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Internship Opportunity with Swasti Health Resource Centre Swasti offers a range of exciting internship opportunities for current & recent postgraduate students from all disciplines to gain insights into public health and development. About the organization Swasti is a health resource centre that enhances health and wellbeing through innovation, particularly for the marginalized. We... More
Initiatives Inc. a Boston-based, firm addressing health capacity issues for the improvement of health services in the developing world, seeks an intern for a short, Boston-based internship. The work required by the intern would focus on conducting a literature search to find examples of how team based approaches have been used... More
Hosted by the BU School of Medicine International Health Program Tuesday, November 13, 2012 B.U. Castle, 225 Bay State Rd. 5:30 - 7:30 PM Panel discussion with James Hudspeth, M.D., Chris Curry M.D., Ph.D., and Rishi Rattan, M.D. Panel will discuss their work in Haiti, career trajectories, and general approach to global health. Moderator:... More
Friday, November 9th, 6:30PM - 10:00PM in Hiebert Lounge Join us for a night of great food from around the world, cultural art performances as well as the always popular Cultural Fashion Show! 100% of proceeds for the evening will support Global Health Bridge, an organization aimed at improving maternal health... More
The Research Assistant for the Chelsea STAR project will work from the Chelsea Collaborative, a non-profit human services organization in the City of Chelsea, MA (accessible via MBTA) to recruit and interview residents of Chelsea. Each interview lasts approximately 1 hour and covers topics including health status, social and life... More
GreenoughSeminarflyer The Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar Series “Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy" Please join us on Friday, November 2nd for: "Bringing Climate Science to Public Health: Population-based Applications for Disaster Preparedness" November 2, 2012 Time: 12pm-1pm Location: Room L-210 BU Medical School Instructional Building Speaker: P. Gregg Greenough, MD, MPH Director of Research, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Asst. More
Dr. Jennifer Chan an Associate faculty member of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and member of the Crisis Dynamics Program. She is also the Director of Global Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Her projects and research focuses on crisis mapping and... More
Comparative Health Systems Flyer Thursday November 15 4:45-5:50 pm L110, BUSM Bldg. Please join the department of Health Policy & Management for a panel discussion. Students from around the globe will share their personal and professional perspectives on the health care system of their home countries. RSVP online: http://eepurl.com/qTTub Moderator: Professor David Rosenbloom, Health Policy &... More
We regret to inform the BU community that "Aravind Eye Hospitals, India: A Model for Social Entrepreneurship in Healthcare" has been cancelled because Dr. Ravindran was not able to fly to the US due to Hurricane Sandy.
Updates from Career Services…… Employer Info Session: Public Consulting Group Thursday, November 8, 1:00-2:00pm Location: L201, Medical School Building RSVP: ltoby@bu.edu Note: Please visit SPH CareerLink for current job postings. Public Consulting Group (PCG) provides industry-leading management consulting and technology to help public sector education, health, human services, and other government clients achieve their... More
If you are interested in visiting the Public Health Museum, IH703 is taking two busses, and has extra spots! Please be at the Med School building at 12pm tomorrow, Friday 10/26 if interested!
The IH Department is hosting an exciting event. Spots are very limited, so RSVP quickly! Professor Gill was approached by a group of computer scientists at MIT's Lincoln Labs who received a grant to create an outbreak simulation. It works as a game involving 4-5 teams working in parallel. You get data, More
