Category: Conferences/Seminars
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.
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
20th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies, March 30th and 31st
Contesting Boundaries: Emerging Scholarship on Africa
Boston University’s Graduate Student Conference in African Studies is pleased to mark its 20th anniversary. This year’s conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from an array of disciplines.
We would like to invite all who are interested in the diverse areas and methods of study in African Studies.
The 2012 conference will be held at Boston University, March 30th-31st. Find more updated information about this event here.
If you have questions, contact the conference organizers at 2012ascgradconference@gmail.com or look for us on FaceBook or Twitter for the latest updates:
Facebook — BU African Studies Graduate Student Conference
Twitter — @BUGradConAfrica
New Practitioner-in-Residence at the Career Center, great resource for anyone looking at a career in IH!
The BUSPH Career Center is pleased to announce that PRACTITIONER-IN-RESIDENCE, Patricia Burns, is available to provide career advice on Tuesday afternoons, beginning March 20.
Working with Patricia Burns, MSc, MPH
Patricia has worked in public health for over 12 years and graciously offered to donate her time to meet with students and provide individualized career counseling. Whether you are thinking about conducting a targeted job search, a career change, or pursuing advancement in your current organization, Patricia can offer feedback and direction in the following ways:
- Job Search Strategy
- Evaluation of Transferable Skills
- Career Transitions
- The Benefits of Strategic Volunteering
- Identifying Your Most Marketable Skills
- The Power of Networking
- Targeted Resume and Cover Letter Review
- Mock Interviews
ABOUT PATRICIA J. BURNS, MSC, MPH
Patricia has over 12 years of experience as a public health program manager with a proven track record of project development, management, and evaluation, Federal grant writing and regulation, budget and work plan development and management, team building, and pre/post assessment and transition management. Patricia has built and led teams, and worked creatively with internal/external partners and funding sources. Prior to earning her MPH at BUSPH in 2001, she lived in rural Ethiopia for 3 years as a department head in a new health sciences college in the rural Southern Region. Most recently she supported teams in Puerto Rico (3 years) and Botswana (8 years) as a Senior Programs Manager and the Assistant Country Director for the Botswana PEPFAR AIDS Training and Site Support Program with the Harvard School of Public Health.
SCHEDULING AN APPOINTMENT
Patricia will be available on Tuesdays from 12-4pm (starting March 20th). They will be located in the Career Center, Talbot Building, 113 East (1st Floor). Appointments will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. To schedule an appointment, please contact Maria McCarthy at mamcc@bu.edu.
The Dark Side of Research: March 8th at 12pm
The Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health will be hosting the 2nd Annual Cathy Shine Lecture on Thursday, March 8th at 12 PM
BU School of Medicine, Room L-110, 72 E. Concord Street, Boston
THE DARK SIDE OF RESEARCH: Exploitation in Clinical Trials
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, Professor, Center for Bioethics and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, and author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (2010).
Do you really know how research is conducted? Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, author of White Coat, Black Hat and Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, offers surprising examples of the influence of market forces on medicine. Dr. Elliott’s studies of clinical trials reveal what physicians may not know, from a university’s refusal to investigate a student’s death to the source of research subjects recruited by commercial companies. A physician and bioethicist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr. Elliott is also respected as a courageous social commentator, with articles like “Guinea Pigging” in the New Yorker.
Update: Career Office events not worth missing!
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Note: For planning purposes, RSVP’s are required for all workshops and events. Space is limited.
WORKSHOPS
Offered from 1-1:50pm in Room R103 unless noted otherwise. RSVP to Maria McCarthy at mamcc@bu.edu.
Mar. 7 LinkedIN Basics - Two Sessions: 1-1:50pm in R115, 5-5:50pm in R103.
Mar. 21 Interview Strategies
Mar. 28 Negotiating Job Offers
Advancing Health and Social Justice in Malawi: A Conversation with Sam Njolomole (Awareness Raising Event)
Interested in medicine, global health, or nonprofit work? Come hear the inspirational story of Samson Njolomole, the External Relations Manager for Partners In Health in his home district of Neno, Malawi. Learn more below about his work to improve health care and treat HIV:
In 2007, Samson Njolomole began working as a translator in his home district of Neno, Malawi. At the time, antiretroviral therapy (ART) was available to only 10 patients in the district. Identified for his compassion, defense of human rights, and strengths as a community organizer, Sam quickly rose to become HIV Program Coordinator, where he was instrumental in expanded capacity for ART to the two hospitals and eleven health centers that currently serve over 4,500 HIV patients throughout the district. Later, as Community Programs Manager, Sam initiated innovative community-based health education, outreach and testing events. Sam's charisma and passion for justice for the poor draws attendance that swells into the thousands at community events. In his current role as External Relations Manager, Sam serves as the primary liaison between Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo and local, domestic, and international partners and communities.
| Time: | Thursday, March 1, 2012 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST |
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| Host: | Partners In Health & BU's FACE AIDS Chapter |
| Location: |
BU College of Communications, COM 101 (Boston, MA)
640 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215 |
Don’t forget…Global Health in Focus event March 7th at 6pm
Panel Discussion: Why Global Health Matters
Wednesday, March 7th, 6pm
BU George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston University
Panelists: Jennifer Beard, PhD, MPH (BU School of Public Health); Dominic Chavez, featured photographer, Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH (President and CEO, Management Sciences for Health); David Rochkind, featured photographer.
Robert Putnam speaks at BU School of Law, Thursday, March 1st at 6
AMERICAN GRACE: HOW RELIGION DIVIDES AND UNITES US
Robert Putnam, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Thursday, March 1, 6 pm
Boston University School of Law
Barristers Hall
765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor
Moderator: Robert Hefner (Director, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University)
Robert D. Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the American Political Science Association. He was the 2006 recipient of the Skytte Prize and has served as an adviser to presidents and national leaders around the world. He has written more than a dozen books, including Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work, both among the most cited publications in the social sciences in the last half century. The London Sunday Times has called him "the most influential academic in the world today." Putnam's most recent book, American Grace, co-authored with David Campbell of Notre Dame, focuses on the role of religion in American public life. Based on data from two of the most comprehensive national surveys on religion and civic engagement ever conducted, American Grace is the winner of the American Political Science Association's 2011 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.
This event is co-sponsored by Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs and the Institute for Philosophy & Religion and supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
