Category: Outside Announcements
Space Available in Summer 1 Course: Merging Clinical & Population-based Perspectives in Public Health Practice
SB808 Merging Clinical & Population-based Perspective in Public Health Practice
Ed Bernstein ▪ Monday, Wednesday /2:00 – 5:00 PM
4 credits; no prerequisites
There is still time to register for the highly-rated summer I class SB 808 Merging Clinical & Population-based Perspectives in Public Health Practice. This course is taught by Professor Edward Bernstein, a member of the Massachusetts DPH Public Health Council, and speakers from BU Department Emergency Medicine Section on Public and Global Health. The course also features interactive discussions and readings that address both the public health and medical/clinical responses to public health challenges: the Opioid Overdose Epidemic, Community Violence, Humanitarian Disasters and Mass Casualties, Injury prevention/Falls, point of care testing for HIV and HCV, and immigrant and refugee health. There will also be a 4-hour observation in the BMC Emergency Department for students to witness firsthand the public health aspect of clinical services. The course also counts for both SB and MCH credit. Below are several student testimonials.
Student Testimonials:
- “The ED visit was the highlight of the course. The guest lecturers were better than excellent. I wish working with project ASSERT in the ED could be designed as a practicum.”
- “Very interesting and varied topics covered. Having a medical and public health professional co-teach offered insight into the two disciplines that was invaluable. Guest lecturers added another layer of learning to the class. Small class size facilitated learning and discussion. ED observation experience was a highlight of the class. Assignments were challenging but were an opportunity for growth and thought development. Discussion board was a great way to start our communication with one another before class began.”
- “The Motivational Interviewing (BNI) skills are so great to have and enriched this course. This course was in the top three of all the ones I have taken at BUSPH, I gained a lot and I wish more students had the opportunity to take it.”
- “Readings were relevant and helped provide insight into the lecture material. Favorite lectures included: Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases, Violence Intervention, and Project Assert. I also think it was really valuable and interesting to learn SBIRT motivational interviewing. Finally, I gained a lot from the opportunity to observe in the BMC ER. That practical experience provided a powerful context to further understand the public health problems we discussed in class and allowed me to see the interaction of clinical and public health systems first-hand.”
- “The course material was great and very enlightening. This course should be taught more often so more MPH students are exposed to it.”
- “Dr. Edward Bernstein is an inspiring, motivating ED clinician and public health practitioner, with tremendous experience and insights. His first-hand experience and self-reflective nature/open approach to sharing challenges of integrating public health in clinical settings were very informative. His passion for medicine and public health interventions was infectious, and made me want to learn more about how to bridge these two worlds.”
Sign Up for the SPH Talent Show
People can sign up by emailing phsenate@bu.edu! The Show is Friday, March 20th at 6pm.
Online Webcast: “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” sponsored by Doctors Without Borders, Wednesday, March 4 at 7pm
Because Tomorrow Needs Her
Online Webcast
Wednesday, March 4
7:30PM EST
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF) would like to invite you to attend a special webcast marking the launch of Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia campaign highlighting MSF’s efforts to provide accessible, high-quality health care to women and girls around the world.
Because Tomorrow Needs Her is a collection of first-hand accounts from MSF aid workers –midwives, OBGYNs, physicians, nurses, and counselors – who have treated women and girls in a host of different countries and contexts over the past two decades.
Women have distinct health needs that men do not have, starting with those related to the ability to get pregnant and bear children. In the absence of care, however, those needs can turn into risks. This is why 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related causes, when most of these deaths could easily be prevented. And while we know how to keep HIV-positive mothers from passing the virus to their babies, 700 children are born with HIV every day. What’s more, victims of sexual violence go without medical or psychological care, because the care they need is too often beyond their reach. MSF treated more than 11,000 victims of sexual violence in 34 countries in 2013; around 95 percent of them were women and girls.
Why does this gap in health care services for women exist? What can be done about it? What is MSF doing already and what does the organization hope it can do in the future?
Nina Strochlic of The Daily Beast will lead a discussion on March 4th at 7:30pm EST on these and other questions related to women’s health care. She will be joined by MSF field workers and one of the project’s photojournalists, who will share stories of women they’ve been able to help, those they haven’t, and what still needs to be done. Viewing is free, but advance registration is required. To find out more, visit our event page or follow us at #TomorrowNeedsHer
Student Senate General Body Meeting
Join us for the Student Senate's first General Body Meeting! Speakers from the VA will speak about mental health among LGBT veterans.
Dinner will be served and we will be selling BUSPH t-shirts!
Date: February 23, 2015
Time: 5-6:00pm
Where: L109
Contact phsenate@bu.edu with any questions
Winter Social Mixer ft. BU Medical Campus
Come join us for a fun evening of good company, music, and free appetizers! Entrance is free!
