GLOBAL HEALTH COLLOQUIUM 2020
EMERGING HEALTH THREATS A Socioeconomic Perspective
PARTICIPANT'S GUIDE
Bilingualism This edition of the Global Health Symposium (GHS), organized by McGill Medical students, will be held both in French and in English. In fact, half of the online conferences will be offered in French and the other half in English. This is done for the sake of equity and inclusion.
Introduction
The
Global
Health
Symposium
is
a
stimulating
day
of
numerous
conferences for all students in Quebec and from elsewhere. Even if the event is aimed first and foremost at all medical students, all future health professionals and students interested in global health as well as
participants
from
the
general
public
are
encouraged
and
welcome to participate.
For the 12th edition of the GHS, which will be held online, participants will
take
part
in
conferences
given
by
experts
involved
in
the
improvement of global health. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the social, political, and economic determinants of health that surround the current emerging health threats. For that purpose, in addition to two enriching opening conferences, two parallels streams will be offered:
International emerging health threats Local/National emerging health threats
We
have
produced
this
guide
with
the
aim
of
gathering
all
the
information relevant to your participation in order to promote the smooth flow of the event. In the meantime, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at csm.ifmsa.qc@gmail.com.Â
We are looking forward to having you with us,
Sarah, Aminata, Nissrine, Arij, Elyonora and George Organizing Committee of the Colloquium
Note From the Executive Committee
Dear IFMSA members, IFMSA-Québec is glad to invite you to its annual Global Health Colloquium which will be held online for the very first time! This year’s theme is “Emerging Health Threats: A Socio-Economic Perspective”.
During this colloquium, you will have the opportunity to learn more about various emerging health threats that have been passing on the news.
From
vaccine
hesitancy
to
medicine
in
time
of
war,
it
has
different subjects for everyone’s taste. This event is bilingual: some presentations are in French while others are in English.
The
current
circumstances
brought
everyone
around
the
world
to
rethink the format and organization of their events, which has posed quite a challenge. Though we are facing hard and uncertain times, the Organizing committee is making the most of these circumstances by providing an opportunity not only to IFMSA-Québec members, but to all members from IFMSA around the world. We are proud and grateful for all the work OC has done to adjust and provide this chance to share and connect with members worldwide.
We really hope you can join us on May 2nd at 11 am EST on Zoom for this incredible event that our McGill University Local Committee has been organizing.
See you on Saturday,
Imane, Maria, Kussil, Émilie, Rosa, Jimmy and Kiana IFMSA-Quebec’s executive board 2019-2020
Thanks to our Sponsors
Schedule 11H00
Welcoming note from IFMSA-QC Executive Committee and GHS Organizing Committee
11h10
Climate Emergency: Social Disruptions and their Health Effects
12h10
La privatisation des soins: Un moteur d’inégalité
13h10
Conference #1 of Local Stream | Conference #1 of International Stream
14h10
Conference #2 of Local Stream | Conference #2 of International Stream
15h00
Break
15h30
IFMSA-Québec General Assembly
Logistics Details This year, we are honored to present to you two opening conferences in the morning that will address environmental health threats and the privatization of healthcare. In the afternoon, two parallel streams will be
offered
to
you.
You
will
have
the
opportunity
to
choose
to
participate in a stream from the following: 1) Local/national stream (Details of the conferences on pages 9-10) 2) International stream (Details of the conferences on pages 11-12)
As mentionned, the Global Health Symposium (GHS) will be held online through the Zoom platform. You will receive the presentations’ URL links
via
after
your
online
registration.
The
links
will
also
be
published on the Facebook event. When the time comes, you will only have to click on the corresponding URL link and you will be able to attend both conferences in your stream.
The Zoom Platform You
do
not
need
to
have
a
Zoom
account
to
participate
in
the
webinar. Below, you will find the instructions depending on the device you wish to use.
N.B.: We kindly ask you to deactivate your microphone and your camera upon your connexion to the online conferences.
Opening Conference
DR. JEAN ZIGBY CLIMATE EMERGENCY: SOCIAL DISRUPTIONS AND THEIR HEALTH EFFECTS SARS-CoV-2 has ramped up the global health risks already amplified by climate change. How are climate change and environmental degradation predicted to affect
the
social
determinants
of
health
further,
and
what
are
the
current
environmental challenges and improvements that are occurring or amplified by SARS-CoV-2? Dr. Zigby will explore the crises and opportunities created by the current confluence of challenges...
Jean Zigby, MDCM, CCFP (PC) is a family and palliative care physician with currently specializing in Palliative Care. He was trained at McGill University and is
teaching at the Jewish General Hospital and the CLSC Côte-des-Neiges in
Montreal.
He
is
the
co-founder
of
the
not-for-profit
Synergie
Santé
Environnement, whose mission is to engage and guide healthcare institutions to improve their environmental impacts. He is the past president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.
