Health in the Community
Moving from the books to the bedside
Dr. Natasha Caminsky, a third-year General Surgery resident and graduate of the MDCM program at McGill, is now one of the teachers who...
February 10, 2022
New TOTAL eLearning initiative from the McGill Dementia Education Program will benefit from funding
A new initiative by McGill University’s Dementia Education Program is among the 15 projects that will receive funding from the Public Health Agency...
February 10, 2022
Combining land-based learning with anatomy lessons: Indigenous Health Professions Program youth outreach
IHPP’s Alex Allard-Gray led a group of Mi’gmaq youth through the dissection of the heart of a moose they hunted themselves When Alex...
February 9, 2022
Win4Science: bridging the gap for women in science
While women represent a little over 50 per cent of the Canadian population, their representation in natural and applied sciences and related occupations...
February 4, 2022
Canada’s poverty rate has gone down, but deep inequities persist: report
Pandemic disproportionately impacted marginalized groups, says McGill’s Anne Andermann, member of the National Advisory Council on Poverty which authored the report Canada’s poverty...
January 27, 2022
Helping kids deal with the mental burdens of COVID
“There is a large body of evidence from scientific research studies – including my own research – which supports that contact with nature...
January 20, 2022
Guiding high school students to careers in healthcare
McGill health sciences students provide mentorship to those interested in health professions In 2019, a group of McGill medical students decided they wanted...
January 15, 2022
$2M to the MUHC Foundation for precision cancer care
Dr. Peter Metrakos, Cancer Research Program Leader at the Research Institute of the MUHC, addresses the media following the BMO Financial Group announcement...
January 15, 2022
First baby of the year 2022 born at the MUHC: it’s a girl!
MONTREAL, January 1, 2022 – New Year's good news has arrived at the McGill University Health Centre in the form a baby girl –...
January 14, 2022
The past and future intersect at Infection and Immunity Week 2021
From Monday, November 29 to Friday, December 3, members of the greater McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4) community took part...
December 22, 2021
McGill PhD student Joseph Therriault named Forbes “30 under 30”
Joseph Therriault, a McGill PhD student working on early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, is one of Forbes Magazine’s "30 under 30" – an...
December 3, 2021
Champion of care
Claire Webster, recipient of this year's Honora Shaughnessy McGill Ambassador Award, shows the world how to do right by those caring for a...
December 2, 2021