April 2017

Applications are due Friday, May 5th, 2017 at 4:30pm. Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicines Indigenous Health Program provides summer programming for youth from the Indigenous communities.

May 2nd, 2017 10:00am - 1:00pm. Room 170 - Collaborative Health Sciences Education Building (CHEB), 5793 University Ave, Halifax, NS. Are you an Indigenous High School Student? Are you interested in a Career in the health Field? Come Join us and explore the many options that are available.

May 1-5. 2017. UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, Room 3208 2405 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver BC. The main purpose of this tropical medicine course is to train health professionals to learn an approach to preventing, diagnosing, evaluating, treating and managing people with tropical diseases. This course is the first of its kind in Western Canada. Over 150 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals have successfully completed this course.

June 20-22, 2017. Niagara Falls, ON. This conference brings together individuals who have an interest in Community Health Nursing from practice, research, administration, policy and education. It is a forum to explore issues of mutual concern as well as exchange knowledge, share evidence and ideas, and generate solutions. Our goal is Advancing Community Health Nursing in Canada.

June 20–23, 2017. Halifax, NS. The higher education institutions of Halifax are pleased to be hosting the 37th Annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education conference.

Nov. 10-12, 2017. Queen's University, Kingston, ON. The Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare (CUCOH) is a three-day conference that enables undergraduate students to engage in hands-on workshops, discussions and seminars that showcase the multidisciplinary nature of healthcare.

Sept. 18 - 20, 2017. Hilton Toronto. Change is in the air for mental health in Canada – you can feel it. But it will take the entire nation to harness those winds of change and make it real. That’s why the theme of the second annual MH4A Conference 2017 is It takes a nation.

May 8-9, 2017. Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Québec. Montreal Clinical Research Institute are proud to announce that they will be hosting the 1st World Health Summit (WHS) of the M8 Alliance to be held in North America. The world leaders in global health will be attending this prestigious event, including over 800 researchers, doctors, industry leaders, decision-makers, government members and civil society actors from around the world. Based on the theme of Health and Healthcare Delivery in Pluralistic Societies, this interdisciplinary event will focus on the question of human diversity in the practice, education, research and public policy pertaining to health.

Friday, April 21, 2017 @ 10:00am. Wooden Monkey, 1707 Grafton St, Halifax, NS. Marking Earth Day, the Environmental Rights Working Group (ERWG) is proposing a non-partisan Bill of Environmental Rights (EBR) for Nova Scotia to give everyone in the province legal access to demand a healthy environment. Similar laws exist in other provinces, but this is the first time a proposed EBR recognizes the unique concerns of traditionally marginalized or vulnerable residents.

June 16-18, 2017. Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto Canada. The North American Refugee Health Conference is recognized as the premier conference for those who work with refugee populations. Conference Chair Anna Banerji O.Ont., MD, MPH, FRCPC, DTM&H Faculty Lead, Indigenous and Refugee Health, Post MD Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Associate Professor Pediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health.