Genocide in Bosnia: Sarajevo in the 1990’s Film Screening (4/23)
Genocide in Bosnia: Sarajevo in the 1990s
Film Screening and Panel on War, Health, & Human Rights
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Room R-103 (BU Instructional Building)
4:00 – 5:50 pm
Harun Mehmedinovic, Bosnian born filmmaker, photographer, and founder of the “Bloodhoney Project,” will tell his story of living in war-torn Sarajevo during the genocide in Bosnia in the early 1990s.
Dr. Michael Grodin, renowned medical ethicist, professor in the Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights Dept. at BUSPH, and co-founder of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, will discuss his experiences caring for refugees, asylum, and survivors of torture and their families.
Click here to RSVP.
Sponsored by the Health and Human Rights Caucus and the Dept. of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights
Learn Spanish and complete your practicum in Ecuador
BUSPH has a working relationship with the Montanita Spanish School in Ecuador. “The school was named one of the top five language schools in the world by the STAR Awards for the excellent performance by its professors, the beautiful location of the school on the beach in Montanita.” Students can go there to learn or re-learn Spanish while being involved in a service project that could fulfill your practicum requirement.
BUSPH is in the process of developing the practicum experiences, but are looking for a small number of students who may be interested in spending some time in South America. If you would like to learn more about the school and a practicum opportunity there please contact Scott Harris, Practicum Director at scotth@bu.edu or 617.638.4656, or visit the Digication site to learn more:
https://bu.digication.com/GoIH/Montanita_Spanish_School
Ways the BUSPH community can help
Dear students,
In the wake of Monday’s senseless tragedy, we are all struggling with how to help our Boston community begin healing. Though it will be a long road and there are many heroes to acknowledge, as a start BUSPH would like to deliver gift baskets and thank you cards to the local area emergency room teams who undoubtedly minimized the lives lost on Monday.
How can you contribute? Stop by Crosstown, Room 386 on Monday, April 22, between 10am and 6pm. Please bring something for the gift baskets – baked goods, flowers, fruit, or other goodies. Be creative! If you can’t bring something, show your love, thanks and support by signing cards and decorating baskets throughout the day. We will have sign up sheets if you’re willing to deliver baskets on Tuesday morning.
Six area emergency rooms accepted patients. Depending on the response and your contributions on Monday, we hope BUSPH can thank each and every one of them. We will start right here at home with the BMC adult and pediatric ERs and with Boston EMS.
Who: BUSPH Students, Staff, and Faculty
What: Basket Making Party to Thank our Emergency Room Teams
When: Monday, April 22 from 10am to 6pm
Where: Crosstown, Room 386
Please consider joining us.
BUSPH & BU Resources post the Boston Marathon tragedy
Counseling is available through the SPH Office of Student Services, (617) 638-5059, Talbot 208/209 Center, Dean of Students Office (CRC), from Marsh Chapel chaplains, at Student Health Services, and at the Sexual Assault Response & Prevention Center (SARP).
Chaplains can be reached at 617-353-3560. SHS counselors can be reached at 617-353-3575. SARP can be reached at 617-353-7277.
An SHS Behavioral Medicine provider can be reached at 617-353-3569.
Forum on Gun Control hosted by The Medicine and Public Health Association (4/25)
The Medicine and Public Health Association invites you to attend Gun Control: The Legal, Behavioral, and Medical Challenges of Effective Gun Control and Potential Solutions. The symposium will feature legal, behavioral, and medical experts to address the challenges involved in the timely issue of gun control, and to discuss potential solutions to this vital health issue. It's sure to be extremely informative to both medical and public health students within the BU campus.
Date: Thursday, April 25th
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: BUSM L-110
Ibis Reproductive Health job opening in South Africa
Details can be found here: Associate Johannesburg
CANCELLED CGHD Forum: The U.S. Presidential Election Results and Global Health Programming with guest Amanda Glassman
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
Fall 2013 courses for the GMS Masters Program in Medical Anthropology & Cross-Cultural Practice open to SPH students
The following courses will be offered in the Fall 2013 semester, through the MA Program in Medical Anthropology, in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at BUSM. For any SPH student interested in cross-registering for one of these courses, please remember that although none of these courses is yet pre-approved for MPH credit:
- Full-time MPH students are welcome to enroll in anything they desire at BU, so long as they are registered for 12 credits or more of approved MPH courses in the same semester.
- Part-time students, however, pay out of pocket if they remain registered for a class that is not specifically pre-approved for transfer credit for their degree program. For example, if MA 640 were not approved for MPH credit and a part time MPH student signed up for the class, he or she would have to pay for it out of pocket – financial aid could not be applied
- Students must earn a B or better in a course, in order to be able to transfer credits of approved, non-SPH classes.
