YOUR NEXT STEPS:

With the General meeting a week behind us, you may now be wondering - what can i do now with the global health working group?

These are your options, see below for more details on each point:
1. Participating in the programs we have going already.
2. Helping to organize with the programs we have going already. Email before FRIDAY!
3. Starting your own initiative, which we would be glad to help with!
4. Participating in Feedback and Discussion
*Remember: check the MedTech community regularly for announcements and events.

More Details:

1. Participating with our programs:

This semester:
- Health and Human Rights Conference - Oct 4&5 - http://sites.google.com/site/hhrc2008/Home
- Weekly Lecture Series - Every Wed 12:30-1:30 - Bot B143 - see medTech community for speaker schedule.
- Community Initiatives - email natalia at 2nn1@queensu.ca if you are interested in participating/ helping to organize this project.
- CAPE (enviro): first meeting Thursday October 2, 5:00pm outside the Botterell Library. email paul at 7pgu@queensu.ca for more details.

Next Semester:
- Global health forum/ journal club: to follow up on the lecture series. stay tuned for more details!

2. Organizing with our programs:

- Health and Human Rights Conference: Looking for organizers for next year: 2 first years + 2 second years. email jessie: jessieweaver@hotmail.com
- Lecture series: looking for 2 organizers for next year. email Dan: danfinnigan@gmail.com
- Community Initiatives: looking for 2 first year reps to take leadership with this program and see it through into next year. email natalia: 2nn1@queensu.ca
- Fundraising Committee - looking for everyone interested in helping - email meredith: 7mcd@queensu.ca
- Issue-focused events/ general member: If you are interested in helping to organize events such as World AIDS Day or special forums, email jess at 7jshl@queensu.ca

**If you are interested in any of the bolded positions, email the right person by WED OCT 1!

3. Starting your own initiative.

You are welcome to suggest any ideas of new things we can try, or help us out with organizing some of the issue-focused activities we'd like to undertake this year. Check out our resources and announcements on MedTech community regularly! if you're interested in doing stuff like this, send me an email - 7jshl@queensu.ca

4. Participating in feedback and discussion:

Every 2 weeks we will be posting a "Thinking point" on our community discussion board. These will be statements/ questions that are designed to get you thinking about the reasons for your involvement with global health, ethical dilemmas in global health, and other issues to refect on. Your participation is encouraged!
There will also be a discussion board for feedback on any of our activities.

If you have ANY questions at all - please don't hesitate to email me. We look forward to working with everyone!

Jessica Liauw
AS Global Health Liaison