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Candidature: Asad Naveed

Liaison Officer to Student Organizations

We also created external partnerships with organizations, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CRIMEDIM, King’s Sierra Leone Partnership (KSLP), National Association of Pharmaceutical Students (NAPS), and Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association (SLMDA). Through my leadership role, I was invited to speak about our EVD campaign at numerous scientific events supported on the virtual platform.

The KickEbolaOut campaign has supported my skill development in intercultural collaborations, teamwork and leadership, which help me to work as a member of the Team of Officials.

External representation is a fascinating task. In the past, I have acted as the commu-nication’s secretary of our University’s student union, and this experience has pro-vided opportunities to advance my communication skills required to collaborate with relevant partners.

I believe that I can strongly add value to next term’s Team of Officials. If I were trust-ed the responsibility of being Liaison Officer to Student Organizations, my main goals would be to increase IFMSA’s external visibility and to have an active participation in external student organization networks.

I intend to evaluate what is best done in other Student Organizations, in order to develop new and improved ideas to implement them in IFMSA throughout its current reform process; explore collaboration with partner organizations to its highest poten-tial; and engage NMOs and empower their activities.

I intend to create and maintain sustainable and meaningful relation with external student organizations, keeping in mind the IFMSA reform process and post-2015 agenda. These organizations include International Pharmaceutical Student Federa-tion (IPSF), International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA), and International Association of Dental Students (IADS).

Finally, I continue to represent my NMO and IFMSA by my future participation as invited keynote speaker at The Network towards Unity For Health (TUFH 2015) in South Africa and member of the IFMSA delegation to attend Global Youth Consulta-tion (GYC), World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), Qatar 2/9/15in Qatar.

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Candidature: Liaison Officer to

Student Organizations 2015-2016

Asad Naveed

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Motivation Letter

Dear IFMSA friends,

It is with my deepest pleasure that I hereby present to you my candidature for the posi-tion of Liaison Officer to Student Organizations for the term 2015-2016.

Let me first start by introducing myself. My name is Asad, and I am from Freetown, Si-erra Leone. I love meeting people and making friends. I wish that I could have friends from all over the world. When I am not studying, I enjoy being active by playing tennis, badminton, cricket, and football.

For the past three years, I have been an active IFMSA member of SLeMSA-Sierra Leone. My leadership roles included NORE Assistant (2013) and President (2014). Learning about my NMO and how I could help my fellow IFMSA members and Sierra Leone community members motivated me to continue my leadership activities. I am passionate about health collaborations that directly impact our communities, especially in low-resource settings.

While I was NORE Assistant, I helped create a database of medical students who were interested in doing research. I collaborated with the Medical Research Council, Sierra Leone (MRC-SL) and got funding and support from them to organize the first SLeMSA Research Day in 2013.

While I was President, I started my term with a large challenge: Ebola outbreak. The ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak had started, and our medical school closed. Our citizens were becoming infected with EVD and dying. We were faced with the question of whether to stay indoors and protect ourselves or go out and save others. As a team, we made the brave decision to enter our community and implement the KickEbolaOut campaign.

In the KickEbolaOut global campaign, we collaborated with student organizations and NMOs worldwide to raise funds to fight the EVD outbreak. We successfully conducted a public awareness campaign based on social media and social mobili-zation, developed an EVD orphan support campaign, and launched the KickEbolaOut app.

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As the coordinator of the KickEbolaOut campaign, I learned how external collabora-tions can improve our health initiatives. We created multiple diverse internal IFMSA partnerships with NMOs, such as SwiMSA-Switzerland, IFMSA-Quebec, IFMSA-Ja-pan, ANEM-France, IFMSA-Brazil, and Medsin-UK.


The KickEbolaOut campaign has supported my skill development in intercultural col-laborations, teamwork and leadership, which help me to work as a member of the Team of Officials.

External representation is a fascinating task. In the past, I have acted as the communi-cation’s secretary of our University’s student union, and this experience has provided opportunities to advance my communication skills required to collaborate with relevant partners.

