Opportunities Resources

Online Workshop: Making Space for Social Medicine in Medical School Curricula: Transnational Perspectives and Pedagogy
Illness and healing can never fully be separated from social context. Yet while medical education around the world has legible standards for bioscientific subject materials, we are far more uneven in how we teach the social sciences necessary for the study of health and medicine. This event, sponsored by the Global Social Medicine Network, brings… Read more »

Social Medicine Essay Contest
The Global Social Medicine Network is delighted to announce an exciting opportunity to participate in an essay contest. We invite submissions of essays of no more than 2500 words on the topic of THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDICINE The Steering Committee of the Global Social Medicine network will select 5 winners who will be awarded… Read more »

Wellcome’s Mental Health Active Ingredients 2021 Request for Proposals
Wellcome’s Mental Health Active Ingredients 2021 Request for Proposals Wellcome is delighted to announce the launch of our Active Ingredients 2021 Request for Proposals. Starting with anxiety and depression in young people, Wellcome is determined to transform how we understand, fund and address mental health problems by 2030. Our vision is a world in which… Read more »

Postdoctoral fellowship at University of Capetown: Strengthening Community Voice to address Social Determinants of Health
Post-doctoral fellowship (1-2 years): Strengthening Community Voice to address Social Determinants of Health. This is an exciting opportunity for a post-doc interested in inter-disciplinary approaches to strengthening community participation in the health system, working with community partners to address the social determinants of health. The project emphasizes co-production of knowledge through participatory methods. The Fellowship… Read more »