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Location: BUSM Evans Building Keefer Auditorium Wednesday, March 18 1-2 p.m. BUSM Evans Building, Keefer Audditorium "What Matters Most in Public Health. Reflections on Priority Setting at the Intersection of the Social and Natural Sciences" Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH (view profile) Dean and Professor, Boston University School of Public Health Over the past several decades, population health science has... More
Due to inclement weather in the D.C. area, Dr. Padamsee’s talk for today has been cancelled. Possible rescheduling information will be forwarded as we receive it.
SB808 Merging Clinical & Population-based Perspective in Public Health Practice
Ed Bernstein 
Monday, Wednesday /2:00 – 5:00 PM
4 credits; no prerequisites
There is still time to register for the highly-rated summer I class SB 808 Merging Clinical & Population-based Perspectives in Public Health Practice. This course is taught by Professor Edward... More
Tomorrow from 1-3PM in CT 460A, Jen and I are going to screen the first installment of A Path Appears followed by an informal discussion. Here is the film description: A Path Appears, from the creative team behind the series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, follows Pulitzer Prize-winning... More
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Mil Milagros/A Thousand Miracles is a Boston-based non-profit organization that works in partnership with mothers, grandmothers and teachers in Guatemala to prevent child malnutrition and hunger and to ensure that children graduate from sixth grade healthy, literate and prepared to continue their education. The organization launched its pilot school-based nutrition... More
People can sign up by emailing phsenate@bu.edu! The Show is Friday, March 20th at 6pm.
This Friday, March 6th the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) is honoring Women’s Health Day with a film screening of Positively Beautiful. The film tells a compelling story of five individuals living with HIV, in South Africa. The filmmaker, Diveena Cooppan got her MPH at BU! The department would... More
I wanted to pass along a training opportunity announcement for individuals interested in working at CIDRZ in Zambia: http://www.cidrz.org/healthcorps-fellowship-2015-16/. CIDRZ offers opportunities in program implementation, laboratory sciences, implementation science (HIV program outcomes measurement, TB in prisons, diarrheal disease prevention, PMTCT, maternal health, etc), clinical trials (HVTN, AERAS, TB alliance, etc), More
Apply for positions at Mathematica Policy Research here: DC-RESEARCH-PROGRAMMER-REVISED-HS-2-2015
Because Tomorrow Needs Her Online Webcast Wednesday, March 4 7:30PM EST Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) would like to invite you to attend a special webcast marking the launch of Because Tomorrow Needs Her, a multimedia campaign highlighting MSF’s efforts to provide accessible, high-quality health care to women and girls around the world. Because Tomorrow... More
Richard Laing, professor of international health at Boston University’s school of public health in the US, described what is happening as a “David and Goliath struggle between people interested in access to an essential medicine for women and victims of trauma in poor countries and the drug control establishment in... More
Next Friday, March 6th, the BU Sociology Seminar Series will welcome Professor Tasleem Padamsee of Ohio State University. Her talk is titled: “Answering AIDS: The United States and the United Kingdom Confront a Health Policy Crisis." The event is open and free to all who wish to attend. The event begins at 12PM... More
