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The Sea Change Program is hiring an Outreach Manager to grow their Untold Stories Project. This person could be located in either Oakland, CA or Brooklyn, NY. This job focuses heavily on recruitment, engagement, and marketing. To view the job description and application requirements, please visit http://seachangeprogram.org/about-us/jobs/.
The GHIC Innovation Prize is a $10,000 and a $2,000 cash prize that is awarded to the two best social impact pitches that are presented at the 2016 Global Health & Innovation Conference. All conference registrants -- both students and professionals, and both non-profit and for-profit organizations -- are eligible to apply... More
Join your peers for this month's GH Concentrator's Meeting, "Check-in with the Associate Chair," hosted by Professor Taryn Vian, with GH Department Chair, Rich Feeley. This meeting will give you a chance to share your experience about being a student in the Department and the MPH program. Food and refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP... More
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Background of The Addis Clinic The Addis Clinic is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2011 by Dr. Stephen Chan, a Boston based physician who was traveling to Ethiopia several times per year alongside a team of physicians to provide medical care to the impoverished in Ethiopia. After numerous trips back... More
Dimple Mirchandani (SPH'15), current E3! Ambassador for the The White House Asian American and Pacific Islanders, in collaboration with Boston University School of Public Health Students for Quality Health Care (SQHC) is proud to present a panel discussion with global health and mental health professionals. The discussion will focus on mental health... More
Combatting Disease, Pursuing Cures: Infectious Diseases Research at BU November 11, 2015 | Questrom 426/428, 595 Commonwealth Avenue 4:00-6:00 pm Hosted by Ronald Corley, Professor and Chair, Microbiology, and Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) BU infectious disease experts are at the forefront of research of illnesses that are – or have the potential... More
SPH students are invited to the following event co-sponsored by the Office of Enrichment and Global Health Equity Program (GHEP) at BUSM. Big data is coming to global health. But who should decide who lives and dies: doctors on the front lines or a mathematical formula? Emmy-winning filmmaker Rob Tinworth will... More
Thursday, November 12, 5-6:00 p.m. Instructional Building, L-109 Are you interested in how fellow international students adapted to life in Boston? Would you like to hear how they: Adjusted to Boston culture? Survived Winter? Worked on Campus? Tailored the MPH for their career? Come meet and share with fellow international students! Seasoned International students Salma Abdalla, More
Jhpiego is excited to share with you its e-learning modules, developed under a partnership with UNFPA, Intel® and the World Health Organization! They are providing innovative training solutions and developing multimedia content for high-quality, globally endorsed e-learning modules that governments can use for health worker training. Module topics include: Family Planning for Frontline... More
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: The Data Manager is responsible for providing technical support to the Children Without Worms (CWW) program, an international non-governmental public health program of the Task Force for Global Health, created as a partnership between Johnson & Johnson. CWW is financially supported by Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and the Children’s... More
Wednesday, Nov. 11th from 5-5:50pm, L-Building Room 206 This workshop is being facilitated by Kristen Apa Kremer, MPH, MA. Kristen received her MPH from BUSPH in 2012 with a concentration in International Health. Kristen was selected for an Administrative Fellowship at BMC and currently serves as Manager of Patient Experience at Boston... More
CGHD, SPH, and the College of Communication (COM) have an ongoing partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in an effort to exchange knowledge and resources on global health and crisis reporting. Student applicants from SPH and COM are selected for a 6-8 week practicum during which they work... More
Opportunity ID: 03-Bor Project Title: The History of Therapeutic Population Health (Lit Review) Faculty Mentor: Jacob Bor Description Statement: Traditionally, prevention has been the domain of public health, therapeutics the ambit of clinical medicine. However, increasingly, therapeutics (clinical therapies and interventions) play an important role in the production of population health. Globally, this is... More
