by Carrie Lee It is the first day of the World Health Assembly, and all of the delegates are packed into the grand Assembly Hall at the Palais des Nations. I can’t believe I’m here. Looking down from high up in the galleries, we can see rows of tables below…
by Gavin Wayne, Vuong Phan, Isabelle Nehme, Zoe Byrne and Natalie Ward In preparation for the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage, talking place on 23rd September 2019, an interactive multi-stakeholder hearing was convened at the United Nations in New York, on 29th April 2019. AMSA’s presence…
The inaugural AMSA Global Health Intensive (AGHI) has come and gone, and what a ride it’s been. Formerly known as Training New Trainers, AMSA’s flagship training program was entirely redesigned in 2018. We decided that we needed to reshape and refocus on providing capacity building for Australian medical students at…
“That? That’s not a disease, that’s just someone who lived in a city!” the tutor scoffed. “It’s carbon from air pollution. That’s probably what your lungs will look like by the time you die, too.” In my first-ever wet lab, my tutor handed me a flaccid, disembodied lung and asked…
While a lot has been said about the causes of obesity, there is a common thread to all – we reach too often for the packet of chips and not often enough for the gym gear. But, even this sentence alone makes it painfully clear that the individual is at…
As has been reflected in some of our previous blog posts, global health is tricky to define. It encompasses all manner of areas, from refugee health, to climate change, reproductive rights and prevention of non-communicable diseases – our AMSA project groups cover but a small portion of the vast terrain…
