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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 7h
Does Jordan’s Principle need reform, or just reliable funding? theconversation.com/does-jordans...
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Does Jordan’s Principle need reform, or just reliable funding?
The controversy over the misuse of Jordan’s Principle has been used to justify cuts to services, when the real problem is a deep, systemic gap in services for First Nations children.
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 01/10/2026
Indigenous-inspired McGill apparel contest invites Indigenous students' designs 🎨 The McGill Campus Store and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives have teamed up for “Threads of Belonging.” Deadline: November 1 – please spread the word! 🧡 👉https://ow.ly/2Swp50ZSjaQ
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 30/09/2026
Kappy Lecture: An evening with Martha Wainwright - October 6 ~ The renowned Montreal musician will share songs and reflections on grief and how music helps us navigate life’s most profound transitions at this fundraiser presented by the McGill Council on Palliative Care. ➡️https://ow.ly/XmQP50ZSnaq
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 29/09/2026
Blake Richards wins the $2.5M Schmidt Sciences Polymaths Award to build AI models that capture the uniqueness of individual minds, potentially advancing mental healthcare. Prof. Richards is one of eight recipients and the only one from a Canadian institution. 🔗https://ow.ly/LhqE50ZSirP
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 28/09/2026
Atelier sur la reconnaissance du territoire au Département de médecine de famille : 1er octobre ~ Cet atelier offrant un espace de réflexion et de discussion sera présenté par Alex McComber et Megan Légaré, membres autochtones du Département. ➡️https://ow.ly/9q8M50ZSj1k
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 28/09/2026
Department of Family Medicine offers Land Acknowledgment Workshop: October 1 ~ This discussion-based activity will be led by Indigenous department members Alex McComber and Megan Légaré. ➡️https://ow.ly/WJVU50ZSiZH
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 28/09/2026
Ne manquez pas cet article qui met en lumière les apprenantes et apprenants de notre très accueillant Campus Outaouais et les liens qui les unissent à la région. ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5zb
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McGill Research + Innovation @mcgill-research.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us for the 2026 Gairdner Connects Lecture featuring Gairdner Awards 2026 winners, Dr. Jan Holmgren & Prof. Rajae Talbi at #McGill on October 19 🎉 🔵 Monday, October 19, 2026 🕝 2:00PM 📍McGill Faculty Club 🎟️ FREE 🔗 Learn more & register: www.mcgill.ca/research/cha... @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
A lecture poster with a photo of Dr. Jan Holmgren on the left and Prof. Rajae Talbi on the right. In the middle of the poster in white text is, "2026 Gairdner Connects Lecture featuring Dr. Jan Holmgren and Prof. Rajae Talbi. Monday October 19, 2026 at 2:00 p.m."
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 23/09/2026
Wildfires pose a growing threat to dialysis care ~ In a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary project by Departments of Medicine and Geography yields insights that could inform disaster and emergency planning. ➡️ ow.ly/2aTN50ZMJHc
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 21/09/2026
Workout or nap? Either can help your sleep-deprived brain 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️😴💤 SPOT researchers found that 20 minutes of exercise or a 90-minute nap work equally well to improve memory after 30 hours without sleep. 👉https://ow.ly/Y99c50ZMJAY
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 21/09/2026
🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️😴💤 Une équipe de recherche de l’École de physiothérapie et d’ergothérapie a découvert qu’après 30 heures sans dormir, 20 minutes d’exercice ou une sieste de 90 minutes sont aussi efficaces pour améliorer la mémoire. 👉https://ow.ly/1IYH50ZMJCO
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 18/09/2026
Indigenous Awareness Weeks: September 18-30 🧡 Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad delivers keynote; Pow-Wow; Legacy lacrosse match on Truth and Reconciliation Day; and much more. ➡️ ow.ly/mbRN50ZMJrK
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 16/09/2026
13 FMHS professors awarded CFI funding 👏👏👏 The PIs have secured $3.3 million through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund, to be matched by Quebec. 👉https://ow.ly/pSN250ZMJf0
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 16/09/2026
Un financement de la FCI pour 13 projets 👏👏👏 Les projets menés par des scientifiques de la Faculté ont obtenu au total 3,3 M$ du Fonds des leaders John-R.-Evans de la Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation, un investissement qui sera doublé par le gouvernement du Québec. 👉https://ow.ly/x4uz50ZMJgm
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 14/09/2026
Nine FMHS professors elected fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences 🙌 CAHS fellowships recognize a distinguished group of leaders whose expertise spans the health sciences. 👉https://ow.ly/wpzK50ZMJ05
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 12/09/2026
‘PI School’ gives postdocs practical skills needed to lead 🙌 🙌 🙌 The Research Management and Faculty Track program, designed by Natalie Zeytuni, received an inaugural Education Impact Award in May 2026. 👉https://ow.ly/U3RY50ZMJkK
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 11/09/2026
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée and Guillaume Bourque named Royal Society of Canada fellows The two FMHS professors are among seven members of the McGill community elected to the RSC this year. ➡️ ow.ly/3Aib50ZMIzM
