What Makes You Mad About Global Health? Reflections by McGill students
This is a collection of opinion pieces in diverse mediums focusing on the theme “What makes you mad about global health?” These submissions are by McGill students who were part of the course PPHS 511 Fundamentals of Global Health in Fall 2021.
Opinion Pieces
How do we better address inequalities affecting women, adolescents and children within Sustainable Development Goals - By Namrata Rana
Water insecurities amongst Canadian Indigenous Populations - By Mohini Patel
The Hidden Elephant of Global Mental Health - By Iris Guo, Lily Sul & Nathan Liu
In the Shadows: Migrant Domestic Workers in the Context of COVID-19 - By Joely Greenbaum
Off-Patent Prescription Drugs in the U.S. are Being Snatched up for Profit, Deepening Health Inequities - By Dominique Rinfret
Menstrual Products in On-Reserve First Nations Schools is a Drop in the Bucket in the Fight for Menstrual Equity and Decolonization in Ontario - By Hayley Newman-Petryshen
The Unethicality and Ineffectiveness of “Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision” in Africa — Misguided Groupthink or a Form of Cultural Imperialism in the HIV crisis? - By Andrew Little
We Must Do Better: Ending Tuberculosis in Indigenous Communities in Canada - By Alexandre Grant
A 25 year-old woman named M’mah Sylla from Guinea-Conakry just passed away. The Guinean community is outraged, as we all should be - By Madeline Willis
Understanding the Origins of COVID-19: Why it matters to global health - By Francesca Battelli
Infographics
Vaccine inequity in infographics - By (1) Chris Shin, (2) Julia Shuurmans & Stephanie Erhart, (3) Romy Labranche, (4) Nicole Giroux, (5) MariaLuisa Vigano & Delaney Barth
Racial inequities in healthcare: viruses don't discriminate, why does healthcare? - By Natika Bikraj
Lack of access to treatment for HIV: the high cost of stigma and discrimination - By Isabel Muñoz & Erick Pelayo
Access to clean drinking water in First Nations communities in Canada in infographics - By Joseph Sayegh
Lack of women in healthcare leadership positions in infographic - By Safiya Rizwan & Tahsa Miller
Dementia: Urgent Global Health Challenge - By Seonwoo Hong, Papia Sultana, Bavisha Thurairajah
Images/Art
Toxic Divide - By Sabrina Sgro
Sunny Days Ahead - By Amy Tang
Mental health in a drawing - By Mackenzie Currie
Videos
Mental Health Awareness: A Growing Need in India - By Rishabh Shah
Inequities in Global HIV Treatment - By Vincenza Caruana, Irmak Bektas & Jerome Bedard-Matteau
Poems
Why I don’t want children - By Bianca Matthews
My land is sick, and so am I - By Christopher Gao, Gloria Ma & Amy Li
A Child’s Play - By Kerry Yang
Instagram Posts
Vaccine inequity in instagram posts - By Cece Cherrat, Melisa Eraslan & Jade Si-Ahmed
Acknowledgments:
We would like to thank Professor Madhukar Pai for setting and sharing this assignment results with us and the teaching assistants Alexandra Jaye Zimmer, Lavanya Huria and Angie Sassi for their support in coordinating the results.