Category: Fellowships
Genocide in Bosnia: Sarajevo in the 1990’s Film Screening (4/23)
Genocide in Bosnia: Sarajevo in the 1990s
Film Screening and Panel on War, Health, & Human Rights
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Room R-103 (BU Instructional Building)
4:00 – 5:50 pm
Harun Mehmedinovic, Bosnian born filmmaker, photographer, and founder of the “Bloodhoney Project,” will tell his story of living in war-torn Sarajevo during the genocide in Bosnia in the early 1990s.
Dr. Michael Grodin, renowned medical ethicist, professor in the Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights Dept. at BUSPH, and co-founder of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, will discuss his experiences caring for refugees, asylum, and survivors of torture and their families.
Click here to RSVP.
Sponsored by the Health and Human Rights Caucus and the Dept. of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights
Learn Spanish and complete your practicum in Ecuador
BUSPH has a working relationship with the Montanita Spanish School in Ecuador. “The school was named one of the top five language schools in the world by the STAR Awards for the excellent performance by its professors, the beautiful location of the school on the beach in Montanita.” Students can go there to learn or re-learn Spanish while being involved in a service project that could fulfill your practicum requirement.
BUSPH is in the process of developing the practicum experiences, but are looking for a small number of students who may be interested in spending some time in South America. If you would like to learn more about the school and a practicum opportunity there please contact Scott Harris, Practicum Director at scotth@bu.edu or 617.638.4656, or visit the Digication site to learn more:
https://bu.digication.com/GoIH/Montanita_Spanish_School
Ways the BUSPH community can help
Dear students,
In the wake of Monday’s senseless tragedy, we are all struggling with how to help our Boston community begin healing. Though it will be a long road and there are many heroes to acknowledge, as a start BUSPH would like to deliver gift baskets and thank you cards to the local area emergency room teams who undoubtedly minimized the lives lost on Monday.
How can you contribute? Stop by Crosstown, Room 386 on Monday, April 22, between 10am and 6pm. Please bring something for the gift baskets – baked goods, flowers, fruit, or other goodies. Be creative! If you can’t bring something, show your love, thanks and support by signing cards and decorating baskets throughout the day. We will have sign up sheets if you’re willing to deliver baskets on Tuesday morning.
Six area emergency rooms accepted patients. Depending on the response and your contributions on Monday, we hope BUSPH can thank each and every one of them. We will start right here at home with the BMC adult and pediatric ERs and with Boston EMS.
Who: BUSPH Students, Staff, and Faculty
What: Basket Making Party to Thank our Emergency Room Teams
When: Monday, April 22 from 10am to 6pm
Where: Crosstown, Room 386
Please consider joining us.
BUSPH & BU Resources post the Boston Marathon tragedy
Counseling is available through the SPH Office of Student Services, (617) 638-5059, Talbot 208/209 Center, Dean of Students Office (CRC), from Marsh Chapel chaplains, at Student Health Services, and at the Sexual Assault Response & Prevention Center (SARP).
Chaplains can be reached at 617-353-3560. SHS counselors can be reached at 617-353-3575. SARP can be reached at 617-353-7277.
An SHS Behavioral Medicine provider can be reached at 617-353-3569.
CANCELLED CGHD Forum: The U.S. Presidential Election Results and Global Health Programming with guest Amanda Glassman
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
Fall 2013 courses for the GMS Masters Program in Medical Anthropology & Cross-Cultural Practice open to SPH students
The following courses will be offered in the Fall 2013 semester, through the MA Program in Medical Anthropology, in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at BUSM. For any SPH student interested in cross-registering for one of these courses, please remember that although none of these courses is yet pre-approved for MPH credit:
- Full-time MPH students are welcome to enroll in anything they desire at BU, so long as they are registered for 12 credits or more of approved MPH courses in the same semester.
- Part-time students, however, pay out of pocket if they remain registered for a class that is not specifically pre-approved for transfer credit for their degree program. For example, if MA 640 were not approved for MPH credit and a part time MPH student signed up for the class, he or she would have to pay for it out of pocket – financial aid could not be applied
- Students must earn a B or better in a course, in order to be able to transfer credits of approved, non-SPH classes.
- Students must complete at least 40 credits of SPH numbered courses for their SPH degree; a maximum of 8 credits on non-SPH, approved graduate credits may be applied to the MPH degree.
Individual MPH students interested in any of these classes will have to go through the transfer credit process before registering. The form and policy are at http://sph.bu.edu/registrar/forms. For further questions, contact the Registrar, Chris Paal (cpaal@bu.edu).
