Global Health Symposium – International Education Week 11/17

October 12th, 2016 in BUSPH Events, GH Events

Date: November 17th 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Location: Metcalf Trustee Center, 9th Floor, 1 Silber Way

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Career Services DIME(S) Event! Where are the Jobs in Global Health? 10/20

October 6th, 2016 in GH Events, Jobs

Join Gwenn Fairall, Jeff Waller, & Justine de Marrais for PIZZA and guidance about where to find jobs in Global Health!

10/20 5:00-5:50pm

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Wolffy facilitates “The Future of Healthcare” conversation 10/25

October 6th, 2016 in BUSPH Events, GH Events

RSVP on Handshake for this special event. A conversation with Robert Wells the Executive Director for Strategy, GE Healthymagination

10/25 5-6:30pm

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Pre-register for high demand GH courses by October 13

October 6th, 2016 in GH Announcements

Pre-registration for high demand GH courses, GH722, GH743, and GH804 is now open. If interested please complete the form by October 13

SPH GH 722:
Supply Chain Management for Improved Health System Performance
Supply chain logistics is an important aspect of public health programs, and an area that is often unappreciated. The journey from manufacturer to a patient in a remote rural village in Africa is complicated and fascinating serious management challenge. This course provides a practical introduction to the core tenets of health commodity supply chain management (SCM), including system design, assessment, quantification, procurement, inventory management, and logistics management information systems. Using the "Access Framework," students will gain foundational knowledge and apply that knowledge in class exercises, discussions, case studies, and stakeholder interactions. Course assignments will have a strong experiential component with a focus on professional level communications and analytical skills.
SPH GH 743: 
Implementing Health Programs in Developing Countries: Making Programs Work
As professionals working in low and middle income countries, we often end up running programs we did not design, which are under-financed, and which face enormous implementation challenges. In this course, students will work with a specifically identified health program that is currently being implemented and conduct systems analyses, undertake problem solving exercises, and propose solutions to real implementation challenges in the field. Ultimately they will be able to prioritize the interventions necessary to effectively run a complex health program in such diverse situations as urban slums and dispersed rural areas in developing countries and be prepared to plan the actions to effectively run those programs. This course is directed towards students in the health management emphasis area and is not suitable for students in their first semester of studies. Students who will particularly benefit from this course are foreign nationals returning to their own countries and U.S.citizens or residents who will provide technical assistance through NGOs or other agencies to implement existing health programs.
SPH GH 804 
mHealth
Located at the nexus of technology, informatics and public health, mHealth (defined as medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices) is rapidly emerging from its pilot stage to become an important component of public health programs. In this course, you will learn how to design, develop, implement and evaluate a mHealth program. You will learn the basic terminology of mHealth programs, how to develop, design and evaluate a mHealth intervention as well as learn the current state of the field and major international mHealth implementers. Using a theoretical base, you will also learn the technical skills of developing an application based on a case study that can be deployed and used on a mobile phone. This course is suited for students who are at least in their second semester and who are familiar or interested in learning more about how mobile technology intersects with the health sector.

Mental Health – Public Health Connections meeting 10/12

October 5th, 2016 in BUSPH Events, GH Events

To celebrate: World Mental Health Day coming on Monday, October 10th, join us for the first Mental Health - Public Health Connections campus interest group meeting Wednesday October 12th from 5-5:50pm in L109A.

Earlier this year The World Bank and the WHO held a two-day series of events focused on Making Mental Health a Global Development Priority and bringing Mental Health “Out of the Shadows”. Our first meeting will focus on the importance of bringing mental health ‘out of the shadows’ both on our campus and throughout our work in Public Health.

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Burden & Impacts of Heavy Metal Exposures in LMICs 10/7

October 5th, 2016 in BUSPH Events, GH Events

GIJS VAN SEVENTER ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SEMINAR

Friday October 7th 12:45-1:45pm

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Founder of Global Burden of Disease approach, Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil coming to BU! 10/26

October 5th, 2016 in GH Events, Outside Announcements

17th Annual Dudley Allen Sargent Distinguished Lecture Presented by

Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil

Professor of Global Health, University of Washington
Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Wednesday, October 26, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
BU Sargent College, Room 101
635 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

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A physician and health economist, Dr. Christopher Murray’s work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen health measurement, analyze the performance of public health and medical care systems, and assess the cost effectiveness of health technologies. Dr. Murray is a founder of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach, a systematic effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time. He led the collaboration of nearly 500 researchers from 50 countries that produced the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010.  Dr. Murray was profiled in “Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients” written by journalist Jeremy N. Smith.

All attendees are invited to a reception following the lecture in the Sargent College Setterberg Lounge.

Admission is free. The public is welcome.

Contact Katy Staley at or 617-353-2705 for more information or to request special accommodations. You may also contact BU Disability Services at access@bu.edu.

Breaking through limitations: Women’s Self-Help Institutions in India as vehicles for health & social transformation

October 4th, 2016 in GH Events

Come join us and hear from visiting guest lecturers from India who have worked closely with Research Scientist Jenny Ruducha from the Department of Global Health.

Previous students have had practicum experiences with Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana (RGMVP) in Uttar Pradesh, India. RGMVP is currently scaling up women’s Self Help Groups and behavior change and health systems linkages interventions. This talk would be a great networking opportunity for individuals interested in pursuing a practicum with the organization, specifically working with women's Self Help Groups.

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Dean Galea on: Trauma as a Foundational Cause of Population Health: Implications for Providers 10/5

October 3rd, 2016 in Outside Announcements

Wednesday, Oct. 5
8-9 a.m.
Crosstown Building, Second floor, 2128

Please join the Community Medicine Unit of BUSM and the Department of General Internal Medicine for the annual Kathy Bennett Memorial Lecture in Community Medicine. This year, we are lucky to have BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH (view profile), as our lecturer.

Abstract from his presentation:

"Trauma is a near ubiquitous human experience. Trauma has implications for mental and physical health of whole populations. We will discuss how trauma stands to inflect the trajectory of population health and how efforts to mitigate the consequences of trauma can improve the health of populations substantially."

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