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BUSM's Global Health Equity Program Speaker Series invites you to: Health Financing for a Human Rights Approach by Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Chief Medical Officer for Partners In Health Wednesday, Jan 30th 12-1:30PM Room L210 (72 East Concord, BUSM Instructional Building) Dr. Joia Mukherjee is Associate Professor with Harvard Medical School and the Division of Global Health Equity at the... More
Come check out the Rotaract club, both new and old members welcome. There will be some great service opportunities available. Email keshaw@bu.edu with questions!
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL FILLED. Please find application attached or visit http://www.hst.org.za/content/postdoctoral-research-fellowship The Women’s Health Research Unit (WHRU) in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellowship, for a period of one year starting in 2013 with the possibility of... More
There are open internship opportunities at the Association for India’s Development (AID), a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable, equitable and just development at grass-root level projects in India. At AID, we initiate efforts in various interconnected spheres such as education, livelihoods, natural resources including land, water and energy, agriculture, health, women's... More
Are you interested in networking with professionals, academics, fellow students, and companies in global health, development, and/or engineering and learning from the perspectives of public health, business, engineering, medicine, development, policy, and more? Be an organizer for the Global Health & Engineering Meetup Group (http://blogs.bu.edu/ghecho/)! We are now recruiting officers to help organize monthly Meetups for... More
IH Concentrators, The Global Health Corps is an amazing professional opportunity in in international health. Learn more about GHC here: http://ghcorps.org/ and how to apply here: http://ghcorps.org/connect/apply/. Applications are due February 3rd! Below is a testimonial from a recent BUSPH Alum: "As you’re aware, I’m currently serving as a GHC fellow in Uganda on... More
Thursday, January 24th, 12:30pm – 1:30pm in CT462A An opportunity to meet with Drs. Okello & Kiringe, two of the incredible faculty for the School for Field Studies, that help to orchestrate our Kenya Field Practicum Program. All alumni of the program and all interested students are highly recommended to attend!
IH777: The International Health Culminating Experience is a 2-credit course held Fridays from 10am-12pm. This course is only open to IH students working on their culminating experiences. If interested, fill out an Add/Drop Form from the Registrar's Office!
Learn more about it here: Practicum Opportunity with CGHD in Addis Ababa_2013
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2013 Presented by Unite For Sight, 10th Annual Conference Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Saturday, April 13 - Sunday, April 14, 2013 http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference "A Meeting of Minds"--CNN The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes more... More
Click here for more details: Hurricane Sandy Project Intern
Mathematica Policy Research (MPR), a social policy and research firm headquartered in Princeton, NJ is looking for graduate students to apply for Health and Human Services Policy Analyst position openings in their office locations (Princeton, NJ; Washington, DC; Cambridge, MA; Ann Arbor, MI; Oakland, CA). Attached is the job notice for the... More
The NEWAID Foundation is currently offering grants to MPH students, students in public health related masters programs, and recent public health graduates for infectious disease research in developing countries. Our foundation provides stipends for fellows to conduct neglected infectious diseases research in developing countries. These diseases include, but are not... More
The International Diabetes Federation is looking for a Junior Professional Officer in Public Health. The candidate should be a recent graduate from a Master's programme with permission to work in the EU. Full details are available here: http://www.idf.org/junior-professional-officer-public-health
