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Mar 21
3 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 to be circulated; the...

Mar 4
3 min

Climate Change and Population Health

By Jasmine Ryu Won Kang There are few global health crises as consequential and ubiquitous as the one imposed by climate change. Described by the United Nati...

Feb 24
2 min

Why Polio Remains Endemic in Pakistan

By Hoor Tariq Home to almost all of the world’s polio cases, Pakistan remains an impediment to a polio-free world. Although the country has made tremendous s...

Jasmine Ryu Won Kang

Jan 28
4 min

The Information Gap: Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy

Why vaccination should not be a question of if, but a matter of how it can be more accessible globally. Acquiring information from reputable sources has alwa...

Jan 14
6 min

#MeToo, #WithYou: An Examination of the Social Attitudes Concerning Sexual Violence in South Korea a

Warning: this article contains possibly sensitive content (discussion of sexual harassment, sexual assault) Me,too. We, too. The above are two similar phrase...

Jasmine Ryu Won Kang

Dec 30, 2019
5 min

The Rise and Fall of Antibiotics

Many of us cannot remember a time when antibiotics were not around. Omnipresent in clinical settings, antibiotics have been playing crucial and diversified r...

Dec 17, 2019
4 min

STI Still Rampant Across the Globe Despite Efforts Made for Control

Despite recognition in the prevalence of sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs) in developing countries, actions taken to minimize transmission of these disea...

Nov 28, 2019
5 min

Approaches to Tuberculosis Treatment - An Analysis Article

Tuberculosis is one of the most widely known and publicised diseases in the world due to its lethality and the massive problem it poses in many areas around ...

Mar 28, 2017
1 min

Anh Cao on Homelessness - Health and Human Rights Conference 2017

Missed out on our Health and Human Rights Conference? Watch Anh Cao, a top graduate of the University of Toronto, speak on his own experiences with homelessn...

Mar 20, 2017
1 min

What is a Good Death? A Facilitated Discussion on Palliative Care

The demand for palliative care has been on the rise over the past decade. As one of the fastest growing fields in the healthcare sector, palliative care aims...

Mar 16, 2017
1 min

Ontario Model World Health Organization (OMWHO) 2017

OMWHO 2017 was great! Here's a video with all our best highlights! Thank you to everyone who came out!

Mar 14, 2017
3 min

From Executive Decision-Makers to Facilitators

As first-time co-chairs for Global Health Engage (GHE) – a subsidiary of the U of T International Health Program (UTIHP) – Derek and I were presented with a ...

Nov 17, 2016
4 min

GHE asks “What is a Good Death?”

In the macabre spirit of Halloween just days away, UTHIP’s Global Health Engage hosted their first event of the year: an interactive discussion about death f...

Apr 19, 2016
2 min

“THE CONFLICT ZONE WAS HIS COMFORT ZONE” – Health and Human Rights Conference 2016

Day 2 of the Health and Human Rights conference was very humbling, eye-opening and interactive. Things kicked off with a special keynote from a refugee stude...

Apr 19, 2016
1 min

How To Retain Your Intellectual Independence: Lessons from Justin Podur at HHR

Justin Podur, a Toronto-based author and political analyst, started his talk at the Health and Human Rights Conference arguing that a nuanced political under...

Apr 19, 2016
4 min

Humanitarianism and Constant Conflict: Dr. Leslie Shanks’ HHR Keynote Address

UTIHP’s Health and Human Rights Conference took place over two days, providing attendees with an enriching experience on medical humanitarian interventions i...

Mar 10, 2016
2 min

UTIHP’s 18th Annual Health and Human Rights Conference to Tackle Equity in Conflict Zones

Each year the University of Toronto has the great honour of hosting the Health and Human Rights Conference, a two-day event that engages undergraduate, gradu...

Mar 9, 2016
2 min

UTIHP’s 18th Annual Health and Human Rights Conference to Tackle Equity in Conflict Zones

Each year the University of Toronto has the great honour of hosting the Health and Human Rights Conference, a two-day event that engages undergraduate, gradu...

Mar 5, 2016
4 min

A Look Into the UTIHP’s High School Partnership Program

During reading week, HSPP gave me the wonderful opportunity to tag along with them on one of their high school visits. For this visit, we went to University ...

Denitsa Vasileva

Feb 24, 2016
3 min

Ontario Model World Health Organization

On the last weekend of January, the University of Toronto and Toronto City Hall jointly hosted the Ontario Model World Health Organization conference. The ga...

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