I believe that I can strongly add value to next term’s Team of Officials. If I were trusted the responsibility of being Liaison Officer to Student Organizations, my main goals would be to increase IFMSA’s external visibility and to have an active participation in external student organization networks.

I intend to evaluate what is best done in other Student Organizations, in order to develop new and improved ideas to imple-ment them in IFMSA throughout its current reform process; explore collaboration with partner organizations to its highest poten-tial; and engage NMOs and empower their activities.

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I intend to create and maintain sustainable and meaningful relation with external stu-dent organizations, keeping in mind the IFMSA reform process and post-2015 agenda. These organizations include International Pharmaceutical Student Federation (IPSF), International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA), and International Association of Dental Students (IADS).

Finally, I continue to represent my NMO and IFMSA by my future participation as invited keynote speaker at The Network towards Unity For Health (TUFH 2015) in South Af-rica and member of the IFMSA delegation to attend Global Youth Consultation (GYC), World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), Qatar 2/9/15in Qatar.

In conclusion, I am enthusiastic and motivated to assume the responsibility of this IFMSA leadership position, and promise to give my best contribution to IFMSA and all our partners. Thank you for considering my candidature for Liaison Officer to Stu-dent Organizations. If you have any questions or concerns regarding my candidature, please do not hesitate in contacting me.

Yours faithfully,

Asad Naveed President, SLeMSA-Sierra LeoneCoordinator, KickEbolaOut

15/7/15

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If elected as Liaison Officer to Student Organizations, I would like to implement the following four points as key priorities throughout the 2015-2016 terms. I aim to adapt this plan of action according to the IFMSA 3-year Strategic Plan and the UN Post-2015 Agenda.

i. Strengthen IFMSA external Visibility ii. Build Sustainable Partnerships iii. Build Capacity in External Representation iv. Collaborate on projects, Fundraising and Advocacy

Please note that this is a preliminary plan of action. Feedback and suggestions for improvement are more than welcome, as I am dedicated to working for a Federation that represents its members’ global interests.

An NMO is the unit of IFMSA, the way a cell is a unit of an organization, and this plan will be centered on actions that will benefit individual NMOs and IFMSA as a whole.

Handover and setting priorities: i. Review all MoUs relevant to the position of LOSO. Identify MoUs that require renewal and verification that they are in line with the new IFMSA strategic plan and post-2015 agenda.ii. Improve communication and meetings with the outgoing LOSO to establish the achievements made during her time, discuss challenges faced, and be introduced to partner organizations. iii. Establish what new partners the outgoing LOSO is following up, what work re-mains to be done, and possible collaborative projects with new student organizations. iv. Understand the work and organizational structure of International Coordination of Youth Organizations (ICMYO), Informal forum for International Student Organiza-tions (IFISO), and World Healthcare Student Alliance (WHSS).

Needs Assessment: i. Complete a survey to better understand the needs of our NMOs and IFMSA as a whole in relation to student organizations. The current NMO reports will also be studied. ii. Develop a study on success stories of how NMOs are making the best out of student organizations partnerships in other countries.iii. Create a new database of local, regional and international student organiza-tions and assess the impact they are making.

Plan of Action

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External representation:i. Active participation in meetings such as IFISO and WHSS is important to maintain strong relationship with partners such as International Association of Dental Students (IADS) and International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF). ii. The best way to manage external image is to be externally proactive. IFMSA is one of the most powerful organizations worldwide and in representing IFMSA; it will be ensured we portray our strength and opinion in world health matters. iii. Ensuring that IFMSA delegations are diverse, of high quality. Standard eligibil-ity criteria will be created so that the most proactive students are chosen. iv. A leaflet will be created with IFMSA’s main activities and trainings, which can allow IFMSA to show itself to other organizations.v. A database of SOs will be created. Our level of interaction and collaboration with each SO will be written in detail.