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 11/09/2026
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée et Guillaume Bourque élus à la Société royale du Canada Les deux professeurs de la FMSS sont parmi les sept membres de la communauté mcgilloise qui ont été élus à la SRC cette année. ➡️ ow.ly/MXFn50ZMISY
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 02/09/2026
🎉 Congrats to Maimouna Mbengue, McGill Master of Science in Public Health grad and new Pathy Fellowship recipient launching Healing with Compassion, a community-based initiative supporting pregnant and postpartum women on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal. McGill Reporter 🔗 ow.ly/OiEw50ZImh8
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 31/08/2026
Les cellules immunitaires auraient le « sens du toucher » ~ Une étude révèle une propriété insoupçonnée des lymphocytes T, qui demeurent dans les tissus après l’infection, ce qui pourrait améliorer les traitements contre les maladies auto-immunes et le cancer. 🔗https://ow.ly/V0VY50ZC4pq
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 31/08/2026
Scientists discover immune cells have a ‘sense of touch’ ~ Findings about sensory abilities of T cells, which remain in tissues after an infection, could lead to improved treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer. 🔗https://ow.ly/XaWx50ZC4ou
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 28/08/2026
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif eyes working as a relief family doc ~ The McGill medicine grad and Super Bowl champion, having completed his family medicine residency, is ready for the next chapter. 🔗https://ow.ly/Xu6W50ZC4gp
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McGill University @mcgill.ca · 27/08/2026
McGill recrute six titulaires de chaires de recherche du Canada Eddie Goldenberg grâce à un investissement fédéral historique. Ces spécialistes de renommée mondiale viennent relever des défis urgents, faire des découvertes et stimuler l’innovation. Pour en savoir plus: mcgill.ca/x/5LD
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McGill University @mcgill.ca · 27/08/2026
Backed by a historic federal investment, McGill has recruited six Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada. These globally renowned experts are coming to Canada to tackle pressing challenges, make discoveries, and advance innovation here at home.
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 26/08/2026
McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health mark 11 years of innovation and equity in education. 🔗https://ow.ly/NvRr50ZC3Vx
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 26/08/2026
Les Instituts d’été en santé mondiale de McGill célèbrent 11 ans de formation équitable et innovante 🔗https://lebulletel.mcgill.ca/les-instituts-dete-en-sante-mondiale-de-luniversite-mcgill-celebrent-11-ans-de-formation-equitable-et-innovante/
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 25/08/2026
Jean-Lucien et Guy Rouleau, au service de la société ~ Les frères Rouleau, Jean-Lucien (à gauche) et Guy (à droite), mènent une carrière exceptionnelle de médecins et chercheurs qui est ancrée dans leur philosophie morale. 🔗https://ow.ly/zBM650ZC41i
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 24/08/2026
Generic semaglutide's arrival in Canada will cut costs and improve treatment for millions with Type 2 diabetes, says FMHS analysis. 🔗https://ow.ly/Jjhm50ZC3Cr
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 22/08/2026
Une course de bateaux-dragons pour soutenir les femmes atteintes du cancer du sein ~ L’événement étudiant a permis de recueillir 21 000 $ pour l’organisme montréalais More Than a Cure, qui agit en éducation, en représentation et en soins aux patientes. 🔗https://ow.ly/o9eX50ZC4kG
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 21/08/2026
$41M in Canadian Institutes of Health Research funding awarded to FMHS investigators. Areas funded include enterococcal bloodstream infections; pediatric brain tumours; Inuit youth mental health; post-menopausal breast cancer; mental mapping and brain function; and more. 🔗https://ow.ly/zE3G50ZC3nV
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 20/08/2026
Entretien avec Robert Platt ~ Un an après le début de son mandat de vice-doyen et directeur de l’École de santé des populations et de santé mondiale. 🔗https://ow.ly/KhUy50ZC4aU
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 20/08/2026
In conversation with Robert Platt ~ One year into his tenure as Associate Dean and Director of the School of Population and Global Health, we check in with Prof. Platt to hear how it's going so far, his vision for the School and the words of wisdom he lives by. 🔗https://ow.ly/23Eq50ZC47M
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Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab @mcgillperl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
📕 Save the date: @drejoanneliu.bsky.social launches the English edition of Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants — stories from the frontlines of global crisis response. Sept 22, 2026 / 5:30 PM / McGill School of Population & Global Health Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/ucbLnT0pGe
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Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab @mcgillperl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A new Q&A with PERL Director @drejoanneliu.bsky.social is up on our website. The 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC is now the second-largest on record, with 4,000+ cases and 1,850 deaths. Read more here: www.mcgill.ca/pandemic-eme... @madhupai.bsky.social
