Health in the Community
Cumin, coriander and a sense of community
In the early days of the pandemic, Leonora Indira King, MSc’17, was hosting online workshops for Parc-Extension’s Afrique au Féminin, a Montreal women’s centre...
June 29, 2022
McGill Bicentennial Global Health Week: highlights
As part of its Bicentennial celebrations, McGill hosted Global Health Week from May 16-20, 2022. Built around the overarching theme ‘Providing Solutions to...
June 22, 2022
Finding her place
As a nurse at the Ingram School of Nursing’s nurse-led clinics at the Native Women’s Shelter and the Native Friendship Centre, Lucie-Catherine Ouimet...
June 21, 2022
McGill professor writes sci-fi novel – on a dare
Written during the pandemic, Antuna’s Story, the debut novel by neuroscientist Terence Coderre, wins immediate praise When the COVID-19 lockdowns hit in 2020,...
June 16, 2022
Finding Harry
An amateur genealogist’s search for family stories leads him to McGill, where his great-uncle Cecil Archippus Harry (MDCM 1908) was one of two...
June 16, 2022
It’s complicated
In his new book, medical anthropologist Prof. Todd Meyers chronicles a decades-long relationship forged across profound differences with a participant in a study...
June 16, 2022
Indigenous Perspectives on Healthcare
Richard Budgell is a Labrador Inuk and lectures, writes and researches on Inuit health. Prior to joining McGill University’s Department of Family Medicine,...
June 10, 2022
Introducing the Amelia Saputo Community Outreach for Dementia Care
A gift of $1.5M from the Amelia and Lino Saputo Foundation to the Office of Ed-TECH in the McGill Faculty of Medicine and...
June 8, 2022
New study reveals impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Quebec’s nurses
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, researcher and Professor Céline Gélinas believed it was important to survey Quebec nursing staff to...
June 8, 2022
Specialty: Teddy bears
A group of McGill medical students is creating the first “Teddy Bear Hospital” in Montreal to help kids overcome their anxiety about medical...
June 6, 2022
4 Burning Questions for…. Steffanie Strathdee, AMR Symposium keynote speaker
On June 20, Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, will deliver the keynote address at the second Annual McGill Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Symposium, titled Superbugged: The...
June 3, 2022
2022 Spring Convocation Hon Docs announced
To celebrate the Class of '22, the University will welcome 14 inspirational individuals—including, during the Health Sciences Convocation on May 26, nursing advocate,...
May 20, 2022
