By Emily Morin
Technical Advisor position available at Pathfinder International in DC
Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning, ensure availability of safe abortion services and post-abortion care, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve.
Technical Advisor – Implementing Best Practicies
Full-time, in Washington, DC
For more about the job and how to apply, click here!
Interesting one day conference in NYC: Structural Competency, March 23rd
STRUCTURAL COMPETENCY: New Medicine for the Institutional Inequalities That Make Us Sick
A free one day conference by New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. For anyone who has the chance to travel to NYC on Friday, March 23rd, this seems like a great event to check out!
This one-day working conference will assemble multidisciplinary practitioners and theorists to explore a new paradigm, Structural Competency, that proposes that a host of clinical disorders (e.g. hypertension, obesity, smoking,medication "non-compliance," post-traumatic syndromes, depression, psychosis) must be addressed as the downstream implications of upstream decisions (e.g. food delivery systems, housing discrimination, urban infrastructure failure, biocapitalism, diagnostic codes).
Structural competency extends beyond cultural competency to address the pathologies of institutions and policies that alter the behaviors and biologies of individuals.
Graphics and Content Producer for the Maternal Health Task Force at Harvard School of Public Health: full-time position
The Maternal Health Task Force is currently seeking a Graphics and Content Producer.
The Graphics and Content Producer will create and manage all MHTF communications materials produced both digitally and in print. S/he will update the homepage regularly; assist MHTF staff with the production and dissemination of new content; manage technical problems as they arise; produce, test, and deliver HTML email messages; provide support for blogs; manage the MHTF’s presence on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking services; serve as point of contact for and manage contracts with domain registrars, web hosts, bulk email providers, editorial photo libraries, and other website developers and contractors. The Graphics and Content Producer will conceptualize, design, create, and build infrastructure for the website; and conduct user needs analysis, product evaluation, selection, customization, testing, implementation, and support. This position is grant-funded through 10/31/2014.
Learn more about qualifications here! To find out more about the Task Force and how to apply, check here!
Summer Associate Position with Jacaranda Health in Nairobe, stipend for expenses and housing included!
Jacaranda Health is in an exciting stage of growth, and looking for two Summer Associates to support our business and clinical operations during the summer of 2012. We seek exceptional candidates who are enthusiastic about working in a start-up environment on the cutting edge of healthcare and business. The work program will be tailored to the associate, and we are open to candidates with backgrounds in business or health.
Please see the job decription and how to apply here! Deadline is March 15th!
What is Your Work Behavioral Style? An HPM Emphasis Area meeting, all are welcome!
Please fill out this quick questionnaire before the event! Behav Styles Inventory
IH811: Quick survey for all BUMC female students
Please take a moment to take this quick survey about the prevalence of use, attitudes, and beliefs towards intrauterine devices and implants.
It is for a group of students in IH811: Applied Research Methods in International Health. It will be very helpful to them!
Witness to Hunger photo exhibition March 12th-15th
http://www.witnessestohunger.org/
The Witnesses to Hunger project has expanded to Boston. The Witnesses to Hunger – Boston photography exhibit presents the photographs and frontline testimony of eight Boston mothers who are “witnesses to hunger” and their related experiences with issues of food, housing, health, and education. Together, these mothers have taken over 700 photos and videos, of which 35 photographs will be on display as part of the exhibit at the Massachusetts State House from March 12-15, 2012.
Children’s HealthWatch, Project Bread, and Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) are local sponsors of the event and have worked closely with the Center for Hunger-Free Communities to bring this project to fruition in Boston. Issues highlighted by the photos include food, housing, health, environment, violence, teen motherhood, education, welfare, and “breaking the cycle of poverty.”
An opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Monday, March 12, at 1:00pm at the Grand Staircase in the State House. The reception will feature remarks from several state and national leaders, as well as witnesses from Philadelphia and Boston. After the opening remarks, attendees are invited to view the exhibit and speak with the photographers
The common focus regardless of residence is for women to tell their experience of hunger and poverty, as well as their ideas for change through photography. What these women show is the challenge of nourishing their children when every day presents impossible trade-offs: rent or medicine, heat or breakfast, diapers or fresh fruit. Often policies and programs are created without the participation of people who are most affected. The purpose of this exhibit is to speak truth to power, bringing together those who have a story to tell with those who are policy-makers. Witnesses share a complicated portrait of public assistance —hunger, health, housing, and the devastation of neighborhoods.