N.B.: This conference will be held in English
Opening Conference
MQRP LA PRIVATISATION DES SOINS, UN MOTEUR D’INÉGALITÉ Le système de santé québécois n’a jamais réussi à atteindre l’ambition de ses créateurs et
créatrices:
universel,
accessible,
et
gratuit
pour
tou.te.s.
Dans
une
ère
où
le
néolibéralisme attaque sans cesse les structures sociales, les acquis fragiles de la révolution
tranquille
sont
constamment
menacés
par
des
acteurs
prônant
une
privatisation des soins. Dans cet atelier, nous discuterons de l’histoire de la privatisation du système de santé québécois, en abordant entre autres les coupures dans le système public, la distinction entre privatisation active et passive ainsi qu’en abordant plusieurs exemples. A-t-on vraiment besoin du privé? Nous tenterons de démontrer qu’un système de santé public fort réduit les inégalités, diminue les coûts en santé et peut être beaucoup plus efficace que le système privé.
Médecins québécois pour le régime public (MQRP)
est
un
regroupement
de
médecins et de médecins-résident.e.s de diverses régions du Québec. Le groupe s’est constitué en 2005 suite au jugement Chaoulli de la Cour suprême qui a levé, au Québec, l’interdiction de l’assurance privée pour les soins et services couverts par le régime public. La mission de MQRP est de bâtir un système de santé public fort. L’association
revendique
l’application
intégrale
de
la
Loi
canadienne
sur
la
santé,
l’inscription de ses principes dans les lois québécoises et l’extension de la couverture à tous les soins et services médicalement nécessaires.
Julian
Nguyen
et
Noémie
La
Haye-Caty
sont
deux
résident.e.s
en
psychiatrie
à
l’Université de Montréal. Ils sont tous les deux impliqué.e.s avec MQRP à titre de conseillèr.e.s depuis plusieurs années
N.B.: This conference will be held in French
Local Stream - 1st Conference
DR. HOWARD BERGMAN ACCESS TO UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN CANADA: HAVE WE SUCCEEDED? A HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE In an interactive format, Dr. Bergman will begin with understanding access and equity before the advent of public health care in Quebec in 1970. He will then review, from a historical and personal perspective, the evolution of equitable and universal access to care in our public healthcare system. Dr. Howard Bergman, Professor of Family Medicine, Medicine (Geriatrics), and Oncology, was recently appointed to the position of Assistant Dean, International Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. He was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine from 2012-2019. In 2001-2002, he was interim Physician-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Medicine of the Jewish
General
Innovation
in
Hospital.
Learning
Dr.
Bergman
Initiative
as
well
created as
the
and
leads
the
McGill
Distance-Blended
Family
International
Medicine Education
Program for Family Medicine Teachers and Teacher-Leaders. He is a past president of the Canadian Geriatrics Society, which awarded him the Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award; and a past chair of the Institute of Aging Advisory Board of the
Canadian
Institutes
of
Health
Research
(CIHR).
In
2017,
he
was
awarded
honorary
membership of the Canadian Medical Association.He is internationally renowned for research which has influenced policy change in primary care, integrated care, aging, chronic disease and frailty, with more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. In 2015, he received the College of Family of Family Physicians of Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Family Medicine research. In 2000, as a member of an independent Commission struck by the Quebec Government to propose health care reform, he authored the recommendation creating the medical home in Quebec – the Family Medicine Groups (GMF). In 2009, at the request of the Quebec Minister of
Health,
he
implementation.
authored He
the
Quebec
co-created
The
Alzheimer Canadian
Plan team
and for
is
presently
working
healthcare
improvement in dementia care.
N.B.: This conference will be held in English
on
its
services/system
Local Stream - 2nd Conference
LAURENCE MONNAIS REVISITER LES « NON-VACCINATIONS » AUTOPSIE DE L’ÉPIDÉMIE QUÉBÉCOISE DE ROUGEOLE DE 1989 tre fin décembre 1988 et juillet 1989, le Québec a comptabilisé 10 373 cas de rougeole qui ont conduit à pas moins de 656 hospitalisations et fait 5 morts. A priori inattendue, l’épidémie est d’autant plus intrigante que la maladie infectieuse ne toucha que peu le reste du Canada cette année-là. On allait dès lors accuser une sous-vaccination chronique de la population québécoise pour expliquer cette anomalie. Mais qu’est-ce que cela signifie exactement? Aujourd’hui, en pleine
«
décennie
de
la
vaccination
»,
à
l’heure
d’une
réactivation
de
l’objectif
d’éradication
des
maladies évitables par la vaccination (MEV) et d’un phénomène d’hésitation vaccinale qui serait en pleine
expansion
depuis
le
scandale
Wakefield
(1998),
il
est
facile
d’assimiler
cette
sous-
vaccination à un refus explicite de la technique préventive. C’est sur cette assimilation facile, conjoncturelle et erronée que nous reviendrons dans notre présentation. Au travers d’une enquête minutieuse,
l’autopsie
enchevêtrement
de
de
l'épidémie
facteurs
de
politiques,
1989
que
économiques,
nous
proposons
socioculturels
révèle
et
survenue, son cours et son impact. Alors qu’on s’émeut depuis 2017 d'un
«
l’impact
scientifiques retour
»
d’un
dans
sa
de la rougeole
sur la scène internationale et que l’on vit aujourd’hui une crise sanitaire, pandémie a priori inédite, notre analyse permet de mieux saisir le rapport des individus et de l’état à la vaccination, mais aussi la place des maladies infectieuses, de la prévention de masse et de la santé publique dans nos société contemporaines.
