Boston University
School of Public Health
Department of Global Health
The Global Health Lens
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Issue: 43
July 9th 2018
Past issues can be found
here
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In this GH Lens Issue:
- Events
- Opportunities
- Certificate Announcements
- DGH Notable Mentions
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External Events:
Thursday, July 19th 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT Webinar
Cost-effectiveness analysis can help decision-makers gain a better understanding of the value of investments of global health interventions. Hosted by the
C
enter for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR), this webinar will explore global health resource prioritization and how stakeholders can leverage global cost-per-DALY averted findings to make resource allocation decisions. We will also show researchers a tool for converting clinical outcomes to DALYs to use in economic models.
Featuring:
Peter J. Neumann, ScD
Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Joshua T. Cohen, PhD
Deputy Director and Chief Science Officer of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at the Tufts Medical Center Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, and a Research Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine.
Thursday July 19th 5:30-6:15pm 2nd Floor lounge, 77 Exeter St, Boston, MA 02116
Dr. Mark Shrime, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School will share his inspiring reflections on the case for increasing access to global surgery, cost-effectiveness and decision science, and finding your passion and purpose in your global health career.
Thursday September 13th and Friday September 14th - New York
9th International Workshop on HIV and Aging will be held in on 13 and 14 September 2018, in New York City, NY, at the New Yorker (Wyndham) hotel. The integration of antiretroviral therapy (ART) into HIV care has dramatically extended the life expectancy of those living with HIV. The longer life expectancy of people with HIV infection is changing the demographics of the HIV epidemic and currently, more than one-half of the people living with HIV are age 45 or older. The ultimate goals of this conference are to stimulate and guide research that will enable better treatment methods and strategies for older adults with HIV, to encourage young investigators, and to stimulate new partnerships between investigators in HIV and aging.
Monday September 17th 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
The Maternal Health Task Force at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health cordially invites you to a Global Maternal Health Symposium. The symposium will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Maternal Health Task Force, showcase achievements in global maternal health and chart a course forward for critical steps to end preventable maternal mortality and optimize maternal health around the world. A reception will follow. At the symposium, we will also announce the recipients of the inaugural Maternal Health Visionary Awards.
September 23rd-28th 2018
The MQPH 2018 Conference will take place in Oxford, United Kingdom, from 23 – 28 September 2018. The international conference on Medicine Quality & Public Health will bring together people from sectors such as: public health, national regulatory authorities, pharmacy, biomedical, chemistry, law, ethics, cultural and social sciences, the pharmaceutical industry, international organisations, NGOs, national procurement centres, and internet and pharmaceutical forensics. Register as soon as possible for the limited number of early bird prices that are available!
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This position will be based in Los Angeles and will provide 70% support for clinically oriented research and program projects based in Malawi, Africa. The position will also provide 30% administrative support to the program, working with UCLA faculty and staff based in both Los Angeles and Malawi. We are particularly looking for someone good on the quant side who can help with INTERVAL data management.
Questions
- Reach out to:
Risa Hoffman
or
Ashley Bardon
Opioid Abuse/Addiction in Mothers and Infants during the Postpartum Period
Interested in helping out a team of clinicians at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with this particular work? Reach out to
Nancy White Street
at the College of Nursing with your interest and relative experience.
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Certificate Announcements
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Monitoring & Evaluation
- Interested in becoming a TA? Dr. Peter Rockers is looking for a TA for his course, GH815: Methods for Impact Evaluation. The course will be taught on Thursdays from 10am-1pm in CT-462. Peter is looking for a student who has experience in impact evaluation and is skilled in data analysis, ideally using the R statistical package. Interested students should contact Rachel Pieciak at rpieciak@bu.edu.
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Pharmaceutical Development, Delivery & Access
- Believe it or not, we have already begun planning for the upcoming academic year and look forward to bringing several interesting talks and events to campus. To help us prepare, we need your help. Are you interested in: Sharing your practicum with students? Send us a short description of where you are working and what you are doing. Kofi Addo’s practicum spotlight on Instagram (@busph) can provide some ideas.
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Sex, Sexuality & Gender
No update this week
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Global Health
No update this week
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Program Management
No update this week
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Fall Course Spotlight
GH795: Global AIDS Epidemic: Social & Economic Determinants Impact & Responses
SPH GH 885: Global Trade, Intellectual Property, and Public Health
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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.
Taught by: Warren Kaplan on Monday from 6:00pm-8:50pm
Whether one works in a district hospital in Zambia or as a policy person in the US, a better understanding of the impact of global trade rules on the public's health should be a necessary part of the public health practitioner's knowledge and expertise. As one example, in 1993, the US, Canada and Mexico ratified the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with the ostensible purpose of improving trade relations and economic prosperity for all countries. The pharmaceutical and biotech industries, plus a coalition of doctors and hospitals, lobbied for strong intellectual property rights, arguing that research and development (R&D) required for pharmaceutical innovation involved high risks and costs and that weak patent rights (weak by their standards) undermined job creation by the industry. Since then, increasing drug prices have led to medication non compliance on the part of a growing number of persons in all three countries, with significant impact on the public’s health. Big pharma has requested changes in national laws to eliminate a system of compulsory licensing where such licensing allows competitors to produce drugs still under patent without the consent of the patent holder, if public interest, such as a public health emergency, warrants it. This, in principle, challenges drug monopolies and leads to lower prices, whereas intellectual property rights have the opposite effect – they lengthen patent protections, thus shielding patent holders from competition and leading to higher prices.
What is the evidence for this? GH885 is designed to introduce the student (Pharm certificate or otherwise) to this ecosystem of trade, patents and public health but be prepared to question your assumptions about the role of patents in driving up prices. Be prepared to puzzle out the answers to these "big picture" questions: 1) Why is drug development treated as a market good rather than a public good or service? 2) Do provisions within global trade agreements deal with the tension between private corporate interests and public needs?
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Department of Global Health Notable Mentions:
Publications, Poster Sessions, Media, and Awards in our GH Community
Faculty, Staff, Students & Alumni
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BUSPH Instagram MPH Takeover:
Mac Hine,
2nd year MPH student pursuing a certificate in
Monitoring & Evaluation
"Mac Hine is completing her practicum with Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center. Founded more than 50 years ago in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, it was the first non-profit indoor tennis club created by and for African Americans. Supported by a Practicum Scholar Award, Hine is creating and piloting a monitoring and evaluation kit, which Sportsmen’s will be able to use to find ways to make the program more effective. The kit includes protocols for measuring how closely the day-to-day workings of the program and various recruitment efforts match predetermined plans and goals."
Read more here!
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KXAN interview with alumna
Sera Bonds
, CEO and founder of the Circle of Health International
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SPH News
quotes
Jacob Bor
mentions
Matt Fox
"When South Africa followed new WHO guidelines for antiretroviral therapy, large influx of newly eligible patients did not crowd out sicker patients or reduce quality of care."
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SPH News
mentions
Matt Fox
"Matthew Fox selected as deputy editor of Journal of the International AIDS Society."
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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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