By Corrie L Haley
Grounds for Health; Intern in Nicaragua; due Oct 30th
Job Description 
The Grounds for Health Program Internship is a fulltime, unpaid position that will be located at one of our program sites in Nicaragua or Tanzania. (For Spring 2012, Nicaragua is more likely.) As part of the Grounds for Health team, the intern provides support for all aspects of our current program.
Grounds for Health, a nonprofit based in Waterbury, Vermont, works with coffee-growing communities to establish sustainable cervical cancer prevention programs. Members of the specialty coffee industry founded the organization in 1996 to address women’s lack of access to basic health care services in growing regions. Grounds for Health focuses on the early detection and treatment of cervical cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in developing countries. By partnering with coffee companies, medical communities and local coffee co-operatives, Grounds for Health works to create locally managed, sustainable and effective cervical cancer prevention and treatment programs.
Qualifications / Requirements
• Strong academic background in international health, development and/or related field
• Interest in international public health with a focus on women’s health and/or community organizing and development
• Ability to work independently
• Superior organizational skills
• Prior international experience preferred
• Prior experience in education, project management and/or primary health care delivery preferred
• Latin America: Conversational fluency in Spanish is required
• Tanzania: Familiarity with Kiswahili is preferred
Length of Term
A minimum of four months, either in Vermont or at one of our partner sites in Latin America or Tanzania. An orientation will be conducted prior to departure, including at least one visit to Vermont to work with the Grounds for Health staff.
Deadline to Apply
October 30, 2011
How to Apply
To apply, send your resume and cover letter outlining your talents, interest, and experience to:
Kayla Moore, MPH via:
IH Reflections: Dr. Jenny Ruducha, MPH, DrPH
When: October 6, 12:30-1:30pm
Location: CT460/406A
Dr. Ruducha, has been working in the health and development sector with a focus on program planning and evaluation for over 30 years, including living in India for 8 years. She began her public health work as a nurse and state coordinator for a federally funded migrant health program. During her most recent stay in India (2004-2008), she worked on implementing a neonatal health and mortality reduction intervention and impact evaluation in Uttar Pradesh. Upon returning to Boston, Dr. Ruducha has continued to be involved in the evaluation of multiple MNCHN programs in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. Currently, she is the technical lead of India’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children program spanning multiple areas from organizational network analysis to understanding the effects of disclosure children’s HIV status on health.
“A Mountain top Experience – Exploring Ghana… through Research”
Pathfinder - Roadways to Heath Student Seminar Series presents
"A Mountain top Experience - Exploring Ghana... through Research"
By Kari-Claudia Allen (MD/MPH) program.
Date: Monday October 3rd 2011
Time: 5pm to 6pm
Venue: BUSM instructional Building, R115
Everyone is invited
Refreshment will be provided
HHRC Sponsored Speaker: Jonathan Glaser, Founder of La Isla Foundation – Tues., 10/11, from 12-1pm & 5-6pm
Burned: The Cost of the Sugar Cane & Ethanol Industry - Chronic Kidney Disease in Nicaragua
Talks by Jason Glaser, Founder of La Isla Foundation
View the full flyer HERE(pdf).
Tuesday October 11th
12 - 1:00pm in L110
& 5 - 6:00pm in L112
The Problem
In the agricultural lowlands of Central America an epidemic of chronic kidney disease is prevalent among agricultural workers. In an area without proper medical facilities this chronic disease becomes a terminal one. The cause is as yet unknown but is strongly associated with sugar and ethanol production.
The Speaker
Jason Glaser, the founder of La Isla Foundation, will be in Boston to speak about Chronic Kidney Disease plaguing sugarcane workers in northwestern Nicaragua. An epidemic that seems to be affecting all of Central America is seen at an extremely high frequency in these communities in Nicaragua.
Practicum Plus! How to gain public health experience while you’re a student
Oct. 5, 5-6 PM, BUSM 210
Practice Office Workshop: How to gain public health experience while you're a student
Topics of discussion will include:
• Practicums
• Volunteering
• Community Partnerships
• Internships
• Research Projects
• International Experiences
Learn how to use the resources and opportunities available to you at BUSPH to gain hands-on public health experience, apply your coursework, and BUILD YOUR RESUME!
