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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, School of Public Health, Environmental Health-Position OPEN Job Description The School of Public Health at BU has an administrative assistant position opening. The employee will divide their time (50% each position) between the following two positions. · Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean for Research (ADR) at BU-SPH duties... More
UNC Chapel Hill Global Photo and Video Competition – Nov. 15th deadline is getting closer!!! Only 9 days remain before the deadline for this high-profile photo and video competition run by the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health! Submit your work by November 15th! The competition focuses... More
Come to the "Evaluating Organizational Capacity in Ethiopia" internship information session Friday, November 15th at 12:15 in CT305 Find more information here: CGHD Ethiopia Info Session 2013 To Apply Come to the information session with the BU research team and past interns – Friday November 15 January, 12:15pm-1:00pm, Crosstown, 305. If you are unable... More
2014 INTERNATIONAL CORPS PROGRAM EarthCorps is now recruiting for our 2014 International Corps Members! EarthCorps offers a six-month service learning program in Seattle, Washington, USA that brings together emerging environmental leaders to learn the fundamentals of environmental service, community building and leadership. EarthCorps charges no tuition for its services and in... More
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Learn more here: Research Associate with Amend in East Africa
November 8: noon-1pm L210 Title: “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Western Cape, South Africa: Multiple exposures in a particularly vulnerable population, and what to do about it?” Speaker: Leslie London, MD Professor, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town and Associate Director of the Centre... More
Boston University School of Public Health Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights will be hosting a Visiting Scholar Luncheon on Friday, November 15th at 12:30 PM 715 Albany Street Talbot Building, Room 307 C (Founders Room) Navigating the Right to Health: What Happens When Civil Society Activists Move in to Government? Leslie London, More
Religion, Culture and Public Health (shhh! Can we talk about this?) GMS MA 622 A1 Spring Semester, 2014 ***This course counts for the 8 credits for IH that can be taken outside of IH course offerings. Faculty: Lance D. Laird, Th.D. Assistant Director, MA Program in Medical Anthropology & Cross-Cultural Practice Department of Family Medicine, Division... More
South Africa's national treatment program for HIV/AIDS is the largest effort of its kind in the world, treating some 2 million adults and children with antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Francois Venter, a leading HIV clinician and researcher, has been instrumental in the development of the program over the past decade and... More
This past summer, two BU students received fellowships with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Lusha Chen (COM) traveled to Myanmar to report on bride trafficking to China, and Kerstin Egenhofer (SPH) traveled to Malawi to report on the success of cash transfers in improving the well being of the... More
The BUMC community is invited to the following event as part of International Education Week at B.U. The Women's Health Initiative presents "The Faces of Global Women's Health" Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:30 PM to 7:00 pm Keefer Auditorium Light dinner reception in Evans 122A to follow Featuring a panel of global health practitioners... More
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