- Students must complete at least 40 credits of SPH numbered courses for their SPH degree; a maximum of 8 credits on non-SPH, approved graduate credits may be applied to the MPH degree.
Individual MPH students interested in any of these classes will have to go through the transfer credit process before registering. The form and policy are at http://sph.bu.edu/registrar/forms. For further questions, contact the Registrar, Chris Paal (cpaal@bu.edu).
GMS MA 700 - History and Theory of Medical Anthropology (Part I; Part II is offered in the Spring) This course introduces the history of the field of medical anthropology and of theoretical orientations related to understanding and analyzing health and medicine in society and culture. Readings will exemplify interpretive strategies applied to health-related experiences, discourse, knowledge, and practice. Laird (llaird@bu.edu). 3 cr (Students who need a fourth credit should contact the instructor about adding a single directed study credit.), Fall sem. M 9:30-12:20 (Medical Campus)
GMS MA 710 - Medical Anthropology and Qualitative Research Methods and Design Introduction to methodology for ethnographic field research in medical anthropology, and qualitative research methods. This course examines issues in designing anthropological research, and reviews theoretical approaches to research ethics, designing research, framing questions and questionnaire design, and data collection techniques. Weiner (deweiner@bu.edu). 3 cr (Students who need a fourth credit should contact the instructor about adding a single directed study credit.), Fall sem. W 9:30-12:20 (Medical Campus)
GMS MA 620 - World Religions and Healing This course examines interdisciplinary approaches to the study of world religions and healing. Introduces healing worldviews, strategies, and practices integral to Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, African, African-descended, Latin American, Chinese, Native American traditions, and to some of the outcomes of their interactions, in relation to the experience of affliction and suffering. Draws on source materials from history, religious studies, and medical anthropology. Focus is on these traditions in the United States. 4 cr. Barnes (lbarnes@bu.edu). M 3:00-5:50 (Charles River Campus)
GMS MA 640 - The Cultural Formation of the Clinician: Its Implications for Practice This course will provide a context for exploring and reflecting on one's own cultural formation in relation to such topics as gender, sexual orientation, race, class, religion, body size, and other areas where there are the greatest risks for health disparities through unexamined bias. The course examines the values one brings into one's practice as a care provider, and how the interaction of both influence one's personal and professional life, including responses to diverse patient cultures. Barnes (lbarnes@bu.edu). 3 cr (Students who need a fourth credit should contact the instructor about adding a single directed study credit.), Fall sem. W 5:00-8:00 pm
GMS MA 680 - Culture, Migration, and Mental Health Prereq: consent of instructor. This medical anthropology course explores different ways in which mental health and illness are constructed by and for those who migrate across national, cultural, and other borders. We will examine the historical development of the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and social work in the context of Western societies, in parallel with the anthropological study of ritual, violence, ecstatic and possession experiences in non-Western societies. We then explore debates in cross- cultural mental health care that bring these historical disciplines into dialogue, particularly in the context of programs for the treatment of refugee and immigrant mental health. The intersection of political, economic, religious, and gender issues in the construction of mental health will also be considered. Laird (llaird@bu.edu). 3 cr. (Students needing a 4th credit should speak with the instructor about adding a single-credit directed study), Fall sem. Thurs 3:30-6:30 pm.
If students have questions about the classes themselves, they can contact any of the instructors:
- Dr. Linda Barnes (lbarnes@bu.edu)
- Dr. Lance Laird (llaird@bu.edu)
- Dr. Diane Weiner (deweiner@bu.edu)
The International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding’s 3rd annual meeting: looking for volunteers!
The International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding hosts its 3rd annual meeting: ‘The New Deal: Achieving better results and shaping the global agenda" on 19th April 2013, co-hosted with the Governments of the USA, Denmark and Timor-Leste. in Washington from 2pm to 6pm.
In total we look for 4 volunteers that can share the following tasks amongst them. The list is indicative and likely to change in the next few days. A detailed briefing will be given prior to the event.
Tasks: live tweet, general event stewardship, distribute press briefings, liaise with the press, greet participants, take notes, gather quotes and liaise with Aequitas office in London via E-mail or SMS assist Aequitas Director Dorothea Hodge and event organiser Donata Garrasi from the International Dialogue Secretariat with all upcoming tasks. Optional: assist with media outreach prior to event.
We hope students from the BU School of Public Health are happy to volunteer with lunch and expenses covered of course.
