The Shai-Osudoku Teenage Pregnancy Initiative
By Jasmine Ryu Won Kang The Shai-Osudoku Teenage Pregnancy Initiative (SOTPI) is a bold step forward taken by the Yayra-Si Youth...
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UTIHP
- Apr 16
- 5 min
Neglected Tropical Disease Highlight: Onchocerciasis
By: Daisy Liu The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is far-reaching and felt all over the world. This includes elimination programs in...
Daisy Liu
- Apr 2
- 5 min
Programs on Pause: The Impact of COVID-19 on HIV/AIDS and TB Programs Around the World
Aside from the direct changes to daily life necessitated by COVID-19, the pandemic also has other serious impacts on other programs and...
UTIHP
- Apr 2
- 4 min
An Interview with Pharmacists Without Borders/Pharmaciens Sans Frontieres Canada (PSF Canada)
Dr. Lauren Tailor BSc., PharmD., MPH Epidemiology Candidate For the last year, I have had the privilege of working with other Canadian...
Hyerin Jeong
- Mar 19
- 4 min
Physician Shortage in Canada: When There Is Too Little to Take Care of a Greater Need
Despite Canada’s universal healthcare system, many Canadians are still unsatisfied of the care that they receive. Long waiting times for...
UTIHP
- Mar 1
- 9 min
Preventing Senior Isolation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
An Interview with the Student-Senior Isolation Prevention Partnership By Daisy Liu Though the negative impacts of senior isolation have...
Dr. Lauren Tailor
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Period Poverty: Why Menstrual Products Should be Considered a Covered Necessity
Dr. Lauren Tailor BSc., PharmD., MPH Epidemiology Candidate In November 2020, Scotland became the first country in the world to make...
UTIHP
- Feb 13
- 4 min
The Next “Big Thing”: Data Analytics in Healthcare
By: Daisy Liu Introduction: what is “Big data”? From the number of clicks on a website to the height of an average resident of downtown...
Hyerin Jeong
- Feb 8
- 3 min
Climate Change in the United States: A Scientific and Political Fight
Climate change has become a heated debate over the course of a decade. It has been shown, with overwhelming scientific evidence, that the...
UTIHP
- Jan 31
- 7 min
Interviewing Young Healthcare Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Dr. Lauren Tailor BSc., PharmD., MPH Epidemiology Candidate The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of healthcare...
Daisy Liu
- Jan 24
- 4 min
The Low-Hanging Fruit: Context versus Generalisability in Health Research
Which is more effective, a local intervention carefully modified to account for context or a large-scale program that can be broadly...
UTIHP
- Jan 17
- 3 min
Covid19 B117: A New Enemy?
New UK variant of the COVID19 virus is a global cause for concern By: Hyerin Jeong Ever since the start of 2020, the number of positive...
Daisy Liu
- Dec 24, 2020
- 4 min
The Healthcare Impacts of “Hello”
What can you learn from a person by the way they say “hello”? A lot, apparently, and in a manner that can diminish their access to a...
UTIHP
- Dec 10, 2020
- 4 min
Epidemiological Trends of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Canada
By Lauren Tailor What is HIV? Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is an RNA autoimmune virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency...
Daisy Liu
- Dec 6, 2020
- 3 min
What does telehealth hold in store for access to healthcare?
Defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a mode of remote healthcare services delivery through modern information and...
UTIHP
- Nov 29, 2020
- 3 min
Measles Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Lauren Tailor What is measles and why is it so contagious? Measles is an extremely contagious respiratory viral infection that was the...
Hyerin Jeong
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
Mental Health in East Asia: A Neglected Issue
Despite being among the wealthiest countries in the world, Japan and South Korea have had the highest suicide rates among OECD countries...
Belinda Xu
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Being an Emergency Nurse in Nunavut
A personal account by Orett Brown of his stay in Nunavut from July 2015 to June 2016 Quick biography of Orett Brown: Orett Brown works as...
UTIHP
- Mar 21, 2020
- 2 min
COVID-19 and Epidemic Misconceptions
By Jasmine Ryu Won Kang Amidst global pandemics, there are often numerous public myths, largely unsupported by concrete data, that tend...
UTIHP
- Mar 16, 2020
- 4 min
Can Clinical Trials in Developing Nations Help Foster Local Scientific Capacity?
By Daisy Liu In comparison to animal trials, experiments in humans pose enormous questions of ethics that are difficult and tricky to...
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