The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence presents
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
A discussion with Carol S. Steiker
Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Jordan M. Steiker Judge Robert M. Parker Endowed Chair in Law, The University of Texas at Austin Law School on their new book
Additional Panelists:
Lawrence D. Bobo E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Charles Fried Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Gregory Fried Professor of Philosophy, Suffolk University
Elaine Scarry Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value, Harvard University
Homi Bhabha Director, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Event Location
Thursday, October 27, 2016 – 6pm Room 210, Emerson Hall
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information click here
Apple picking with Doctoral Student Organization & Minority International Scientist Organization
DSO and MISO Apple Picking Event on Saturday, October 22.
Grab a friend, bring your family! Doctoral Student Organization (DSO) and Minority and International Scientist Organization (MISO) are going apple picking at Sholan Farms, which is an non-profit apple orchard run by volunteers in the city of Leominster. Leominster is the supposed birthplace of Johnny Appleseed! Please RSVP here so we can have a head count for the event and for transportation! Hope you can join us!
Santander Applications for spring practicums opens 10/14
The Santander Application cycle for spring practicums (practicums taking place between January and May) will be open from October 14 through November 10.
The GH Blast has provides details and links on the awards and the application process here.
Masters International Talk – Casey Leon RPCV 10/21
Friday October 21, 1:00-2:00pm CT305
Please come and meet Casey León, an RPCV who currently works at Health Care for the Homeless, in order to learn about her Peace Corps experience as a community health volunteer and how it has influenced her career path.
Casey León served in Puyo, Ecuador – a provincial capital in the Amazonian region of the country. Her main project was collaborating with the Ministry of Public Health and Department of Intercultural Health to improve medical services for indigenous patients in the provincial hospital. Her time spent with indigenous communities included flying in tiny planes deep into the jungle to land on machete-maintained airstrips, frequent spiritual cleansing by shamans, learning to shoot a blow gun, and spending a day playing with a baby monkey only to realize that dinner was momma monkey soup.
Other projects she worked on included conducting an analysis and intervention of the nutritional status of children within the Achuar nationality. She was also the vice president of the Gender and Development Committee, a nation-wide initiative providing scholarships, leadership camps, and training opportunities for hundreds of young underprivileged women.
Global Health Mentors/Mentees – Canadian Society for International Health
The Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) MentorNet program is now accepting applications for 2017 global health mentors and mentees. MentorNet is a unique program aimed at connecting Students and Young Professionals (SYPs) interested in global health with experts in the field. Mentors and SYPs are free to establish a program that suits them best and their program liaison will facilitate the experience. On average SYP-Mentor pairs meet monthly through Skype or in person, using the educational modules provided by their program liaison as a starting-off point or navigating their mentorship relationship on their own, the program is very flexible! We as committee members deem a successful mentorship experience as one that benefits both the Mentor and the SYP through exploring new material, obtaining a new point of view on a topic, and by giving/receiving career and life advice in global health. Many of our SYPs have benefitted in tangible ways from their mentorship experiences by co-authoring papers with their mentors, working for their mentors, or being introduced to new opportunities and networks through their mentors and many of our mentors have returned year after year, loving the unique view into global health they receive from someone just starting out in the field.
The deadline is October 20th, 2016 at 11:59pm.
Doctors Without Borders Recruitment Information Session
Every day, Doctors Without Borders aid workers from around the world provide assistance to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe—treating those most in need regardless of political, religious, or economic interest. Whether an emergency involves armed conflicts or epidemics, malnutrition or natural disasters, Doctors Without Borders is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis.
On Monday, October 24th, medical and non-medical professionals are invited to join us for an evening presentation to learn more about how you can join Doctors Without Borders’ pool of dedicated aid workers.
An aid worker and Field Human Resources Officer will discuss requirements and the application process, and you'll meet experienced Doctors Without Borders aid workers from the area and hear their firsthand stories of "life in the field."
