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."
Global Oncology Lecture: “Global Twinning Programs: Curing Pediatric Cancer in the Developing World?”
Wednesday, May 22nd
5-7PM
Keynote Address: Raul Ribeiro, MD, Director of the International Outreach Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Introduction by: Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center.
Breakout sessions: - Providing Multidisciplinary Care in Resource-Limited Settings - Models for Program Building - Factors Impacting Treatment Adherence in the Developing World.
Reception to follow in the Smith Building, 3rd Floor.
Community Mobilization Project Research Fellow position with CGHD-applications due 5/28
Statement of Work: Community Mobilization Project Research Fellow
OVERVIEW: The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), in partnership with Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana (RGMVP), Population Council, the Community Empowerment Lab (CEL) and Boston University Center for Global Health and Development (BU-CGHD), has been awarded a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to pilot, evaluate, and scale up the self-help group (SHG) model, which is a promising platform for scaling up family health interventions.
The project objectives are: (1) To increase adoption of evidence-based, high-impact family health behaviors through SHGs to reach the poor; (2) To increase access to local health services; (3) To scale up evidence-based, high impact health behaviors and effective strategies to improve access to health services for the poor.
- MAJOR WORK ACTIVITIES
- Provide technical inputs to strengthen RGMVP’s health information system, standardization of routine analysis and feedback systems to the different levels in the community
- Participate in the development of training modules, Behavior Change Management (BCM) materials, and their testing, implementation and evaluation
- Assist with the development of methods and tools for tracking delivery of interventions
- Engage in the development of Operations Research Studies and lead the field work investigation, interviewer training, and supervision
- Assist with data analysis and preparation of reports for partners, donors, local stakeholders and the scientific community
- Maintain state-of-the-art information and exchange using Dropbox
QUALIFICATIONS and SKILLS
- Graduate training in public health or a related social science field
- Excellent research methods and analytic skills
- Strong writing, editing and communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Flexible self-starter with the ability to set priorities, respond to shifting priorities, and manage a variety of time sensitive activities simultaneously
- Demonstrated maturity and professionalism
- Experience in living in a low-income setting, preferably India
- Working knowledge of MS Office: Word, Excel and data analysis programs
- Knowledge of written and spoken Hindi required
The length of assignment is 1-2 years in Raebarelli or Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, and salary will be commensurate with experience. The work will involve extensive travel throughout all regions of Uttar Pradesh.
Please submit a Cover Letter, CV/Resume, brief writing sample of past individual work, and the names and contact information for three professional references.
Please note that only the most promising candidates will be contacted and interviewed.
Please submit applications via email to:
Ariel Falconer
Project Administrator
Boston University Center for Global Health and Development
Email: falconer@bu.edu
Please include in the subject line: India Research Fellowship
Deadline
May 28, 2013
Fourth Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecture “Transforming Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Kaiser Permanente”
Stevens Lecture Final flyer for 2013
Fourth Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecture
Lynne Stevens, LCSW BCD 1946-2009, Director of the Responding to Violence Against Women Program
Transforming the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence:
Assistant Professor at the B.U. Department of Family Medicine.
Lessons from Kaiser Permanente,
Speaker: Brigid McCaw MD, MPH, MS, ACP
Stevens was a clinician, activist and researcher who worked locally, nationally and internationally, specializing in evaluation of the quality of care offered to women who were victims of violence.
Date: May 28, 2013 ~ Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Violence Prevention Program, Kaiser-Permanente Northern California
Dowling Amphitheatre ~ Boston Medical Center
Attendees are cordially invited for lunch at 11:45 and a Q & A discussion from 1-2
with Dr. McCaw following the lecture
Dr. McCaw oversees the implementation of a comprehensive, coordinated approach for improving identification and services for intimate partner violence across all the Kaiser Permanente regions and also participates in research and teaching. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, serves on the Institute of Medicine Forum on Global Violence Prevention, and is Chair-elect for the National Health Collaborative for Abuse and Violence. Dr. McCaw received her MS from the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, MPH from the UCB School of Public Health, MD from UCSF, and did her Internal Medicine residency at UC Davis.
Grassroots Soccer summer positions available
Learn about the organization here!
Learn about open positions here: Grassroot Soccer Summer Internship Positions
USAID Webinar: Shaping Your Resume and Tips for Interviewing (May 9th 2-3:30pm)
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