Category: GH Announcements
Fall 2015 Course Preview Video is now available!
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Screening and Discussion of the first installment of A Path Appears
Tomorrow from 1-3PM in CT 460A, Jen and I are going to screen the first installment of A Path Appears followed by an informal discussion.
Here is the film description:
A Path Appears, from the creative team behind the series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and a group of dedicated actor/advocates to Colombia, Haiti, Kenya, and throughout the United States. They uncover the harshest forms of gender inequality, the devastating impact of poverty and the ripple effects that follow: including sex trafficking, teen-pregnancy, gender-based violence, child slavery and the effective solutions being forged to combat them.
Do you want tickets to a film screening of Positively Beautiful? Let us know by March 4th!
This Friday, March 6th the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) is honoring Women’s Health Day with a film screening of Positively Beautiful. The film tells a compelling story of five individuals living with HIV, in South Africa. The filmmaker, Diveena Cooppan got her MPH at BU!
The department would like to buy tickets for GH students to attend this event. If you’d like to go to the film screening this Friday, please email Carey Howard by Wednesday, 3/4 at 12:00pm.
Below is some additional information about the film, and a link to the Eventbrite page, where you can learn more about the event, panelists, and UNA-GB.
In South Africa five strangers facing shame and potential death from AIDS form an unlikely friendship. It transforms them from ordinary citizens to extraordinary activists. They struggle against stigma and fear; suicide and isolation. At the height of the epidemic they form a network for people living with HIV. As friends and family die, and leaders deny the existence of HIV, they fight harder. Fifteen years later, against all odds, they are still alive. Their friendship becomes a remarkable story: a quiet victory of meaningful, beautiful lives in an evolving South Africa. It gives strength in their struggles: of having children, fighting cancer, and being lesbian in South Africa. Positively Beautiful is a story about life and love in the age of HIV.
Global Health Professor Richard Laing quoted in The Guardian in an article about a proposal to restrict global access to ketamine
Richard Laing, professor of international health at Boston University’s school of public health in the US, described what is happening as a “David and Goliath struggle between people interested in access to an essential medicine for women and victims of trauma in poor countries and the drug control establishment in rich countries”.
Read the full article here.
Current MPH student Abhishek Sharma’s paper “Implications of private sector Hib vaccine coverage for the introduction of public sector Hib-containing pentavalent vaccine in India: evidence from retrospective time series data” published in BMJ Open
Congratulations to our current MPH student Abhishek Sharma and Global Health faculty member Warren Kaplan! Read their published article here: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/2/e007038.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=307rikjoffHVsJK
INSP Information Walk-In Hour
Due to the recent weather we had to cancel an INSP information session scheduled on February 2nd. If you are interested in learning more about the Summer Exchange Practicum in Mexico - through INSP, Veronika Wirtz will be holding a walk-in information hour on Friday, 2/13 from 11:30-12:30pm. Her office is located on the 3rd floor of 801 Mass Ave in room CT363.
