The Undercurrent Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Development Studies publishes open source academic papers by Canada’s International Development undergrads, covering topics from indigenous land rights to microcredit to media representation of the developing world.

Undercurrent aims to:

• To raise the profile of undergraduate IDS
• To establish a venue in which young scholars may undergo constructive review and have work published
• To provide the best examples of work currently being done in undergraduate IDS programmes in Canada
• To stimulate creative scholarship, dialogue and debate about the theory and practice of development
• To provide a learning opportunity for contributors, staff and readers
• And to help students meaningfully participate in broader exchanges within IDS.

And I’ve just joined the team as the Editor-In-Chief! Look out for the December issue that we’re working on right now.

In other news, I’m headed to Medicine 2.0 at the beginning of September.  So excited to connect with people who are using the internet to give people more power over their own health, to manage health data, to work on prevention.  The final program came out yesterday and there doesn’t seem to have a lot of global health stuff, but I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised!