Reimagining Global Health

In this third and final episode of the Immigrant Health Perspectives Series, our guest is Pénélope Boudreault, a nurse and Director of Operations in Montreal for Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde. Doctors of the World is an independent international group who fight for universal access to healthcare. In Montreal, the organisation has opened a medical clinic for migrants with precarious status, who are not covered by public insurance and do not have the financial means to access healthcare. 

During this insightful conversation, we speak about barriers to care for migrants, the impact of these barriers on their health and the work done by Doctors of the World to break down these barriers.

In this second episode of the Immigrant Health Perspectives Series, Jude interviews Darya Naumova and Kenzy Abdelhamid who are co-leading a McGill initiative that trains medical students to be health translators. Their group, MedComm, recently received $30,000 in funding to continue these efforts and potentially expand their mission by collaborating with other faculties.

This first episode will explore the experience of Ammar Farkouh, a first-year medical student at Université de Montréal. Ammar is also a Syrian refugee who arrived here in Canada in 2016. In this episode, we discuss his journey from migrant to medical learner and his experiences with the healthcare system.

Immigrant Health Perspectives Series of the Reimagining Global Health podcast is presented by the Reimagining Global Health group at McGill University, in collaboration with CIME and IFMSA-SCORP. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcast and on our YouTube channel to be notified when we release our first episode of the series on April 23rd!

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