By Emily Morin
Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti open positions
A note from our alum Taryn Silver working with an organization with great openings!
“I am currently training to take over the Country Director position with an Kore Timoun/The Children’s Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti. We have an internship program here that I think could be an excellent practicum opportunity for BUSPH IHers.
We are looking for interns to help with our Safe Water projects, Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition programs, and an Administrative intern to help with finances, budgeting and with some M&E. All the descriptions are attached here:
Safe Water_ Internship_Position Announcement
Administrative Intern job description
MCHN Internship_Position Announcement
We are ideally looking for students who have language skills in Haitian Creole or French, but I there are some opportunities to learn Creole at BMC with Physicians 4 Haiti. If the student is willing to commit for a year we can provide a small monthly stipend.”
Interested students can follow up with Taryn at silver.tms@gmail.com.
Updates from the One Acre Fund: Webinar, job opportunities and more!
Webinar: One Acre Fund and J-PAL
One Acre Fund is hosting a careers webinar with The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) on December 17th from 12-1 PM EDT. J-PAL is a global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty. J-PAL’s mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence and research is translated into action. Learn about how One Acre Fund staff and J-PAL alumni used their experience to launch their careers in international development. To register for the webinar, click here!
Jobs Spotlight: Field Positions
Do you have strong leadership skills and want to make a lasting impact on farmers? One Acre Fund has open field positions in a variety of locations:
· Program Associates: Rural Rwanda or Burundi (French required), or rural Kenya or Ethiopia (English required)
· Monitoring and Evaluation Associates: Rural Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi
· Innovation Capture Associate: Approximately 3 weeks per month in rural Kenya and 1 week per month in rural Rwanda (or vice–versa)
One Acre Fund currently has over 30 open positions. For more information and job descriptions, please visit our website.
Job Opportunities and Deadlines
· J-PAL is accepting applications for positions starting in summer 2014 from now until January 5, 2014. More than 70 openings are anticipated, 70 percent of which are based in the field. Some positions are available at J-PAL in Cambridge, MA, IPA in New Haven, CT, or at affiliates' home institutions. All of the positions are full-time and most require a minimum commitment of one year. More detailed descriptions of position types may be found on the J-PAL website. For more information, please refer to J-PAL's How to Apply and Jobs pages to find openings for specific positions.
· 2Seeds incubates small, efficient, and effective agricultural development projects in Africa. 2Seeds is currently hiring for Project Coordinators in Tanzania. The priority application deadline is December 15, 2013.
· Nuru International provides people with the tools and the knowledge to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. They now have full-time open positions located in the U.S. and Ethiopia. Application deadlines vary.
· Kiva connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Kiva is offering a variety of internships and full-time positions in the U.S. and Kenya. Many of the positions’ expected start dates are in January 2014, so apply now!
Photos from the Field
We would now like to introduce you to some of our hard-working farmers and field staff. Enjoy!
One Acre Fund farmers Olivia Chimoli (right), Agnes Machalero (center) and Beatrice Likhutsu (left) from Shimanyiro, Kenya, enjoy eating their newly harvested sweet potatoes. Photo by Kelvin Owino
Assistant field director Mediatrice Musabyemaria (right) and field officer Yamuweli Nteziryimana (left) discuss and collect loan repayments in Gasovu, Rwanda. Photo by Hailey Tucker
Farmers first,
The One Acre Fund People Operations Team
Tufts University 2014 Future of Food and Nutrition Graduate Student Research Conference Call for Abstracts!
Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy
2014 Future of Food and Nutrition
Graduate Student Research Conference
Call for Abstracts
Please see the information below regarding the 8th annual "Future of Food and Nutrition" Graduate Student Research Conference, a student-run conference hosted by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy. This multidisciplinary conference is an important event for Tufts, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could forward this call for abstracts along to any interested students or colleagues. Thank you!
The Conference provides a unique venue for graduate students to present original research related to food and nutrition. Historically, more than 200 attendees from over 30 different institutions have come together at this conference to hear students present research from fields as diverse as anthropology and nutritional epidemiology.
