Category: Outside Announcements
Global Health Ideas Repository – Submit your ideas!
See the following message from Global Health Alumna Katie Clifford, MPH:
“I’ve been working closely with Professor Muhammad Zaman of the BU biomedical engineering department on the the Global Health Ideas Repository (GHIR) website, a forum that connects educators, innovators, and students from various disciplines interested in tackling global health challenges from an engineering perspective. Through the site, you can submit a challenge, explore submissions, share ideas on solutions, offer expertise advice, and incorporate challenges into curriculum (via projects, homework assignments, exam questions, etc.).
We are currently looking for submissions of global health challenges from those who have been working in the field. We’d love to get thoughts and views on what problems public health practitioners are really facing in the field. I, myself, am an alum of the BUSPH global health concentration, and did my practicum in Haiti in 2011. I returned to campus with a new view on the real public health problems in that region, and would have loved the opportunity to connect with public health-minded engineers on potential solutions to those problems.”
Submit your ideas here
The Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Annual Diversity Challenge Conference
Diversity Challenge Conference:
The Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture (ISPRC) is pleased to open registration for our Annual Diversity Challenge Conference.
Register Now for this year's Challenge: "Race, Culture, and Educating Our Youths: Developing Whole People Not Widgets." Attend individual presentations, panel discussions, workshops, symposia, structured discussions and poster sessions focusing on developments in research, professional practice, education, community activities, and activism pertaining to race and/or culture and education.
For more information and to register click here
Global Environmental Health Speaker Series – Every Friday from 12:45-1:45pm
Globally, many low and middle income countries (LMICs) are confronted with disproportionate exposures to a variety of pollutants. Currently, these include contaminated drinking water, indoor air pollution, ambient air pollution, heavy metals, pesticides, and electronic and other hazardous wastes. In many cases, these chemical pollutants have replaced infectious disease agents as the greatest threats to public health in LMICs. As a result of these changes in threats from specific types of exposure, the spectrum of public health concerns in these countries has expanded beyond the traditional challenges of diarrhea, pneumonia, and parasitic and vector-borne diseases to include developmental disorders, birth defects, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, mental health problems, and pediatric cancer. Improved public health practice and public health policies in LMICs can help protect the public from environmental exposures that contribute to the double burden of infectious and chronic diseases.
The Fall 2016 Gijs van Seventer Seminar Series will explore these chemical and infectious determinants of global environmental health from the perspectives of science, policy, and practice. The seminar will also examine the application of research results in the development of environmental policy, and the approaches and interventions that effectively promote global public health.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2016 Forum on Population Health Equity
For more information, e-mail: pophealthequity@hsph.harvard.edu or visit the Forum website (URL: http://tinyurl.com/2016PopForumInfo) and social media channels:
Alumni Association Event: Life’s Bulldozer Moments: How Adversity Can Lead to Success in Life and Business 10/4
Donato Tramuto, CEO, Healthways, serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board for BUSPH. He will be providing a book discussion on Tuesday, October 4th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm in L109. The title of the book is: Life’s Bulldozer Moments: How Adversity Can Lead to Success in Life and Business.
Donato has a tremendous background in healthcare and leadership, especially in global health. He has established a scholarship that will help support international students.
Donato Tramuto felt bulldozed by life as a child when he lost most of his hearing to an ear infection that left him isolated, bullied and treated as a failure. A succession of tragedies rocked his world again, including the accidental deaths of a much loved brother and sister-in-law and a last minute decision to change his plans to fly out of Logan Airport on 9/11 on the same flight that claimed the lives of his close friends and their young son in the terrorist attack.
In this poignant and penetrating book, Tramuto, a successful health care entrepreneur and global philanthropist, recounts the business and life lessons he learned along the way and shows that adversity can lead to success in life and business. He shows anyone bulldozed by life how to pull themselves out of the rubble, dust themselves off and find meaning and purpose.
