The first day of the 55th Directive Council Meeting of the PAHO was attended by 5 members of the Americas region in representation of the IFMSA. The meeting was held in the Pan American Health Organization offices at Washington D.C with the...
Brussels, 27 September 2016. Today, nearly 40 childrens’ rights, family, consumer, public health, alcohol control, and medical organisations launched a joint call to Members of the European Parliament for ambitious action to free...
The warmest experience I could ever ask for… Not only because it took place through a big heat wave in one of the hottest cities in Portugal, but also because the knowledge and different perspectives that were shared warmed my heart and...
1st Place: NCDs Combating Tobacco Consumption & Industry – IFMSA Egypt NCDs are a massive burden, in many countries including Egypt and are a truly rising burden. Specifically going to tobacco consumption, it is of a huge threat to...
This year’s United Nations 71st General Assembly had a topic which is more prevalent than ever – migration, refugees and lives of people on the move. On 19th of September, for the first time ever, the UN GA hosted a High-Level...
The AMEE Student Task Force (STF), sounded to me like some sort of consortium of young mercenaries, being hired for some high stakes mission. But the email informing me of my “conscription”, confirmed it: Dear Mr Gonsalves, You...
This morning began with a technical briefing by the High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. President Hollande of France and Zuma of South Africa began this commission in February 2016 to develop a report on how the...
Another day has passed and once again the IFMSA delegation had a blast at the 66th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Europe (RC66) in Copenhagen, Denmark. We started our day together with the other NGOs...
Dear IFMSA, European Presidents and Prime Ministers are getting together for a summit in Bratislava on?16 September, to discuss a joint response to Brexit and hopefully re-consider the future direction of the European project. In order to...
Dear IFMSA, We are writing to inform you that from September 13th to 27th, we will have a group of IFMSA representatives attending the events surrounding 71st United Nations General Assembly, which is taking place in New York City. The UNGA is...
The first day of the 66th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Europe (RC66) in Copenhagen, Denmark was exciting. The IFMSA delegation started out the day meeting with other Non-Governmental Organisations...
Set in the typical Italian town of Novara, at the peak of summer, 20 medical students met. They had travelled to Novara in order to attend the two weeks residential course of the Training disaster medicine Trainers (TdmT). The training was a...
