Category: Fellowships
Space Available in the NEW Fall Course offering. Develop the skills necessary to assess and evaluate pharmaceutical policy and programs.
SPH IH 756 – Analytical Methods for Pharmaceutical Systems Assessment
This course offered on Tuesdays from 10:00am-1:00pm.
This course, taught by Professor Laing, aims to help students:
- Develop skills essential to assessing and evaluating pharmaceutical policy and the performance of pharmaceutical programs.
- Develop a pharmaceutical country profile.
- Analyze medicine prices and availability.
- Apply technical guidelines, and use other assessment tools and methods in the pharmaceutical sector.
- Develop skills to undertake a sampling exercise.
- Use qualitative methods.
- Review and write technical reports.
- Use instruments which are already developed with a focus on implementation issues, analysis of data collected and awareness of strength and limitation of each method applied.
The course will introduce students to the many resources which exist to help understand pharmaceutical sectors, and prepare them to work in a national or sub national pharmaceutical system.
Space is still available so register today!
The CDC is looking for a Behavioral Scientist. Deadline to apply is July 21.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking a Behavioral Scientist in their Department of Health and Human Services. The posting will close on Monday, July 21. If you are interested in learning more about the position and/or applying click here.
Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (EPN) Opportunities in 38 FBO’s in Africa & India
MPH students are invited to meet Mirfin Mpundu the executive director of the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network based in Nairobi. This network is made up of about 38 Faith Based Organizations (FBO) in Africa and India that provide health services often in remote rural areas. He will be coming to talk about the organization, about the potential for practicum placements of MPH students especially pharmaceutical track students with the EPN secretariat and with the member organizations in different African Countries.
In April, Richard Laing attended the EPN Forum that was held in Nairobi in April 2014. A series of videos were made with different heads of these organizations that are available at https://www.bu.edu/ghblast/gh-practicum/videos-ecumenical-pharmaceutical/. For an interview in which Mirfin talks about the EPN organization please go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05J1Yl2HyM
He will meet with students at 12 noon on Wednesday, 18th June in Room CT305, please RSVP here.
2014 USAID eInternships & Disaster Apps Competition!
2 great student opportunities!
1 - Apply to the 2014 USAID eInternship Program!
The Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) internship program is
managed by the State Department. Working from college and university
campuses in the US and throughout the world, eInterns (American
students working virtually) are partnered with US government agencies to work on various
projects. This past year, 511 students worked on 276 unique projects
with 63 domestic State and USAID offices and 57 posts overseas. View last
year's projects here - http://1.usa.gov/1qS3N2o.
VSFS will be accepting applications from students from July 2 - 22.
Apply here - http://www.state.gov/vsfs/
2 - National Defense University is hosting their first Disaster Apps
Competition! Details here - http://disasterapps.challengepost.com/
On 23 May, NDU will host a conference call to discuss their Disaster
Apps Challenge Competition, explain the basis for meeting the
Challenge, and answer your questions. Several entrepreneurs, such as
Nelson Jacobsen, CEO, Random Hacks of Kindness, will also be joining the call.
DETAILS:
When: Friday, May 23, 2014; 1:00 - 2:00 PM (Eastern Time); 10-11:00 AM
(Pacific Time) Conference Dial-In Number: 1-209-255-1000 Participant
Access Code: 966583#
Global Health Fellows Program II opportunities
Global Health Fellows Program II
Technical Advisor II: Health Systems Finance Advisor
USAID/Botswana
Location: Gaborone, Botswana
Assignment: Two Year Fellowship
GHFP-II-P3-114
Global Health Service Partnership Volunteers for 2015
| Seed Global Health and Peace Corps Now Accepting Applications for
Global Health Service Partnership Volunteers for 2015
Seed Global Health announces the opening today of the 2015 Global Health Service Partnership application cycle. Global Health Service Partnership, a joint initiative among Seed Global Health, the Peace Corps, and PEPFAR, will accept applications from physicians and nurses interested in serving as clinical educators in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda starting the summer of 2015. Participants serve one-year assignments as Peace Corps Response volunteers serving in medical and nursing schools working alongside local faculty to help expand the base of physician and nursing educators in countries that face critical shortages of health care providers.