RSVP to Laura Rabin (lrrabin@bu.edu)
Experience India The Indian Field Seminar (IM853) January 1-14, 2012
The seminar is open to both full-time and part-time MPH students
Applications currently being accepted
India is in the midst of extraordinary change, development, and growth. The country contains the most sophisticated of western technology, companies fully competitive on a global level, and a middle class of a size to rival our own. At the same time, much of Indian infrastructure is underdeveloped or in decay and there are hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty. Indian business leaders and entrepreneurs are among the most educated and creative in the world, and yet traditional rigid social hierarchies are still strong. The obvious potential for continued dramatic growth is mixed with complex cultural and social challenges.
Nowhere are these intensely contradictory forces more apparent than in the health sector. Indian drug firms have transformed the face of AIDS treatment in the developing world. Major urban hospitals provide medical tourism services for the elite of Europe and the Middle East. And yet care for much of the population is extremely limited.
• Touch and understand the reality of the Indian health sector firsthand, traveling to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, visiting critical organizations and meeting with top leadership.
• Visit AIIMS, the top academic medical center in India, and Narayana, an extraordinary specialty hospital system in Bangalore, meeting with Devi Shetty its charismatic founder.
• Interact with leadership at the Public Health Foundation of India
• Visit traditional rural India and a primary care center in the Dharavi slum of Mumbai.
• Interact with executives of top multinational pharmaceutical companies as well as leading India-based companies, including Cipla and Biocon.
• Understand the paradoxes of intellectual property laws and pharmaceutical pricing in India.
• Tour GE’s center in Bangalore, and learn how innovation works in the Indian context.
• See the work of entrepreneurs who are finding new ways to add value and address these consuming challenges, sometimes in ways that put our own systems to shame.
This field seminar will engage all students interested in understanding the complex dynamics of an emerging country, through the particularly telling lens of the health sector, and will include the chance to learn about the culture and values that underpin this great democracy and booming economy.
Indian Field Seminar Presentation
MPH Students
This is a course in the School of Management and the third time it is being offered. School of Public Health Students are welcome to attend also, and have in the past. The class is capped at 20 and there are three spaces left. Feel free to contact me at mallan@bu.edu. If you would like to contact a public health student who has taken part please let me know. I would also be happy to speak with you.
Mark Allan, Faculty Director, Health Sector Management Program, BU School of Management
Fundraiser to Improve the Health and Well-being of Haitian Women
Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all doing well. As you may or may not know I am an intern for Circle of Health International (COHI) a nonprofit that works with women and their communities in times of crisis and disaster to ensure access to quality maternal, reproductive, and newborn care. They have been on the ground in Haiti since 5 days after the January 2010 earthquake. I have had the opportunity to visit and work there twice this past summer, and have seen the impact that COHI has made and can continue to make with your support! For more information about COHI, please visit www.COHIntl.org, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @COHIntl
I am throwing a fundraiser on behalf of COHI to raise money to support their work to improve the health and well-being of Haitian women and their communities affected by the January 2010 earthquake. It is a bar hop around Fanueil Hall on Saturday, October 8th from 2-7pm. (More details are below.)
Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. We will also be holding a raffle with awesome prizes and tickets for the raffle are $1 a ticket or $20 for 25 tickets.
Even if you cannot attend the bar hop you can still donate and participate in the raffle. The invitation is below and you can contact me to purchase tickets, raffle tickets, or with any questions! Please invite your friends and family, as this event is for an amazing cause and one that is very close to my heart!
Hop(e) for Haiti Invitation
Mesi Anpil! (Thank you very much in Haitian Creole)
Taryn Silver
Boston University School of Public Health
MPH International Health Candidate 2011
Social Experiments to Fight Poverty
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Global Health
Seminar Series
Time: Tuesday, October 18, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Simches Large Conference Room, Room 3110,
Richard B. Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston
Speakers:
Esther Duflo, PhD
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation
and Development Economics
Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Founder and Director
Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) with James Niels Rosenquist, MD, PhD
Chief Economist, Division of International Medicine, MGH
Nava Ashraf, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Cholera in Haiti: Mass General Responds
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Global Health
Durant Fellowship Seminar Series
Time: Monday, October 3, 3 - 4p.m.
Location: Ether Dome, Bulfinch Building, Massachusetts General Hospital
Speakers:
Marjorie Curran, MD
Kate Fillo, RN, MPH
Kerry Quealy, RN
Colleen Shea, RN
Susan Taracani, RN
