William Bicknell Encourages Public Health Practitioners
With a combination of jokes, poignant stories and encouragement to "make people hurt less," William Bicknell regaled an overflow crowd with lessons learned from more than five decades in public health. Bicknell, chair emeritus of the Department of International Health at BUSPH, has been on medical leave to battle a recurrence... More
Way Forward in HIV Testing: Article Featured in WHO Bulletin
In research conducted in Zambia, BU scientists concluded that the texting of the results of infant HIV tests significantly shortened the times between sample collection and results notification to the relevant health facilities and caregivers. The full article is featured in a special e-health issue of the Bulletin of the World Health... More
Jonathon Simon to Receive Inaugural Robert A. Knox Professorship
Boston University School of Public Health Professor Jonathon Simon has been named the first Robert A. Knox Professor, a newly created endowed professorship designed to support a faculty member who has an outstanding record of scholarship and teaching in public health and management. The professorship was established through a $2.5 million... More
Former President Banda of Zambia & Mrs. Banda Visit the CGHD
The Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) was honored to welcome His Excellency Former President Banda of Zambia and Her Excellency Mrs. Banda to a special CGHD forum with a former head of state. I did not realize how deep our relationship was (with Boston University),”the former president said to... More
Christopher Gill Nominated for BMJ ‘Research Paper of the Year’
Dr. Christopher Gill, a researcher with the Center for Global Health & Development and associate professor of international health at BUSPH, has received a nomination for Research Paper of the Year by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Group. Gill was recognized for his research on neonatal mortality in Lufwanyama, Zambia Researchers want... More
Lora Sabin Awarded NIH Grant
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Dr. Lora Sabin, a researcher with the Center for Global Health & Development and associate professor of international health at the BU School of Public Health, a grant for her China Adherence through Technology Study (CATS). The CATS project will build on her previous... More
BU Team Places Second in International Case-Study Competition
Three MPH/MPA candidates were part of a Boston University team that took second place at the Emory Global Health Case Competition, a rigorous case-study challenge featuring 23 universities from around the world. Rich Feeley, assistant chair and professor of international health, helped organize the team and was thrilled by the result. This... More
Muhammad Zaman Featured in New York Times Article on Student Evaluations of Professors
Muhammad Zaman was featured in a New York Times article titled, Feedback From Students Becomes a Campus Staple, but Some Go Further. A lot of college teaching is not very good, and everybody knows it,' he said. 'Having student evaluations at the end of the course doesn’t do anything to help it get... More
External Evaluation Of The President’s Malaria Initiative: Final Report
USAID released the final report by an external evaluation team of the first five years (FY 2006-FY 2010) of the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI). Jonathon Simon, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi & Mohamad Ibrahim Brooks of the CGHD were part of the evaluation team. The goal of PMI is to reduce malaria-related deaths by 50% in... More
Collaborative Study on Hacking Cough Published in The Lancet
Aga Khan University Hospital’s (AKUH) Division of Women and Child Health in collaboration with the National Lady Health Workers Program, the BU Center for Global Health & Development and the World Health Organization’s Department of Child and Adolescent Health conducted a study on hacking cough in Pakistan. Researchers of the study... More