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CUGH Global Health Bulletin
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Letter from the Executive Director
Dear Friend of CUGH,
The Ebola crisis in West Africa is rapidly worsening. As of the writing of this note, over 3,500 people have been infected with the virus and over 1,500 people have been killed. Alarmingly, the disease is spreading into densely populated urban areas.
There is an acute shortage of medical supplies, experienced healthcare workers, and funds in the region. Doctors without Borders has been bravely shouldering the greatest responsibility to not only care for those infected with Ebola, but also treat people affected with the numerous other diseases and health challenges in this, one of the poorest regions of the world.
We at CUGH have been trying to help MSF identify individuals with the experience and skills needed to stop the spread of this virus and provide essential medical care in the affected countries. Please see MSF's request by clicking on this link and share it with your colleagues widely. Help us identify individuals who can address this crisis before it spreads much further and advocate for greater funding to purchase essential supplies.
Thank you for your assistance.
Best wishes,
 Keith Martin, MD Executive Director Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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6th Annual Global Health Conference
Mobilizing Research for Global Health
Sheraton Boston Hotel | Boston, MA
March 26-28, 2015
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SESSION THEMES
Include:
Technology Revolution in Genetics, Vaccine Development and Deployment
Transforming the OneHealth Agenda: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Food Security, and Antimicrobial Resistance
Drivers of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases
Improvement Science: The New Kid on the Block
Big Problems - Big Ideas
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FEATURED SPEAKERS
James Collins, MIT Broad Institute
Mary Dixon-Woods, University of Leicester, UK and Dartmouth College
Nancy Edwards, Institute of Population and Public Health, CIHR
Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School
Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome Trust
Wafaie Fawzi, Harvard School of Public Health
Atul Gawande, Brigham and Woman's Hospital
Glenda Gray, South African Medical Research Council
Ramanan Laxminarayan, Princeton University
Christian Mandl, Novartis Vaccines
Jonna Mazet, University of California, Davis
Steven Morrison, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gareth Parry, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
David Relman, Stanford University
Nana Twum-Danso, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Dyann Wirth, Harvard School of Public Health
Muhammad Zaman, Boston University
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- Plenary Debates
- 2015 Gairdner Global Health Awardee Address
- Student/Plenary Speaker Meet and Greet
- Global Health Film Festival
AWARDS - CUGH Global Health Distinguished Leadership Award
- Velji Awards for Global Health Excellence
- Student Poster Awards
- Global Health Video Competition
- Student Essay Contest
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Abstract submissions now open. Click here to submit yours.
Deadline October 15, 2014 |
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1. Spotlight: NextGenU
Free, accredited, online global health courses
Please see NextGenU.org, the world's first portal to free, accredited, higher education. NextGenU partners with leading universities, professional societies, and government organizations including the American College of Preventive Medicine, Association of American Medical Colleges, Grand Challenges Canada, NATO Science for Peace, and WHO. Starting with a focus in the health sciences, NextGenU's accredited courses span from college-level pre-health sciences and community health worker trainings through medical and public health graduate training, residency programs (currently in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine), and continuing medical education. The courses are competency-based, and include online knowledge transfer, evaluation, local and remote peer and mentored skill-based activities, and a web-based global peer community of practice.
NextGenU's accredited partners, North American universities that are outstanding in each particular course topic, give learners credit for this training (or institutions can adopt them and use them with their students), all for the first time ever cost-free, and also advertisement-free, barrier-free, and carbon-emissions-free. The courses have been tested in North American medical and public health schools and shown to perform comparably-to or better-than standard training.
If you are interested in learning using these courses, have a look at www.NextGenU.org, and if you'd like to teach or do research using these courses, or to help create other courses, please contact Erica Frank, MD, MPH ([email protected] or [email protected]).
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2. SSPC Annual Meeting and Trainee Fellowships
Accepting Abstracts and Fellowship Applications through Sep. 15
April 23-25, 2015 | Providence, Rhode Island
The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) is now accepting abstract submissions for the 2015 Annual Meeting to be held in Providence, Rhode Island, April 23-25, 2015. SSPC is also accepting paper submissions for the Charles Hughes andJohn Spiegel Fellowships for trainees in social and clinical sciences. Deadlines for abstracts and fellowship applications are September 15, 2015.
Full details for submission are included in the attached "Call for Papers" and "Call for Fellows."
Conference Themes
We especially encourage interactive workshop submissions focused on the five conference themes in culture and global mental health.