Regional representation:i. Working with Regional Coordinator and LOs of Standing Committees will allow active searching and establishment of new official collaborations in the regions. ii. Making a difference at an NMO level is important and regional work will be prioritized so that IFMSA NMOs can benefit from regional organizations.

Joint Projects, Fundraising and Advocacyi. In order to make a difference, health priority areas will be identified, with the help of our policy statements, to include important advocacy areas such as post-2015 agenda, climate change, human resources for health, infectious diseases to name a few. ii. Partners will be engaged so that they can jointly support us in our advocacy work in order for us to achieve results faster.iii. Getting external funding is easier when a joint application is made. The best partners will be engaged to raise funding for our most important projects and advo-cacy work.

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Supporting IFMSA TOs and EB

Toward the Team of Officials:

i. Support the work of other TO members (individual and group meetings, assis-tance upon request); Handover from LORMA and LO UNESCO and sharing of tasks.ii. Support and guide Officials in matters related to external representation. iii. Implement the 2014-2017 Strategic Plan (and revise the later, if pertinent). iv. Incorporate the Officials in decision-making processes, when relevant. v. Foster a positive attitude towards fellow team members.

Toward the VPE Team:

i. Continuously work for the betterment of IFMSA together with the VPE teams (fundraising team, media production team, policy statement review committee and press coordinator team).

Towards NMOs and IFMSA Members:

i. Focus on providing concrete support for all members of the Federation. ii. Develop tools to strengthen NMOs’ work at the local and national levels in terms of external representation and fundraising.iii. Collaborate with the IFMSA President and Liaison Officers to maximise our relations with external partners as so to offer new and constant resources to NMOs and active members.

Capacity building:i. Collaborate with the VP Capacity Building to develop standard trainings in areas such as advocacy and fundraising.ii. Organize Pre-Event workshops is an efficient means to make sure delegates are well prepared. This idea will be expanded as much as possible, and effort will be made to co-organize these workshops with other SOs members.

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Working plan 2015-2016 (Summary)

Month ActivitiesSeptember Handover from outgoing LOSO, Sharing tasks of outgoing LO

UNESCO and LORMA positions, GYV Qatar, TUFH, Review-ing all SO MoUs, Introductory email to SO partners, Understand ICMYO, IFISO and WHSS, Revise Annual working plan

October Survery on NMO needs, Evaluate which meetings to attend,TOM1, Identifying new partners, Creating database of SOs, Prioritizing advocacy areas, Identifying funding and project collaborations, ICMYO Taskforce meeting?

November IFISO meeting?, Revising external representation criteria, Un-derstanding IADS, IPSF, Supporting IFMSA TOs, Supporting RCs, Starting joint projects, Start grant applications, Support OpenCon 2015

December Integrate IFMSA programmes, Collaborate on new materials for international, regional and local representation, TOM2, African Regional Meeting 2015?,

January WHSA meeting? Creating IFMSA leaflet for SO representation, Appraoching NMOs, Assisting NMOs with SO collaborations, Continue joint projects,

February MoU with Commonwealth Youth Network, Grant applications, UN Habitat conference on Youth? ECOSOC Youth Forum? Continue supporting IFMSA EB and TOs

March Pre-GA Capacity building Training, Support the OC, IFMSA March Meeting 2016, Evaluate work done so far, Review plan, Present new SO partners in GA, Coordinate voting process

April TOM4, European Regional Meeting, Integrate work with IFMSA programmes, First term report, IPSF GA? G200 Youth Forum

May Review MoUs, Identify new partners, Provide trainings in Pre-WHA, Attend WHA

June IADS collaboration? Youth Assembly at UN? Asia Pacific Re-gional Meeting 2016

July International Youth Leadership Conference (IYLC)? Online meet-ing with RCs, NMO Capacity building?

August IFMSA August Meeting 2016, Joint Pre-GA proposal with IADS and IPSF focus on student representaiton, Prepare Handover materials, Annual report

* Please note that this plan will be revised and adapted according to the annual working plans of the TO and International Teams and the new adopted Strategic Plans.

