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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS HEALTH & SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDENT POSTER SESSION American Public Health Association Spirit of 1848 Caucus Abstracts due: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 To submit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/ For APHA 2014, THE SPIRIT OF 1848 SOCIAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENT POSTER SESSION is having an *open call for abstracts* (due Wed, February 12, 2014) for posters that highlight the intersection between social... More
All students are invited to the BUSPH Public Health Forum hosted by the Department of International Health on Wednesday, February 12th. Please share this event with others in the community who may find this of interest. Development of ARV Resistance and the Implications for HIV Treatment and Prevention Programs Boston University... More
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GHEP Global Health Speaker Series presents: Dr. Curt Nordgaard - Just Health Network: Global Health in Uganda Dr. Curt Nordgaard, a pediatric resident at BMC, is here to share his work founding and working for the Just Health Network, a non-profit organization that supports grassroots health and wellness projects around the globe. While a medical... More
INTERNSHIPS FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES STUDENTS (LASP & LASMA) (Compiled in December 2013) This list was compiled by Oya Yegen Mertens, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, who is writing her dissertation on post-authoritarian regime constitutional reform processes in Chile and Turkey. It is derived from a number of sources, including: CLACS, More
Please join the Department of International Health and Center for Global Health and Development as we welcome Dr. Ian Sanne, the Director of Right to Care, an organization that pioneered the expansion of antiretroviral therapy in South Africa and a long time partner of CGHD in studying the economics of... More
SPRING Program Coordinator SPRING Program Officer This is on the SPRING Project (www.spring-nutrition.org) which is managed by JSI.
A great opportunity for students interested in Monitoring & Evaluation with good quantitative skills. Learn more here: HE2RO QuantCorps Fellowship 2014
Several BUSPH alumni have been accepted to this fellowship in the past few years, so we highly recommend you apply to this global health opportunity. Learn more here!
Career Fair 2014 Resume Book We are excited to be offering you another way to get your resume seen by employers at the Career Fair-the “Career Fair 2014 Resume Book”. To be included in this resume book, your resume must be approved by the Career Services Office by Feb. 20th. We... More
The African Studies Center expects to offer at least six Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships. These fellowships provide a stipend and tuition support to select graduate students who would benefit from studying an African language. We currently offer Arabic, Amharic, Hausa, Igbo, Swahili, Wolof, Xhosa, and Zulu. For Masters... More
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Bridge Academies International is currently hiring for a number of staff in Nairobi, Boston, and Uganda. Bridge's model is essentially an "Academy-in-a-Box" where they develop the highest quality curriculums for primary education using cutting-edge pedagogies and put it on tablets that can be used anywhere in the world. Or as they say: "On... More
The Brookline Massachusetts/Quezalguaque Sister City is recruiting several Masters of Public Health Students to work as part of a team, for a 6-8 week long, team effort, living and working in an agricultural town in western Nicaragua. Students will work with Brookline Sister City members and other team members in... More
With so many news sources to choose from, it's sometimes hard to keep up with important developments in global health and infectious disease, and to understand where these developments fit in the bigger picture. At these meetings, we'll talk about current events in international health, and Dr. Chris Gill will... More
