Mark Brender
@MarkBrender
National Director of @PIHCanada. Looking for justice, equity, lost jump shot. Opinions my own.
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15-04-2009 16:35:53
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🌐 Mark Brender, National Director of Partners in Health Canada, challenges the sustainability myth in international development. Demands for sustainability may perpetuate inequalities.
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#GlobalHealth #SocialJustice #Sustainability
As chair of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship, I worked with vice-chairs Alexandre Boulerice and Elizabeth May to send a letter from 33 MPs to the Prime Minister demanding Canada support a cease fire to save innocent civilian lives in Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid.
Huge thanks to Andrew and Brad Steal From the Best for a great conversation and the opportunity to share the work of Partners In Health Canada. Really enjoyed it.
stealfromthebest.com/podcast/mark-b…
#healthequity #provewhatspossible
I wouldn't say 'novelist's campaign' so much as a 'global multiyear campaign by TB activists belatedly joined by a novelist,' but still: More coverage of the deal between GDF and Johnson & Johnson: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Harjit Sajjan Marci Ien CanWaCH Marleigh Austin: 'We recognize that medical care is only part of what is required to usher in a new era of global health and gender equity, but in our experience, adequate and sustained investment in clinical deserts has never failed to lead to real and positive change.' /3
(🧵) Today, Partners In Health Canada was represented by our Senior Manager of Programs and Development, Marleigh Austin, at CanWaCH's Ministerial Roundtable to celebrate Canada's advancements & next steps in gender equality ahead of #WD2023 in #Kigali , Rwanda. Follow below to learn more ⬇️
Now from Partners In Health, who are 'cautiously optimistic,' but Johnson & Johnson needs to make 'the details of the Stop TB deal public.' Yes!
Leading NGOs have been able to make statements. Johnson & Johnson has 120,000 employees; they can't get one to write a press release? pih.org/article/pih-ur…
Such an amazing accomplishment for the Zanmi_Lasante team amidst so many challenges in 🇭🇹. 👏👏👏 #ProvingWhatIsPossible #HealthEquity Partners In Health Canada @PIH
The First Programs in Haiti Achieve ACGME-I Accreditation globenewswire.com/news-release/2…
“Challenge colonialism in global health by challenging colonial narratives that maintain the status que of different standards for different people.”
Impactful words by Mark Brender at #ResultsCanadaConference . We need global health equity now. #GameChangers2030
Join our Decolonizing Aid session at the #ResultsCanadaConference to hear from experts Themrise Khan, Madhu Pai, MD, PhD, Innocent Ntaganira, MD, MSc, MA, & Mark Brender as they reflect on going beyond rhetoric to disrupt the colonial foundations of aid for more impact.
Register: bit.ly/ResultsCanadaC…