- Origins and transformations of knowledge and practice in global mental health
- Human rights, ethics, politics, and policy
- Social determinants of mental health and health care
- Intervention development and cultural adaptation
- Scaling-up, implementation, and knowledge dissemination
In addition, there are cross-cutting issues that may play a part in each of the above:
- Knowledge transfer between and among low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and high-income countries (HIC)
- Technologies
- Stigma
- Populations and predicaments
For additional conference or SSPC information, please contact Roberto Lewis-Fern�ndez, Chairman of the Program Committee, at [email protected], or Liz Kramer, Executive Director, at [email protected].
For information on trainee fellowships, please contact Brandon Kohrt at [email protected].
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3. CDHAM Health Culture and Communication in Global Health Symposium
September 11, 2014 |Rockville, MD
Join a coalition of US universities and junior and senior investigators whose research focuses on global non-communicable diseases (NCD). Identify new opportunities to forge partnerships in global NCD research, and to identify potential funding streams to support these initiatives. Engage with members of key funding organizations. Join us and chart the future of global research in NCDs in the US. Health culture and communication is increasingly recognized as playing a critical role in successful global health efforts. However, there remains significant room for enhancement of best practices, standards, and education/training. To that end, the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM) will host the "Health Culture and Communication in Global Health" symposium to:
- Share and discuss CDHAM findings and products regarding health culture and communication in global health efforts including understanding the health context, understanding health-specific cultural considerations, understanding cross-cultural health communication, and optimizing the use of health interpreters.
- Share and discuss current practices and advances in education and training from leading experts from the health culture and communication community.
- Discuss potential consensus Standards and Best Practices for addressing health culture and communication considerations in global health efforts.
- Develop a community of interest for further/future collaboration in health culture and communication in global health.
The symposium is open to military, government, and civilian subject matter experts and global health practitioners engaged in advancing health culture and communication considerations in global health efforts.
For more information and registration, please contact CAPT Dave Tarantino, MD, MPH, CAPT MC USN, USUHS/CDHAM at 301-294-7751, [email protected] or Dr. Maysaa Mahmood at 301-294-1476, [email protected].
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4. Rally for Medical Research
Register by September 5th
September 18, 2014 | Washington, DC
This Capitol Hill Day event will continue the momentum established in 2013, when more than 200 national organizations came together in support of the Rally for Medical Research. The purpose of the Rally is to call on our nation's policymakers to make funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH) a national priority and raise awareness about the importance of continued investment in medical research that leads to more progress, more hope, and more lives saved.
To learn more about the Rally and to register to attend please visit the event website. Registration is only open until September 5th, so sign up now!
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5. NACUBO 2014 Global Operations Forum
September 30-October 1, 2014 | Phoenix, AZ
This program examines international operations run by colleges and universities, with a focus on home-campus management and business support for programs operating overseas as well as compliance with both U.S. and foreign regulations. Topics on the agenda will include:
- Legal, budgetary, administration, and compliance considerations of establishing operations abroad
- Global support models and best practices
- International human resource issues
- Foreign banking, cash management and procurement practices
- Working with foreign institutions
- US and foreign regulation compliance
Whether your institution is relatively new to operating outside the U.S. or has a dedicated global operations department, this forum will offer you the opportunity to learn from campus experts, hear the latest developments from international operations professionals, and network with peers facing similar challenges.
To learn more about the program and to register click here.
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6. 16th Humanitarian Congress
Save the Date / Registration Open
October 10-11, 2014 | Berlin, Germany
In over 25 lectures, panel discussions and workshops, more than 70 international experts will share their experiences and reflections on humanitarian action. The Humanitarian Congress Berlin will take place at the Virchow Klinikum in Berlin-Wedding, Germany.
Topics of Discussion include:
- Health protection and the role of the WHO
- Antimicrobrial resistance
- Medical humanitarian aid for beginners
- Health protection of migrants
- How to run a medical emergency: a viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak
- Evaluation of humanitarian action in crisis situations
- Q&A: Becoming a humanitarian aid worker
- International protection and its role in humanitarian action
- Sri Lanka: a case study in protection failure
- The Central African Republic and the limits of protection
- Security workshop: who protects the protectors?
A live stream of the main panels and discussions will be made available on our website during the event: www.humanitarian-congress-berlin.org.
To learn more about the Congress and to register click here.
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7. ASTMH 63rd Annual Meeting
November 2-6, 2014 | New Orleans, LA
 The 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene will be held November 2-6, 2014 at the Sheraton New Orleans and New Orleans Marriott. This event promises an exciting schedule of sessions and speakers, including Bill Gates as the keynote speaker.
To learn more about the meeting and to register visit the event website by clicking here.
