Boston University
School of Public Health
Department of Global Health
The Global Health Lens
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Issue: 32
April 23rd 2018
Past issues can be found
here
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In this GH Lens Issue:
- Events
- Announcements & Opportunities
- Student Corner (Certificate Highlights)
- Global Health Department Notable Mentions
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SPH Events
Apri
l Global & Local Center for Mental Health Disparities at BMC & BUSM Global Dinner Series
Tuesday April 24th 6:00-7:30pm, Evans Seminar Room - E112A
April BUMC Global Health Grand Rounds
Monday April 30th 12:00-1:00pm, McNary R108
***time changed from last email
Global health learning experiences, if done carefully and with forethought, can be safe, effective, and benefit student and host populations alike. However the majority of trainees report inadequate predeparture preparation and debriefing post-return.
Drs.
Jacquet
and
Sarfaty will highlight best practices from the institutional to learner level, including The Practitioner's Guide to Global Health on BUx as well as other helpful resource.
RSVP at link above!
Tuesday May 1st 12:30-2:00pm CT-305
Thursday May 3rd 1:00-2:00pm Talbot T106E
Preparedness is key to managing risk abroad and enjoying a safe and productive practicum. This is even more critical in unfamiliar settings. Come join BU Global Programs Associate Director of Health, Safety & Security, Joe Finkhouse, for a discussion aimed at developing your own Health & Safety Risk Management Plan for your international practicum. Learn what the Risk Management Professionals know about key practices, resources and how to prepare for your journey.
External Events:
Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
Friday April 27th 12:00pm 100 Cummington Mall Room 241
BU Department of Sociology Spring Seminar Series
Presenter: Janet Shim - University of California, San Francisco
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Announcements & Opportunities
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Internship & Job Opportunities:
NMNW is doing groundbreaking work on sexual violence prevention, and they are on the verge of going to scale. They are urgently looking to bring on a
Managing Director
as soon as possible, well as several
female Master Trainers
in the next few months.
Behavioral Change Communication, Tanzania
SPOON
is offering a 13-month volunteer fellowship based in Lusaka, Zambia for a highly motivated recent graduate in pursuit of a career in international development or global health.
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Course Announcements:
We hope you all had a successful registration for fall semester classes! If you want to get into a class but are unable to on Student Link be sure to fill out the
wait list form.
We wanted to bring to your attention classes that still have some seats available as well as highlight some of our students favorite classes below:
GH702: Skills in Critical Analysis and Evidence Based Writing for Public Health
(2 credits)
- Taught by: Dr. Bill Macleod (DGH Professor who is returning from South Africa in Fall) on Wednesdays from 6:00-9:00pm (first half of the semester)
- Course Description: Public Health is an evidence-based science and most of that science is communicated in public health and medical journals. The volume of medical journal articles published annually is astounding: in 2010 it was estimated that on average more than 3,000 articles were published every day and that number is growing! The challenge to public health scholars is to decide what to read, how to interpret what you read, and how to integrate, synthesize and communicate findings to a variety of audiences.
- This two-credit course will focus on developing two essential public health skills: 1) how to understand and critically read the evidence-based public health literature, and 2) how to communicate this understanding of the evidence into clear, concise, and persuasive professional documents written for different public health audiences.
- This course is designed for students who want to develop skills in 1) critically reading and interpreting the public health literature and 2) communicating findings in a variety of common public health writing outputs: a research summary, policy brief, or literature review.
- Taught by: Dr. Lisa Messersmith on Tuesdays from 10:00am-1:00pm
- Course Description: AIDS is one of the most important pandemics and human development challenges of our time. This course explores the determinants and impacts of the AIDS pandemic and examines best practices in prevention, care and treatment and impact mitigation. Students will explore the relationship between human rights, gender and vulnerability to HIV; examine effective multi-sectoral responses; and evaluate the benefits and limitations of major multi- and bi-lateral AIDS initiatives. Students will also examine the major debates in the AIDS field and explore different, at times contradictory, perspectives.
- Great for students in the SSG, ID, GH and PM certificates and those interested in discussing rights-based and multi-sectoral responses to the HIV pandemic.
- Want to learn more? Drop-in to ask Dr. Messersmith questions! She will be available on Wednesday, April 25 from 1:00-2:00pm. You can find her in her office, Room 306 in the Department of Global Health.
(4 credits)
- Taught by: Dr. Veronika Wirtz on Mondays from 10:00-1:00pm
- Course Description: This course will provide a thorough understanding of the risk factors, epidemiology, burden at both national and household level, and the economic consequences of the most prevalent NCDs in low and middle-income countries, as well as the key policies, strategies and interventions at global, national, and local/regional level to prevent and control NCDs, and the response of countries to the threat posed by NCDs. Through this course, students will learn how to: design an intervention to address a non-communicable disease in a low or middle-income country; calculate the cost of diabetes care in a middle income country; write a policy memo about addressing barriers to palliative care in a low or middle income country; develop a country profile describing non-communicable disease-burden. Interested in learning or growing these skills?
- This course is great for students in the GH and CNCD certificates as well as those interested in these skill sets.
