Preparing for Safe Travel Abroad seminar Nov. 15th in CT305
Preparing for Safe Travel Abroad
What: A hands-on introduction to the basic steps all travelers can take to manage risk and ensure safe and productive travel abroad, whether the travel is for study, teaching, research or business work.
When: 1:30 – 2:30 pm on Friday, November 15, 2013
Where: School of Public Health, Fendall Room (#305)
All students, faculty and staff are welcome. No reservations necessary! Call 617-353-5401 for more information.
A similar workshop will be held on Thursday, at 11 am, at BU Study Abroad (888 Comm Ave), Room 240
Full-time Admin Assistant Position at BUSPH!!
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, School of Public Health, Environmental Health-Position OPEN
Job Description
The School of Public Health at BU has an administrative assistant position opening. The employee will divide their time (50% each position) between the following two positions.
· Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean for Research (ADR) at BU-SPH duties include support for the ADR scheduling meetings, assist in the organization of special events, interacting with all levels of the school leadership, writing meeting minutes, supporting committees activities, monitoring pilot funding, general administrative duties, telephone and email communication with committee members, and other activities as assigned by the Associate Dean. Excellent interpersonal skills, communication and organizational abilities, attention to detail, time management/prioritization skills and initiative are required for this position.
· Administrative Assistant to the Department of Environmental Health (EH) at the BU-SPH duties include administrative support for faculty and staff within the EH department, process invoices/disbursements/purchases for the department, assist in financial activities as required (including batching), answering telephones, scheduling of conference room and other activities as assigned by ADR. The position reports to the Associate Dean for Research. The candidate should have a BA/BS and one to two years’ experience in an office or academic setting.
Required Skills
Associates Degree required, Bachelors Preferred
1-3 years of related experience
Job Location
BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States
Position Type
Full-Time/Regular
Salary
Please apply here: https://bu.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=295571&company_id=15509&version=1&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=1016504&startflag=1
UNC Chapel Hill Global Photo and Video Competition – Nov. 15th deadline
UNC Chapel Hill Global Photo and Video Competition – Nov. 15th deadline is getting closer!!!
Only 9 days remain before the deadline for this high-profile photo and video competition run by the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health! Submit your work by November 15th! The competition focuses on global public health themes and is open to all. This is a great opportunity to compete for cash prizes and showcase your work at a top-ranked public health school!
The contest, called Gateway to the future: Global Health Challenges and Opportunities, will highlight health challenges that face people around the world. It will also capture success stories and the public health heroes who meet those challenges. Photographs and videos can capture any public health issue or challenge in any part of the world. Twenty prizes will be awarded, with grand prizes for best video and photograph set at $500.
Submission information is available online. http://tinyurl.com/
The Global Gateway Facebook page www.facebook.com/
The Competition is made possible by the generosity of Gillings School alumnus Stephen A. Morse, MSPH (‘66), PhD (‘69)
CGHD 2014 Internship Opportunity in Ethiopia Information Session
Come to the "Evaluating Organizational Capacity in Ethiopia" internship information session
Friday, November 15th at 12:15 in CT305
Find more information here: CGHD Ethiopia Info Session 2013
To Apply
Come to the information session with the BU research team and past interns – Friday November 15 January, 12:15pm-1:00pm, Crosstown, 305. If you are unable to attend email please Elizabeth DeMare at edemare@bu.edu for application instructions
2014 International EarthCorps application is now open
2014 INTERNATIONAL CORPS PROGRAM
EarthCorps is now recruiting for our 2014 International Corps Members! EarthCorps offers a six-month service learning program in Seattle, Washington, USA that brings together emerging environmental leaders to learn the fundamentals of environmental service, community building and leadership. EarthCorps charges no tuition for its services and in fact supplies insurance, individual host families, food, gear and a monthly stipend to all international participants.
Before you apply, please note that EarthCorps is required by the US government to ensure that every applicant meets strict criteria in order to qualify for a US J-1 Trainee visa. EarthCorps has established the following criteria to be considered for our program:
· Between 18-28 years old
· No Criminal Record
· Conversational English
· Four year college degree in the environmental field and one year of work experience in the environmental field OR five years of work experience in the environmental field
TO APPLY:
Applicants can now use our online application to start, edit and complete their application to EarthCorps. Click here for more information and for application instructions.
DEADLINES AND START DATES:
· Application deadline: December 20, 2013
· Participant selection: February and March 2014
· EarthCorps Program start date: June 2014
· EarthCorps Program graduation: mid-December 2014
Development Manager with Spark MicroGrants
Learn more here!
Research Associate position with Amend, in East Africa. Position begins January 2014
Learn more here: Research Associate with Amend in East Africa
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Western Cape, South Africa: Multiple exposures in a particularly vulnerable population, and what to do about it? EH Seminar Nov. 8th
November 8: noon-1pm L210
Title: “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Western Cape, South Africa: Multiple exposures in a particularly vulnerable population, and what to do about it?”
Speaker: Leslie London, MD
Professor, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town and Associate Director of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research,
http://www.coehr.uct.ac.za/staff/staff_london.php
Summary:
Rural farming communities in the Western Cape province of South Africa are a vulnerable community who experience a diversity of hazardous exposures. One particular phenomenon that captures this conundrum is that of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). FAS has been reported in 5 to 10% of school-going children in the province, which are rates that are the highest in the world, much higher than even so-called high-risk populations in North America. The direct antecedent of FAS, alcohol consumption in pregnancy, is itself a product of multiple behavioural, social and historical factors related to alcohol consumption by workers in agriculture in the region. However, consumption of alcohol during pregnancy may not be sufficient to explain these tremendously high rates, since the alcohol consumption of Western Cape mothers with FAS children is not as high as in other high-risk populations. There may thus be other factors common in this population which contribute individually, or synergistically, to increased risk of intra-uterine damage. Candidate exposures include pesticides, smoking and toxic contaminants within cheap wine drunk in the Western Cape, and genetic and nutritional deficits may also interact in the genesis of a public health calamity of this scale. Understanding the aetiology of the FAS epidemic in its fullest dimensions in the Western Cape, using the full range of exposure science characterization, is critical to successful interventions to reduce the burden of disease due to FAS in the region, particularly given that community-based interventions and upstream public health policies are likely to be the mainstay of FAS prevention.
Reading:
1. London L, Mazok H, Adams H, Parry C. If the alcohol doesn’t get you, then the toxins will:
The health impacts of bulk wine provision in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Poster presented to the American Public Health Association conference, Nov 2006.
[Source document is Henn C, Adam H, London L. (2005). The impact of bulk wine on Western Cape communities. Report to the Department of Economic Development and Tourism. DOPSTOP, Stellenbosch – available on request.]
Other background reading:
1. Morojele NK, London L, Olorunju SA, Matjila J, Davids AS, Rendall-Mkosi KM. Predictors of Risk of Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies among Women in an Urban and a Rural Area of South Africa. SocSci Med 2010;70: 534-42.
2. May PA, Gossage JP, Marais AS, et al.The epidemiology of fetal alcohol syndrome and partial FAS in a South African community. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 May 11;88(2-3):259-71.
Optional Reading
1. Rendall-Mkosi K, London L, Adnams C, Morojele N, McLoughlin J, Goldstone C. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in South Africa: Situational and Gap Analysis. Unicef, Pretoria, March 2008. http://www.unicef.org/southafrica/SAF_resources_fetalalcohol.pdf
2. London L. Alcohol consumption amongst South African farm workers: a post-apartheid challenge. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2000 ; 59 : 199-206.Topic: Differentiating the Impacts of Alcohol and Alcohol Contaminant Exposures in Promoting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
