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Global Health Corps is a community of leaders united by the belief that health is a human right. GHC fellows are highly effective and empathetic systems thinkers with diverse backgrounds, expertise and stories. During a yearlong paid fellowship, GHC fellows work in a range of critical roles within partner organizations on the... 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
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
Join Global Health Service Partnership on October 28th for an informational happy hour to learn more about becoming a Physician or Nurse Educator. Speak with Seed Global Health's Leaders: CEO - Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc Chief Medical Officer - Sadath Sayeed, MD, JD Chief Nursing Officer - Eileen Stuart-Shor, PhD, ANP, FAAN Where: Bar 10 The Westin Copely Place Hotel 10 Huntington... More
The application for the 2016 Mandela Washington Fellowship is open now through November 11. The program will bring 1,000 young Africans ages 25-35 to the U.S. next summer for six weeks of leadership training at U.S. universities. The U.S.-based portion of the program culminates with a summit here in D.C. attended by... More
Two vacancies for Senior Acquisitions and Assistance Specialists to support the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): 1. XLA has an immediate need for a financially-oriented Senior Acquisition & Assistance Specialist to support the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Regional Financial Management Office (RFMO) in New Delhi, India. This assignment will... More
Wednesday, Nov. 4 4-5:30 p.m. Charles River Campus, College of General Studies (CGS), 871 Comm. Ave, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium (Q& A and Book Signing in Gilbane Lounge (CGS) Dr. Paul Farmer, a medical anthropologist and cofounder of the global health organization Partners in Health, will be the featured speaker at the 25th Anniversary Stanley... More
Hello BU graduate students! Looking for innovative ways to engage in Global Health? Interested in working with a diverse team of students from the BU Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Engineering, Law, and Business? The BU Team application for the 2016 International Emory Global Health Case Competition is now open! This prestigious competition... More
CAHMI is seeking a full-time Technical Research Assistant. The Technical Research Assistant will participate in development, management, and maintenance of multiple websites designed to disseminate and present survey data and user-generated reports. They will assist with management of data on the CAHMI’s main websites through multiple databases and routinely prepare data... More
Healing Hands of Joy, a nonprofit that conducts obstetric fistula prevention and patient rehabilitation work in Ethiopia, is hiring for an Operations Manager in their New York City-based team. Please see attached for the job description, and here for a video about their work: https://vimeo.com/141452020
$5000 International Reporting Fellowship with the Pulitzer Center. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—a collaboration between BU’s School of Public Health, Center for Global Health and Development and College of Communication—has hosted Student Fellows from Boston University since 2011. Students have reported from Nepal, Haiti, Mali, Zanzibar, Myanmar, Turkey, Uganda, Malawi and... More
Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti is seeking a Monitoring & Evaluation Fellow in Haiti. The Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow works with a strong team to actively help fulfill the vision, mission and activities of the Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti (CNP) to improve the health and nutritional status of women and... More
Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti is seeking a Maternal Child Health Nutrition Fellow in Haiti. The needs of Kore Timoun are always changing and your fellow experience will be geared towards your interests as well as your skills, and experience and what the organization needs at the time of the fellowship. More
BU SPH Events Manager is seeking a few students or staff, willing to help out during the upcoming Bicknell Lecture, next Wednesday, as greeters before the event (9:30am - 10am) and as mic runners during the Q&A period, which occurs mid-way through the event (10am-1pm). If you are interested, please email: Meg... More
Come to the Global Health BUSM-SPH Student Mixer: Monday, Oct 19, 2015 @ 1pm, 670 Albany ST, in room 107/108. Join fellow medical and SPH students for the annual BUSM-SPH GH Student Mixer to include a conversation with five Department of Global Health faculty and Food from Anna’s Taqueria! There will also be an... More