The exhibit will be on display from March 12-14 (next Monday-Thursday). There will be an exhibit opening at 1pm on Monday the 12th, a panel discussion at 10am on Tuesday the 13th and a Housing policy lunch with the Witnesses and Legislators on Wednesday the 14th. For more details about the events, go to: http://www.childrenshealthwatch.org/page/witness.schedule
Mass. General Hospital Center for Global Health Seminar Series Thursday, March 8th
Pathfinder International: Technical Documentation Advisor wanted
The Technical Documentation Advisor I is a member of the Technical Services Unit. Responsible for carrying out the strategic planning, development, and dissemination of insights from Pathfinder’s global technical implementation, this position is a support to Pathfinder’s 25 country offices and over 80 programs worldwide. Through print and on-line technical publications, the Technical Documentation Advisor analyzes programmatic experience in partnership with country staff, supports programs to identify and document innovations as they arise in the course of implementation, and plays the critical role for Pathfinder of sharing the knowledge and insights from implementation in our countries’ diverse technical, epidemiological, and cultural contexts. The primary vision of TSU’s technical documentation efforts is to ensure Pathfinder plays a leading and pro-active role in contributing to the advancement of technical practice in global sexual and reproductive health—by joining our programmatic insights, innovations, and challenges with other leading voices in global health.
The successful candidate has excellent communication skills, exceptional writing and editing skills, and is familiar with global health programing in resource-poor settings. The Technical Documentation Advisor II must be able to deliver high quality work efficiently under tight timelines, and to successfully manage a large portfolio of work. This position involves significant international travel.
Learn more about the position here: Technical Documentation Advisor I
Pathfinder International is dedicated to creating access to and improving the quality of family planning, reproductive health, abortion, and community- and facility-based HIV and AIDS care and services. In partnership with host country governments and nongovernmental organizations, we train facility-based health care providers to improve both the quality and range of their technical and counseling skills. Facility-based services are further improved through provision of equipment and facility renovations. We mobilize communities to advocate for quality services and improve access through trained community-based volunteers. Pathfinder improves youth’s access to health care by creating youth-friendly services and training peer educators to promote them. In each project, Pathfinder works with our partners to improve both their management and program implementation capacity. Through all that we do, Pathfinder strives to empower women, men, adolescents, and communities to make choices and create environments conducive to healthy reproductive behaviors.
Looking for an Africa related internship but would like to stay domestic? Check out this CAI opportunity!
Consultancy Africa Intelligence (CAI), an international web-based research and consultancy firm with an exclusive focus on the African continent, has recently launched a Public Health research unit and is looking for aspiring researchers with an interest in Public Health and Africa to join our internship programme from 1 April 2012 to 31 December 2012.CAI’s Public Health unit provides outstanding research and analysis on the health and well being of African populations.
Who should apply?
The CAI internship programme is open to Masters and Doctorate students in applicable fields of study (Medicine, Public Health, Psychology, Sociology, etc). Applicants should:
- have strong writing ability and research skills;
- have an interest in, and a passion for Africa;
- have a drive to acquire relevant experience and exposure;
- be diligent and reliable;
- have relevant experience.
Note: Above-average grades are not prerequisites, but will strengthen applications.
What does the internship involve?
Successful applicants will be involved in research and writing on trends and developments on health-related issues. CAI interns are given the opportunity to:
- author/co-author editorial-style discussion pieces on public health trends, planning, and policy at all levels of the health system, potentially published on the CAI website and shared with our content partners;
- acquire valuable experience on health issues in Africa;
- develop skills in research and consultancy to support population health; and
- workwith a passionate, multicultural, and international consulting team.
The internships are un-remunerated and web-based (i.e. successful applicants would not be required to relocate). Interns who perform well during their internship may be (a) given an opportunity to contribute to CAI's tailored research; (b) offered an internship extension; and/or (c) offered a position on our consultancy team.
How to apply:
Interested parties are invited to submit (a) their CV, (b) a brief motivation letter and (c) two examples of previously written work to CAI ( farah.seedat@consultancyafrica.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) before 25 March 2012.
Learn more about it here!
