Global Health grads help run Boston hospitals too-learn more at the fellowship career panel this Thursday, April 17th!
The Career Center is hosting a fellowship panel Thursday, April 17th from 5-5:50pm in CT460A. There will be four panelists (listed below) with Dr. Vicky Parker from the Department of Health Policy & Management as moderator:
Kristen Apa, Boston Medical Center (an IH alum)
Aaron Fishman, Mass General Hospital
Priscilla Lueras, Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Mary Tyson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
will share what it’s been like to be an Administrative Fellow at their hospital, and share tips for preparing for the application and interview process. Please RSVP via the SPH CareerLink!
Gecko Health Innovations Internship Opportunity in Cambridge, MA
Job Opening: Business and Policy Intern
Mobile-health startup. Part-time or full-time
Location: Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Employer: Gecko Health Innovations is an early-stage health-IT company developing a medical device and mobile health application that helps patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers better manage asthma.
Job description: We are looking for a talented individual who shares our vision for improving the lives of patients and families with asthma to fill the role of Business Development and Policy Advocate. The ideal candidate should be driven, have excellent written and oral communication skills, experience working in the healthcare industry, and ability to work independently and in a team with little direct supervision.
Specific job responsibilities will include:
· Identifying and contacting potential advocacy and business partners
· Developing a advocacy strategy related to our core business
· Establish and maintain local and national partnerships with asthma and respiratory disease advocacy groups
· Identify other business related partnership opportunities with all sectors of the health industry
· Other responsibilities as assigned
Compensation: We are looking for part or full time intern. This position can be for academic credit or paid for expenses. Successful interns may have opportunities to grow within the company.
How to apply: Please send inquiries to: jobs@geckocap.com Questions? Contact an IH Alum who now works there, Katie Peterson, at katie.peterson@geckocap.com.
The Future of Activism in a Time of Shrinking Abortion Access event April 16th
A conversation with renowned reproductive rights activist and scholar MARLENE GERBER FRIED, Co-Director, Civil Liberties and Public Policy, Hampshire College.
All welcome! Learn more here: Marlene Gerber Fried event 4 16 14
Looking for more consultancy-based course experiences?
Then you should take SB821 this summer!
Offered during Summer 1 (Mondays/Wednesdays from 2:00 – 4:45 p.m. and on Saturday, June 21 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.), the summer SB821 course focuses on the development of an intervention, implementation, and sustainability plan. Students will consult with a local public health agency that has identified some priority areas of interest. Through class assignments and consultations with the local public health agency, students will develop proposals for consideration by the public agency. This will allow students to apply the concepts learned in this classroom to a real- life situation, and produce products that may be used by the client (i.e., the public health agency).
If you are interested in maximizing your social and behavioral sciences portfolio and skills, we encourage you to consider a summer registration. If you are concerned about paying for a summer course, you can receive financial aid with only 6 credits of classes. The additional 2 credits may be developed through a 2-credit course, 2- credit practicum or independent study.
SB Concentrators, SB821 satisfies your required Intervention Selective.
MCH concentrators, SB821 is a required course option needed to satisfy your degree requirements (SB820 is the other option).
How to Register
Access the online registration system on the Student Link.
· Select the brown “Academics” tab.
· Select registration
· Scroll down to the appropriate semester (Summer 2014)
· Select Reg Options>Register for Class
· If you have planned your courses on the “Planner,” choose “Search by: Planner” to register for all of your courses at once.
Questions?
Visit the Registrar’s webpage, email the registrar, contact your advisor, or email Dallas and/or Joanne.
A note from One Acre Fund-their upcoming webinar, open positions, and insights into a social entrepreneurship career path
Webinar: Life and Work in the Field at One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund is hosting a webinar on careers in rural East Africa on Thursday, April 24 from 12:00-1:00 PM EDT. Learn about what it's like to work in the field from two staff members who are doing just that!
The webinar includes:
- A brief overview of One Acre Fund's model and its impact in Africa
- A discussion about what two of our program staff members in Kenya are currently working on
- Information on what it's like to live in rural East Africa for One Acre Fund
- Details on how to be a great One Acre Fund candidate and what job opportunities are now available
To register, click here!
