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MedEx
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MedEx is a multilateral student exchange program offered by IPPNW to our student members. With the help of our IPPNW affiliates around the world, we are able to offer students a unique exchange program which encompasses both clinical and social service experience. To date, we have opportunities available in Canada, Kenya, Philippines, Zambia, and Egypt. Programs will run for 8 weeks, with 4 weeks devoted to clinical work and the remaining 4 weeks with an IPPNW social service project. |
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IPPNW Blog Feed
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IPPNW peace and health blog
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| News and opinion from the international medical movement to abolish nuclear weapons and to prevent war |
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Iran and nuclear weapons. A personal reflection.
In the nineteen sixties there were many who believed that there was a military threat from China against Europe. “Optimists learn Russian, pessimists learn Chinese” was a common joke. “Whatever you say, China is hell on earth” I heard a respected politician say in 1965. So I went there to see for myself, together with [...]
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Obama Nuclear Weapons Free World: The withering of a vision
President Obama seems to have lost the vision of US leadership on the road to a world free of nuclear weapons. Or did we read too much into his Prague speech?
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IPPNW recommends public health action plan to UN small arms meeting
As an NGO participant at the Fourth Biennial Meeting of States (BMS), which was convened to review implementation of the UN’s action plan to combat the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, IPPNW had an opportunity to address the conference on Thursday, June 17, during a special civil society session. Dr. Emperatriz Crespin, [...]
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