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The U.S. Catholic Bishops established Catholic Relief Services in 1943 to help the displaced people of war-torn Europe. More than 70 years later, the world has changed, and CRS has changed with it. Today we are one of the largest and most trusted international relief and development organizations in the... More
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... More
Join The Fenway Institute, Fenway Women’s Health, and the LGBT Aging Project for the first of a two part series, Herstory: Exploring the Intersection of Women and HIV, then and now. Using first person narrative, Herstory will explore how women were affected at the height of the US epidemic, along... More
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2016-2017 IASSCS-FORD FOUNDATION Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship Introduction IASSCS seeks to strengthen the field of social and cultural research on sexuality globally, including the development of research capacity, giving priority to the crucial need for diversity in this field of inquiry. Its mission is informed by the principles of social justice... More
Submission deadline Friday, October 7. SPH Stories is an initiative to engage our community in the power and importance of narrative to public health. Open to faculty, staff, and students! Use your voice in your own way - poetry, spoken word, song, etc. - to tell a story that matters. Submit... More
Are you interested in The Report being released by The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies coming out this November? Do you like to tweet and want to help spread the word about The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies via twitter and other social media platforms? Contact Dr. Veronika Wirtz or... More
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.
The Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality (GCWS) is still accepting applications for our October/November micro-seminar: Who can Play? Gender, Race, Sports, and Bodies. This seminar will happen at Tufts University and is open to GCWS member institution graduate students, seniors in WGS or related majors and faculty. It is one of several graduate-level... More
The Global Health Service Partnership, Seed Global Health’s flagship program with the Peace Corps and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), partners with countries in sub-Saharan Africa to tackle critical health care provider shortages by sending U.S. physicians and nurses to serve as volunteer educators and work... More
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... More
Apply here! Program Overview The Technical Services Unit is comprised of three teams – the Integrated System Strengthening Team, the Implementation Learning Team, and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Team. The Technical Advisor I for Program Documentation will sit within the Implementation Learning Team. This team fosters intentional critical thinking... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