Jobs Spotlight: Internship and Development Opportunities
Are you passionate about international development? Do you want to leverage your skills to make a lasting impact on smallholder farm families? One Acre Fund has a recently opened two positions on the Development Team and an internship!
- Business Development Manager
- Location: Nairobi or Kigali (with up to 20-30% travel to rural Africa and international locations)
- Description: Design and implement a strategy to engage bilateral and multilateral organizations in country mission offices and head offices; support identification and engagement with the world’s large family and corporate foundations; serve as a spokesperson for the organization in African capitals while simultaneously shepherding complex, large-scale funding proposals from identification to development to fruition.
- Qualifications: 3 – 10+ years of work experience, a demonstrated long-term career interest in international development, and a track record of securing grants, cooperative agreements and contracts with large, institutional funders.
- Grants Administrator
- Location: Rural Kenya to start (1-2 months for training); then to Nairobi office.
- Description: Manage the financial and administrative aspects of reporting and compliance with our top foundation and bilateral grants/contracts; work alongside our program and operations staff to ensure full compliance with these awards. Key job responsibilities include grant fiscal and compliance management; monitoring, evaluation, and reporting; foundation grant reporting; and representation and diplomacy.
- Qualifications: 2 to 5+ years of progressive experience working with bilateral or large foundations; demonstrated success in programs management, donor compliance, and reporting; effective verbal and written communication, multi-tasking, organizational, prioritization skills are necessary; history of working effectively and respectfully with host country government, private sector, INGO and NGO partners in complex environments; prior work experience in Africa strongly preferred.
One Acre Fund currently has over 35 open positions. For more information and job descriptions, please visit our website.
In addition to these new roles, we also have an internship position available. To see the full job description, please click here.
- People Operations Intern
- Location: New York, NY
- Description: Work in a professional setting for a growing social enterprise. This position will primarily focus on the systems and structures that need to be in place to support a global field team.
- Qualification: At least 3 years of university coursework completed.
Forward to a Friend
Do you know of any graduate students or early career professionals who already have an undergraduate degree and are looking for a job? If so, please forward this e-newsletter to them.
If you or someone you know would like to be added to this careers newsletter, please email us at careers@oneacrefund.org with the subject line: “add me to the careers newsletter” and let us know how you heard about the newsletter. If you are a current student, please also mention your school.
How to Break into the Social Entrepreneurship Career Path
A rapidly-growing sector of new NGOs is shaking up the international development field. Here are some examples of ways to get started in this new sector.
Work Directly with Innovative NGOs
Many entrepreneurial NGOs offer positions with significant responsibility for early career professionals. These NGOs are often funded by foundations such as Draper Richards, Echoing Green, Mulago and Skoll Foundations. These NGOs are often easier to network into early on in your career.
Work in an Entrepreneurial Role That Offers Independence
Programs that offer this type of experience include Peace Corps and Fulbright, or you can design your own project. These roles offer a high degree of independence and are great ways to get into the field to learn directly from customers.
Apply For a Fellowship
Several of One Acre Fund’s leaders have started regular jobs (e.g. entrepreneurial company, operations consulting) and then spent at least one year afterwards working in a developing nation.
Fellowships provide a great opportunity to gain experience in development. Examples include:
Work in the Private Sector
Private sector experience can be complemented with developing country experience later through one of many fellowship/volunteer-type programs. A path like this shows a commitment to gaining hard skills in a professional setting and applying those skills abroad in developing countries.
A conversation with filmmaker Rahman Oladigbolu about his latest movie “Theory of Conflict”
AD Net Tuesdays | A conversation with filmmaker Rahman Oladigbolu about his latest movie "Theory of Conflict", Israeli/Palestinian and world ethnic and religious conflict.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 | 6pm - 7:45pm
WHERE: Brookline Public Library at the Coolidge Corner Branch | 31 Pleasant Street Brookline, 02446. - Meeting Room
WHO: Independent African Filmmaker Rahman Olagdibolu will discuss and show parts of his latest movie : "Theory of Conflict".
WHAT: Information session and discussion on world and ethnic religious conflicts.
FILM SYNOPSIS
A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY STUDENTS TAKING ON AN EXTRAORDINARY TASK
When Sudanese "Lost Boy" Mohammed (Mo) Deng is dumped by his girlfriend of fourteen months, the resulting heartache opens up scabs of old wounds he thought had healed in time, in the ten years that he has been in America.