- Want to learn more: Drop-in to ask Dr. Wirtz questions! She will be available on Wednesday, May 2 from 1:00-2:00pm. You can find her in her office, Room 363 in the Department of Global Health.
- Taught by: Dr. Warren Kaplan on Mondays from 6:00-9:00pm (first half of the semester)
- Course Description: Why does big pharma spend billions protecting their patents? Wonder why medicine prices are high in low and middle income countries? Ever wonder how pharma companies are trampling on the rights of indigenous peoples by getting patents on natural products? Want to learn more about the Trumpian response to global trade agreements and the impact on access to medicines?
- If you are interested in these questions about public health, trade and patents, sign up for GH885 in the Fall. Spots still available.
GH 701 A1 Global Health Storytelling
- Taught by: GH Clinical Associate Professor Jen Beard and College of Communications Anne Donohue on Thursdays from 8:00am-10:45am
- Course Description: Global Health Storytelling is an interdisciplinary class for journalism and public health students who have a passionate interest in crafting rich, nuanced, compelling narratives about global health for a broad audience. This is a class for public health students who want to communicate public health science, practice, and policies in the style of an Atlantic Monthly article, a New York Times feature, or an NPR audio story. Likewise, it is a class for journalism or other communication-focused students interested in building public health knowledge. Students will learn from global health and journalism professors, guest speakers, and one another through class-room based instruction and individual reporting projects. Students will complete original reporting projects based in Boston or MA but with a local /global angle. COM and SPH students who take this course will be eligible to apply for the prestigious BU Pulitzer Center Student Fellowship.
- Taught by: Joseph Harris, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology on Thursdays from 12:30-3:15
- Course Description: What is global health? Who are the main actors in global health debates? This seminar explores the politics of global health, providing students with sociological tools, concepts, and knowledge to help make sense of conflict in contemporary global health debates.
- This course can be taken as a MPH elective. For more information and to see the syllabus contact Joseph Harris or Rachel Pieciak
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ALL STUDENTS please see above event:
Tuesday May 1st 12:30-2:00pm CT-305
Global Health
See course and event announcements above for relative information!
Sex, Sexuality & Gender
See course and event announcements above for relative information!
Monitoring & Evaluation
Peter and Rachel are working to find an alternate date for our previously scheduled ILE meeting (Wednesday 4/25 from 1:00-2:00pm). Rachel will be in touch with current ILE students by COB today. As always, please feel free to reach out with Peter and/or Rachel with any questions. Thanks in advance for your flexibility!
Program Management
Our next ILE meetings are scheduled for
Wednesday, April 25 from
5:00-6:00pm in
CT-386 and
Thursday, April 26 from 1:00-2:00pm in
CT-374. During these meetings we will do a peer review of the ILE portfolios. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to Rachel and Jen with any questions.
As a reminder your final ILE portfolios are due by 5:00pm on Monday, April 30.
Pharmaceuticals
Tuesday April 24th 1:00-2:00pm CT386
* Please note the room change
This event is open to all and sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Program Leadership Council. Join us and our colleagues Dr. Jared Silverman and Mary Thistle from the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute to learn more about the work their organization does to improve the lives of populations through novel drugs, biologics, vaccines and diagnostics.
RSVP HERE
See course and event announcements above for relative information.
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Global Health Department Notable Mentions:
Publications, Poster Sessions, Media, and Awards in our GH community
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Monica Adhiambo Onyango, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Rose Odotei Adjei, Thomas Agyarko-Poku, Carol Hunsberger Kopelman, Kimberly Green, Samuel Wambugu, Nana Fosua Clement, Peter Wondergem &
Jennifer Beard (2018)
Love, power, resilience and vulnerability: relationship dynamics between female sex workers in Ghana and their intimate partners,
Culture, Health & Sexuality.
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Associate Professor
Rich Feeley recognized as runner up Supervisor of the Year runner up at the Boston University
Annual Ceremony. Nominated by DrPH students Katelyn Long and Hez Shobiye (pictured with Rich Feeley)
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Williams, A.
, McCloskey, L., Wale, M., Mwanayanda, L., Herman, A.R., Murray, K.,
Thea, D.
,
Gill, C
., 2016.
“When you are injected, the baby is protected.” Assessing the acceptability of a maternal Tdap vaccine based on mothers’ attitudes, beliefs, and knoweldge of pertussis and vaccinations in Lusaka, Zambia.
Vaccine.
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Alumna Salma Abdalla, MD, MPH shares her first textbook chapter authorship in
Essentials of Global Health by Elsevier. She is the co-author of the chapter
"Key Concepts in Global Health" .
Congratulations Salma!
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An essay written by alumna Natasha Viveiros for Taryn Vian's GH 757, Fighting Corruption Course was recently published in Transparency International.
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Whether you are an alum of SPH, a SPH faculty/staff member, a student in the Global Health Certificate, a Global Health interested student in another certificate, or just a friend of the Department of Global Health, we hope the weekly
GLOBAL HEALTH LENS
can be a one-stop-shop for our Global Health Community here at Boston University School of Public Health.
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