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Asad Naveed

Personal Information

Nationality: Dual - Sierra Leonean / PakistaniDate of birth: July 18th 1989Place of birth: Jhang, Pakistan

Contact Information

Email: [email protected]: +232-78-835118Address: 15 Bath Street, Freetown Sierra LeoneSkype: asadnaveed12

Languages

Urdu: Native speakerEnglish: FluentKrio: FluentPunjabi: ProficientHindi: ProficientArabic: BasicFrench: Basic

Education:

2008: Medicine MBChB, University of Sierra Leone City, Country2008: Edexcel GCE A level2006: West African Senior Certificate Examination, Prince of Wales Senior Secondary School City, Country2005: Cambridge GCE O level, Prince of Wales Senior Secondary School City, Country

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

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Leadership positions in Medicine and International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA):

2012-2014: Communications Secretary, Student Union (SU) University of Sierra Leone2013-2014: Co-Lead: King’s Sierra Leone Student Partnership (KSLSP)

2014: NMO President, SLeMSA-Sierra LeoneMission: To improve health in Sierra Leone and internationally.Representing the Sierra Leone Medical Students’ Association (SLeMSA) at the lo-cal, national and international levels, I continue to strengthen my leadership skills by leading our Executive Board of more than 20 officers. In attempts to advance the organisation’s structure, I have developed the organisation advocacy and projects divisions. I have gained professional networks by leading my delegation at IFMSA regional and international meetings.

2014-2015: Co-Coordinator, KickEbolaOut global campaignStarted in 2014, KickEbolaOut global is an initiative that unites medical students worldwide in the fight against Ebola. It involved social mobilization via house-to-house visits, social media technology, development of a mobile app, and initiatives for Ebola orphanage care.

2015: Member, IFMSA NMO Involvement group2014: Member, Think Global Africa2014: Representative, Global Surgery group2013: OC President: SCORE Research day 20132013: Member, National Union of Sierra Leonean Students (NUSS)2013: NORE Assistant, SLeMSA-Sierra Leone

Meetings:2015: IFMSA General Assembly, March Meeting 2015 Turkey2014: IFMSA General Assembly March Meeting 2014 Tunisia2014: NGH 14, SLeMSA- Sierra Leone2013: NGH 13, SLeMSA-Sierra Leone2013: SCORA conference: Abortion and its implications In collaboration with IPAS Sierra Leone2013: SCORE Research day: In collaboration with MRC2013: King’s College London KCL SU external meeting, London2012: NGH 12, SLeMSA-Sierra Leone2012: SCORA conference: Getting to zero HIV infections by 2015 In collaboration with HIV/AIDS secretariat, Sierra Leone

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Externals:2014: Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Council (SLMDA) Annual Regional GA2014: IFMSA representative at The Lancet commission on Global Surgery June 2014, Sierra Leone2014: IFMSA LO WHO representative at WHO/ UNMEER high level Ebola press briefing September 2014, Sierra Leone2013: 4th HBIOMED- SL Annual Research Symposium2012: Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association (SLMDA) Annual GA2012: 3rd HBIOMED- SL Annual Research Symposium2011: 2nd HBIOEMD- SL Annual Research Symposium

Upcoming events:2015: Keynote speaker, TUFH 15 South Africa (The Network towards Unity for Health). 14/9/15 2015: IFMSA delegate, Global Youth Consultation (GYC), World Humanitarian Sum-mit (WHS), Qatar 2/9/15

Guest speaker:7/3/15: KickEbolaOut presentation IFMSA MM1502/02/15: Newcastle Academic Medicine Society (AMS) conference 19/12/14: CRIMEDIM, UPO, SISM Ebola Conference20/11/14: BBC World Service, Focus on Africa12/11/14: Newcastle student Fundraiser4/11/14: Speech on Ebola to IFMSA Spain Las Palmas 8/10/14: This week in Global Health (TWiGH) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrb5h9Eygms 1/9/14: Short message, IFMSA Brazil PUC SP Ebola Workshop20/8/14: Let’s Talk about Ebola, organized by SAMSA-South Africa