Membre
de
la
Société
royale
du
Canada,
Laurence
Monnais
est
professeur
titulaire
au
Département d’histoire et directrice du Centre d’études asiatiques (CETASE) de l’Université de Montréal. Spécialiste d’histoire de la médecine et de la santé en Asie du Sud-est; elle travaille depuis quelques années aussi sur les comportements vaccinaux au Canada. Elle est l’auteur de Médecine et colonisation (Paris : CNRS, 1999), Médicaments coloniaux (Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 2014), Médecine(s) et santé (Montréal : PUM, 2016) et, plus récemment, Vaccinations. Le mythe du refus
(Montréal/Genève :
PUM/Georg
Editeur,
2019)
et
The
Colonial
Life
of
Pharmaceuticals
(Cambridge : CUP, 2019). Son nouveau projet de recherche porte sur une histoire globale de la rougeole.
N.B.: This conference will be held in French
International Stream - 1st Conference
DR. ZENY MODJO CONSÉQUENCES DE LA VIOLENCE ET SON IMPACT SOCIAL EN RÉPUBLIQUE CENTRAFRICAINE En République Centrafricaine (RCA) pays aussi appelé Centrafrique, les conflits et affrontements entre groupes armés pour le contrôle des ressources et des territoires se multiplient depuis 2013, depuis le renversement du régime du président François Bozize par la sélèka, une coalition venue du nord-est du pays.Les populations civiles sont victimes des violences de masse et d’exactions ciblées qui ont fait des milliers de morts et de blessés. En République Centrafricaine, le système de santé quasi inexistant est incapable de répondre aux besoins médicaux de la population et aux urgences liées à la guerre. Les habitants
meurent
encore
massivement
des
maladies
qu’il
serait
pourtant
facile
de
prévenir ou de soigner. Des violences de masse contre la population se sont à nouveau multipliées depuis fin 2016, et s’intensifient dans tout le pays. Ces violences n’épargnent personne : patients et soignants sont régulièrement attaqués, ainsi que les ambulances, les
structures
de
santé,
les
équipes
MSF
(Médecins
sans
frontières),
leurs
lieux
et
équipements de travail. La fréquence et la sévérité de ces attaques sont extrêmes, même pour une zone de conflit. Dr. Zeny Modjo est un docteur en médecine avec plus de 11 ans d'expérience dans les domaines des soins de santé primaires et une expertise en clinique médicale. Il possède un master de spécialisation
en Médecine transfusionnelle de l'université de Liège en
Belgique. Actuellement, il travaille pour Médecins sans frontières où il effectue des missions humanitaires comme responsables des activités médicales.
N.B.: This conference will be held in French
International Stream - 2nd Conference
MS REBECCA JESSEMAN SUBSTANCE USE & REGULATION FROM GLOBAL OBJECTIVES TO PERSONAL IMPACTS This presentation will connect the dots between the global approach context,
to
and
drug the
regulation,
health,
Canada’s
social,
and
current
economic
legislative
impacts
on
Canadians and their communities. This discussion is particularly important given the current intersection of the national opioid crisis and the global COVID pandemic.
Rebecca Jesseman is the Director of Policy with the Canadian Centre
on
Substance
Use
and
Addiction,
where
she
has
provided expertise in cannabis regulation and drug policy more broadly at the national and international levels for over thirteen years.
N.B.: This conference will be held in English
General Assembly **IN FRENCH ONLY**
*ONLY QUEBEC MEDICAL STUDENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE* The Global Health Symposium (GHS) will be followed by IFMSA-QC General Assembly during which we will nominate and elect the 20202021 team, and we will present and vote the various motions proposed by
IFMSA-QC
recommend
members.
you
to
read
In the
order
to
submitted
facilitate
this
motions
and
session,
we
candidacies,
available at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wfbih3xV4_5Fl_8ajSK6v743h 7QqUZIb?fbclid=IwAR0k9P_asLAIJurvNk130ejQt6UcZdNnbQA2UlktWyYWCzlnbYiwoCf-xg
Why attend the plenary session? Your participation in this session is an opportunity to better understand the structure of IFMSA-QuĂŠbec, to express yourself on the issues of this organization, to meet motivated people with similar interests and to increase the representation of our members. We are counting on your attendance!
For any question, please contact Émilie Jolicoeur, Vice-President for Activities, at vpa@ifmsa.qc.ca
N.B.: Please note that only Quebec medical students can vote at the General Assembly, but all are welcome to attend. The General Assembly will be held in French