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Native students health sciences co-ordinator appointed

McMaster has appointed a native students health sciences co-ordinator in its Faculty of Health Sciences to develop a partnership with the Aboriginal community and enhance opportunities for Aboriginal students. The new co-ordinator, Cornelia Wieman, will work with the Faculty and the community to liaise with Aboriginal students, help develop curriculum relevant to those students and raise the profile of Aboriginal health care issues within the Faculty. Her duties address the recommendations of a McMaster University task force on Native Students in Health Sciences Programs.

CIHR governing council creates 13 health research institutes

Ottawa, July 25, 2000 Minister of Health, Allan Rock, and the president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR),Alan Bernstein, announced today the creation of 13 health research institutes that will bring together, in a virtual way, researchers that are widely separated by geography and discipline, to focus on issues that affect the health of Canadians. Research institutes will be created in the areas of: * aboriginal people's health; * circulatory and respiratory health; * cancer research; * gender and health; * genetics; * health services and policy research; * healthy aging; * human development, child and youth health; * infection and immunity; * neurosciences, mental health and addiction; * musculoskeletal health and arthritis; * nutrition, metabolism and diabetes; and, * population and public health.

Government provides free tuition to medical students to practice in underserviced areas

Toronto, July 24--The Ontario government will provide $4 million for free tuition and location incentives to new doctors willing to practice in underserviced areas, health and long-term care minister Elizabeth Witmer announced today. "This initiative will provide financial assistance to medical students and address the needs of rural and northern communities," Witmer said. "We are working with doctors, medical students and communities to ensure that all Ontarians have access to physician services." The tuition grant and the location incentives fund combined will provide students with $10,000 for each year of undergraduate medical training.

Professor Nibaldo Galleguillos ( Political Science), leads delegation to Mexico as an electoral observer

The July 2 election in Mexico was a great advance in Mexico's quest for democracy. Right-wing candidate Vicente Fox was elected president, ending 71 years of supremacy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). From June 25 to July 8, McMaster University Associate Professor of Political Science, Nibaldo Galleguillos, lead a team of five Canadian academics from York, Guelph and McMaster universities to observe the electoral process. Professor Galleguillos has been attending elections in Mexico since 1991; an important area of his research has been in regards to democratic development in Third World countries, focusing on electoral reforms and elections.