Relevant work experience:2015: Research Assistant: Save The Children. Cohort study of Ebola in Paediatric patients2015: Social Media Producer: BBC Media Action, Sierra Leone2014-2015: Case Manager: Freetown Ebola Response Centre (WAERC)- Respon-sible to collect and transfer #Ebola patients from the community and checking Ebola lab results. 2014: World Health Organization (WHO) Independent monitor: National Ebola Social Mobilisation, Sierra Leone2013: Electives, King’s College Hospital, London, UK2013: WHO Independent monitor: National Polio Immunization Day, Sierra Leone

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Personal Skills: Leadership, Advocacy, Fundraising, Team Management, Communication, Creativity

IT Skills:Microsoft Office, Epi Info, Website design, Graphic design, Video editing, Social me-dia

Selected achievements:1. KickEbolaOut mobile App: Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kick-ebola-out/id967057847?mt=8 Andorid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inovaria.keo&hl=en

This App, which was developed via partnership with CRIMEDIM, is a key example of how external representation can be used in joint projects.

2. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) Partnership: Through the CDC partnership in Sierra Leone, we were able to advocate for medical students to be recruited in the Ebola response. About 40 medical students were selected as Sur-veillance Officers.

3. Indiegogo fund raiser: We were able to fund-raise $5200 on the Indiegogo campaign to support our external representation work. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kick-ebola-out-by-medical-students

Publications: 1. Naveed A, Li, SWS. Ebola – crisis and opportunity for curriculum reform. Transformative Education for Health Professionals. 2014. http://whoeducationguide-lines.org/blog/ebola-crisis-and-opportunity-curriculum-reform2. Naveed A, P-Desrosiers C, Dijk S, Lukic L, Braham C, Njai AJ, Dias P, Wei S. KickEbolaOut – a global campaign by medical students. 2014. http://whoeducation-guidelines.org/content/kickebolaout-%E2%80%93-global-campaign-medical-students 3. Lukic L, Naveed A, Awonuga T. Medical students worldwide vs Ebola. World Federation of Public Health Associations Newsletter. 2014. http://www.wfpha.org/component/acymailing/archive/view/mailid-33?key=J4JLPbTj&subid=189-Ttz8RqztkYXS2q&tmpl=component&Itemid=172&utm_source=newsletter_33&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wfpha-newsletter-december-2014

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Publications about my leadership:1. Students ACT in the fight against Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. 2014. http://www.mamaye.org.sl/en/blog/students-act-fight-against-ebola-outbreak-sierra-leone2. DeRuy E. African medical students launch ‘Kick Ebola Out’ campaign. 2014. http://fusion.net/story/21008/african-medical-students-launch-kick-ebola-out-cam-paign/3. Bowsher G. Grassroots movements kicking Ebola out. The Lancet Global Health Blog. 2015. http://globalhealth.thelancet.com/2015/01/06/grassroots-move-ments-kicking-ebola-out

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KickEbolaOut International Collaborations

Medsin- UK Barts IFMSA-Brazil PUC-SP

ANEM- France IFMSA-Quebec

SWIMSA-Switzerland IFMSA-Japan

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Ghent, 03 April 2015

Invitation as Key Note Speaker at the Annual Conference of The Network: TUFH

Dear Mr Naveed,

From 12 to 16 September 2015 The Network: Towards Unity for Health is hosting its annual conference in Gauteng, South Africa. This year’s conference theme is “Education for change”. More information can be found on our conference website (www.the-networktufh.org) and in the flyer attached.

The Network: Towards Unity For Health (The Network: TUFH) is a global network of individuals, institutions and organizations committed to improving the health of the people and their communities. With its longstanding history of over thirty years, The Network: TUFH has played an important role in fostering community-oriented innovations, leading to curriculum reforms in education institutions around the globe. The Network: TUFH is an Non-Governmental Organization, in official relationship with the World Health Organization.

