GH Events

Mental Health – Public Health Connections meeting 10/12

To celebrate: World Mental Health Day coming on Monday, October 10th, join us for the first Mental Health – Public Health Connections campus interest group meeting Wednesday October 12th from 5-5:50pm in L109A. Earlier this year The World Bank and the WHO held a two-day series of events focused on Making Mental Health a Global Development Priority […]

Founder of Global Burden of Disease approach, Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil coming to BU! 10/26

17th Annual Dudley Allen Sargent Distinguished Lecture Presented by Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil Professor of Global Health, University of Washington Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Wednesday, October 26, 4:00-5:00 p.m. BU Sargent College, Room 101 635 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Massachusetts A physician and health economist, Dr. Christopher Murray’s work has led […]

Breaking through limitations: Women’s Self-Help Institutions in India as vehicles for health & social transformation

Come join us and hear from visiting guest lecturers from India who have worked closely with Research Scientist Jenny Ruducha from the Department of Global Health. Previous students have had practicum experiences with Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana (RGMVP) in Uttar Pradesh, India. RGMVP is currently scaling up women’s Self Help Groups and behavior change and […]

“Resilience in Child Survivors of Mass Trauma: the Case of Liberia”

Boston University School of Medicine – BMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds L110 – October 6th 12pm-1pm Dr. Elizabeth Levey is a Global Clinical Research Fellow in the Division’s T32 Fellowship. She is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist involved in both global mental health research and clinical work. Dr. Levey received her MD from the University of Chicago and […]

“Humanitarian Response: the good, the bad, and the ugly” 10/5

Wednesday October 5, 2016 9:30-10:30am Yawkey Basement Conference Room Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy, MD, MPH is the Deputy Director of Global Disaster Response at the MGH Center for Global Health. She will be giving Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds entitled “Humanitarian Response: the good, the bad, and the ugly” Though this event is the Medical School Grand […]

Global Environmental Health Speaker Series – Every Friday from 12:45-1:45pm

Globally, many low and middle income countries (LMICs) are confronted with disproportionate exposures to a variety of pollutants. Currently, these include contaminated drinking water, indoor air pollution, ambient air pollution, heavy metals, pesticides, and electronic and other hazardous wastes.  In many cases, these chemical pollutants have replaced infectious disease agents as the greatest threats to […]

Global Oneness Engineering: Three Examples of Global Environmental Health Practice from Nepal and Ghana 9/23

THIS WEEK’S: Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar 12:45 pm-1:45pm Friday, September 23, 2016 L210 Speaker Susan Murcott D-Lab, MIT, will describe her engineering practice by defining “Global Oneness Engineering” and discussing the work in which she and her community partners and students engage. After conducting water quality tests and discovering arsenic in Nepal in […]