As a presenter or attendee, you will gain valuable professional experience presenting and discussing novel, multidisciplinary research, and you have the opportunity to network with fellow students and future colleagues. Relevant research includes projects conducted as part of thesis work, internships, capstone papers, or directed studies.
Applicants can apply to give either oral or poster presentations.
Please consider submitting an abstract!
Conference Details:
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2014
Location: The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
in Boston, MA
Abstracts: Abstract submissions must be received by 5pm EST on
January 27th, 2014. To submit an abstract, please use this online form.
Registration: Early registration will be open on Monday, January 6, 2014.
Web site: http://studentconference.nutrition.tufts.edu/
(Check for ongoing updates, including online registration and pricing)
Don't hesitate to contact us with any questions at: studentconference@tufts.edu.
We look forward to seeing you in March!
“Improving Maternal Health: Insights from around the world” event at Harvard School of Public Health
Improving Maternal Health: Insights from around the world
A celebration of the MHTF-PLOS collection of open-access maternal health research
December 11, 2013 11am to 12:30pm
The Leadership Studio
Harvard School of Public Health
Seats are limited. Please arrive early! Join the conversation on Twitter: #MHTFPLOS
A panel of authors from the collection will discuss their recent papers, and share insights for improving maternal health from Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Ghana:
Minor Ailments in Pregnancy Are Not a Minor Concern for Pregnant Women: A Morbidity Assessment Survey in Rural Sri Lanka
Suneth Buddhika Agampodi
When Women Deliver with No One Present in Nigeria: Who, What, Where and So What?
Nosakhare G. Orobaton
Effect on Postpartum Hemorrhage of Prophylactic Oxytocin (10 IU) by Injection by Community Health Officers in Ghana: A Community-Based, Cluster-Randomized Trial
Cynthia K. Stanton
Q/A with the authors: Audience members, both in the studio as well as remote participants via live-stream and Twitter, will be given the opportunity to ask questions.
Announcement of the year 3 call for papers and discussion of the year 3 theme: Ana Langer, director of the MHTF, and Rhona MacDonald, editor at PLOS Medicine, will announce the theme for the year 3 collection!
Questions about this event? Contact Kate Mitchell at kmitchel@hsph.harvard.edu
Interested in joining the student-run journal at SPH? Info session Dec. 6th
Come join us at an information session for The Movement, the student-run journal at the School of Public Health! Learn how to become an editor, or to contribute your creative and professional work for publication in the Spring 2014 issue. Lunch will be served! Friday, December 6th, 12 noon, L212.
Project Design and Grant Writing Intern position
Project Design and Grant Writing Intern
Salary: Unpaid. Travel expenses reimbursed.
Length: 4 - 5 months with possibility of employment at the end of the internship
Start date: January 2014
Reporting to: Director of Large Grants / Development Manager
Place of work: Home-based for US interns; combination of home and office for UK interns
Work hours: Full time equivalent, flexible hours
Deadline: 8th December 2013. See application requirements below.
The Welbodi Partnership is a UK registered charity that has worked since 2008 to save the lives of children and mothers in Sierra Leone, which has some of the worst child and maternal health statistics in the world. The Welbodi Partnership promotes locally led and managed solutions that bring us closer to a future where quality paediatric and maternal healthcare are available to all.
The Welbodi Partnership is at an exciting juncture in our work, with plans to expand into new healthcare facilities next year while continuing to develop our successful current projects.
Job Specification:
We are looking for an intern to lead on our large grants program, which provides essential income for our current projects and new initiatives. The role would suit someone with professional writing or grant writing experience and an interest in international development or global health, or a recent graduate, masters or PhD student looking to work in this field. There will be scope to move into a paid position at the end of this internship, although this is not guaranteed.
Our institutional fundraising has been successful in the past, and we are looking to continue this trend. Our projects fit well with the criteria used by the major UK funders, and this role will be looking to capitalise on this past success and drive this area forward, allowing us to reach more children and mothers in Sierra Leone than ever before.
The Welbodi Partnership prides itself on being a small group of committed individuals who communicate and collaborate regularly. Team members have, collectively, decades of experience and expertise in international development, global health, and management. This position will be working within a small but ambitious UK-based fundraising team and will have regular contact with the Board of Directors and the Project Managers in Sierra Leone.
