This blog is a summary of a longer paper submitted by Dr. Duncan Pedersen, McGill University, which was written in response to Sandy Campbell’s earlier guest blog entitled “Call to Fire.” A Step in the Right Direction: Toward a New Architecture of Global Health Research In response to the “Call to Fire” blog by Sandy […]

It’s been just over a month since we launched our new website and our Gathering Perspectives project, yet we’ve already been fortunate enough to engage with hundreds of people who share a common passion for global health research.  Much of this engagement came in response to a recent guest blog post, “A Call to Fire”, […]

As some readers may already know, here at the Coalition, we recently launched a new project we’re calling “Gathering Perspectives”, as we seek to hear from a wide variety of voices on Canada’s role in global health research.  Looking for input from a wide variety of stakeholders, we’ve asked a number of colleagues to share their […]

Here at the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, we’ve been following along with the 66th World Health Assembly. Through the wonders of technology, we’ve been able to watch some of the panel discussions taking place at the conference. On March 21st, Livestream hosted a panel called The Changing Landscape of Global Health: Charting a […]

An Introduction by Katrina Plamondon: On May 1st, we began this six month process of dialogue with our first full-day event. We spent the day surrounded by the wisdom of ancient red wood trees, inspired by the beauty of the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver. Our facilitation team included myself (Katrina Plamondon), Vic […]

Alongside the launch of our new CCGHR website, we’re launching an exciting new project called Gathering Perspectives, during which we’re hosting a number of regional and institutional dialogues across Canada (and hopefully around the world).  In coming weeks, we’ll be sharing the various perspectives of a variety of colleagues,  focused on their visions for Canada’s […]