Calling all writers to WRITE for PERSPECTIVES

If you're interested in writing for Medsin's Perspectives Magazine, now's your chance! Final submissions are due next weekend for this term's issue, so if you're interested in writing on any topic of global health, please email: isaac.ghinai@gmail.com with your idea. It can be as short or as long as you like within reason, and doesn't have to be massively reference - just a topic you are interested in.

So forget reading week and start writing! Next weekend is the deadline for drafts, so make sure you get writing soon.

Perspectives Global Health Magazine - time to get involved!

Are you interested in WRITING about global health (anything from a paragraph to a page)? PERSPECTIVES magazine might just be for you!

Perspectives is UCL’s finest publication and the only one to be stocked in the largest Waterstones in the country. It's been running for three years now, and has published SEVEN glorious issues. You can browse through previous issues by clicking here.

Register your interest by sending an email to: medsinmagazine@gmail.com - let us know what interests you and we'll let you know how to get involved!

Issue 7 of Perspectives - ONLINE NOW

The seventh edition of the UCLU Medsin 'Perspectives' magazine is focused on the topic of Gender Equity, in association with our very own Gender Equity Campaign. Whether you are thinking ‘Why Gender Equity?’ or ‘I know everything there is to know on Gender Equity’; this issue has something to offer you.

As normal, we've got the magazine available as a PDF download (click here), and we've taken some of the many brilliant articles and uploaded them to this website, so you can read them in the comfort of your favorite browser:

• Adaugo Amajuoyi looks at the issues presented by breast cancer in Africa - read article here.


• Neha Passi speaks to Silvia Petretti about HIV-associated domestic violence - read article here.


• Anna Schultze looks at the growing problem of plastic surgery in Brazil - read article here.


• Jennifer Raw recounts the remarkable story of Regina, a girl from Ghana with a congenital lymphangioma - read article here.

Perspectives Issue Launch - Gender and Health Panel Discussion

Date of Event: 15/03/11Time of Event: 6pmVenue: Sir Ambrose Fleming LT (G06) Roberts Building

To celebrate the launch of the brand spanking new issue of the Perspectives magazine, the Medsin Gender Equity team have prepared a panel discussion of dizzying brilliance. Speakers include:

• Martine Collumbien (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)


• Karen Newman (Population and Sustainability Network and WHO)


• Alex van Tulleken (UCL Centre for International Health and Development and of Medicine Men fame)


• Tim Dyson (Head of Department of International Development, LSE)