World Glaucoma Week is held annually around the globe. The event is intended to draw the public’s attention to eye health, especially eye pressure.

If you are an energetic medical student, willing to spend your summer productively and make new friends as well as learn, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

There are two Summer School offers available – Health & Migration or Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights. Both schools will take place in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium, 5–16 July 2020.

The participation fee is EUR 520, which includes accommodation and meals.

In August 2020, Riga will become a centre for the history of medicine by hosting the 47th Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM). The organisers of the congress are the Latvian Association of Medical Historians in cooperation with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and Pauls Stradins Museum for the History of Medicine. The submission deadline has been extended to March 8.

An award ceremony celebrating the creators behind the most important scientific achievements in 2019 was held in the Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS) on 6 February. Among them were six researchers from RSU who received certificates of acknowledgement for their research into and introduction of an innovative bone replacement material to be used in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Film fans are welcome to attend the film lecture series Cinema Lab that will take place on four Mondays in March and April. The films in the series will illuminate American politics, the behind the scenes of the fashion industry and the media environment. The first four Cinema Lab screenings and lectures were held in Autumn 2019 with the support of the US Embassy in Latvia and the Kinoskola foundation. They were open to students and academic staff from various universities, as well as the wider public.

Women’s health is a public health priority area globally as well as in the World Health Organisation (WHO) European Region. It has been a subject of discussion in recent years among medical professionals and the general public. Unfortunately, according to findings published in the latest issue of The Lancet Global Health journal, the Baltic States have one of the highest incidence and mortality from cervical cancer in Europe.

The Summer International Radiology Course 2020 (SIRC20) will be held in Poznań, Poland, 19-25 July 2020.

SIRC20 is a 7-day workshop that will cover the theoretical and practical aspects of multidisciplinary radiology - X-ray, USG, CT, MRI, and interventional radiology. The course will be taught in English by experienced clinicians and radiologists and will focus on the interpretation of diagnostic images and practical handling of radiology equipment.

Several independent experts visited Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) on 6 February as part of the licensing process of the new International Business and Start-up Entrepreneurship study programme. Mārtiņš Upmacis, Senior Expert at the Academic Information Centre, coordinated the work of the panel of experts. The panel included representatives from the Latvian Employers’ Confederation and the Student Union of Latvia.