Main Responsibilities:
The intern’s primary responsibility will be the preparation of two large grant applications to major UK funders in early 2014. The intern will work closely with Welbodi Directors and Project Managers to develop detailed project plans, monitoring and evaluation indicators, and budgets, building off our existing programmes and grant proposals prepared in 2013. The intern will take the lead on drafting the proposals, with close and on-going input and support from Welbodi Directors and the UK-based fundraising team.
In addition and as time allows, the intern may also be involved in:
Researching Trusts and Foundations and compiling a list of applicable grants and grant cycles to produce a 12 month application planner
Assisting with grant reporting processes
Person Specification:
Essential:
Excellent writing skills and good verbal communicator; able to covey complex concepts clearly and coherently
Organised, meticulous and able to plan ahead and stick to set deadlines
An interest in international development demonstrated though previous employment or study
Fluent in English, both written and spoken
Able to work within a small organisation with limited budgets
Desirable
Interest in paediatrics and maternal health
Experience of project development and design
A background in trust and foundations fundraising, with knowledge and experience of the major UK institutional funders
Knowledge of current themes in international development including MDGs and post MDG thinking
Understanding of financial management and good working knowledge of project budgeting
Applications:
Applicants should submit a covering letter of no more than two pages, an up to date C.V., and a 2 page writing sample to Sebastian Wilson at Sebastian@welbodipartnership.org by 8th December 2013. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to interview. We regret that non-shortlisted candidates will not be contacted, and should you not receive a response by the 10th of December, you have not been successful on this occasion. Interviews will be held in Central London or on Skype in the second week of December and the successful candidate will be notified soon after.
BU SNAP Challenge Dec. 6-20th
Dear BU/BMC Students, Faculty, and Guests,
I'd like to present a opportunity to increase awareness about food insecurity and the importance of SNAP to many members of our community who rely on it, especially during the holiday season.
As many of you might have already heard, several students and faculty members here at BU are participating in a SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aka "food stamps") Challenge. The challenge will run from 12/6-12/20 during which participants choose 7 continuous days to participate in the challenge. Here are the guidelines:
1. Begin on any day during the open period 12/6-12/20
2. Only eat food bought on the average SNAP budget: $30/week (any grocery store)
3. Spices and condiments that you already own are allowed to be used
4. Please refrain from accessing free food
5. Please only buy foods allowed on SNAP - http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items
6. Post thoughts, pictures, videos, etc on blog site
7. Keep a food journal.
8. Try to eat a nutritious and healthy diet according to http://www.choosemyplate.gov/dietary-guidelines.html
If you'd like to sign up and have access to our shared blog: BUsnapChallenge.tumblr.com,
sign up below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/176I2hsv3yayWxBuHVkLeoYhBTUuWblysmw6jYm5BoDY/viewform
Please feel free to invite anyone to join and we can provide access to the blog. The website has information about the guidelines and a tutorial on how to use the website if you don't have any experience.
Please direct any questions to Fabian Chang fchang@bu.edu.
Thank you!
BU SNAP Challenge Team
Environmental Health courses with a global focus, still open for Spring 2014!
EH749 Global Environmental Health (This course counts towards IH credit)
Content: This class introduces students to 1) frameworks for understanding global environmental health issues including sustainable development and the demographic/epidemiological/environmental transitions; 2) methods for characterizing global environmental burdens of disease, including linkages with surveillance systems and information gaps among countries; and 3) the role of international institutions and organizations. Global environmental problems will be explored, including issues related to infrastructure and the built environment, goods movement, energy systems, climate change adaptation, and food production.
Skills:
- Assess global environmental threats, environmental contributions to global disease burden and the relation to the millennium development goals.
- Determine connections between major global economic/resource trends and environmental health risks.
- Assess the sustainable development framework and how it relates to planning effective interventions to reduce environmental burden of disease.
- Evaluate and recommend policy measures and interventions to address/reduce the environmental burden of disease, taking into account social and economic implications.
