Student Post-Travel Award Reports

All students who received a McGill Global Health travel award must complete the Student Post-Travel Award Report questions below within six weeks of their return to McGill.

This report requires a photo from your placement. Please make sure you review the photo guidelines (below the form) before uploading your photo.

Indicate the Term and year—for example, Fall 2022.
This will be used to help make any improvements to pre-departure training.
If you would rather submit a photo essay than this numbered list please review the description at http://www.perspectivesmcgill.com/contribute/ and email globalhealthblog@mcgill.ca the submission. Simply write photo essay in the above box.
The guidelines can be found below the form.
Please attach a photo from your global health experience.
Files must be less than 9.77 MB.
Allowed file types: jpg jpeg png.

You acknowledge and agree that McGill University shall own all right, title, and interest in and to the copyright in any and all photos you upload via this form and that, without limiting the foregoing, McGill has the sole and exclusive right to display, publish, distribute, broadcast, perform, adapt, reproduce, license, advertise, promote, edit, create derivative works from, or otherwise use (collectively, the right to “Use”) any photos you send, including without any further approval from you, in whole or in part, like audio or video, alone or accompanied by other material, throughout the world, in perpetuity, in any and all media now known or hereafter developed.

If you do not want McGill Global Health Programs to consider and potentially publish your responses on the McGill Global Health Blog, please select 'opt-out'. Please note: the Global Health office will contact you if they plan to use your responses as potential blog posts.

Photos guidelines

The report asks you to include a photo from your experience.

We encourage submissions of all types of photography from your global health-related experiences be it here in Canada or abroad. To stay true to what you saw and captured at the time, we ask that you avoid excessive editing. Submissions must be an original work taken by the individual submitting the photo.

The McGill Global Health Programs office supports ethical photography, meaning the welfare of the subject(s) in question (people, animals, environments, etc) take precedence over their photography. Do not harm, bribe, or manipulate the subject or its environment for the sake of creating an image.

Photographers’ decisions about the depiction of their subjects can completely alter viewers’ perceptions. An ethically shared photograph is one that accurately portrays a situation without stigmatizing the subjects. The photograph is taken with the subject's consent and shared in a way that the subjects approve.

Informed consent is mandatory in the following situations:

  • A person's face is visible and that person is the focus of the photo
  • A person's (or a group of people's) medical or personal information is revealed in the photo (e.g. HIV status).

For instance, consent would be required for group photos of you and your on-site colleagues, or with a study participant, but not for photos of you on a busy street or in front of the building where you worked.

If you wish to explore this topic further, The Lancet Global Health recently published a very relevant paper: The use of imagery in global health: an analysis of infectious disease documents and a framework to guide practice.

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