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8. Advancing Global Health: Education, Building, and Supporting
Hosted by Albert Einstein College of Medicine
November 10, 2014 | New York, NY
 This will be a one-day conference that focuses on:
- Building sustainable global partnerships
- Global health and medical education
For further information contact [email protected]. On-line registration at www.mecme.org.
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM
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9. CFHI Global Health Intensive Programs
CFHI runs over 25 Global Health Education Programs in 7 countries-career-building experiences that place students in clinics and public health facilities around the world. CFHI is an official partner of the
American Medical Students Association (AMSA) and an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations.
CFHI is excited to announce new 2-week Global Health Intensive Programs beginning December 2014. CFHI's new intensive programs bridge the gap between academic and experiential learning, providing a survey of global health at select sites for those whose schedule does not allow for a more in-depth 4 to 16 week CFHI program. Learn more about new intensive programs by exploring the descriptions below, visiting the CFHI website, and reading this press release.
CFHI Global Health Intensive Programs:
LEARN MORE: Join a live 'Intro to CFHI Programs' Webinar online. Register for upcoming webinars September 5th or 17th: http://bit.ly/GlobalHealthWebinars.
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10. The Age of Sustainable Development
Online Course Taught by Jeff Sachs
Fall 2014 (Sep 9 - Dec 12)
The Age of Sustainable Development will be offered as an online course again this fall. The signup page is here. Please do sign up right away, so that you receive updates regarding the course as well as newsletters regarding the progress of UN negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals.
This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development, drawing on the most recent developments in the social, policy, and physical sciences. Sustainable development is the most urgent challenge facing humanity. The fundamental question is how the world economy can continue to develop in a way that is socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable. The course describes the complex interactions between the world economy and the Earth's physical environment. Ecological processes and constraints (climate, disease ecology, physical resources such as soils and energy sources, topography and transport conditions) significantly shape the patterns of economic development, demography, and wealth and poverty. At the same time, human activities (farming, land use, urbanization, demographic change, and energy use) change the physical environments, increasingly in dangerous ways. The course offers a broad overview of the key challenges and potential solutions to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century.
To learn more and to enroll click here.
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11. Fogarty Int'l Center's Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars
Now Accepting Applications
The Fogarty International Center's Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars is now accepting applications!
The Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars, a program offered by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) at the National Institutes of Health, is a unique fellowship opportunity for post-doctoral Fellows and doctoral Scholars to receive supportive mentorship, while engaging in various Global Health research disciplines in many different locations around the world.
Trainees for the 2015 fellowship year will be selected by one of five Support Centers (funded in part by the FIC through competitive grants). Please visit each of the Support Center websites for application materials, eligibility criteria, program areas and additional information.
For more information about the program click here.
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12. Job Opportunity: Executive Director of Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University
Now Accepting Applications
Deadline: Friday, October 17, 2014
Background
As part of a planned succession process, the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is seeking to recruit an EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR to take up the leadership of the Institute by March 2015. IDI is an independently governed institute within the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University and has the mission "To strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development." IDI has operations across Uganda as well as in a number of other African countries and has a staffing of over 700 managing multiple projects in research, clinical services, public health, training and health systems strengthening.
Required Qualifications and ExperienceApplicants for this position should have the following attributes:- Senior Health professional preferably with infectious diseases clinical and research experience
- At least 10 years experience in a senior management position preferably with previous experience as a Chief Executive in sub-Saharan Africa and a proven track record of achievement
- Knowledge and competency in financial strategic oversight of a multi-million dollar budget
- Governance experience of working with a board
- Experience of working in a multi donor environment
To learn more about this position, the full posting can be viewed here.
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13. Job Opportunity: Mozambique Partnership Director and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
UCLA Center for World Health
Overview:
The Center for World Health at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is seeking an excellent candidate for the position of Mozambique Partnership Director, which is a full-time pediatric clinician-educator position at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) School of Medicine and the Central Hospital of Maputo (HCM) in Mozambique. Main duties include oversight of the academic partnership between UCLA and both HCM and UEM, clinical service alongside Mozambican colleagues on a general pediatric ward, teaching and mentorship of both Mozambican and US medical students and residents, and measurement of outcomes associated with partnership programs. Will also be responsible for budget management and reporting, as well as liaising with project partners including CDC Mozambique, John Hopkins University (JHPIEGO), Anadarko, Mending Kids International, Direct Relief International, and private donors.
Qualifications:
- Board eligible or Board certified pediatrician
- Language skills - Portuguese preferred, Spanish okay
- 2-year commitment preferred
To learn more, the full job announcement can be read here.
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