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Title: Research Assistant Reports to: Director of Clinical Services – Zanmi Lasante Location: St. Marc, Haiti Organizational Profile: Partners In Health (“PIH”), co-founded by Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl and headquartered in Boston, MA, is an internationally recognized non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. More
THE JULIS S. PHELPS ANNUAL LECTURE IN ART AND THE HUMANITIES Shooting, Editing, and Reading a Documentary Film Frederick Wiseman Independent Documentary Filmmaker (Zipporah Films) Thursday, December 1, 2011 | 4 pm Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts Frederick Wiseman will discuss—and illustrate with sequences from his films—his... More
Support for International Change was founded in 2002 with the dual mission to limit the impact of HIV/AIDS in underserved communities in Tanzania and to train future leaders in global health and development. SIC works in the most rural, hard to reach communities, where poor... More
Date: November 12th, 2011 Time: 8:00am-4:30pm Place: BU Medical Instruction Building, Hiebert Lounge (14th floor) Seminar Topics: •Global health nursing, education, research, increasing nursing visibility, work in resource constrained settings •Keynote Speaker: Manzi Anatole, Rwandan nurse working with Partners in Health. Please register for the event by November 5, 2011 here: http://globalnursingcaucus.eventbrite.com BUSPH nurses and students encouraged... More
Boston University Student Occupational Therapy Association (BUSOTA) would like to invite the faculty and students to a fundraising event. On Wednesday November 9th, 2011 Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a disability rights activist from Ghana, is speaking about his experiences growing up in Western Africa with a... More
You are cordially invited to a campus-wide film screening! The film Miss Representation explores how the media’s misrepresentation of women has led to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence. In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, More
Global Health Fellows Program II Technical Advisor I: Community-based Family Planning Technical Advisor Service Delivery Improvement Division, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development Assignment: Two year fellowship Location: Washington, DC GHFPII-P1-008 The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP-II) is a five year cooperative agreement... More
Do you speak (or understand) Tamil? The Center for Global Health and Development at BU is looking for a student to listen to & transcribe Tamil interviews into English. The work would take approximately 9-15 hours. If interested, or for more information, please contact Priya Kumar at pkumar@bu.edu
Management Sciences for Health is now accepting applications for the position of Operations Officer (Job ID is 12-4410 for the Arlington, VA location, and 12-4411 for the Cambridge, MA location). There are 3 job openings. Job Overview The Operations Officer manages operational support to their assigned country Operations Support Team(s)... More
The Department of International Health has approved an additional course outside the Department that can be counted for IH credit in the spring of 2012. This is GMS MA 622--Religion and Health---taught on the Medical Campus by Lance Laird, Th.D. Religion and spiritual belief are important... More
When & where: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 5-6 PM CT-305 About the program: Catholic Relief Services' International Development Fellows Program (IDFP) gives people who are interested in a career in international relief and development an opportunity to increase their overseas experience and gain exposure to our programs. Each year, CRS places ... More
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be hosting a free recruitment information session Wednesday, November 30th from 6:30pm-8:00pm at the Boston Public Library at 700 Boylston Street. At this information session, guests will have the opportunity to learn about the organization and see if working with MSF is something... More
Job Description The Grounds for Health Program Internship is a fulltime, unpaid position that will be located at one of our program sites in Nicaragua or Tanzania. (For Spring 2012, Nicaragua is more likely.) As part of the Grounds for Health team, the intern provides support for all aspects of... More
Job summary The Research Coordinator will support the F.I. Proctor Foundation's Principal Investigator's research activities in the field of ocular inflammatory disease, which includes epidemiology, observations studies, and clinical trials that involve domestic and international collaboration; responsibilities include study design and implementation, data management and analysis, grant writing and publications, communication... More
The Global Health Fellows Program in Geneva, Switzerland is now accepting applications for its summer 2012 cohort. Overview In the summer of 2012, Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy will bring the eighth cohort of Global Health Fellows to Geneva. Designed to equip graduate students to join in the fight against... More
