IH Blast
Welcome to the IH Blast, the IH Department’s way of keeping you informed about events, opportunities, and things of interest to our concentrators. Click on headings for general information, and to access subpages.
BUMC Annual Housing Fair-June 14th!
June 14 BUMC Annual Housing Fair
Friday, June 14
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
BUSM Instructional Building, Hiebert Lounge
A light brunch available to all fair participants.
Need to find an apartment? Attend the free annual Housing Fair. Incoming and continuing students on the BU Medical Campus are welcome to attend. Meet property managers, realtors, landlords, BU Rental Property Management, Boston’s Rental Housing Resource Center, City of Boston Inspection Services, Public Safety and more. Find a potential roommate in the Roommate Lounge. Question the panel of current students for their expert housing advice and more.
New open position at MSH in Cambridge: Business Proposal and Contracts Associate
Learn more here: POSITION DESCRIPTION
MGH Durant Fellowship Seminar Series “Syrian Refugees in Jordan” May 28th
Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Report from the Thomas S. Durant Fellowship in Refugee Medicine
Grace Deveney, RN, MPH
Tuesday, May 28th
12:30 – 1:30 pm
O’Keeffe Auditorium
Blake Building, Massachusetts General Hospital
Learn more here!
Global Impact Corps: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Experience
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
Impact: 1.6 million patients have received quality care by local eye doctors, including more than 66,000 sight-restoring surgeries since 2005.
Locations of Year-Round Programs: Ghana, Honduras, India
(volunteer for 7 days, 15 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, or more)
Who participates? Students and professionals interested in public health, international development, medicine, or social entrepreneurship.
What do Global Impact Fellows say? “The nearly 3 months I spent with Unite For Sight in Ghana were among the most inspirational in my life. The Ghanaian doctors, nurses, and support staff are an incredibly devoted, knowledgeable, and gifted group of healthcare providers and health educators, and the Ghanaian people welcome visitors to their happy, happy homeland with open arms and bright, wide grins. The Unite For Sight model of pre-departure training combined with on-the-ground volunteer work cannot be beat for anyone interested in ethical global public health and healthcare delivery. What’s more, as a veterinarian (DVM, MPH), I am daily surprised to find myself benefiting from lessons I learned while volunteering with UFS: from cross-cultural interactions in my clinic, to improved health education, to sitting back and appreciating when things run on “GMT” (Ghana Mean Time). I cannot recommend this program more highly.” –Bonnie Price, Global Impact Fellow. See more volunteer accounts at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad/volunteer-accounts
What do Global Impact Fellows do? Global Impact Fellows support and learn from the partner clinics’ talented medical professionals. Through hands-on, structured training, Global Impact Fellows gain a comprehensive understanding about best practices in global health and social entrepreneurship, and they receive a Certificate in Global Health & Program Delivery.
Global Impact Fellows come from very diverse backgrounds, including those interested in public health, medicine, international development, social entrepreneurship, and the social sciences. Global Impact Fellows work with local doctors to eliminate patient barriers to care for patients living in extreme poverty. They assist with patient education, visual acuity screening, patient intake, distributing the glasses and medication prescribed by the local eye doctors, and other important support tasks. They also have the opportunity to observe the surgeries provided by the local doctors. Additionally, Global Impact Fellows may participate in the Global Impact Lab, an optional program for those interested in pursuing global health research. For example, current Global Impact Fellows are pursuing research studies about medication management, the use of visual resources for patient education, traditional medicine practices, and patient barriers to care.
See the complete details and the online application at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
4 new URC Job Postings (University Research Co. in Bethesda, MD)
Communications Specialist May 2013
Deputy Director Underage Drinking Prevention Education Project – March 2013
Harvard Global Health Institute hiring a Summer Coordinator for their Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program (Apply by 5/20)
SURF Summer Coordinator
Summer Coordinator for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) seeks to hire a Summer Coordinator for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. The successful candidate will provide support for ~25 undergraduate student fellows working with faculty from around the University in the SURF program. The Coordinator will plan, schedule, and coordinate weekly guest lectures; provide guidance for students in working with their faculty mentors; and assist students in preparing for their final research presentations at the end of the program in August, as well as plan and execute final poster presentation session for students and mentors. The Coordinator will collaborate with other summer program coordinators at Harvard and keep students informed of opportunities on campus, and perform other duties as assigned by the Program Coordinator for Education. The SURF Summer Coordinator will work no more than 15 hours per week, with ~5 of those hours in-office, preferably on Wednesdays. The remaining 10 hours per week can be conducted off-site via email or online on a personal computer, or meeting with students outside the office.
