Category: GH Events
Twitter Chat on Global Mental Health with Jen Beard
STARTS:12:00 pm on Thursday, April 7, 2016
ENDS:1:00 pm on Thursday, April 7, 2016
LOCATION:On Twitter @BUSPH (#globalmentalhealth)
URL:http://www.twitter.com/busph
CONTACT NAME:Meaghan Agnew
CONTACT EMAIL:meaghans@bu.edu
Join Professors Jen Beard and Carol Dolan for a Twitter chat on mental health around the globe, including low-resource countries. Submit your questions via Twitter using the hashtag #globalmentalhealth.
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Discussion on “Cuba in the Global Health Landscape: Future Challenges”
THU, APRIL 7 | 1 - 2 PM
Crosstown Center
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Avenue
Fendall Room CT305
SPEAKERS:
FRANK FEELEY
Associate Proessor of Global Health at BU’s School of Public Health
EDWARD JONES LOPEZ
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston Medical Center and BU’s School of Medicine
ANA MARIA REYES
Assistant Professor of Latin American Art at BU’s College of Arts & Sciences
MODERATOR: ADELA PINEDA
Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of BU’s Latin American Studies Program
World Health Day 2016: Access to Insulin in the Spotlight Webinar
To commemorate 2016 World Health Day’s theme of diabetes, the ACCISS Study and The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology are co-hosting a Panel Discussion the puts the spotlight on a critical issue affecting the lives of an estimated 100 million people living with diabetes: Access to Insulin.
You are cordially invited to attend:
World Health Day 2016: Access to Insulin in the Spotlight
Thursday, 7 April 2016, 1500 – 1700 Geneva Press Club, Geneva
Reception to immediately follow the event
The ACCISS Study will launch five profiles and fact sheets with new research on critical issues affecting access to insulin. The panel, together with the in-person and online audience will take part in an active discussion on the profile findings and more. To read more about this event, please see attached.
Panel members include:
David Beran, University of Geneva, Co-investigator of the ACCISS Study
Krystal Boyea, Ambassador & Spokesperson for Diabetes, IDF Youth Leader, Barbados
Katie Dean, Executive Director, NCD Alliance
Ruth Dreifus, Former President of Switzerland
Hans Hogerzeil, Professor in Global Health at the University of Groningen,former WHO Director for Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies
Dr. Kaushik Ramaiya , Consultant Physician and Chief Executive Officer at Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, Tanzania
Moderator: Justine Davies, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
To RSVP to participate in the webinar, click here.
BUMC Provost Research Seminar: Zika Virus *Presentations by David Hamer and Don Thea
BUMC Provost Research Seminar: Zika Virus
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Tuesday, March 22, 3-5 p.m., Hiebert Lounge
Open to faculty, students and staff
Welcome
Karen H. Antman, MD
BUSM Dean and BUMC Provost
Ronald B. Corley, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, BUSM
Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
Basic Virology
Rachel Fearns, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology, BUSM
“Zika Virus Biology: Genetic and Phenotypic Differences Between Old World and New World Zika Virus Strains”
What We Know Clinically
Robin Ingalls, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine and Microbiology, BUSM
Topic: TBD
Athanasios I. Zavras, DDS, DMD, DScM
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, GSDM
“Zika Virus Related Concerns in Dentistry (salivary transmission of the virus)”
Public Health Aspects
Davidson Hamer, MD
Professor, Global Health, BUSPH
Professor, Medicine, BUSM
“Travel-associated Zika Virus Infection: Preliminary GeoSentinel Network Results”
Donald M. Thea, MD, MSc
Professor, Department of Global Health, BUSPH
Director, Center for Global Health and Development, BUSPH
Director, MD/MPH Program
“Zika – Epidemiology, Transmission and Population Risk”
Presentations followed by panel discussion with additional experts.
Visualizing Data for Social Good: A Hands-on Workshop
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Health programs and decision makers are routinely swimming in data. While we often invest time in analyzing and understanding what the data says, less effort is made around understanding who our audience is, how they interact with information, and designing visualizations that communicate effectively..
Transforming raw data and analytic outputs into simple, impactful visuals helps you clearly communicate with policymakers, journalists, and decisionmakers who often have very limited time to review your documents. In this workshop, we’ll walk through a series of simple steps for identifying your visualization type and designing your visualization, learn from visualization examples from Amanda's work around the work, and practice designing clear, impactful graphs, charts ,and other visualizations.
MPH students who work with data, are expected to build presentations and reports, and who have limited experience in graphic design will find this workshop useful. A basic understanding of Microsoft Excel and a laptop are required for the hands-on part of the workshop.
*Note: this workshop will qualify as a required practicum workshop for those looking to fulfill that requirement. Attendance will betaken at the workshop.
Amanda Makulec, MPH
Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor—Visual Analytics
Amanda has six years of experience working in data visualization design, health analytics, and health communication. Her work has included both community and national level programs, with an emphasis on building staff capacity in using data to support decision making through data visualization and data use. Ms. Makulec has contributed to the visualization and design of numerous reports, dashboards, and communications materials to ensure results and ideas are communicated effectively for multiple donors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, GAVI, and the Global Fund, as well as supported developing communication approaches for projects working at the national and community levels.
As an advisor for JSI’s Center for Health Information, Monitoring & Evaluation, she provides technical assistance related to M&E and policy communication to projects as needed, manages M&E-related communications, and contributes to strategic development of new business. Ms. Makulec has supported monitoring, evaluation, and communication program activities in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe, and holds a BA in Zoology and Sociology from Miami University and an MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health.
You can contact Amanda via email (amanda_makulec@jsi.com) with any follow up questions after the session.