Date: February 27, 2015
Time: 7-10:00pm
Where: Harborside Inn and Lounge
Sponsored by BUSPH Student Senate, BU School of Medicine, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, BU Graduate Medical Sciences, and Students for Quality Health Care.
Contact, phsenate@bu.edu with any questions.
Upcoming BU CTSI Study Design and Biostatistics Core Seminar
Upcoming BU CTSI Study Design and Biostatistics Core Seminar
Mary-Elizabeth (“M-E”) Eddlestone: PROC SQL vs. DATA Step Programming
Analytics Specialist, SAS Customer Loyalty Team
SAS Institute Inc.
Everyone wants to know: Should I use the DATA step or PROC SQL to join this data? Take a behind the scenes look at how the DATA step and SQL procedure process data by comparing all types of joins (inner, left/right, outer) with multiple types of data (one-to-one, one-to many, many-to-many).
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Crosstown Center, CT-462
801 Mass Ave, 4th Floor
12:00 – 1:20 pm
Join by Phone
8667156499
7193252776
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Participant code: 5243217003
http://www.bu.edu/ctsi/resources/seminars-and-workshops/ctsi-seminar-series/
BUSPH Career Fair: Employer Attendee List
The annual BUSPH Career Fair: Thursday, February 26, from 2:00 – 6:00 PM in the Hiebert Lounge, at the BU School of Medicine. Representatives from over 40 organizations will be on hand to meet with students. RSVP on CareerLink, under Events/Information Sessions.
2015 Career Fair Attendees include (this list will be updated on an ongoing basis through February 26):
- Abt Associates
- American Institutes for Research
- Arcadia Healthcare Solutions
- ARCADIS
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA
- Boston Children’s Hospital
- Boston Medical Center
- Boston Public Health Commission
- Boston University Human Resources
- Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Tufts Medical Center
- China California Health Watch
- CVS Health (Check CareerLink for job postings and on-campus interview dates!)
- Dimagi
- Epidemico (a Booz Allen Hamilton company)
- Evidera
- Fenway Health
- Galen Healthcare Solutions
- Gradient Corp
- Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
- Harvard University School of Public Health
- Health Imperatives
- Health Policy Commission
- Human Care Systems
- IBIS Reproductive Health
- ICON Clinical Research
- Institute for Community Health
- JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc.
- Management Sciences for Health
- March of Dimes New England Chapter
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC)
- Pathfinder International
- PAREXEL International
- PROMETRIKA, LLC
- Public Consulting Group, Inc.
- Quintiles
- RTI International
- Towers Watson
- Tufts Health Plan
- Veterans Health Administration
The Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health 2014-2015 Seminar Series
Speaker: Sheldon Krimsky Ph.D.
Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of. Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University; Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Please join us on Friday, February 20 from 12:45pm - 1:45pm
Location: Room L-210, BU Medical School Instructional Building
for the seminar: The Science behind GMO Health Assessment
Seventy-five percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves in the US—from soda to soup, crackers to condiments—contain genetically engineered ingredients. Some prominent scientists and policymakers assert with confidence that there is no scientific controversy over the health effects of GMOs—that these GM crops are inherently safe and do not have to be tested. The scientific evidence, however, reveals a different story. The long-term effects of these foods on human health and ecology are still unknown, and public concern has been steadily intensifying. The talk reveals how politics and corporate interests have distorted an honest look at the health and environmental effects of GMO crops and how scientists whose results do not support the “safe seeds” hypothesis have been marginalized and demonized.
Sheldon Krimsky is the Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning in the School of Arts & Sciences and Adjunct Professor in Public Health and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at Tufts University. In 2012-14 he held the Carol Zicklin Visiting Endowed Professorship in the Honors Academy and Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Professor Krimsky is an adjunct professor in The New School, at Milano during the summer. He received his bachelors and masters degrees in physics from Brooklyn College, CUNY and Purdue University respectively, and a masters and doctorate in philosophy at Boston University. His research has focused on the linkages between science/technology, ethics/values and public policy. He is the author of 14 books and over 200 papers and reviews that have appeared in: JAMA, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, The Lancet, Stanford Law & Policy Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, American Journal of Public Health, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Human Gene Therapy, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; Science, Technology & Human Values, Accountability in Research. His recent books include: Genetic Justice: DNA Databanking, Criminal Investigations and Civil Liberties-Gold Medal Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, 2011 (Columbia), Race and the Genetic Revolution (Columbia) Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense (Harvard). Biotechnology in Our Lives (Skyhorse) and The GMO Deception (Skyhorse). His 14th book contracted with Columbia University Press titled Stem Cell Dialogues: Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry is forthcoming in 2015. Professor Krimsky has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "seminal scholarship exploring the normative dimensions and moral implications of science in its social context."
For more information on this seminar, including suggested readings, and upcoming seminar topics and guest speakers, please visit the Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar website.
