Cancellation of Zambia internship opportunities for this August-December
We are sorry to inform you that due to a delay in funding, we will be cancelling the August-December internship opportunities with our offices in Zambia. The information session for these opportunities on Thursday is now cancelled.
Please stay on top of the IH Blast announcements for any availability of internships in our Zambia offices. Funding can change quickly, so there may be opportunities in the coming months.
We apologize to those of you who were going to apply,
Experience India The Indian Field Seminar (IM853) open to MPH and MPH students
Learn more here: SPH Flyer India 2015
Walk or run to fight AIDS-join BUSPH!
AIDS Action Committee, New England's largest AIDS service organization, is holding their cornerstone annual fundraising event, AIDS Walk & 5K Run Boston, on Sunday, June 1, 2014. Take a step towards ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and join team BUSPH!
Contact Natalie DiRocco at ndirocco@bu.edu for more information. AW14 Join Team BUSPH
Two CHS events this week: Tips for Common Issues in Grant Writing and CHS Research/Practice in Action Series
Wednesday, March 26 ▪ 5:00 p.m. – 5:50p.m. ▪ L-203
Tips for Common Issues in Grant Writing, Presented by the CHS Student Advisory Council
Join CHS students and faculty for the second workshop in a three-part series on grant writing. Candice Belanoff, ScD, MPH will be sharing tips on general issues people experience with grant writing and some strategies for dealing with those issues. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP at www.chsgrantwriting.eventbrite.com by Tuesday, March 25. Contact dallas@bu.edu with questions.
Thursday March 27 ▪ 12:00-1:00 p.m. ▪ CT462
CHS Research/Practice in Action Series
“Screening and brief intervention for drug use in primary care: the ASPIRE randomized trial.
Assessing Screening Plus brief Intervention’s Resulting Efficacy to stop drug use”
Rich Saitz, MD
The CHS Research/Evaluation in Action series is an open forum for students, faculty and staff to discuss and receive feedback on current faculty work in progress. All BUSPH students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend. Please RSVP before Tuesday, March 25th at noon! Lunch provided.
Project Eden & Adelante Practicum Opportunity – apply by April 1st
Project Eden & Adelante Practicum Opportunity
Project Eden, Inc.
PO Box 620
Durham, NH 03824-0620
http://projectedenhonduras.org/
• Brief agency description and/or mission statement
Project Eden, Inc. is a small non-profit organization that was started in 2002 to address the need for education and better nutrition in the rural Honduran population. After 10 years, gardens are producing crops, trees are bearing fruit, and students are attending Universities. Other large "World Hunger" organizations don't operate here. There is no other help. In the San Francisco de La Paz area, there are still malnourished children, parents who can't read or write, and families that don't know where the next meal will come from.
• Practicum position description
Project Eden is seeking a highly motivated individual to work both abroad and domestic to aid in improving the health outcomes of expecting mothers and their children. The malnutrition levels in Honduras are staggering and the program seeks to address the health disparities that are unaddressed in expecting mothers and infants.
• Student responsibilities and scope of work
While in Honduras, the intern will work alongside clinicians, physicians, and expecting mothers to determine what services expecting mothers are lacking. Intern will collect data regarding mother’s weight, mother’s nutrition, mother’s smoking/drinking status to use to develop an effective program to help address health outcomes in expecting mothers and their offspring. Upon returning from Honduras, the intern will bring findings and suggestions to the Project Eden Board upon their return to the U.S. and write a grant to garner funding for a nutritionist to help improve mother and child health in San Francisco De La Paz.
• Minimum or preferred skills needed by student
Student should be proficient in excel, word, PowerPoint
Fluent/proficient in Spanish
Preferably an IH or Maternal Health Major
Desire to improve health, education, gender disparities
• Estimated number of hours required, estimated start/end dates
120. Start and End date are negotiable.
• Application deadline
04/01
• Availability of a stipend, if any (please provide an estimate)
Housing and meals would be provided in Honduras. Field supervisor will accompany student from airport in Tegucigalpa to San Francisco De La Paz. The Project Eden executive board will provide a travel stipend to the intern.
• Number of students requested for practicum
1-2
• Is a car essential for completing the project?
Travel would be required as part of this practicum. The student(s) would be expected to travel to Honduras to obtain interviews with expecting mothers and their primary care physicians. The intern will be accompanied at all times by one or two of the designated field supervisors.
• How to apply
To apply, email a cover letter and resume to bdhock21@bu.edu
• Name, title, and contact information of Field Supervisor/Hiring Coordinator
Hiring coordinator:
Brian Donohue
Project Eden Board Member
339-927-7270
Field Supervisor(s):
Mario Ramos
Daniel St. Laurent
Registration for Career P.R.E.P. for Fall 2014 is now open
For BUSPH students who want to learn powerful skills to more effectively market yourself during your job search, both now and in the future. The program is designed for students with less than 3 years of job search experience as well as more experienced students interested in refreshing their skills.
Students must have completed their first semester to qualify. Attendance and assignments required for all sessions.
Registration deadline, September 2, 2014
Learn more and register here!
For those who missed the screening of “The Jungle Surgeon of Myanmar”
Learn more about the background of The Jungle Surgeon of Myanmar on Al Jazeera here. You can watch the film on Youtube here.
A big thank you to Jennifer Sun and Mya Mint Zu Kyaw for sharing their knowledge and passion with us!
Global Primary Care Program at MGH Program Manager position
Full job description here: GPC Program Manager job description
Flim Screening of “Living with Slim” tonight, 3/20 at 5pm in L210, pizza provided!
"Film Screening and Discussion: Living with Slim"
Hosted by Rotaract
Thursday March 20th, 5:00pm-5:50pm in L210
Join us for a screening of the film "Living with Slim" about children living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries. This will be followed by a discussion with the film's creator, Sam Kauffmann. This is sure to be an interesting discussion! Pizza is provided!