The presentation will last 90 minutes, including Q&A.
| Location | Boston Public Library - Commonwealth Salon 230 Dartmouth Street, Boston, MARSVP HERE |
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Great resource for Global Health events happening around Boston
Check out this website for various Global Health events that are happening around Boston!
Project Manager, ProMED – Job opportunity
The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is committed to the control of infectious diseases around the world. ProMED is ISID's Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, an independent internet-based infectious disease surveillance and reporting system that provides timely and accurate information to healthcare and public health workers around the world. ProMED was instrumental in alerting authorities and the general public to the anthrax-poisoned letter threat in 2002 and the outbreak of SARS in 2003, and now reaches readers in over 185 countries through its ProMED-mail e-mail service, website, Facebook, and Twitter channels.
The ProMED Project Manager will coordinate all ISID-managed aspects of the project. The Project Manager will work closely with counterparts based throughout the US as well as international collaborators.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Coordinate with principal investigators to prepare project progress reports, budgets, outreach materials, and funding proposals.
- Recruit, enroll and engage members via the Internet and in face-to-face meetings at conferences and other venues.
- With ProMED senior editors, other content experts, and an instructional design consultant, produce, enhance and update instructional modules in innovative surveillance for field epidemiology trainees.
- With trainers: schedule, deliver, and evaluate face-to-face courses at regional and international meetings.
- Schedule, deliver, and evaluate content-equivalent online courses or webinars for field epidemiologists.
- Apply the capabilities of the online platform to enhance communications, especially new disease reporting, with regional ProMED staff and members.
- With ProMED editors and collaborators, evaluate and improve training materials, communication platform and tools, and qualitative and quantitative data collection.
Essential Requirements:
- Master's degree in public health or related field.
- Experience in health-related project management, including personnel and task coordination, budget and finances, and written and oral reporting.
- Software usage experience beyond standard desktop applications, such as organizational databases and internet- or intranet-based communication and data-sharing platforms.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines as well as be flexible with changing priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams of colleagues, consultants, and partners.
- Demonstrated multi-cultural sensitivity, high level of professionalism with strong interpersonal skills and effective communication style.
- Ability to independently identify and analyze problems and recommend effective solutions.
- Eligible for employment in the U.S.A.
Desirable Attributes:
- Knowledge of and interest in global infectious diseases and epidemiology.
- Experience in on-site and/or on-line professional development or workforce training, curriculum development and teaching
- Experience in social media-based outreach campaigns.
- Start-up experience in establishing organizational infrastructure and procedures.
- Skills in additional languages
This position offers the rare opportunity for a creative and motivated professional to engage in international public health and disease surveillance at a very meaningful, practical, interpersonal and inter-organizational level. This part-time position is based at ISID in Brookline, Massachusetts and requires periodic domestic and international travel. For the successful candidate, ISID will offer a salary that is commensurate with skills and experience as well as an excellent benefits package. ISID provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
To apply:
Please send a cover letter summarizing interests and qualifications along with a curriculum vitae to positions@isid.org, with the subject line: Program Manager, ProMED.
Web Address http:www.promedmail.org
Global Health Dinner – Get to know the GH Dept. Chair: Dr. Pat Hibberd 10/18
Join us for a Global Health Dinner on Tuesday October 18th from 5:00-5:50 in CT-305.
Interested? Please fill out this form!
This past summer Dr. Pat Hibberd stepped into the role of Chair of the Department of Global Health. Before her position here she was a professor of global health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She also has headed the Division of Global Health in the Department of Pediatrics at MGH. Outside of these previous positions she keeps busy contributing to many different research initiatives and projects with multiple organizations including but not limited to the NIH, NEIDL, & the Global Network for Women's & Children's Health Research.
Dr. Hibberd is a native of Liverpool, England with experience working with a variety of different public health interest areas in many countries around the world including Malawi, India, and Pakistan. She is looking forward to getting to know our SPH students who are interested in Global Health. We hope you can join us on Tuesday evening!
