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The company that makes Tylenol against a proposed safety warning on labels for all drugs containing acetaminophen. filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration calls for labels to state that, if taken during pregnancy, the medication may increase a child鈥檚 risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.聽
On Sept. 28, it will be five years since Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman, died in a hospital north of Montreal after having broadcast on Facebook racist and sexist remarks being made about her by health-care staff. The event sparked calls for Quebec to recognize systemic racism.
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TUESDAY November 22. GHABH - The poison in the gift, Part I: Giving and receiving - considering commercial determinants of health.
How do the actions of not-for-profit and commercial second-hand clothing recycling determine relations within and between countries? How does the promotional imagery used by these companies and their actions reinstate clich茅 images of the other and have an impact the (mental) health through the psychological powerplay between the giver and receiver.聽
Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is among the experts quoted by the Montreal Gazette.
Dr. Timothy Evans, Inaugural Director and Associate Dean at the School of Population and Global Health and Executive Director of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Secretariat is among the experts quoted by the Toronto Star.
"More Canadians may soon be offered a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but the extent of the protection it provides remains to be seen.
A study co-authored by Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is featured in Le Devoir.
A study co-authored by Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is featured in Le Journal de Montr茅al.
Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and past 91黑料网 Global Health Programs Director wrote a Forbes piece on the role of allyship in the field of global health.
Dr. Joanne Liu, a Canadian pediatric emergency room physician and former International President of M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is joining 91黑料网鈥檚 School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) as a professor focusing on pandemic and health emergencies.
The IHSP's聽Jonas-S茅bastien Beaudry聽published the following book:
by Jonas-S茅bastien Beaudry
published by Cambridge University Press as part of their聽Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
March 2021
