to win a $100 voucher! To access the survey click here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/headspacecommunity
15.01.2022 "We know what works in our communities" - NACCHO Aboriginal Health Australia this is critical to remember for all current and aspiring healthcare workers wanting to work in communities where you are an outsider, whether it is in Australia or overseas. We are not there to help in the way we think is most important - we are there to use our skills respectfully in the way the local communities want us to!
14.01.2022 Hospitals in New York City are gearing up to use the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 as a possible antidote for the disease. It follows preliminary studies in China that attempted the measure with plasma from people who had recovered.
14.01.2022 Hi guys, hope you're all keeping safe as we gradually transition towards "normal". Unfortunately, a country that is still very much experiencing a COVID crisis is the US. Read this piece by Ibram X. Kendi, Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Centre to find out more about how racial inequality in the US is reflected in the COVID pandemic. Link below: https://www.theatlantic.com//coronavirus-exposing-/609526/
13.01.2022 Red Party is Live! Donate here! https://www.gofundme.com/f/red-party-social-isotelethon Join the Zoom here!... https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83755303748
13.01.2022 Here is some food for thought in anticipation of our Stories From the Field x Sexual Health and Reproduction Seminar on Saturday night. COVID-19 has had a massive impact on all our lives - but many women have lost access to contraception and safe abortion and delivery services during this trying time. For more information, click on the link below. https://www.aljazeera.com//millions-women-lose-contracepti
12.01.2022 Hello friends! Halad to Health and Monash University are hosting a webinar next Wednesday from 6pm about teenage pregnancy in the Phillipines - check out the link below if this sounds like something you'd be interested in!!
12.01.2022 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w With so much in the media about COVID-19, it can be hard to know which sources to trust, and which to be wary of. Nature (yes, THE Nature!) is doing a fantastic job at keeping the global scientific community informed on what's going on with their "Coronavirus latest" page. On top of that, the journal (and many others too!) and making all of their COVID-19-related research papers free to access for everyone. Truly a global collaborative effort.
12.01.2022 Hey guys, want to know more about Vietnam's phenomenal response to COVID-19? This catchy song not only conveyed a critical public health message but became an international YouTube sensation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtulL3oArQw What about future implications?*... https://www.theguardian.com//vietnam-crushed-the-coronavir Vietnam's approach to COVID-19 containment: https://theconversation.com/vietnam-has-reported-no-coronav
11.01.2022 Only 60 Indigenous Australians have tested positive for COVID-19, and none have required intensive care. This is the most successful response across all Indigenous populations globally. Check out the link below if youd like to read more abou the Aboriginal public health response to COVID!
10.01.2022 Deadly Connections, the organisation we chose for our Red Party this year are now releasing tote bags to support their work in First Nations youth justice
10.01.2022 This Friday join medical professionals and students to participate in the global climate strike. Time IS running out and we can use our voices to let those in power know that the state of our planet is paramount to the health of its citizens.
09.01.2022 Hey hey GlobalHome friends, thank you to everyone who partied (remotely) with us on Friday night and donated to Deadly Connections, which provides legal services for First Nations Australians and also works to break the over-policing of young Indigenous people. We raised a WHOPPING $2000! Want to know where this money goes? Check out the infographic below! This does not end here, and will not end until Black and Indigenous lives are treated as equal to their white counterparts. We still have such a long way to go. #closethegap #blacklivesmatter
09.01.2022 At least 80,000 people on strike in Sydney. This is how the world changes #ClimateStrike
08.01.2022 "We know what works in our communities" - NACCHO Aboriginal Health Australia this is critical to remember for all current and aspiring healthcare workers wanting to work in communities where you are an outsider, whether it is in Australia or overseas. We are not there to help in the way we think is most important - we are there to use our skills respectfully in the way the local communities want us to!
08.01.2022 Hey guys, hope you're all looking after yourselves in this tough time. Whilst COVID-19 is obviously the prevailing public health topic now, we plan on keeping up our engagement in all things global health on our page. Stay safe guys
07.01.2022 GlobalHOME does #ClimateStrike
06.01.2022 Congratulations to the newly elected GlobalHome executive team for 2020! Chair: Ashi Ramamurthy Vice Chair: Fadzai Charlotte Treasurer: Navi Dhaliwal ... Secretary: Kieran Cook Sponsorship Officer: Sarah Li Academic Coordinators: Ange Sweep and Aylin Ektem Events Coordinators: Anj Kay and Swa Kaushik AMSA Global Health Rep: Nirmal Day Stage 3 Representative: Fatema Ali See more
06.01.2022 COVID-19 vaccine production is underway in Australia! Link below What are your thoughts on vaccine production before clinical trials are done? Is this good preparation, or should we have waited for clinical trial results? https://www.smh.com.au//made-in-melbourne-lab-to-start-pro
05.01.2022 Black history isn't just for Black History Month. Despite Black doctors like myself making up a small proportion of the NHS, Black people have been migrating to the UK to study and work within our healthcare system for almost 200 years
05.01.2022 For anyone interested in how history and imperialism affects healthcare experiences today - check out this piece by Dr Annabel Sowemimo, a sexual health specialist in the UK
04.01.2022 Hey guys, sometimes when thinking about global health, we can forget that our work starts right here at home - tackling issues such as institutional racism is a global issue not only in health, but in pretty much any sector. Keeping our systems inclusive for all people will make us all better health professionals, and global citizens both personally and professionally Heres a blog post by Dr Chris Bourke, on how institutional racism in the healthcare system affects Indigenous Australians. Dr Bourke is a Gamillaroi man and one of our first Indigenous Australian dentists #closethegap https://antar.org.au//institutional-racism-healthcare-dire
02.01.2022 If handwashing while singing to Happy Birthday isnt your thing, heres a fun alternative
02.01.2022 Global Health in the time of COVID-19 Watch from here or our Zoom and ask any questions you have for our speakers below! Zoom Meeting ID: 837 5518 8563
02.01.2022 A message from one of our Vampire Cup convenors Lucy Bucknell: VAMPIRE CUP 2020 Hey all at GlobalHOME!... Vampire Cup is back for 2020! For those of you that havent heard of it before, the Vampire Cup is a National blood drive initiative in which medical students compete by rolling up their sleeves to make life-saving blood donations across Australia. This year the blood drive runs from 15th of March to 9th of May, so it starts this Sunday! Last year at USyd we scored an amazing 98 donations and Northern smashed the inter-clinical school competition! To stay up to date with the competition and events, be in the running for some great prizes, and more information about donating, join the @USYD Vampire Cup 2020 at https://www.facebook.com/groups/158306414997991/ and follow the steps below to donate!
01.01.2022 Hey everyone, we know that Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights is a topic that interests many of us, and is very pertinent in both our personal and professional contexts. Over past Population Health lectures, weve seen just how significant issues of Sexual and Reproductive Health are, both globally and locally, here in our own backyards. If you want to learn more about careers in global health in organisations such as Doctors without Borders, how to navigate Obs/Gyn work g...lobally and the challenges faced in sexual assault trauma response settings, then this is the event for you! We are putting on a little discussion series on SRHR on the 29th August 2020 (Post KAT3), with views from people with extensive experience working in the field at home and abroad, with the aim of raising funds for the Birthing Kit Foundation Australia (a.k.a KIT International). Save the date, and stay tuned for more information!
