Category: Outside Announcements
Arts | Lab at BU Medical Campus: Theatre Performance “W;t”
Join us for a production about Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness — and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital — Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a transformative profundity and humor.
FOLLOWED BY AN OPEN DISCUSSION LED BY
Mary Annas, Michael Grodin & George Annas
Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights
February 18, 2015 from 12-1pm in Hiebert Lounge
BU Global Oncology Introductory Event- TONIGHT
The BU Global Oncology Chapter is officially launching its first introductory event, sponsored and supported by the Global Health Equity Program at the Boston University School of Medicine. Global oncology has recently emerged as a field, and as the BU chapter we would like to introduce this field and the GlobalOncology organization (globalonc.org) to the BU community.
Our feature speaker of the night is Dr. Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, current Director of the Global Health Initiative in Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who will be discussing his work on the development of pediatric oncology programs in South America. We would love for you to come share your work and talk to students and faculty interested in this new global health venture.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
5:30PM – 6:30PM
Boston University School of Medicine
L-Building – Room L-210
Dinner will be provided
Graduating in May?? Here is some information that you need to know!
Planning to graduate in May?
Fill out an online graduation application NOW for May graduation if you plan to complete all academic requirements for May 2015.
Planning to graduate in September but want to walk at graduation?
Fill out a walking form NOW if you plan to finish all academic requirements over the summer and would like to attend the graduation ceremony in May. Walking forms are available from Chris Paal (cpaal@bu.edu).
In June, fill out an online graduation application for September.
Planning to graduate in September but DO NOT want to walk at graduation?
In June, fill out an online graduation application for September.
Get Your Tickets for BUMC’s Production of The Vagina Monologues
Join us for BUMC’s Seventh Annual Production of Eve Ensler’s
The Vagina Monologues
Friday, February 20 and Saturday, February 21 at 8 p.m. in Keefer Auditorium
$10 student tickets in advance; $12 at door
$15 general admission
All proceeds will be donated to My Life, My Choice and BMC’s Domestic Violence Prevention Program.
You can purchase tickets online or from Chase Crossno in Talbot 206C.
GIJS VAN SEVENTER ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES: Modern Food Systems, the Environment and Human Health
Why Food Is Not Enough: Environmental Enteropathy, Mycotoxins, the Gut Microbiome, and Malnutrition
Speaker: Jeffrey K. Griffiths MD MPH&TM
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Director of Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Laboratory- Africa
February 27, 2015
12:45 – 1:45 PM
BUSM Room L112
Summary:
Stunting, wasting, and conditions such as anemia remain powerful brakes on human potential. Historically, the global response to under-nutrition has the improvement of caloric, vitamin, and micronutrient intake. While the provision of an adequate and diverse diet is still a critical element to eliminating malnutrition, we now understand that environmentally-mediated conditions - poor water and sanitation, mycotoxin contamination of foods, and harmful gut microbiomes - limit the capacity of food-based approaches to "solve" undernutrition. This talk will contextualize these conditions - what is known, what is not - and how they interact with disease such as malaria. Attendees will leave with an appreciation of how conditions such as enteric enteropathy (also called acquired environmental enteric dysfunction); dysfunctional perturbations of the gut microbiome; and aflatoxin (a mycotoxin) exposure affect human nutrition and health. They will also have greater insight into the major evidence gaps, research needs, and policy opportunities that exist.
Jeffrey K. Griffiths MD MPH&TM has worked at the intersection of health and nutrition for 30 years. Current projects are based in Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Malawi. He has also worked in Haiti, Bangladesh, and Ecuador. He is a Professor of Public Health and of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and holds adjunct appointments at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the School of Engineering, and in Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. By training he is a pediatrician, internist, and infectious diseases physician with expertise in infectious diseases and the influence of the environment on health. For many years Dr. Griffiths has been involved in US water policy and has thrice testified before the US Senate. He is the immediate past Chair of the Drinking Water Committee of the US EPA’s Science Advisory Board, and was a founding member of the interdisciplinary Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program at Tufts University.
BUSPH Annual Career Fair, February 26th from 2-6pm
The BUSPH Annual Career Fair will be held this year on Feb. 26th from 2-6 PM in the Hiebert Lounge. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet employers from a wide range of public health organizations showcasing various practicum and regular positions.
RSVP today: Log into CareerLink, then go to events --> information sessions--> select Career Fair, click "RSVP"
Please dress professionally for the event, and bring copies of your résumé.
2nd Annual Fletcher School Africana Conference: Africa on the Global Stage
We believe that context matters.
The Fletcher Africana Conference is an annual gathering of students, professionals, policymakers and academia at The Fletcher School, Tufts University in Boston (USA). It is organized by the Fletcher Africana Club, a group of graduate students with keen interest and work experience in the African continent.
We aim to provide a forum that creates contextual understanding of African issues through debate and discussion.
This is possible only if we examine questions of socioeconomic and political significance through the multiple lenses of development, business, politics, security, and science and technology. Therefore, the Africana Club strives to engage thought leaders from different sections of society and bring them together in ways that create an understanding of the various forces at play.
In March 2014, we organized the inaugural conference called Africa Beyond the Headlines, which focused on intertwining issues in security and development on the continent. In October 2012, The Fletcher School held a conference called Africa’s Turn that strove to make sense of the gap between the promise and on-ground realities of Africa’s economic potential.
This academic year, we have hosted a series of events on health, human security, economic development and inclusive growth in Africa: Ebola: Mutations, Markets and the Military; Inclusive Growth: Ensuring Prosperity Reaches Africa’s Bottom of the Pyramid; and Entrepreneurship and Business in Emerging Markets: The Obusai, Ghana Gold Mine. Additionally, The Fletcher School has a strong interest in African affairs, as exemplified through events this year such as Transforming Smallholder Farming in Africa; View From the Ground: International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice and Survivor Advocacy in Rwanda; The Golden Hour: Africa’s Rise and the Challenge of American Diplomacy; and a panel discussion on private sector internships in sub-Saharan Africa.
We invite you to join us.
The 2nd Fletcher Africana Conference will focus on reconciling the dichotomies that exist in 21st century Africa: technological innovation alongside forces of friction like infrastructural and regulatory gaps; economic growth alongside unemployment and lack of inclusive growth; improvements in health and well-being indicators alongside health crises and increased human insecurity; increased foreign direct investment alongside unclear risk management strategies.
For more information please contact florence.young_aragbaiye@tufts.edu or manisha.basnet@tufts.edu
Interested in issues and topics relating to Mental Health and Public Health? Join CHS for an informal conversation hour Wednesday Feb 4 at 5 pm
Interested in issues and topics relating to Mental Health and Public Health? Join us for an informal conversation hour Wednesday Feb 4 at 5 pm in CT-446. Possible topics include current faculty research related to mental health, info sharing on community sites and organizations that may provide practicum and/or job opportunities, and brainstorming ways we can make our group helpful and interesting to students and faculty.
If you can make it, send an email to Kelly Royce karoyce@bu.edu and Dr. Carol Dolan cdolan@bu.edu to let us know of your interest.
