Name: Sujal, aka "Sujal Parikh"
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Web Site: http://www.globalpulsejournal.com
Bio: Sujal Parikh is a third year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School. He currently serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of Global Pulse. His research and advocacy focuses on health and human rights, access to medicines, medical education, and infectious disease issues in the US, Sub-Saharan Africa, and India. He also serves on the Student Advisory Board for Physicians for Human Rights, the Student Advisory Committee for the Global Health education Consortium, the American Medical Student Association's AIDS Advocacy Network Steering Committee, and the Board of Trustees for Uganda Village Project.
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Banning cluster munitions: What will it take?
January 24th, 2010[This article was originally posted on Open Forum, a blog supported by the community of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal]
On December 22, New Zealand and Belgium became the 25th and 26th nations to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The convention needs only four more ratifications to achieve the 30-state minimum to enter into force. Once in force, it will enact a ban on the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of most cluster munitions, which include bombs, missiles, or rockets that open midair to scatter tens to thousands of small submunitions over a wide area. The CCM also requires that states destroy their stockpiles in eight years, clear contaminated land within ten years, and provide victim assistance. Read the rest of this entry “
Physicians for Human Rights 2010 National Conference
January 10th, 2010On behalf of Physicians for Human Rights, I am pleased to announce the conference below. For more information, please visit www.PHRStudentConference.org.
Physicians for Human Rights National Conference
Health and Human Rights in 2010
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Boston University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts
Register now at www.PHRStudentConference.org! Read the rest of this entry “
Child Malnutrition in Uganda
December 21st, 2009
This is a guest post by Leah Bevis and Alison Hayward, MD for Uganda Village Project, an IFMSA transnational project. There are many ways to get involved with UVP, including through summer internships. – Sujal Parikh
Naigaga Florence lives in Bulumwaki Village, a small, extremely rural community in eastern Uganda. A thin, toothless, but smiling old woman, we first sighted her at a village outreach – in her arms was the most malnourished child that any of us had ever seen. The child’s eyes were dull, his hair a few blondish wisps on a dry skull. His tiny limbs were mere bones draped in shriveled skin, and his head lolled on his neck as if about to fall off completely. His name was Alfred, and he suffered from severe malnutrition, since his mother had died and was unable to breastfeed him. Without breastmilk’s protection, babies in the rural villages of Uganda face a grim prognosis. They are fed a thin gruel of flour and water which provides hardly any calories, or the protein they need to grow. Read the rest of this entry “
Global Pulse featured by The Lancet Student and Speaking of Medicine
December 5th, 2009The editors of Global Pulse would like to thank The Lancet Student and Speaking of Medicine for featuring our latest issue. We’re proud to work with these great groups, and we’re always looking to collaborate and share with other journals and student organizations. If you’re interested in collaborating with Global Pulse, please email me at sparikh [at] globalpulsejournal.com.
The role of medical students in limiting the spread of antimicrobial resistance
November 22nd, 2009The following article was first published on the PLoS Medicine Blog, “Speaking of Medicine“, and is cross-posted here.
The role of medical students in limiting the spread of antimicrobial resistance
Adam Castaño‡, Sujal Parikh‡ and Eunice Yu, medical students at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (‡ These authors contributed equally to this post). Contact Adam Castano on acastano@umich.edu.
Nowhere in the world is free from the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, parasites and viruses. The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alliance for Patient Safety has recognized the dual problems posed by the increasing incidence of drug-resistant bacteria and the decline in antibiotic innovation. For the past two years, a working group of policy makers, scientists, epidemiologists, and economists have assembled at several international meetings to outline an international strategy to address antimicrobial resistance (1). Policy recommendations, to be launched in 2010, will establish new roles for governments, public health departments, industry, and physicians as primary stakeholders in AMR prevention and alleviation. Physicians prescribe antimicrobials, contribute to the spread of pathogens (particularly hospital-acquired infections), educate patients about appropriate use of antimicrobials, perform research, and set research agendas. Medical students are being trained in an era where the toll of antimicrobial resistant infections is evident on a daily basis. As future physicians, they have the potential to help to address this problem. Here, we describe new leadership roles for medical students within their medical schools, hospitals, communities, states, and countries to alleviate the problem of AMR.
The role of medical students in medical schools Read the rest of this entry “
Peace-building in Academic Medicine
October 28th, 2009This month’s issue of Academic Medicine includes a series of essays addressing the question, “How should academic medicine contribute to peace-building efforts around the world?” This timely question is especially compelling in the United States, as national discourse continues about troop levels in Afghanistan, military strategy in Iraq, and whether and how the US should help stop the genocide in Darfur. Read the rest of this entry “
Medical students rally at Capitol Hill
March 17th, 2009At the 59th annual AMSA National Convention, hundreds of medical students rallied at Capitol Hill. They then broke off into teams to meet with legislators and their aides to discuss strengthening the National Health Service Corps and supporting efforts to increase the number of health workers in low income countries.
