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Leadership for Public Health and Development in India
The seminar Leadership for Public Health and Development brings together leading public health experts from BU and India to discuss the immense problems of creating an effective public health system in India and the School of Public Health pilot [...]program Teach the Teacher to Teach (T5), aimed at faculty development for the new Indian schools of public health.
Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Global Health Initiative at Boston University, and the Boston University School of Public Health on June 11, 2008.
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Roberta White -- 2011 BUSPH Dean's Report.mov
Roberta "Bobbie" White, chair of the Environmental Sciences department at Boston University School of Public Health, discusses the research that helped redefine the causes and scope of Gulf War Illness.
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Dean Elmore Chats With MTV's Georgia Arnold
Dean Elmore chats with the MTV Staying Alive Campaign's Georgia Arnold. Filmed December 2, 2011.
Upon the 30th anniversary of the first report of AIDS, where are we as a society in addressing the pandemic? Have we become somewhat lax in addressing [...]the disease as a society? Has the discussion changed to become more about overall sexual health, and if so, is that a good or bad thing?
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Youth Violence: A Community Solution
Students at Haverhill High School in Massachusetts are learning new ways to curb youth violence through VIP, the Violence Intervention and Prevention program. In addition to pledging to uphold the program's mission of peace, members of VIP give [...]presentations on violence prevention and attend training workshops on conflict resolution, leadership and public speaking.
The program appears to be making a difference, according to Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. Rothman has been assessing interventions such as VIP in Haverhill and nearby Methuen as part of a wider community initiative to stem the growth of youth violence.
Listen to Rothman talk about the VIP program.
Learn more at sph.bu.edu/dr2010
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Public Health Minute: An Intervention to Stem India's High Pregnancy Rate
After years of analyzing the consequences of child marriage, Boston University School of Public Health researcher Anita Raj and a team of colleagues now have grant money in hand to try to intervene to reduce pregnancy rates for girls and young [...]women.
Despite laws against the practice, the prevalence of child marriage in India remains high, especially among rural women. Child marriage, which is defined as marriage under the age of 18, has been connected with high rates of unwanted pregnancies and maternal and infant mortality.
The proposed intervention has a new twist that takes into account the gender dynamics in India. "Counseling Husbands to Achieve Reproductive Health and Marital Equity" will be a male-centered family planning program that aims to educate young rural couples about spacing contraceptive use, delaying pregnancy and family-size decision-making. Listen to Raj talk about the intervention.
Learn more at sph.bu.edu/anitaraj.
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BUSPH 2010 Career Fair
On March 24, 2010, Boston University School of Public Health held its annual Career Fair, connecting students and alumni with more than forty public health organizations recruiting for jobs, internships and special projects.
Students and grads [...]attended in search of all types of opportunities, from full-time positions to internships that would satisfy their required practicum, a fieldwork component of their master of public health degree.
Employers from all areas of public health attended the fair, including recruiters from non-profits, academic institutions, hospitals, local and federal government agencies, and global health organizations.
Learn more about Career Services at BUSPH http://sph.bu.edu/careers
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Public Health Minute: Annas Denounces Force Feeding of Guantanamo Prisoners
On February 23, 2010, George Annas, professor and chair of health law, bioethics & human rights, led a panel discussion at Boston University School of Public Health addressing the role physicians play in force feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo [...]Bay detention center, as well as in U.S. prisons.
The participation of physicians in the practice is an issue that some BUSPH faculty have taken the lead in opposing for years. In wake of the first anniversary of a report ordered by President Obama on conditions at Guantanamo, the group renewed its call for an end to the practice.
The experts appealed to their colleagues and the public-at-large to put pressure on policy makers to end the practice, and urged professional medical associations to hold physicians accountable for participating in a practice that the World Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and other medical groups have also opposed.
Listen to Annas discuss the ethics of a physician force feeding a competent, informed prisoner who refuses food as a form of protest or demand for a legitimate purpose.
You can read more about the panel discussion in "BUSPH Faculty Call for Action to End Force-Feeding of GITMO and U.S. Hunger Strikers" http://bit.ly/aDSh9u.
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Pandemics, Public Health, and Political Transition
Richard E. Besser, senior health and medical editor for ABC News and former acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shares the practical and political lessons he learned while managing the federal government's response [...]to the H1N1 influenza outbreak.
Hosted by Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences on October 16, 2009.
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Future Challenges: Science, Diplomacy and Development
Zulfiqar Bhutta, professor and chair of the department of pediatrics and child health at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, Harry Barnes, former U.S. ambassador to Romania, India, and Chile, and Patricia Wrightson, director of the [...]Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security at the National Academies, speak about the challenges of public health science, science diplomacy, and the importance of international scientific cooperation in Central Asia, South Asia, and East Africa. Gerald Keusch, a School of Public Health professor of international health and associate dean for global health and Medical Campus associate provost for global health, moderates.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on July 23, 2009.
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