Category: Announcements
MSH/SIAPS Approach to Pharmaceutical Systems Strengthening
The slides from Maura Soucy Brown’s presentation are available here.
Pharm Program Leadership Application (PPLC)
The Pharm Program Leadership Council is seeking applicants for the 2016-2017 academic year. Applicants must be a member of the Pharmaceuticals Program and expect to remain as a student at BUSPH through Spring 2017. Six seats on PPLC will be open. The application period be open form March 25-April 11. However, interested applicants can begin completing the application here.
The mission of the council is to provide feedback and guidance to the Program as well as improve the Pharm Program’s connections among Pharm Program students, the BU community, & the greater Boston Pharma community and beyond.
Join Students of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (SISPE)!
In the summer of 2015, a joint chapter of Students of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (SISPE) between students at BU and the University of Basel, Switzerland was formed.
SISPE is an international network for students interested in or studying pharmacoepidemiology. SISPE is organized by student members of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE).
The ISPE Student Council has set the following goals and objectives:
- To provide a forum for the discussion of issues of specific concern to pharmacoepidemiology students across the world.
- To facilitate the exchange of information concerning research, grants, job openings, and other information of interest.
- To improve ISPE students’ social and professional networks and create an engaged and lively student community in pharmacoepidemiology.
- To represent the interests and concerns of ISPE student members before the Board of Directors.
- To organize student activities at ISPE meetings and throughout the year, to optimize benefits for students, and to enhance student participation.
For more infomration please go to https://pharmacoepi.org/communities/students.cfm. Anyone interested in joining should contact Lade Ayodele at layodele@bu.edu.
Conference – Global Infectious Diseases: New Challenges and Solutions
Infectious diseases were once relegated to the dustbin of history, but today emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases threaten health and health care systems in every country. Recent events, such as the measles outbreak in the United States, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and litigation over a compounding pharmacy’s liability in the spread of fungal meningitis, highlight the legal, medical, and bioethical challenges posed by infectious diseases. This symposium will explore the interdisciplinary considerations and obstacles raised by these and similar developments. Panels will discuss ways to encourage development of infectious disease treatments, lessons learned from the recent H1N1 and Ebola outbreaks, the legal and moral implications of mandatory vaccination, infectious disease control within the U.S. healthcare system, and the tension between individual freedom and state control during an outbreak. Learn more and RSVP (required).
Saturday January 30, 2016, 8:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Room 102
Sumner M. Redstone Building
Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Inaugural Pharm Program Newsletter – Semester Rx
Read the inaugural Pharm Program newsletter here to read about the exciting things the program and its students did in Fall 2015 while looking ahead to Spring 2016.
BWH Behavioral Health Innovation Series
The Health Sector Management Group at the Questrom School of Business made the following announcement on their group Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/BUHSMC/. Opportunity for BUSPH students.
Take a Chill Pill with PPLC
The Pharm Program Leadership Council (PPLC) is excited to host the "Take a Chill Pill" social hour for finals week. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 16 from 1-2pm in 670 Albany Street, room 107/108. See the campus map below for the location of the building. A hot chocolate station will be set up along with assorted cookies to help you through finals week. Take an hour out of your busy schedule, come hang out with fellow Pharm Program students, and and take a chill pill!
PH740 & GH756 Course Presentations! Possible Seminar Credit
Students taking pharmaceutical related courses will make their final presentations this week. These will be open to interested students and faculty. Both presentations will be held in Room L311.
The first by the students in PH740 Introduction to Pharmaceuticals and Public Health will occur at 2pm on Wednesday 16th. The subject of the presentation will be Pharmaceutical Aspects of the treatment of Hepatitis C. As Pharm Blast readers will know there has been a revolution in the treatment of Hepatitis C with a number of new Directly Acing medicines being released. Countries within the Western Pacific region of WHO at their last Regional Committee called for technical support for developing and implementing national action plans for viral hepatitis and promote better understanding of the burden of viral hepatitis and its consequences countries in the region. These presentations aim to provide such information. Five groups of students will present on different aspects of the issue. Professor Stephen Ko who is the in house expert in the Department will be the lead commentator on the presentations. There will be opportunities for questions and brief comments.
The presentation will be by students in the GH 756 Analyzing Pharmaceutical Systems course. This presentation will occur at 10am on Friday December 18th 2015. The members of this course will present the results of a survey which they have undertaken in the Boston area of the availability and prices of essential medicines. They used the WHO/HAI standard method that has been used in more than 100 surveys in over 60 countries. The survey replicates a similar survey undertaken by students in the 2014 edition of this course. Doris Peter, PhD, the director of Consumer Reports Health Rating Center will be coming from New York to be the lead commenter on the presentations. Margaret Ewen from Health Action International in Amsterdam will also join the presentation by Skype to make comments. There will be opportunities for questions and brief comments.
Students wishing to count either or both of these presentations towards the 18 seminar requirement for Pharmaceutical Certificate must submit a brief one paragraph summary to Travis DiJoseph (tdijo@bu.edu). Please note that students in the course presenting cannot count these as seminars.
Propel Careers Seminar with Lauren Celano Slides
View slides from the "Career Opportunities" talk given by Lauren Celano, Co-founder and CEO of Propel Careers, on Tuesday, December 1.
Use of Electronic Health Records for Addressing Overweight and Obesity in Primary Care
The Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University welcomes Professor Heather J. Baer, Sc.D. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
