Category: Outside Announcements
Your Voice Matters!
Please take a moment to fill out the School Survey.
Take a screenshot of the completion page and come by the Graduate Student Life offices for a prize! The first 200 students to complete the survey will be entered into a raffle to win two tickets the the hottest SPH event this fall – the SPH 40th Anniversary Gala – tickets are $250 each, but you’ll have a chance to go for free! Click here to complete the survey.
Also check out our fantastic peers, Leslie and Ashlee, in this video!
PA Consulting Group – Career Services Employer Information Session – 9/28
RSVP for this great employer information session sponsored by Career Services!!
The Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking presents Refugee Education Week 9/21-9/28
Join the Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking for a week long series of events about refugees and forced migration, September 21-28, 2016.
Events dates, times, and locations
September 21st, 7:00-8:00 PM in CAS 326
BUIAA Global Insights: Along the Migrant Trail
September 22nd, 7:00-10:00 PM in CAS 313
REACT to Film Screening of "After Spring," followed by a panel discussion of the film with Dr. Omar Salem (Karam Foundation Chairman) and Prof. Somy Kim
September 27th, 5:00-7:00 PM in 121 Bay State Rd.
Global Crisis, Local Action: Boston Refugee Organizations
September 28th, 6:00-10:00 PM in the Trustees' Ballroom (1 Silber Way 9th Floor)
Refugee Benefit Gala with Eyes on Refugees (tickets required)
Submit to the Fall 2016 Issue for The Journal for Global Health
The Journal for Global Health is looking for pieces that examine the complexities of global health and offer insightful solutions to pressing problems. The Journal for Global Health mission is to committed to featuring original student research in public health and spotlighting grassroots public health activism and provides a forum for students to catalyze dialogue and spark productive exchange
Until 11:59 PM US EST on September 18th 2016, they will be accepting:
- Original Academic Research Papers – Research-based works addressing a specific area of global health
- Perspectives – Opinion pieces that address fresh and exciting developments in global health
- Field notes – Written with a more personal voice, pieces that are based on your direct involvement in the field
Information on submissions can be found at www.ghjournal.org.
For all inquiries, please email submissions@ghjournal.org. Please submit all pieces to the submissions email address as well.
GH Dept. Chair Pat Hibberd speaking at EH Dept. Seminar – 9/16
Join us for the GIJS Van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar to hear our Global Health Department Chair, Pat Hibberd's Presentation:
What Will it Take to Clean Up the Most Dangerous Place On Earth?
Swahili course still open!!
Registration Open for Swahili Language with a Health Focus Course – CAS LE491
We have exciting news for those of you interested in taking an African language class this semester. BU’s African Studies Center is offering “Swahili Language with a Health Focus” on the Medical Campus. This is a fantastic opportunity for MPH and other students on the MED campus who are interested in working in East Africa. The course is offered for 1 credit. Meeting times will be determined based upon when enrolled students are available. (Depending on interest, more than one section may be offered).
This intensive course will be scheduled for 2 hours, twice a week. The class will focus on providing students with practical speaking, listening, and reading skills that will be useful in conducting fieldwork and will also highlight East African cultural notions of health.
If you are interested in taking the course please register for CAS LE491 as soon as possible via student link. Once you have registered, the instructor will communicate with you directly about scheduling. Contact Professor Geofred Osoro at gosoro@bu.edu or Jen Beard at jenbeard@bu.edu if you have questions.
NOTES
- Credits from language courses, will not count toward your MPH degree.
- Students taking 12-17 SPH credits can register for this class without additional tuition expense.
- A follow-up course will be taught during Spring semester (2017) for students who want to further develop their language skills.
Broken Hearts/Fighting Words: US Evangelicals, Border-Crossing Affects, & the Anti-Homosexuality Law in Uganda
International Relations and Religion (IRRN) Pizza and Politics Group, and the African Studies Center
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The Pardee School of Global Studies: Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs: CURA invites you to:
Broken Hearts/Fighting Words: US Evangelicals, Border-Crossing Affects, & the Anti-Homosexuality Law in Uganda
Melani McAlister, Associate Professor of American Studies & International Affairs, George Washington University
Thursday, September 15 @ 5:00
Eilts Room, 154 Bay State Rd.
