Month: February 2012
Health Care Reform: Improving Health Care Access for Refugees Webinar
Registration is now open for the RHTAC February webinar! Health Care Reform: Improving Health Care Access for Refugees Wednesday, February 29th, 1:00-2:30pm with Sonal Ambegaokar Health Policy Attorney National Immigration Law Center This webinar will focus primarily on humanitarian immigrant categories: refugees, asylees and others eligible for federal benefits and services. We will […]
Call for paper submissions to the 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies
There is a deadline extension to submit papers papers for the 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies, taking place March 30-31 at the Boston University Main Campus. The deadline for application submission has been extended to February 15th. The conference is organized by BU graduate students affiliated with the African Studies Center and is […]
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Internship Opportunity
The BU Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD), School of Public Health (SPH), and the College of Communication (COM) recently entered into a partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (http://pulitzercenter.org/). The goal of this collaboration is to exchange knowledge and resources on global health and crisis reporting with the ultimate objective of […]
ENACT Winter Webinar Feb. 15th 12-1pm
ENACT- Winter Webinar – Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12-1pm ET To P or not to P? Knowing When the p-value is Less Than Useful. Presenters Michael LaValley, PhD Professor of Biostatistics, Boston University ENACT Research Director Daniel K. White, PT, ScD Research Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, Boston University […]
GRS-Vera Intern program, for those who love soccer, public health and setting up M&E systems
Grassroots Soccer and VeraSolutions have teamed together to offer an innovative, long-term practicum opportunity to learn SalesForce customized for M&E systems for public health programs in Africa. Interns will be trained to use SalesForce working for several months with clients of VeraSolutions. The work can be done part-time and remotely, except for a two-week training […]
EngenderHealth paid Internship w/CHAMPION program in Tanzania
TITLE: International Program Intern PROJECT: CHAMPION (Channeling Men’s Positive Involvement in a National HIV/AIDS Response) REPORTS TO: Senior Technical Advisor – Gender, Policy & Advocacy EngenderHealth works to improve the health and well-being of people in the poorest communities of the world. We do this by sharing our expertise in sexual and reproductive health and […]
Learn Medical Chinese @ BU Med School
BUSM has opened this course to interested SPH students at no cost. The Free-Time Elective Medical Chinese for Spring 2012 is still accepting interested students. You only need to show up, no application or pre-work required. To find out more information & sign-up: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/enrichment/fte/#Chinese_Beg Classes are held Mondays, 5 pm – 6 pm for Beginners, […]
Two Internship Opportunities with UCSF Safe Motherhood Program: San Francisco and Zambia
The Safe Motherhood Program at the University of California, San Francisco is looking for two interns: one office intern to be based in the San Francisco office and one field intern to be based in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. 1.) UCSF Safe Motherhood Office Intern, San Francisco – Summer 2012 The focus of this […]
Pardee Summer Fellowships Available!
The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is accepting applications for the 2012 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellowships. The 10-week program (June 4 -Aug. 10) provides a $5,000 stipend for research and writing on a topic related to the Pardee Center’s interests, with the possibility of publication. All current BU graduate students are eligible. Full details […]
Public Health Forum with Reverend Canon Ted Karpf, Feb 8th!
Decent Care: Option or Necessity? A Human Approach to Health and Health Care The BU School of Public Health & Center for Global Health & Development will host The Reverend Canon Ted Karpf, ThM of the BU School of Theology for the Public Health Forum Wednesday, February 8 12:00PM-1:00PM. BUMC Main Instructional Building Room L-112 […]