Category: Conferences/Seminars
Toward a Better Haiti: Global Health Through Research, Education, and Advocacy
Hosted by the BU School of Medicine International Health Program
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
B.U. Castle, 225 Bay State Rd.
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Panel discussion with James Hudspeth, M.D., Chris Curry M.D., Ph.D., and Rishi Rattan, M.D. Panel will discuss their work in Haiti, career trajectories, and general approach to global health. Moderator: Toyin Ajayi, M.D. Light refreshments to follow. Students, faculty, and BUMC community are invited.
RSVP required at: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/ihbusm/rsvp/.
TOMORROW! EH Seminar “Bringing Climate Science to Public Health: Population-based Applications for Disaster Preparedness”
The Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar Series
“Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy"
Please join us on Friday, November 2nd for:
"Bringing Climate Science to Public Health: Population-based Applications for Disaster Preparedness"
November 2, 2012
Time: 12pm-1pm
Location: Room L-210
BU Medical School Instructional Building
Speaker: P. Gregg Greenough, MD, MPH
Director of Research, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Asst. Professor, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
Attending Emergency Physician, Division International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
http://hhi.harvard.edu/about-us/who-we-are/staff
Climatology and the atmospheric sciences have advanced our understanding of current and future climate effects through modeling and analog techniques. In this seminar, Dr. Greenough will discuss the cognitive disconnect between the sophisticated modeling of climate change, extreme weather events and the ability to translate these to populations at risk, especially those that are rapidly urbanizing in harm’s way. This session will highlight the interaction that needs to happen between the climatic sciences and the population-based methods of epidemiology and demography, using tools such as geospatial analysis and mapping,for translation into local and regional preparedness and response.
For more information on upcoming seminar topics and guest speakers, please visit sph.bu.edu/ehseminars
Comparative Health Systems Panel Discussion : International Students’ Perspectives
Comparative Health Systems Flyer
Thursday November 15
4:45-5:50 pm
L110, BUSM Bldg.
Please join the department of Health Policy & Management for a panel discussion. Students from around the globe will share their personal and professional perspectives on the health care system of their home countries. RSVP online: http://eepurl.com/qTTub
Moderator:
Professor David Rosenbloom, Health Policy & Management
Panelists:
· Michel Gbala Sapoulou, People's Republic of the Congo, MPH
· Michal Horny, Czech Republic, Ph.D., Health Services Research
· Siamak Mehdizadehseraj, Iran, MPH
· Ankur Sharma, India, MPH
· Melek Somai, Tunisia, MPH
Event is open to the BUSPH community.
The IH Department is hosting an exciting Infectious Disease Outbreak Simulation. Spots are very limited, so RSVP quickly!
The IH Department is hosting an exciting event. Spots are very limited, so RSVP quickly!
Professor Gill was approached by a group of computer scientists at MIT's Lincoln Labs who received a grant to create an outbreak simulation. It works as a game involving 4-5 teams working in parallel. You get data, you respond, the simulation models the impact of your response, you make more decisions, cycle repeats, and millions live or die based on your decisions. The game is being hosted Thursday Nov 1 from 12:30-4:30 in CT305. We are creating 4-5 teams, and these would be a mixture of individuals from the school of medicine, IH, Epi, and biostats as well as some faculty. You must be able to commit to the full four hours.
We have 4 spots open for IH students. To participate, e-mail Lindsey Kinsinger, at lkins@bu.edu, by Friday, October 26 at 5pm.
“Delivering Cancer Care in Settings of Extreme Poverty” Harvard Global Oncology Seminar Series with Dr. Paul Farmer
Harvard Global Oncology Seminar Series (Inaugural Seminar)
Thursday, November 1st 5-6:30
Jimmy Fund Auditorium, Dana Farber Cancer Institute (35 Binney Street, Boston)
Speaker: Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Harvard University
(Introduction by edward Benz, MD, President and CEO of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
For more info, contact Mary Jue Xu at maryjue_xu@hms.harvard.edu
Today’s Environmental Health Seminar: Occupational Heat-Related Illness with Kathleen Fitzsimmons, Epidemiologist. Will be of interest to students with international interests as well!
Environmental Health Seminar
Title: Occupational Heat-Related Illness
Speaker: Kathleen Fitzsimmons, MPH
Epidemiologist, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Time: Friday, October 12, 2012, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Place: Boston University Instructional Building Room L214
Contact: jvsevent@bu.edu
Summary: Continuing the Department of Environmental Health’s seminar series, Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy, Kathleen Fitzsimmons, MPH, will present this week’s seminar titled, Occupational Heat-Related Illness. Workers represent a distinct population at risk for heat-related illness (HRI), considered to be a leading occupational health effect of global climate change. Environmental heat is a potential hazard in a number of industries, including agriculture, yet there is a lack of information on the extent of HRI among US workers. Ms. Fitzsimmons will provide an overview of occupational HRI, summarize California's outdoor workplace HRI prevention regulation, and describe a pilot surveillance project conducted by the California Department of Public Health to assess the statewide burden of occupational HRI.
Dr. Robert Harrison will be joining the seminar online to take part in the discussion. Dr. Harrison founded and directed the University of California San Francisco Occupational Health Services for more than 15 years, and now is a senior attending physician. He also directs the worker tracking investigation program for the California Department of Public Health.
Oxfam Hunger Banquet Friday, October 19th 5pm in Hiebert
Oxfam America Hunger Banquet
Friday, October 19th from 5:00-6:30pm in Hiebert Lounge
You've got a dinner date on Friday October 19th!
Join the BUSPH Rotaract Club and see hunger and poverty in a whole new way. At this interactive dinner event, the place where you sit, and the meal you eat, are determined by your "luck of the draw"--just as in real life. With Jon Simon as our MC and Jule Meyer from Oxfam America as our VIP speaker, we invite you to experience firsthand how some of our decisions effect others in the world. Tickets are FREE, but we encourage you to bring a canned good to donate to the local food bank or even throw a dollar or two into the donation jar if you're feeling extra generous!
Will you be one of the lucky ones - or will you leave hungry?
Please RSVP via eventbrite: http://busphoxfambanquet.eventbrite.com.
Or visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/204418553024324/
Health and Human Rights: An NGO’s Contribution to Addressing the Epidemic of Drug Use, HIV and TB in Russia
There will be lunch so please RSVP!
