North-South research partnerships are a critical means of advancing global health research. However, research partners from the Global South have described feeling they were included to full funding requirements, and offered only token roles, saying “we were there to colour…
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H+H+E: Dr. Lisa Schwartz presents for CHEPA Speaker Series at McMaster
Ethics and crisis translation: insights from the work of Paul Ricoeur
New Paper by Donal O'Mathuna & Matthew Hunt https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-01-2019-0006/full/ "Paul Ricoeur was one of the leading philosophers in the twentieth century, writing on a wide variety of topics. From these, his work on translation and on ethics provided suitable ways…
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Epistemic Injustice and Humanitarian Action: The case of language and translation
Ryoa Chung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. Matthew Hunt is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University. This article originally appears…
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On World Humanitarian Day, let’s reflect on relieving suffering through palliative care.
Follow this link to see how Dr. Lisa Schwartz and the HHE team were the focus of a reflection on World Humanitarian Day by the McMaster Global Health Office.
This team is tackling injustices in global health emergencies & humanitarian crises
Our key concerns were around how inequalities, vulnerabilities and various forms of injustices are often reinforced in these contexts, and how future public health responses could be better attuned to these issues.
“And whom do you let go?” a poster on palliative care in natural disaster settings
Takhliq Amir presented her fourth-year research project poster this week at McMaster University. Congratulations on the great analysis!
How well was HHErg represented at HEI Research Day 2019? Extremely well, thank you.
On March 14, McMaster's Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact hosted its annual Research Day. The HHErg was well represented this year with two poster presentations (below) and an oral presentation entitled, "Dying in the Margins: Palliative Care,…
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Cultural history of the flu: reducing the stigma of Ebola.
Follow the link for a blog post by HHERG's Sonya de Laat, Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanitarian Health Ethics at McMaster University. How can cultural history of ‘health’ change disease perception & reduce stigma? A brief comparison of Influenza, 1918-1919, and Ebola,…
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Looking for HHE resources? Check this out…
Download a PDF version of the poster here.
Humanitarian Health Ethics 