Category: GH Events
Mental Health – Public Health Connections meeting 10/12
To celebrate: World Mental Health Day coming on Monday, October 10th, join us for the first Mental Health – Public Health Connections campus interest group meeting Wednesday October 12th from 5-5:50pm in L109A.
Earlier this year The World Bank and the WHO held a two-day series of events focused on Making Mental Health a Global Development Priority and bringing Mental Health “Out of the Shadows”. Our first meeting will focus on the importance of bringing mental health ‘out of the shadows’ both on our campus and throughout our work in Public Health.
Burden & Impacts of Heavy Metal Exposures in LMICs 10/7
GIJS VAN SEVENTER ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SEMINAR
Friday October 7th 12:45-1:45pm
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Founder of Global Burden of Disease approach, Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil coming to BU! 10/26
17th Annual Dudley Allen Sargent Distinguished Lecture Presented by
Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil
Professor of Global Health, University of Washington
Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Wednesday, October 26, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
BU Sargent College, Room 101
635 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
A physician and health economist, Dr. Christopher Murray’s work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen health measurement, analyze the performance of public health and medical care systems, and assess the cost effectiveness of health technologies. Dr. Murray is a founder of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach, a systematic effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time. He led the collaboration of nearly 500 researchers from 50 countries that produced the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010. Dr. Murray was profiled in “Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients” written by journalist Jeremy N. Smith.
All attendees are invited to a reception following the lecture in the Sargent College Setterberg Lounge.
Admission is free. The public is welcome.
Contact Katy Staley at or 617-353-2705 for more information or to request special accommodations. You may also contact BU Disability Services at access@bu.edu.
Breaking through limitations: Women’s Self-Help Institutions in India as vehicles for health & social transformation
Come join us and hear from visiting guest lecturers from India who have worked closely with Research Scientist Jenny Ruducha from the Department of Global Health.
Previous students have had practicum experiences with Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana (RGMVP) in Uttar Pradesh, India. RGMVP is currently scaling up women’s Self Help Groups and behavior change and health systems linkages interventions. This talk would be a great networking opportunity for individuals interested in pursuing a practicum with the organization, specifically working with women's Self Help Groups.
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“Resilience in Child Survivors of Mass Trauma: the Case of Liberia”
Boston University School of Medicine - BMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds
L110 - October 6th 12pm-1pm
Dr. Elizabeth Levey is a Global Clinical Research Fellow in the Division’s T32 Fellowship. She is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist involved in both global mental health research and clinical work.
Dr. Levey received her MD from the University of Chicago and completed her residency training in Adult Psychiatry at MGH and McLean Hospitals, where she was the chief resident in global psychiatry.
In her role as chief resident, Dr. Levey supervised other residents in global projects and developed a global concentration for the residency program, where she collaborated with the Division on projects in Liberia and Ghana. Following her residency, Dr. Levey completed a two- year fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at MGH/McLean. During her fellowship, she also performed qualitative research with adolescents in Liberia, and she traveled to India to consult at an orphanage and a maternity hospital.
Key public health employers are coming to campus in the coming weeks!
To attend you must register on Handshake as these employers are very popular and space is limited.
RTI International – Wednesday, October 19th from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room L-303
RTI is a nonprofit research institute with more than 4,100 employees working across a broad array of topics. This includes more than 600 people working in the social, policy, health, and economics research area. In addition to headquarters in North Carolina, there are offices in Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Waltham MA. Representatives from RTI (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organization and opportunities for MPH and doctoral candidates.
Public Consulting Group – Thursday November 3rd 5:00 – 5:50pm Room L-311
Public Consulting Group is a market leader in delivering outstanding financial and operational results to education, health, human services, and other government clients. Representatives from PCG (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organization and opportunities for MPH candidates.
Abt Associates – Thursday November 10th from 1:00 – 1:50pm Room L-311
Abt Associates is a global leader in research and program implementation in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, climate change, and international development. Representatives from Abt (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organization and opportunities for MPH and doctoral candidates.
Fenway Health + AIDS Action Committee – Tuesday November 15th 5:00 – 5:50pm Room L-109
Fenway Health is a Boston-based community health center (CHC) dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and all people in our neighborhoods and beyond through access to the highest quality health care, education, research and advocacy. In addition, The Fenway Institute is an interdisciplinary center for research, training, education, and policy development, focusing on national and international health issues.
AIDS Action Committee is an AIDS Services Organization (ASO) working to stop the epidemic and related health inequities by eliminating new infections, maximizing healthier outcomes for those infected and at risk, and tackling the root causes of HIV/AIDS. Representatives from FH and AAC (including BUSPH alums!) will be on campus to discuss their organizations and opportunities for MPH and doctoral candidates.
What can be done to prevent intimate partner violence – save the date! 10/7
Get involved with Bantwana: Together to End Violence Against Women
Women in Tanzania experience alarmingly high levels of intimate partner violence, a key driver of poor mental & physical health, including HIV. IPV can be prevented.
“Humanitarian Response: the good, the bad, and the ugly” 10/5
Wednesday October 5, 2016
9:30-10:30am
Yawkey Basement Conference Room
Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy, MD, MPH is the Deputy Director of Global Disaster Response at the MGH Center for Global Health. She will be giving Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds entitled "Humanitarian Response: the good, the bad, and the ugly"
Though this event is the Medical School Grand Rounds, MPH students with a Global Health interest are invited to attend!
Any questions email:
Gabrielle A. Jacquet MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Director, Global Health, Boston Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency
Assistant Director, Global Health Programs, Boston University School of Medicine
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health
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.
Global Oneness Engineering: Three Examples of Global Environmental Health Practice from Nepal and Ghana 9/23
THIS WEEK'S: Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar
12:45 pm-1:45pm Friday, September 23, 2016
L210
Speaker Susan Murcott D-Lab, MIT, will describe her engineering practice by defining “Global Oneness Engineering” and discussing the work in which she and her community partners and students engage. After conducting water quality tests and discovering arsenic in Nepal in 2001, the design and implementation of an innovative arsenic filter became the chief focus. Microbiologically unsafe surface waters in Ghana led to the construction of a ceramic pot filter factory to provide safe drinking water and good jobs. Murcott’s latest work with a Cambridge start-up and local partners in Ghana involves measurement of carbon flux and translating that into both financial products and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions. Susan Murcott is a water/wastewater engineer and a lecturer at MIT. She has led international public health engineering projects and mentored graduate student teams in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for the past twenty-five years on five continents. For more information: https://d-lab.mit.edu/people/Susan_Murcott