- Recommend assessment approaches in developing (resource limited) vs. developed countries
- Evaluate and recommend among the range of analytical tools for characterizing and addressing environmental issues in a given country/region.
Pre-reqs: The MPH environmental health core course requirement. Please contact the professor, Dr. Junenette Peters (petersj@bu.edu), if you have not met this pre-req. but are interested in taking this course. This course counts towards MPH IH credit.
Course Offered: Tuesdays 2-445PM, January 14-April 29
EH 780 Great Calamities and Their Consequences for Public Health (This course counts towards IH credit)
Content: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (Santayana) How did our predecessors in public health successfully respond to the horrific cholera epidemics of the 19th century when the germ theory was not yet accepted? What lessons can we learn from this and other examples about how to deal with current public health problems, also in the face of unknowns? We discuss public health calamities of the past 200 years—including infectious disease epidemics, industrial disasters, pharmaceutical and food-related problems— that changed our ideas of public health as well as public health practice. We examine implications for both developed and developing countries. Students debate current public health issues as well as research and present to the class a public health disaster.
Skills:
- Identify major public health calamities of the past 200 years which have had significant impact on public health practice, including natural (e.g., cholera) and man-made (e.g., Chernobyl, Bhopal) calamities;
- Describe selected infectious disease epidemics of the past two centuries, with emphasis on contemporary responses to epidemics in terms of disease control, and with the current status of diseases such as influenza;
- Understand the evolution of the germ theory of disease;
- Describe the short and long term health effects of massive public exposure to physical or chemical hazards such as ionizing radiation, air pollution, persistent organic pollutants, methods used to identify long-term health effects, and the evolution and current status of exposure standards;
- Outline the evolution of the regulation of pharmaceutical drugs;
- Describe the public health ramifications of food contaminants such as methyl mercury and prions.
Pre-reqs: None. This course counts towards IH credit.
Course Offered: Mondays 2-4:45PM, January 13-May 5
EH800 Community Based-Methods in Environmental Health (This course counts towards SB credit)
Content: Low-income urban communities are exposed to many environmental and non-environmental stressors, and policy measures that do not reflect this complexity may not adequately address local health concerns. This course focuses on tools and techniques for assessing and addressing environmental health risks in these complex community settings, with an emphasis on health impact assessment, community-based participatory research, and analytical methods to evaluate environmental justice. Students will work on case studies with local community organizations or government agencies on a topic of mutual interest.
Skills:
· Describe the range of analytical tools available to characterize and address environmental problems at a community scale
· Use public databases to characterize patterns of community exposure to environmental stressors and the baseline health status of key subpopulations
· Evaluate the environmental justice implications of public policy measures
· Specify the pathways through which traffic and its related infrastructure can influence health
· Explain the contributors to residential environmental exposures, including outdoor sources, indoor sources, and structural factors; and design interventions to optimally improve the health of residents
· Design, conduct, and present a health impact assessment
Pre-reqs: The MPH core course requirements in Epidemiology and Environmental Health or consent of instructor. This course counts towards SB credit.
Course Offered: Spring 2014 Wednesdays, 2-4:45PM January 15-May 7
Job and Internship openings from Boston Network for International Development
- Python/Django Web Developer - Center for International Development at Harvard University
- Development and Communications Intern - African Food and Peace Foundation
- Executive Director - Tremendous Hearts
- Development Intern - The David Project
- Production and Marketing Internship - Cantata Singers
- Monitoring & Evaluation Manager - Last Mile Health/Tiyatien Health
Dartmouth Institute information session and open positions
On December 5th, The Dartmouth Institute will be coming on campus for an Employer Information Session. The event will be from 5:00 to 5:50 in the Career Center. They will be specifically talking about their Policy Fellowship as well as 2 Clinical Improvement Coordinator position. Descriptions of these position are on SPH CareerLink with instructions to apply. Since the Dartmouth Institute hires for many different types of positions, I believe that any student could be interested in attending this session.
Students are being instructed to apply for the Fellowship and Clinical improvement coordinator positions through the Dartmouth Institute website. From there, selected individuals may be invited on campus on Friday, Dec. 6th for an interview.
