Category: Conferences/Seminars
Save the Date! Bill Bicknell’s lecture May 2nd at noon!
Thoughts on Health Development: A Talk by Bill Bicknell
Wednesday, May 2nd noon-1PM in Keefer Auditorium of the BU School of Medicine Building.
A reception will be following the event in Talbot.
This event is free and open to the public. We encourage all International Health students to attend!
New student group: the Social Justice Student Organizing Committee’s first meeting: April 17th at 5:30
If you are interested in attending email Dallas Pride at dallas@bu.edu
IH720 Poster Session Wednesday, April 4th in CT460A at 6pm
All IH students and faculty are invited to the IH720 poster session to be held this Wednesday evening April 4th 6:00-7:00pm in CT460A. The posters and their authors will discuss their behavior change assessment projects. I hope you will be able to come and: 1) show interest in their work; and 2) provide some feedback (we’ll have some simple feedback forms you can use). You don’t need to come for the entire session – any time during that one hour period would be terrific. We will have food and drinks! Attached please find the invitation flyer.
If you are planning on attending, please RSVP here. We will be having pizza!
Congratulations to our students for bringing Boston University to second place at The Extramural Emory Global Health Case Competition!
Congratulations to our Boston University team (with three MPH/MBA candidates, an MD/MBA candidate, a student in Biomedical Engineering, and an MD candidate) that came in second in The Extramural Emory Global Health Case Competition on Saturday, March 31, 2012 out of 23 university teams from across the globe! The Second Place prize was $2,500. BU also won the “audience choice award” voted by their peers in the contest.
This is the first time that Boston University has competed in this event. The teams are given a specially developed global health case, and asked to present a solution. This year’s case was difficult, with political overtones as well as health and development issues. The question was "Develop a strategy for Canadian aid to Sri Lanka that deals with the health and resettlement issues of the Tamil population, keeping in mind the resistance of the Sinhalese government to accusations of war crimes and persecution, and recognizing the presence of a great many Tamil refugees in Canada.”
A huge congratulations to Ivan Busulwa (Team Captain), Catherine Shih, Meg Meyer, Sunil Nair, Daniel Silva and Darash Desai!
“Personalized Medicine: Tomorrow’s Promise and Today’s Realities” Dean’s Distinguised Speaker Series April 11th
You’re invited!
Dean Freeman and the Health Sector Management Program at the School of Management cordially invite you to attend the Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Personalized Medicine: Tomorrow’s Promise and Today’s Realities. This event features Edward Benz, MD, President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Susan Hertzberg, President, Boston Heart Lab; and David Schenkein, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Agios. Our very own Dean Ken Freeman will be moderating. These top executives from across the health sector in the Boston area will address both the transformative promise of personalized medicine and the substantial and complex challenges of realizing that potential.
We hope you can attend this exciting panel on Wednesday April 11, 2012, 6:00-7:30pm. A reception will directly follow the panel. Reserve your space at this exceptional event, RSVP here. Please see more information below.
Dean’s Speaker Series: Personalized Medicine: Tomorrow’s Promise and Today’s Realities
Wednesday April 11, 2012, 6:00-7:30
Executive Leadership Center, Fourth Floor Dining Space
School of Management
595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.
Reception will directly follow the panel.
Event is Free. RSVP is required.
Sponsored by the Boston University Health Sector Management Program, Health Sector Management Alumni Association and School of Management
In Partnership with Boston University’s College of Engineering, School of Law, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, BioBusiness Organization, Global Health Development Association and the Health Services Management Association.
“Global poverty: What do we know? Where do we go from here?” Yale conference April 12th and 13th
Academics Stand Against Poverty: One Year Anniversary Conference
“Global poverty: What do we know? Where do we go from here?” at Yale University
April 12-13, 2012
Speakers include:
Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
Paul Slovic, Founder and Director of Decision Research, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Research Department Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics, Yale University
Hugh Evans, Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Poverty Project
Judith Lichtenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University Nicole Hassoun, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and International Relations, Carnegie Mellon University
Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international network helping scholars, teachers and students enhance their impact on global poverty. It does so by promoting collaboration amongst poverty-focused academics, by helping them reach out to broader audiences on issues of poverty, and by helping them turn their expertise into impact through specific intervention projects.
Learn more at: www.academicsstand.org.
The first day of the conference will bring together leading experts in development, aid, and global justice to discuss the future of global poverty alleviation after the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015.
Speakers will examine the record of increasing global inequality, innovations in development such as large-scale microfinance projects, and poverty measurement and trends. On the second day, experts in ethics and psychology will discuss how cognitive science and moral psychology can help us to more effectively motivate individuals to fulfill their moral obligations to alleviate global poverty.
You can read the full description of the conference on our website:
http://academicsstand.org/events/event/asap-anniversary-workshop-yale-university/
To register for the conference please email Katie Lewis at Katie@academicsstand.org
Pathfinder Student Seminar Series: Women’s Health in Rural Morocco, Monday April 2nd
Pathfinder Student Seminar Series
Women’s Health in Rural Morocco
Monday, April 2, 5-5:50pm R103
Kristen Apa, MPH(c) speaks about spending over 2 years living and working in rural Morocco as a Peace Corps Volunteer. As a Small Business Development volunteer she developed a women’s weaving cooperative, and also coordinated multiple health projects. In the health realm, Kristen facilitated Community Health Worker trainings with an emphasis on maternal and child health. She also implemented various health education programs with youth in her community.
Pizza will be provided!!
Environmental Forum on Haitian Cholera Water Outbreaks
Join the brothers of the Nu Chapter of Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity Inc a week after Water Awareness Day in an open forum featuring the Haitian Consulate and Zachary Brehmer from International Action as we discuss making "Clean Water for All" a reality.
When: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Where: Howard Thurman Center (lower level GSU)
Time: 5:30PM-7:00PM
Imagine surviving months in the US without access to life’s essential element: water. This was and continues to be the reality for many Haitians as the Haitian government and many health and non-profit organizations continue to combat the Cholera outbreaks that affected Haiti’s water after the catastrophic earthquake. Haiti, the US, and every country and its citizens should have access to clean drinking and bathing water.
The forum will feature
-Zachary Brehmer: International Action
-the Haitian Consulate
-Leigh Forbush: UNICEF US FUND
We will also be collecting donations to donate to various charities which look to make water more accessible for all of our world’s inhabitants including UNICEF, Partners in Health, and International Action.
Daniel Lopez
President—Nu Chapter of Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity inc
dalopez@bu.edu
