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A DGH professor who lives in Jamaica Plain is looking for someone to stay at her house while she travels and take care of her dogs and cat. It is a single-family house with a yard and garden, 10 minutes’ walk from Forest Hills Station on the Orange Line. There... More
The Center for Nutrition in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of Boston Children’s Hospital is searching for a Research Specialist in Global Health and Nutrition. The candidate will be responsible for coordination of field operational, data management, and regulatory activities for international nutrition and epidemiology research projects. Data... More
GH811 is a recently developed course focused on data science methods for global health. The class is hands-on and will equip students with practical skills that employers are looking for. This course is open to all students who’ve taken both introductory biostatistics and epidemiology (EP713 and BS704). Course Overview In this course we focus... More
World Vision Global Health Fellows Programme Summer, 2016 Global Health Fellowship Opportunities World Vision Bangladesh: Participatory Learning and Action Groups for MNCH Training Program – Field Test Research Assistant World Vision East Africa Region: Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Lives Saved Tool (LiST) Analyses World Vision Ghana: Nutrition Links, Sustainable Livelihoods and Health... More
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THU, APRIL 7 | 1 - 2 PM Crosstown Center Boston University School of Public Health 801 Massachusetts Avenue Fendall Room CT305 More Info SPEAKERS: FRANK FEELEY Associate Proessor of Global Health at BU’s School of Public Health EDWARD JONES LOPEZ Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston Medical Center and BU’s School of Medicine ANA MARIA REYES Assistant Professor of Latin American... More
In the city of Boston, the median earnings of all part- and full-time women in the workforce are 84 percent of male workers’ earnings (estimate based on BRA Research Division analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data). Full-time male workers in Boston are almost twice as likely as female full-time workers... More
Africa Regional Malaria AdvisorTechnical Advisor IIHealth Division, Office of Sustainable Development, Bureau for Africa, United States Agency for International Development Location: Washington, DC | Assignment: Two Year Fellowship | GHFP-II-P5-196 The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP-II) is a five year cooperative agreement implemented and managed by the Public Health Institute in partnership... More
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, established in 1981, is the only self-governing graduate and professional school of nutrition in North America. Its mission is to improve the nutritional well-being of people worldwide through: the creation of new knowledge • the application and dissemination... More
HealthMap aggregates many sources of information using an automated system. To improve the automated system, we also review the alerts to make confirm disease and location. We then communicate the current status of infectious disease in the world to subscribers, including local public health agencies, the CDC, and WHO. Scope of... More
Hey GH Concentrators! So Fall 2016 Course registration opens April 3rd and you're all... How do I choose between two courses I'm really interested in? What do I do if I'm waitlisted or miss the cut on a course I need? What are the hard skills I'll take away from this course? Will I be... More
