Big Pharma: A Case Of Capitalism vs. Beneficence?
By Jackson White Capitalism emerged from the fertile intellectual agar plate of late Middle Age and Renaissance Europe and has now, despite a major challenge from Communism in the 20th …
Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: Why You Should Care
By Samuel Ognenis – Crossing Borders For Health Coordinator As a Western medical student, it can sometimes be easy to forget the suffering inflicted upon millions of people each year …
Enviro Corner: Climate Change and Malaria
By Afira Zulkifli – Code Green Subcommittee Human health and climate change is not a common association to the average person. Rising temperatures and recycling might come to mind… but …
Need to charge your mobile phone or tablet?
If you need to charge your mobile phone or tablet, please visit the Reid Library. Information Services is trialling a new power charging service over the next 2 months. Please …
2014 Committee Elections Results
Executive PRESIDENT Sebastian Leathersich (VI) VICE PRESIDENT INTERNAL Melanie Still (IV) VICE PRESIDENT EXTERNAL Malcolm Franke (VI) SECRETARY Sarah Cole (IV) TREASURER Sam Carbone (IV) Education Portfolio EDUCATION OFFICER Kiran …
Timor-Leste Exchange
Want to use your hard-earned clinical skills for good? Want to expand your medical knowledge, skills and awareness of global health issues? Want to be part of a shiny new …
Students in Health and Medical Research Conference on the 17th of Sept
The Students in Health and Medical Research Conference (SHMRC) is an evening research symposium for the UWA Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and is the highlight of the …
Week Three – Access to Essential Medicines
ghsc What the Flupen* is the TPP? A2EM? MSF, IP, R&D, EMP, NCDs, NTDs… in Week Three we demystify a raft of acronyms, unmask hidden legal restrictions, and explore the barriers …
Mistrust of Health Workers
By Ben Rossiter Health care workers are mediums for the spread of deadly illnesses, infertility and espionage, or so say Taliban militants, but is there any basis for these claims? And …
Heroes in Times of Health Crisis: Four Names to Remember
By Emily Earnshaw In the constant doom and gloom of global health crises, pandemics and poverty, it’s beautiful to see the forward steps people are making. Alberto Cairo, Eli Beer, …