In 2010, an “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” was introduced into the Parliament of Uganda that outlawed homosexual sex and called for the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” Many observers have noted ties between far-right US evangelicals and several of the law’s most prominent supporters in Uganda. While the role of Americans was important, the law itself emerged out of a much more complex field that included changes in global Christianity, the impact of neoliberalism, and HIV/AIDS policy. The presentation will position Uganda’s sexual politics in a larger context that challenges the ideological injection model that has dominated US discussions of the law.
See attached for a flyer for this event.
MGH Global Psych Dinner Series
You're invited to the:
Chester M. Pierce MD. Division of Global Psychiatry Global Psych Dinner:
Dr. Christina Borba: "Global Mindset, Local Relevance: Learning from Ethiopia, Liberia, and Boston"
Monday Sept. 19th 6:00pm-7:30pm
Boston Medical Center, Evans Seminar Room, 72 East Concord Street, E112A
BUSPH Alumna Christina P.C. Borba, PhD, MPH is Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. Until 2016, she was the Director of Research at the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry. She is an Assistant in Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant in Research at MGH.
Dr. Borba has extensive experience in mixed methods research, teaching and training, and development and management of randomized clinical trials. Dr. Borba’s current research focuses on psychotic disorders and cultural psychiatry in low-resourced settings in the US and abroad, women’s mental health, and gender differences in care.
Click here to RSVP.
The Insufficiently Appreciated Impact of Pollution on Global Health
Join us for the opening seminar of the:
GIJS Van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar Series:
Global Environmental Health: Science, Policy & Practice
The Insufficiently Appreciated Impact of Pollution on Global Health
on Friday September 9th 12:45-1:45pm in L112
Pollution-related disease (PRD) is a massive and growing global problem. Diseases caused by pollution are responsible for nearly 9 million premature deaths each year, almost three times as many deaths as result from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. PRD, poverty and inequity are intertwined, and PRD falls most heavily upon children, women, and the poor. More than 90% of deaths due to PRD occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
The nature of pollution is changing. In rapidly developing countries, levels of ambient air pollution, toxic chemical pollution and soil pollution are increasing sharply in consequence of urbanization, increasing motor vehicle use and the proliferation of toxic chemicals, pesticides and polluting industries. Asthma, neurodevelopmental disorders and sudden infant death syndrome are the main health consequences for children. In adults, health effects include COPD, atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease, stroke, renal disease, lung cancer and accelerated neurological degeneration.
In this opening lecture of the Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar Series, Global Environmental Health: Science, Policy and Practice, Dr. Landrigan explores the global impact of pollution and pollution-related diseases. The changing nature of pollution and PRDs is described along with the staggering economic and development costs due to these diseases. Efforts to address this increasing, and neglected global problem are discussed, including the launch of the Global Commission on Pollution & Health, an initiative of The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP), and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, are summarized.
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics and Dean for Global Health in Arnhold Institute for Global Health of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and leader in public health and preventive medicine.
Dr. Landrigan’s pioneering research on the effects of lead poisoning in children contributed to the U.S. government’s decision to remove lead from gasoline and paint. His leadership of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on pesticides in children’s diets generated widespread understanding that children are uniquely vulnerable to toxic chemicals in the environment and helped to secure passage of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, the only federal environmental law in the United States that contains explicit protections for the health of children. It led also to establishment of EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection. Dr. Landrigan was a leader in developing the National Children’s Study, the largest epidemiological study of children’s health and the environment ever launched in the United States. He has been centrally involved in the medical and epidemiologic studies that followed the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He has consulted extensively to the World Health Organization. Dr. Landrigan currently chairs The Lancet-Mount Sinai Global Commission on Pollution & Health.
Dr. Landrigan is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Boston College, Harvard Medical School and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a 41-year veteran of the US Public Health Service and the US Navy.
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Networking Event: Pathways to Governmental Public Health
Pathways to Governmental Public Health - Networking
Starts:11:40 am on Thursday, September 8, 2016
Ends:12:50 pm on Thursday, September 8, 2016
Location:Instructional Building, Hiebert Lounge
Contact Name:Joanna Brown
Contact Email:jvbrown@bu.edu
Contact Phone:617-638-4841
Are you considering going to work for a local or state health department following graduation? We have invited officials from the Boston Public Health Commission, MA Department of Public Health, and local health departments from around the state to come to campus and speak with students. You’ll have the opportunity to engage with seasoned public health practitioners, and learn more about what working for a state or local government entails. Contact jvbrown@bu.edu to RSVP for this event.