On the other hand, when his best friend Edward Dudley falls in love with Yafit Abdeel, a former soldier of the Israel Defense Forces, his life will never remain the same again. Edward is well known as a playboy whose life is characterized by frivolous dating and casual sex, whereas Yafit grew up in a conservative home where sex comes only with marriage.
As Mohammed's emotional life spirals down the rabbit hole, and Edward's heart is pulled apart in different directions, the two friends are caught up in the wave of a controversial event that is tearing their school apart.
Conflict erupts on their campus as groups of students observe the year's "Israeli Apartheid Week", an annual exercise organized by pro-Palestinian teachers and students to protest events in the Middle East. For Edward, this becomes an opportunity to please a girl he’s crazy about, and then maybe also to do something bigger than himself.
Mohammed, however, seems to have no choices. As a popular peer tutor, he has befriended many students on campus, including several Jews and Arabs. Thus, he is an asset to the cause Edward is cooking up, and he feels that he can’t let his best friend down. Yet his old wounds, sustained from the war that marred his childhood, are becoming as fresh as new.
BIOGRAPHY
RAHMAN OLADIGBOLU is an author and award-winning filmmaker who moved to the United States fourteen years ago, armed with a dream to make movies. He started out as a production assistant on movies and television shows around Boston, and directed and coproduced a few short movies. After publishing a memoir, On Holy Pilgrimage: A Long Journey For Freedom, detailing his transformational experience toward achieving his dream of coming to America to make movies, Rahman embarked on his first feature length movie project, Soul Sisters, as the writer/producer/director.
Educated at Quincy College and Harvard University, Rahman won Boston’s prestigious "Best Emerging Filmmaker Award" at the Roxbury International Film Festival, and "The 2010 Artist Award" at the American Islamic Congress, a multicultural and inter-faith organization headquartered in Washington DC. Released in Nigeria and Ghana under the title In America: The Story of the Soul Sisters, his debut movie won the award for “Best Film for an African Abroad” at the 2011 African Movie Academy Award (AMAA). The movie has been screened at film festivals and cultural centers around the world, including the Cannes' Pan-African Film festival and the Werkstatt Der Kuturen institute in Germany.
Rahman has just completed production of his new movie Theory of Conflict, a movie about a group of students who must deal with their personal problems just as a major ethnic conflict breaks out on their campus. Centered on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the movie is told from the perspective of one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, someone whom the Middle East politics has affected in ways often overlooked by the rest of the world. Rahman is currently at the development stage for his next movie project “A Private Experience”, from a story written by renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie about the religious conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria.
Easily Accessible by MBTA
1. Green Line C Service towards Cleveland Circle to Coolidge Corner Stop [3 minute walk]
or 2. 66 Bus Route from Cambridge or from Dudley towards Coolidge Corner and Harvard Street/Beacon Street Intersection [reference bus driver]
Websites:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Theory-of-Conflict-Movie/509118362480038
How to Incorporate Writing into your Career-a lunch talk hosted by The Beat at BUSM
How to Incorporate Writing into your Career
The Beat at BUSM proudly presents a talk by Dr. George Annas, JD, MPH, a prominent writer and professor at BUSM, BUSPH, and BULaw. At this lunch talk, Dr. Annas will speak about his own career writing about medical issues, as well as his advice to students on how to get their writing published. This talk is open to all BUSM students and faculty.
When: Tuesday 04/15/14 from noon to 1pm
Where: R103
What: How to incorporate writing into your career.
Non-Pizza food will be served
This will be the first lunch talk hosted by The Beat, a newly founded student-run journal at BUSM. Our first issue will be released in May.
For more info on Dr. Annas, please visit:
http://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/george-annas/
Hope to see you there!
The Beat at BUSM
INCD fourth IH Currents Events Club Thursday, April 10th. All students welcome!
Come to the fourth meeting of the IH Current Events club, under the Infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases emphasis area. We’ll talk about recent developments in international health and infectious disease, as well as where these developments fit in the bigger picture. Bring in any stories you think your fellow students should know about! All concentrations are welcome.
Thursday, April 10th
12-1pm in CT374
Pizza provided!