GMS MA 700 - History and Theory of Medical Anthropology (Part I; Part II is offered in the Spring) This course introduces the history of the field of medical anthropology and of theoretical orientations related to understanding and analyzing health and medicine in society and culture. Readings will exemplify interpretive strategies applied to health-related experiences, discourse, knowledge, and practice. Laird (llaird@bu.edu). 3 cr (Students who need a fourth credit should contact the instructor about adding a single directed study credit.), Fall sem. M 9:30-12:20 (Medical Campus)
GMS MA 710 - Medical Anthropology and Qualitative Research Methods and Design Introduction to methodology for ethnographic field research in medical anthropology, and qualitative research methods. This course examines issues in designing anthropological research, and reviews theoretical approaches to research ethics, designing research, framing questions and questionnaire design, and data collection techniques. Weiner (deweiner@bu.edu). 3 cr (Students who need a fourth credit should contact the instructor about adding a single directed study credit.), Fall sem. W 9:30-12:20 (Medical Campus)
GMS MA 620 - World Religions and Healing This course examines interdisciplinary approaches to the study of world religions and healing. Introduces healing worldviews, strategies, and practices integral to Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, African, African-descended, Latin American, Chinese, Native American traditions, and to some of the outcomes of their interactions, in relation to the experience of affliction and suffering. Draws on source materials from history, religious studies, and medical anthropology. Focus is on these traditions in the United States. 4 cr. Barnes (lbarnes@bu.edu). M 3:00-5:50 (Charles River Campus)
GMS MA 640 - The Cultural Formation of the Clinician: Its Implications for Practice This course will provide a context for exploring and reflecting on one's own cultural formation in relation to such topics as gender, sexual orientation, race, class, religion, body size, and other areas where there are the greatest risks for health disparities through unexamined bias. The course examines the values one brings into one's practice as a care provider, and how the interaction of both influence one's personal and professional life, including responses to diverse patient cultures. Barnes (lbarnes@bu.edu). 3 cr (Students who need a fourth credit should contact the instructor about adding a single directed study credit.), Fall sem. W 5:00-8:00 pm
GMS MA 680 - Culture, Migration, and Mental Health Prereq: consent of instructor. This medical anthropology course explores different ways in which mental health and illness are constructed by and for those who migrate across national, cultural, and other borders. We will examine the historical development of the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and social work in the context of Western societies, in parallel with the anthropological study of ritual, violence, ecstatic and possession experiences in non-Western societies. We then explore debates in cross- cultural mental health care that bring these historical disciplines into dialogue, particularly in the context of programs for the treatment of refugee and immigrant mental health. The intersection of political, economic, religious, and gender issues in the construction of mental health will also be considered. Laird (llaird@bu.edu). 3 cr. (Students needing a 4th credit should speak with the instructor about adding a single-credit directed study), Fall sem. Thurs 3:30-6:30 pm.
If students have questions about the classes themselves, they can contact any of the instructors:
- Dr. Linda Barnes (lbarnes@bu.edu)
- Dr. Lance Laird (llaird@bu.edu)
- Dr. Diane Weiner (deweiner@bu.edu)
Giving Hope to Zimbabwean Affected by HIV/AIDS
Saturday, April 13th 7-10PM at Lir! See more details here: CfC flyer
IH Concentrator’s Meeting: The Culminating Experience (4/18)
Want to learn everything there is to know about the Culminating Experience?
Thursday, April 18th from 5 to 6pm in CT462A
Join Professors Rich Feeley and Jen Beard, as well as students who have completed each of the three CE options. They will be discussing the ins and outs of setting up your Culminating Experience, as well as advice and tips from recent firsthand experience!
Food provided!
Summer 2013 Public Health Social Work (PHSW) Fellowship
Summer 2013 Public Health Social Work (PHSW) Fellowship
The PHSW Fellowship is a newly established program for continuing MSW/MPH students at Boston University. The fellowship provides a small group of continuing MSW/MPH students with the opportunity to join together in an intensive working group during the summer, focused on a topic of mutual interest and importance to the field of public health social work. The fellowship includes opportunities for critical conversations, research, and scholarly writing, with an emphasis on establishing the trans-disciplinary practice of public health social work in a critical area.
Each year, the Fellowship program establishes a theme, chosen for its timeliness and potential to provide direction in an important area of study. The summer 2013 topic is Public Health Social Work in Global Health (PHSW in GH). Because of this year’s theme, participation is limited to those who are concentrating in International Health.
A group of three MSW/MPH summer fellows will be selected. Working as a group, they will study these points of connection between PHSW and GH. The goal is to create a scholarly understanding of the current roles, opportunities and challenges of public health social work participation in this important and growing area of global health.
The work of the fellows will include, but is not limited to:
- Systematic review of literature on SW’s role in GH;
- Interviews with key informants across PH and SW
- Facilitation of focus groups of MSW/MPH alumni who concentrated in International Health and/or current students]
- Production of a report which will include summary recommendations, resources for interested students and alumni, and the draft of a research abstract to be submitted to APHA for the 2014 conference in New Orleans. (Note, the research analysis may take longer than summer, and the fellows will be encouraged to stay involved.)
Where possible, MSW/MPH Fellows are encouraged to connect their work on the fellowship to their work in the International Health concentration and the MPH practicum.
All fellows will receive a $2,500 stipend, weekly support for their work from the Director of the MSW/MPH program and other relevant faculty members, a free membership to APHA and registration to the APHA Annual Meeting which will be in Boston in November, 2013. Fellows are expected to meet weekly with their colleagues and the Director, and to dedicate approximately 15 hours a week, over ten weeks, to the fellowship beginning on May 20 through Aug 26, 2013.
Eligibility and application: Applicants MUST be a continuing student in the MSW/MPH program and concentrating in International Health. Students interested in the 2013 Fellowship should submit their resumes and a one page statement of interest in the topic area. Please mention current and previous research interests, relevant experience, (including ability to work productively in working groups and research teams) and summer availability. Applications are due not later than Friday April 19th by midnight. Announcements of the three fellows will be made the following week. Applications should be emailed to Betty J. Ruth, at bjruth@bu.edu
Infectious and Non-Communicable Disease Emphasis Area Journal Club Event: Resurgence of pertussis in the US, a public health failure?
Join Dr. Chris Gill on April 22nd from 12 to 1pm in CT305 to discuss two brief journal articles about the Pertussis vaccination. All students welcome to join, and INCD Emphasis Area students are encouraged to attend. Pizza will be provided!
Articles: nejmc pertussis 1 and nejmcPertussis 2
Please RSVP to emorin@bu.edu if you plan on attending.