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Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab @mcgillperl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The emergency ends. The crisis doesn't. Conrad Sauvé of the @redcrosscanada.bsky.social on why recovery takes years — and why the mental-health toll often peaks a year later. Watch Ep. 6 of One Crisis After Another here: youtu.be/ltJ6qKm8m3I?... @drejoanneliu.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 03/08/2026
Une étude apporte un nouvel éclairage sur les facteurs qui rendent une conversation captivante~Selon des chercheurs de McGill University même si la manière de s’exprimer compte, le désir de poursuivre une conversation dépend surtout de l’intérêt à l’égard du sujet abordé. 🔗https://ow.ly/SHZG50ZomsY
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 30/07/2026
Une étude montre que les services de traitement de la dépendance au jeu sont sous-utilisés au Québec ~ Les scientifiques soulignent la nécessité d’un dépistage plus précoce et d’actions de sensibilisation accrues auprès du public. 🔗https://ow.ly/LK8H50ZomCG
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 27/07/2026
Première canadienne au CUSM : une chirurgie novatrice préserve la fertilité des femmes atteintes de cancer ~ Cette intervention appelée transposition utérine protège les organes reproducteurs des effets de la radiothérapie. 🔗https://ow.ly/oUEo50ZomN4
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 27/07/2026
Reitan Ribeiro performs a Canadian first to preserve fertility in women with cancer ~ An innovative uterine transposition procedure protects reproductive organs from damage caused by radiation therapy. 🔗https://ow.ly/5Fff50ZomLg
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 25/07/2026
Les résultats de la plus vaste étude jamais réalisée pour améliorer le traitement des infections causées par le staphylocoque doré — codirigée par des chercheurs de l’Université McGill — sont publiés simultanément dans le New England Journal of Medicine et The Lancet. 🔗https://ow.ly/FviC50Zsmw8
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 25/07/2026
Could these study results change how we treat one of medicine's deadliest bloodstream infections? NEJM and Lancet studies led by McGill’s Todd Lee offer new evidence-based guidance on the best treatments for two kinds of staph infections, with the fewest side effects. 🔗https://ow.ly/Vwwj50ZsmtT
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 24/07/2026
Prativa Baral awarded Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s STEPS Team Grant ~ Prof. Baral and her CIHR-funded team are developing a blueprint for a pan-Canadian civilian emergency reserve to strengthen public health emergency response. 🔗https://ow.ly/HPc650ZolUu
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 23/07/2026
Les longues heures et le manque de soutien nuisent au bien-être des proches aidants ~ Selon une étude de l’Université McGill, une lourde tâche de proche aidance peut mener à une détérioration de la santé mentale, et les décideurs devraient en tenir compte. 🔗https://ow.ly/OPJr50Zommp
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 23/07/2026
Long hours, lack of social support undermine caregivers’ well-being, study finds ~ FMHS researchers say spending more than 20 hours a week on caregiving is associated with poorer mental health, and that policymakers should take note. 🔗https://ow.ly/C13650ZomkN
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McGill Research + Innovation @mcgill-research.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Congratulations to the @mcgill.ca researchers, students, partners and community collaborators behind 62 newly funded projects! 🎉 Supported by $14M in #SSHRC funding, their research addresses pressing societal challenges in Canada and around the world. Read more: reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-resea...
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McGill researchers receive $14 million in SSHRC funding for 62 projects focusing on societal challenges - McGill Reporter
Topics include youth agency through video games and entrepreneurship education in India
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 21/07/2026
Reducing vehicle emissions could prevent thousands of deaths in Canada 🚙 ~FMHS researchers identify policy mix that could help cut ultrafine particle pollution in cities. 🔗https://ow.ly/cyZ650Zom8Q
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 21/07/2026
La réduction des émissions des véhicules pourrait permettre d’éviter des milliers de décès au Canada 🚙 ~ Une équipe de recherche propose un ensemble de mesures susceptibles de réduire la pollution par les particules ultrafines dans les villes. 🔗https://ow.ly/bkbK50ZomaT
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 20/07/2026
McGill No. 1 in Canada in QS ranking 🙌 For the 2nd consecutive year, McGill is Canada’s top university, according to the 2027 QS World University Rankings. Worldwide, McGill placed 30th out of 1,500 universities ranked, putting it in the top 2% of institutions globally. 🔗https://ow.ly/60th50Zon7u
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 19/07/2026
We mourn the passing of Apostolos Papageorgiou, who served as Chief of Neonatology and Chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics at the Jewish General Hospital. A visionary builder, he played a defining role in the evolution of neonatal care within the hospital and across Quebec. ow.ly/HuH050ZomQK
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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 18/07/2026
Jewish General Hospital gains Centre hospitalier universitaire designation ~ The announcement was made by Sonia Bélanger, Minister of Health and Social Services, in acknowledgement and confirmation of its role as one of Quebec’s respected and busiest teaching hospitals. 🔗https://ow.ly/WvjQ50ZokjZ
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