Author: Carey Howard
Sign Up for the SPH Talent Show
People can sign up by emailing phsenate@bu.edu! The Show is Friday, March 20th at 6pm.
Do you want tickets to a film screening of Positively Beautiful? Let us know by March 4th!
This Friday, March 6th the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) is honoring Women’s Health Day with a film screening of Positively Beautiful. The film tells a compelling story of five individuals living with HIV, in South Africa. The filmmaker, Diveena Cooppan got her MPH at BU! The department would like to buy tickets […]
Fellowship Opportunities in Zambia
I wanted to pass along a training opportunity announcement for individuals interested in working at CIDRZ in Zambia: http://www.cidrz.org/healthcorps-fellowship-2015-16/. CIDRZ offers opportunities in program implementation, laboratory sciences, implementation science (HIV program outcomes measurement, TB in prisons, diarrheal disease prevention, PMTCT, maternal health, etc), clinical trials (HVTN, AERAS, TB alliance, etc), and public health data analysis […]
Career Opportunities for Research Programmers
Apply for positions at Mathematica Policy Research here: DC-RESEARCH-PROGRAMMER-REVISED-HS-2-2015
Fall 2015 SPH Course Fair is March 17th from 5-5:50pm!
Online Webcast: “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” sponsored by Doctors Without Borders, Wednesday, March 4 at 7pm
Because Tomorrow Needs Her Online Webcast Wednesday, March 4 7:30PM EST Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) would like to invite you to attend a special webcast marking the launch of Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia campaign highlighting MSF’s efforts to provide accessible, high-quality health care to women and girls around the world. Because […]
Global Health Professor Richard Laing quoted in The Guardian in an article about a proposal to restrict global access to ketamine
Richard Laing, professor of international health at Boston University’s school of public health in the US, described what is happening as a “David and Goliath struggle between people interested in access to an essential medicine for women and victims of trauma in poor countries and the drug control establishment in rich countries”. Read the full […]
“Answering AIDS: The United States and the United Kingdom Confront a Health Policy Crisis.”
Next Friday, March 6th, the BU Sociology Seminar Series will welcome Professor Tasleem Padamsee of Ohio State University. Her talk is titled: “Answering AIDS: The United States and the United Kingdom Confront a Health Policy Crisis.” The event is open and free to all who wish to attend. The event begins at 12PM in room […]
International Women’s Health Day is Friday, March 6th. Join the United Nations Association of Greater Boston for a film screening of “Positively Beautiful”, followed by a panel discussion and reception.
Current MPH student Abhishek Sharma’s paper “Implications of private sector Hib vaccine coverage for the introduction of public sector Hib-containing pentavalent vaccine in India: evidence from retrospective time series data” published in BMJ Open
Congratulations to our current MPH student Abhishek Sharma and Global Health faculty member Warren Kaplan! Read their published article here: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/2/e007038.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=307rikjoffHVsJK