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Summer Internship - 2017 Mothers Home Access Zambia (MAHMAZ) Scope of Work – Monitoring and Evaluation Interns Project Title: M&E Internship Preceptors: Nancy Scott, MPH, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Global Health nscott@bu.edu Coordinator: Parker S. Chastain, MPH, Project Administrator Center for Global Health and Development psc347@bu.edu Supervisors: Thandiwe Ngoma, MAHMAZ M&E Manager thandiwe.ngoma@zcahrd.org Jeanette Kaiser, MAHMAZ Research Fellow and M&E Coordinator jlkaiser@bu.edu Project Dates: Approximately 8 weeks... More
Summer Internship - 2017 Mothers Home Access Zambia (MAHMAZ) Scope of Work – Project Management Project Title: Project Management Internship Preceptors: Nancy Scott, MPH, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Global Health nscott@bu.edu Coordinator: Parker S. Chastain, MPH, Project Administrator Center for Global Health and Development psc347@bu.edu Project Dates: Approximately May 29th, 2017 – August 7, 2017 (~10 weeks) Dates are variable with travel... More
The Research Program on Children and Global Adversity (RPCGA) at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health is currently looking for a Research Assistant Led by Dr. Theresa Betancourt, the RPCGA focuses on understanding trajectories of risk and resilience in children facing multiple forms of adversity, including poverty, conflict, and... More
The schedule has just been announced for the Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 22-23, 2017! With more than 2,000 participants, the Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s largest and leading global health and social entrepreneurship conference. Interested in presenting? Two types of presentations are currently being accepted. ... More
The Houston Global Health Collaborative (HGHC) SUSTAIN Conference 2017 in collaboration with Rice Business and Texas Children’s Global Health will be held Thursday, March 23rd to Saturday, March 25th at Rice Business Jones Graduate School of Business. The mission of HGHC is to involve, connect, and unite individuals, groups, and... More
Digital Health Program Manager: Consultant for Faster to Zero Project (Uganda) February 15, 2017 Page 1 of 3 Scope of Work: Digital Health Program Manager Consultant The Faster to Zero initiative aims to support Ministries of Health and partners in the scale-up of digital health tools to support the Elimination of Mother... More
Peace Corps Volunteers have been going overseas for 55 years. What was it like to serve in a far-away land before internet blogs and video calls? Come hear from two BU SPH Faculty, Dr. Lisa Messersmith & Dr. Bob Horsburgh, share about their Peace Corps Service back in the day! In... More
Thursday, February 16, 2017 12 - 2 PM Pardee School of Global Studies 152 Bay State Road RSVP by email to edamrien@bu.edu Join us for a lunch discussion with Raquel Vega-Durán, Associate Professor of Spanish at Claremont McKenna College. Vega-Durán will be discussing the recently published Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity... More
YIELD Project Scope of Work: Project Assistant Background Since the International Conference on Population and Development in 2004 there has been a global proliferation of efforts to engage young people around the sexual and reproductive health programs and services aimed to serve them. While the prevailing wisdom supports that such efforts are both... More
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Boston Global Surgery Symposium! There are only 200 spots, so be sure to register as quickly as you can. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Business casual attire. In order to register, you will need to go to globalsurgerystudents.org/registration. You will... More
EqualHealth would like to invite you to apply for the fifth annual Social Medicine Course, “Beyond the Biological Basics of Disease: The Social and Economic Causation of Illness” in Haiti. This annual three-week course, which will be held from July 9- 29, 2017 in Haiti’s Central Plateau, is designed for health professional students of all... More
This event is organized by African Renaissance Ambassador Corp, Dana Faber, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's hospitals. Speakers from allover Africa and the US (e.g. WHO and SEED) come to talk about their research and projects. The conference is open for anyone whose interested in global health, non-communicable... More
Global Health Fellows Program II Pharmacy Intern Supply Chain for Health Division, Office of HIV/AIDS, Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development Anticipated timeframe: April 2017 - July 2017: Compensated 3 month internship Location: Washington, DC/Arlington, VA INT-P6-009 The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP-II) is a five year cooperative... More
Application deadline: Monday, March 13, 2017 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the broad research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center... More
IDinsight Locations: Lusaka, Zambia Nairobi, Kenya Vijayawada AP, India Delhi, India We seek leaders who are passionate about making a difference, possess exceptional analytical skills, and thrive in an entrepreneurial, developing country setting. The ideal intern would be interested in joining IDinsight in a full-time role in the future and would take advantage of the internship... More