October 4, 2016
4–5 p.m. Book discussion and QA
5–6 p.m. Reception
Boston University Medical Campus
72 East Concord Street
MED Instructional Building, L109
Boston, MA 02118
Get Involved with Public Health Advocacy
The Public Health Advocacy Group in Cambridge is an open forum for community-wide dialogue about local public health issues. We work closely with the Cambridge City Council and our meetings are held at the Cambridge City Hall. We discuss issues related to a wide range of topics from nutrition to homelessness to diseases.
We are looking for people to join our group, so if you are interested, please contact SPH Alumna Rupal Shah, MS, MPH
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Northern Tanzania – Professor Nafisa Halim 9/30
Professor Nafisa Halim of BU’s School of Public Health will give the second talk in this semester’s seminar series.
Her talk, “Community Level Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence in Northern Tanzania” will be held on September 30th at 3PM (note the special time!), in SOC 241.
LIVE STREAM available! Emerging Infectious Diseases from A to Z: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
This message is from NEIDL Director Ron Corley and NEIDL Associate Director Jerry Keusch.
A major scientific event is about to begin at BU when the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) hosts its inaugural symposium on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the George Sherman Union on the Charles River Campus. The conference will address the scientific challenges that emerging infections pose and how to improve the communication of evidence-based information to the general public. The speakers are outstanding internationally known leaders, including Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the acclaimed science writer David Quammen. A panel discussion and Q&A session will follow their presentations. This free program is geared toward the general public as well as the science community. A reception will follow. For more information and to register, go to www.bu.edu/eida2z/.
Please share this with your students and colleagues – all are welcome to join us on Sunday.
On Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 19 and 20, the symposium continues with four major sessions that will assess the state of knowledge and identify the critical gaps that limit progress, including:
· To Discover (how to find and identify new agents, where they hide, and how they are transmitted to humans);
· To Understand (how do they cause infection and disease, who is susceptible, how do we combat them);
· To Protect (how can we identify new drugs, vaccine candidates and sensitive and specific diagnostic tests); and
· To Collaborate (how do we work as a global scientific community to learn and act together, and what are the major obstacles and opportunities to do better).
The program and speakers are listed here. These sessions will be live-streamed to the BU community; to join go to /eida2z/livestream/ and login using your BU ID and Kerberos password.
Inaugural Symposium on Emerging Infectious Diseases from A to Z (EIDA2Z): Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
The symposium “Emerging Infectious Diseases from A to Z (EIDA2Z): Emerging Challenges and Opportunities" marks the inauguration of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) to foster innovative interdisciplinary research on emerging pathogens in collaboration with local, national, and global academic and public health partners. Designed to advance knowledge to zero in on the gaps in current understanding of emerging infectious diseases, the EIDA2Z symposium will bring together leading international authorities in the field to chart future research needs in order to improve discovery, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of these global health problems.
A major scientific event is about to begin at BU when the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) hosts this inaugural symposium on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the George Sherman Union on the Charles River Campus.
The symposium opens on Sunday September 18, 2016 at 3pm, with an extraordinary program for the general public to learn about the scientific challenges that emerging infectious diseases represent, and the challenges of clearly communicating complicated science and public health issues to the public. The speakers and panelists are all highly accomplished, internationally known leaders in science and scientific writing who will participate in an extended discussion with the general public to address questions and clarify current understanding of these challenges. A reception following the program will provide additional opportunity for attendees to meet the speakers and panelists.
Keynote Talks
- From AIDS to Zika: The Enduring Challenge of Emerging Infectious Disease Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
- Scary Viruses in the Globalized World: Telling the Story David Quammen, author/essayist
Location
- George Sherman Union, Charles River Campus, 775 Commonwealth Avenue
Conference Organizing Committee
Nahid Bhadelia
John H. Connor
Ronald B. Corley
Paul Duprex
Rachel Fearns
James Galagan
Thomas B. Kepler
Gerald T. Keusch (Chair)
Igor Kramnik
Elke Mühlberger
John R. Murphy
Gene Olinger
Please preregister for the event here
For more information please visit /eida2z/
