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Speaker Series: Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers: Addressing Challenges to Women’s Health at Home and Abroad
Jill Allison, PhD Global Health Coordinator Faculty of Medicine, MUN Health is a human right but many women face barriers to accessing safe reproductive and sexual health services for a variety of reasons. Jill Allison’s work explores the kinds of social and political barriers to access to reproductive health services in Haiti, Nepal, Ireland and […]
Speaker Series: Challenges faced by women in the field of science – a perspective from Ghana
In our January WISE NL – Statoil Speaker Series event Esther Amoako will talk about the challenges young women in Ghana experience during their education in the field of science. Esther is passionate about gender-related issues and after fifteen years of experience working with communities, has seen how gender plays a role in all areas, […]
Business Meeting Cancelled – January 13, 2016
Tonight’s business meeting has been cancelled due to the inclement weather. Please check back tomorrow for the updated date and time. Apologies for any inconvenience.
2015 Aboriginal Youth Conference held in Corner Brook
The 2015 Aboriginal Youth Conference was held in Corner Brook from November 12th-15th 2015, this 2 day conference brought together high school students from across Newfoundland and Labrador to learn more about careers and educational opportunities available in Science and Engineering. Students were able to tour 3 of the post-secondary campuses in Corner Brook, visit […]
Speaker Series: Our current understanding of young sudden cardiac death in NL: the story of a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians and families
The November WISE NL-Statoil Speaker Series lecture features Dr. Kathy Hodgkinson, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University. A core team of scientists and clinicins has been working together since 1996 on genetic causes of young sudden cardiac death in Newfoundland and Labrador. The team has been extremely successful, finding a hitherto unknown gene and mutation […]
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