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This is one long blog, and probably our last for the next couple of days! So no worries, we won’t drown you with much more stories! Richard Horton. Yes, Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the Lancet was the moderator of an amazing Panel discussion on the Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)! If you want to know more about […]

Day 1 of the World Health Assembly came with its ups and downs. However, IFMSA does have a delegation you can be proud of! A structured day started with IFMSA participation in the World Federation of Public Health Associations’ Luncheon, our first opportunity to network and break bread with some elites in the field of […]

Interventions IFMSA will be presenting two interventions. These are for agenda points on “Health System Strengthening” and “Youth and Health Risks”. Furthermore, we aim to submit an intervention on the importance of discussing the social determinants of non-communicable disease prevalence. We have seen the necessity to do so after attending an NCD Alliance/Lancet-event on NCDs […]

As the IFMSA team was gathering in Geneva from all over, all of the worlds top health politicians and decisions makers were doing the same. Over the course of this week and next week, the World Health Assembly will aim to adopt resolutions on health systems and health workforce strengthening, non-communicable diseases and the WHO […]

An exhausted, but hopeful hello to all climate enthusiasts, It’s 2:30am on Saturday morning (the last night of the 2010 Climate Change negotiations) here in Mexico, and the mood is high. It seems, that after 2 weeks of intense, deadlocked negotiations, all 194 nations of the world have reached an agreement which takes significant steps […]

Greetings from an exhausted IFMSA COP16 Team – Nick writing here! In the build up to the end of COP16, things have started to get pretty crazy here in Mexico! The high-level delegates to the conference have recently flown in, in an attempt to restart the stalled negotiations. The idea here, is that fresh negotiators […]

Greetings Climate Sports Fans, Today’s day 9 of COP16, and the IFMSA team has some EXCITING news for you! Remember that pesky Article 6 we’ve been working on for the last 8 months? Well.. It’s almost finished! But before we tell you how it ends, lets go back to where it all began! Bonn – […]

(Not really, we spent the day preparing for Week 2 of COP – “Business Time”)

The day started as normal, early. We had one main priority, to start surveying delegates about their knowledge of health and climate change. As a lot of the technical things were sorted out yesterday, the final touches were done and the team was spread out between the two venues. The massive Cancun Messe was probably […]