We would like to invite you to be one of the keynote speakers for this conference. We believe that your expert contribution could be of great value to our participants and would contribute to making this conference one of outstanding quality.

Please inform us by 13 April 2015 if you are interested to take up one of the slots for key note speakers available.

In case you kindly accept our invitation, we kindly ask you to send us:

• Your biography and a picture for the program book, • Title and abstract of your keynote-presentation (please note that our keynote slots are 45

minutes long: 30 minutes presentation and 15 minutes for Q&A).

Thank you for your considering our invitation.

Sincerely,

Maarten Declercq Executive Director The Network: Towards Unity for Health

Jan De Maeseneer Secretary General The Network: Towards Unity for Health

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Motivation Letter:

Dear IFMSA friends,

It is with my deepest pleasure that I hereby send you my candidature for the position of Liaison Officer to Student Organizations for the term 2015-2016.

Let me first start by introducing myself. My name is Asad, and I am from Freetown, Sierra Leone. I love meeting people and making friends. I wish that I could have friends from all over the world. When I am not studying, I enjoy being active by play-ing tennis, badminton, cricket, and football.

For the past three years, I have been an active IFMSA member of SLeMSA-Sierra Leone. My leadership roles included NORE Assistant (2013) and President (2014). Learning about my NMO and how I could help my fellow IFMSA members and Sierra Leone community members motivated me to continue my leadership activities. I am passionate about health collaborations that directly impact our communities, espe-cially in low-resource settings.

While I was NORE Assistant, I helped create a database of medical students who were interested in doing research. I collaborated with the Medical Research Council, Sierra Leone (MRC-SL) and got funding and support from them to organize the first SLeMSA Research Day in 2013.

While I was President, I started my term with a large challenge: Ebola outbreak. The ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak had started, and our medical school closed. Our citizens were becoming infected with EVD and dying. We were faced with the ques-tion of whether to stay indoors and protect ourselves or go out and save others. As a team, we made the brave decision to enter our community and implement the KickE-bolaOut campaign.

In the KickEbolaOut global campaign, we collaborated with student organizations and NMOs worldwide to raise funds to fight the EVD outbreak. We successfully con-ducted a public awareness campaign based on social media and social mobilization, developed an EVD orphan support campaign, and launched the KickEbolaOut app.

As the coordinator of the KickEbolaOut campaign, I learned how external collabora-tions can improve our health initiatives. We created multiple diverse internal IFMSA partnerships with NMOs, such as SwiMSA-Switzerland, IFMSA-Quebec, IFMSA-Japan, ANEM-France, IFMSA-Brazil, and Medsin-UK.

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The KickEbolaOut campaign has supported my skill development in intercultural collaborations, teamwork and leadership, which help me to work as a member of the Team of Officials.

External representation is a fascinating task. In the past, I have acted as the commu-nication’s secretary of our University’s student union, and this experience has pro-vided opportunities to advance my communication skills required to collaborate with relevant partners.

I believe that I can strongly add value to next term’s Team of Officials. If I were trust-ed the responsibility of being Liaison Officer to Student Organizations, my main goals would be to increase IFMSA’s external visibility and to have an active participation in external student organization networks.

I intend to evaluate what is best done in other Student Organizations, in order to develop new and improved ideas to implement them in IFMSA throughout its current reform process; explore collaboration with partner organizations to its highest poten-tial; and engage NMOs and empower their activities.

I intend to create and maintain sustainable and meaningful relation with external student organizations, keeping in mind the IFMSA reform process and post-2015 agenda. These organizations include International Pharmaceutical Student Federa-tion (IPSF), International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA), and International Association of Dental Students (IADS).

Finally, I continue to represent my NMO and IFMSA by my future participation as invited keynote speaker at The Network towards Unity For Health (TUFH 2015) in South Africa and member of the IFMSA delegation to attend Global Youth Consulta-tion (GYC), World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), Qatar 2/9/15in Qatar.

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