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Meet and learn about the 2020/2021 Student Committee for the Global Health Rehabilitation Initiative at the McGill University School of Physical & Occupational Therapy.

Interview with Physiotherapist and McGill Alumna Sara Abassbhay - her journey as a globetrotting clinician, innovator and creative healer across cultural contexts including Singapore and Ghana.

OSCAIL: a team of multi-disciplinary researchers conducting a study based in South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, India, Canada, Ireland, and the UK seeking to develop methods of implementing organised stroke care in low-resource settings. Listen to P. Bidulka, M. Kaddumukasa, and L. Hamilton explain.

An interview with Dr. Shaun Cleaver, exploring his Global Health journey and work on social policy for people with disabilities in Zambia.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s used regularly by Fortune 500 companies and lots of other organizations. Its language of personality types has inspired TV shows and online-dating platforms. Yet, experts in the field of psychometric testing have struggled to validate its results – let alone account for its success. Myers-Briggs was conceived in the 1920s by a pair of devoted homemakers, novelists, and amateur psychoanalysts, the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. Their multiple-choice questionnaire would make its way from the smoke-filled boardrooms of mid-century New York to Berkeley, California, where it was administered to some of the twentieth century’s greatest creative minds. And it traveled on across the world to London, Zurich, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Tokyo. How did the homegrown Myers-Briggs questionnaire infiltrate our workplaces, our relationships, our Internet, our lives? Merve Emre, until recently an assistant professor of English at McGill, explores that story in her new book, "The Personality Brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing". Prof. Emre, now an associate professor at Oxford, joined us in June to discuss the story, shortly before her move to the UK. Her book, published this month, has generated considerable buzz on both sides of the Atlantic. As a New York Times reviewer put it: “’The Personality Brokers’ is history that reads like biography that reads like a novel — a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type.”

Dr. Andrew Hatala, GHRI Forum guest, discusses his work and career path as a cultural psychologist; his work with Indigenous healers in Belize, Indigenous people with HIV/AIDS and  urban Indigenous youth in Canada.

Occupational Therapy students Chamila Anthonypillai, Ela Rutkowski, Melissa Lamble, and Julianne Brown discuss their international clinical fieldwork experiences.

Find out about her career path once leaving the School, her involvement in various healthcare boards and associations, McGill memories and life advice for clinicians today

Listen to Karen Paul, Social Worker and Mathieu Simard, Physiotherapist, talk about their experiences working in Libyan communities.

Philanthropist and McGill arch grad, Peter Fu who donated 12 million to McGill to the newly named Peter Guo Hua Fu School of Architecture met with two current architecture students from McGill to talk about architecture, relations between and Canada and China and musicals. (For video with English subtitles see: https://youtu.be/IT6YMWtfcdw)

The MJSDL provides a forum in which the world’s leading scholars exchange ideas on the intersection between law, development, the environment, economics, and society. Over the past quarter-century, determining how to enrich our world in a more sustainable fashion has become an imperative, especially given the impact of development on the environment and human rights. Despite this pressing need for new ideas, there are few outlets for informed and focused commentary on sustainability, particularly in Canada. In response to this void, students at the Faculty of Law of McGill University established the MJSDL, a student-run, peer-reviewed academic journal, in 2004.

“The McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law (MJSDL), is pleased to present a podcast on the Paris Agreement, inspired by the MJSDL's colloquium this past January. We discussed with our panelists a variety of ideas such as, what the Paris Agreement was, what it represents for the international community, and who the key players were as we move through the implementation phase of the agreement. Thank you to all of the panelists who agreed to be interviewed, and to all of the journal members who helped us organize the interviews on the day of the colloquium. The MJSDL provides a forum in which the world’s leading scholars exchange ideas on the intersection between law, development, the environment, economics, and society. Over the past quarter-century, determining how to enrich our world in a more sustainable fashion has become an imperative, especially given the impact of development on the environment and human rights. Despite this pressing need for new ideas, there are few outlets for informed and focused commentary on sustainability, particularly in Canada. In response to this void, students at the Faculty of Law of McGill University established the MJSDL, a student-run, peer-reviewed academic journal, in 2004."

La docteure Joanne Liu, lauréate d’un doctorat honorifique de l’Université McGill, parle des défis que MSF est appelé à relever.

Dr. Joanne Liu talks about challenges facing MSF, while at McGill to receive an Honorary Doctorate

Global migration has stirred questions of human rights, democracy, of living together, of ‘us and them.’ The philosopher Charles Taylor and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, McGill professor François Crépeau, explore these and other questions at a time of rising populism and what may be called the fear of others.