SPH Events
Tuesday, April 3rd 1:00-2:00pm CT-460A
Join ICRW's President, and BUSPH alum, Sarah Degnan Kambou to learn more about ICRW, their work across the world, and opportunities for MPH and doctoral candidates. Food will be provided. The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a global development nonprofit organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and a regional office in New Delhi, India. They also have project offices in Mumbai and Hyderabad, and are establishing a formal presence in East Africa.
Tuesday, April 3rd 5:00-6:00pm INS-201
In a crowded global development arena, what is the most viable next-generation program of research on early, forced, child marriage? Join ICRW's President, and BUSPH alum, Sarah Degnan Kambou to discuss early forced child marriage (EFCM) and ICRW’s signature research programs on the topic and the next generation of research on it. EFCM is now front and center on donors’ and implementing agencies’ radar. At ICRW, we are strategizing how to push through all of that noise, carve out some new market space and continue to contribute meaningfully in the domain.
Doctoral Disertation Defenses:
The
Doctor of Public Health Program
at the Boston University School of Public Health is pleased to announce the following doctoral dissertation defenses:
Stakeholder-Driven Approach to Optimizing Access to Low Vision Rehabilitation Services in Massachusetts
Friday, April 6th 9:00am CT-460
DrPH Candidate: Jennifer Kaldenberg MSA, OTR/L, SCLV, FAOTA
Strategic Planning for the Establishment of Pediatric Oncology Units in Low-Resource Settings: A Qualitative Study to Explore Key Strategic Elements and Lessons Learned
Monday, April 9th 11:30am CT-460
DrPH Candidate: Irini Albanti MPH, MA
Monday, April 9th 2:30-3:30pm Location: Crosstown/INS room to be confirmed. RSVP above
Dr. Scanlan is a pediatric oncologist who has played a critical role in establishing Tanzania’s only cancer treatment facility for children. She has lived in Dar es Salaam since 2007 and works through two charities dedicated to children's cancer in Tanzania - Tumaini la Maisha (TLM) and The Impact Plan.
Thanks to Trish and many organizations and dedicated teams who she partners with…survival rates for pediatric cancer cases in Tanzania have increased five fold in the last 8 years.
Learn more about her work here.
Thursday, April 12th 4:30-6:30 Location: Crosstown/INS room to be confirmed. RSVP above.
Whether as professional storytellers, public health students, communications experts or artists, the stories we tell about the people, places and events of our time MATTER. With Lisa's recent films (Heroines of Health, Mother's Cry and #Create2030), she has the storytelling tools and expertise to deliver practical and hands on creative workshops covering such important topics as:
- Responsible Storytelling for the UN/NGO Sector
- Changing the Narrative of Women in Global Health
- Engaging Artists in Meeting the SDGs
- Global Storytelling 101
- Building a Career as an International Artist
- Big Data and Creativity
Workshop participants come from a wide variety of backgrounds (public health, global health, international relations,the arts) and will learn how to think more critically about stories for and about the humanitarian community, how to produce their own PSA, learn how to effectively create meaningful and sustainable partnerships with artists, how to engage artists in SDG outreach initiatives and/or how to build a career as an artist contributing their talent for the social good.
External Events:
Real World Public Health: A seminar for graduate students about a day in the life of a local public health department. This free seminar for graduate students in public health includes:
A career panel of local public health leaders and practitioners. Interactive workshops (students choose from: Communications Planning in Action: Crafting a successful public health campaign; Urban Agriculture: Growing policy for honey, eggs, and fresh vegetables; and SBIRT: A substance use screening tool coming to schools near you)
Friday April 6th - Saturday April 7th
Harvard Global Health Initiative
The Inaugural Global Mental Health Open Day will showcase the range of rich and diverse activities oriented toward global mental health across Harvard and HMS-affiliated hospitals. Register at the link above.
Friday April 6th 9:00am
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA
The very meaning of citizenship at local, national, and global levels is in flux in most countries and continents. More than 65 million human beings are currently displaced from their homes, while even in countries where armed conflict is not prevalent, separatist and nationalist movements have reshaped policy. Gender—in all its forms—is essential to any analysis of these trends and to our understandings of citizenship around the world, although it is often overlooked in public debate.
Citizenship means more than just formal membership in nation-states; it means belonging in communities defined in part by gender. Conference participants will explore these themes through three panels, an evening focused on film and citizenship, and a reading by and keynote conversation with the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
To register and for more information on the panelists click the link above.
Monday April 9th 12:00-1:00pm in room 4-B-11
Research Assistant Professor Nafisa Halim from DGH at BU SPH will discuss intimate partner violence (IPV) in Bangladesh. Her research focuses on human capital formation among women, children and adolescents. Please RSVP to
seminar@challiance.org
April 13th - April 15th, 2018
The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech), housed at Mass General Hospital Global Health, identifies pressing clinical needs from the field, crowdsources innovative solutions, and accelerates the cycle from idea to patient impact. During the Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit & Hack-a-thon, CAMTech will employ a public health approach to gun safety and violence prevention by
generating innovations that can address gun safety, mental health, community resilience and policy. The Challenge Summit will be held at the Edward Kennedy Institute on April 13 and the Hack-a-thon will be held at the MGH Simches Research Center on April 14-15.
Apply to attend by March 26. Questions about the Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit & Hack-a-thon? Contact
Nicholas Diamond, Marketing and Communications Manager, at
ndiamond@mgh.harvard.edu. Join the conversation on Twitter with #GunViolenceHack and follow us @CAMTechMGH.
April 14-15, 2018
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