Start date: June 3, 2013. End date: August 23, 2013.
Requirements: B.A. plus advanced degree in a related field (or current enrollment in an advanced degree program). Pay commensurate with experience.
Interested applications should send a cover letter and resume to globalhealtheducation@harvard.edu before 9am on May 20, 2013.
Harvard Global Health Institute
104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.8222
Fax: 617.495.8231
Email: globalhealth@harvard.edu
PEPFAR Coordinator in Angola open position, apply by May 22nd!
To learn more about the position, click here.
Project Administrator position at the Center for Global Health & Development
PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR, Center for Global Health & Development, Grade 73
Job Description:
Operationally and administratively manages specific scientific research projects for the Center. Responsible for programmatic research activities including: managing budgets and resource allocation, reporting, operational planning; managing the first related activities of the projects operating in developing countries.
Responsibilities include:
Project Coordination: Communicate with technical staff on status of projects; coordinate project meetings and travel; provide logistical and administrative support to project teams.Contract Management: Understand all contractual requirements of project; track due dates of financial and technical reports; ensure compliance with donor regulations and processes for
securing approvals, purchasing supplies, travel restrictions.
Financial Management: Maintain financial records; track and review expenditures; process financial transactions; provide financial reports to PIs monthly.
Information Management: Track project “projects” (publications, posters, presentations); maintain project documentation (electronic and hard copy); compile IRB documents
Required Experience:
Bachelors Degree with 3-5 years of experience
Job Location:
BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States
Position Type:
Full-Time/Regular
View the job position and apply on the BU Human Resources site: https://bu.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&id=23&jobid=294852&company_id=15509&version=1&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=1016504&level=levelid2&levelid2=4283&parent=Boston%20University%20Medical%20Campus%3B%3B%3BProfessional%2FAdministrative&startflag=3
Dance for Health’s initiative on the BU Medical Campus. Be a part of the action!
A student at BU’s School of Medicine is starting an organization called Dance for Health (DFH), which aims to promote health by having BU graduate students teach dance classes to older adults in Boston.
Despite being a small percentage of the total population, the elderly account for one-third of hospitalizations and 43.6% of money spent on healthcare in America. Through these dance classes, DFH seeks to encourage the physical, social, and mental well-being of seniors to help them maintain independent lifestyles as they age.
Dance for Health is looking to recruit students from the BU medical campus to join the organization. Students would teach a one-hour class per week for six consecutive weeks at a local Boston community center. They hope that their organization will enable students to establish relationships with older adults in the Boston community as well as promote intercampus community building.
If you have interest in joining this effort, please take this fill out this brief survey:
Can you write in Haitian Creole and/or Portugese? Help needed by this Saturday, May 11th with a brief translation!
Are you able to write in Haitian Creole or Portugese? A translation of the below text in these two languages is needed by THIS SATURDAY, MAY 11th. It will be used to communicate safe gardening practices in urban gardens (lead concerns), as part of a soil testing/consultation event BU is offering at the City Farm Fest (see above flyer).
Interested students should contact Ashley Miller at akmiller@bu.edu.
Please translate this – or a slight modification of it:
”Good Gardening Practices:
The following guidelines will help protect you from lead (Pb), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other contaminants commonly found in urban soil:
When Designing & Building Your Garden:
· Select a garden space that is not right next to your house (avoid the “drip line” along the edge of your home)
· If you do not know the lead level of the soil where you’re gardening, test it
· If you want to garden without testing soil, build a raised bed with a barrier of landscape fabric between the ground and fill with GOOD/CLEAN soil
· Don’t use railroad ties or pressure treated (CCA) wood for bed dividers
Once Your Garden Is Built:
· Wear gloves while gardening
· Wash hands after gardening and before eating
· Wash root and leafy vegetables before eating
· Change gardening shoes before entering home (don’t track dirt indoors)
· Don’t let children eat soil
· Add compost or other organic matter to soil every year (or more often)
· Till soil only to a depth of 6 – 8 inches
· Avoid deep digging or double digging
· Use mulch on bare soil to lessen splashing soil onto plants
· Work in garden soil only when it is moist (not dry and dusty)
GOOD/CLEAN means that lead and nutrients have been measured and lead levels are less than 150 ppm.”