GHSP volunteers will receive monthly living stipends, transportation to and from their country of service, and other benefits. In addition, to ensure that financial constraints do not prevent the most skilled applicants from service, Seed Global Health provides stipends of up to $30,000 (Seed Global Health Debt Repayment). To learn more about the qualifications for physician and nurse applicants, please click here: Physician Applicants & Nurse Applicants.
The application cycle will be open from May 19, 2014 to December 5, 2014. To find out more about applying to the Global Health Service Partnership, please click here.
Please share this announcement with your colleagues and networks.
Sincerely, Vanessa -- Vanessa Kerry, MD MSc CEO, Seed Global Health
About Seed Global Health: Seed Global Health is a non-profit whose mission is to strengthen health systems globally by partnering U.S. physicians and nurses with local educators. Seed Global Health believes educational partnerships can rapidly increase the pool of providers and educators in countries where they are most needed. Committed to recruiting the best-qualified candidates, including those who may have financial constraints to service, Seed Global Health raises and disburses loan repayment and other appropriate stipends of support to individuals chosen for assignments abroad. Visit www.seedglobalhealth.org for more information.
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Field Operations Fellow with The Lwala Community Alliance based in Kenya
Job description and how to apply: Field Operations Fellow with The Lwala Community Alliance
CANCELLED: “Women’s Self-Help Groups in India: Empowerment, not Charity” presentation May 15th
Women’s Self-Help Groups in India: Empowerment, not Charity scheduled for May 15th is cancelled.
Join us as we welcome a 2010 BUSPH graduate to get the inside scoop on a global health career after graduation
JOIN US TO HEAR THE ADVENTURES OF AN ALUM INSIDER!
CRISTIN MARONA BUSPH 2010
Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 1:45-2:45pm in Crosstown Room CT460A
Take this opportunity to learn the inside scoop of the fast track global public career from one of our recent star graduates, Cristin Marona. Cristin is the Global Technical Advisor at Futures Group International based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Cristin manages a global portfolio covering areas of behavior change communication, business development, and advocacy & capacity building on various health, economic and education focused programs. Her behavior change communication work ranges in technical areas, including maternal and child health, gender based violence, orphans and vulnerable children, and poverty reduction.
Cristin will be in Boston in May where she also serves as Co-Instructor with Professor James Wolff in IH744 Program Design for Global Health. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear her describe her truly remarkable post-MPH career. She will also share first hand real time career tips, her views on the most important skills to secure while at BUSPH, and fascinating, behind the scenes stories from the field.
For those of you determined to work in global health programs, Cristin’s advice and insights will prove invaluable.
To be sure there will be enough room and FOOD and DRINK for all, be sure and RSVP in SPH CareerLink!
Looking for a great 2-credit course in Summer I? Consider IH715! Spots are still open!
IH 715: Antiretroviral Program Management & Adherence Issues in Low Resource Settings with Professor Lora Sabin!
(Meets June 17th-26th, Tues/Wed/Thurs, from 2-5:30 pm, for 6 meetings.)
Are you interested in learning more about ART management in low-resource settings?
Some details about the course...
- 6 sessions combining lectures and group work, with each group focusing on a country and soup to nuts planning around retention in care, designing an adherence intervention, estimating cost of full ART scale up, and considering funding implications to do so."
- Guest lecture by an infectious disease MD that provides a close up view of how ART medications work in the body
- Visit to BUMC’s ART clinic to talk to counselors and pharmacists about real life adherence issues right in our neighborhood
Here are some student comments about this course from last summer:
“Great information that's very applicable and relevant”
“I really enjoyed this course and thought it was well paced for a summer course. I learned a lot in a short amount of time without being overly stressed. I thought the use of class time, half lecture and half group work, was very effective. I also liked how we were building the PowerPoint and our final presentation each day.”
“You don't need a lot of prior knowledge in ARV or HIV for this course, which I really liked.”
“Invaluable and essential as I want to work in addressing the global HIV pandemic.”
