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Global Health Sciences Bulletin - 2007
- November 29, 2007
- November 15, 2007
- November 1, 2007
- June 28, 2007
- June 14, 2007
- May 31, 2007
- May 17, 2007
- May 3, 2007
- April 19, 2007
- April 5, 2007
- March 22, 2007
- March 8, 2007
- February 22, 2007
- February 8, 2007
- January 11, 2007
In partnership with the Clinical
and Translational Science Institute, GHS has developed UCSF International Projects, an online database of funded international projects. The goal of UCSF
International Projects is to promote collaboration and coordination of UCSF activities by providing easy access to information on UCSF activities taking place around the world. We welcome your feedback to improve and enhance this service. If you have international funded activities that are not shown here, please e-mail communications@globalhealth.ucsf.edu. (At this time, the database is limited to UCSF users.)
Assessing outcomes and impacts in international surgical initiatives, including preconference instructor workshops and postconference telehealth workshop; held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 9-10, 2008 at Paetzold Centre, Vancouver General Hospital. For more information see University
of Toronto website or contact Office
of Int'l Surgery.
The FICRF Program supports one year of mentored clinical research in a developing country setting. Electronic submissions due no later than 3:00 pm CST on Monday, December 17, 2007 to fellows2008@fogartyscholars.org. For more information see the NIH/Fogarty
Scholars website.
We have, and will continue to add, many new and exciting features. Go to http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/ and tell us what you think.
The UCSF membership in the Global Health Council enables students to become an "Associate Professional Member" of the Global Health Council at no charge; simply fill out the Associate
Professional Membership Enrollment Form if you would like to join. This free membership provides you with a number of opportunities to help further your career in global health. A list of benefits can be seen at their website: www.globalhealth.org.
In partnership with the Clinical
and Translational Science Institute, GHS has developed UCSF International Projects, an online database of funded international projects. The goal of UCSF
International Projects is to promote collaboration and coordination of UCSF activities by providing easy access to information on UCSF activities taking place around the world. We welcome your feedback to improve and enhance this service. If you have international funded activities that are not shown here, please e-mail communications@globalhealth.ucsf.edu. (At this time, the database is limited to UCSF users.)
ASPIRE Global Health Working Group educational session will be Friday, Nov 16, 2007, noon-1pm at SF General Hospital, Building 3, 5th floor library, above Carr Auditorium. A wonderful group of visiting Tanzanian leaders in HIV care will present their perspectives on the state of the HIV antiretroviral roll-out. Join them for this unique experience! For more information, contact Sophy
Wong of the Positive Health Program.
The New Investigators in Global Health program is a competitive abstract submission and selection program designed to highlight exemplary research, policy and advocacy initiatives of new and future leaders in global health, and empower participants with global health advocacy skills. The Global Health Council is soliciting submissions from students and new professionals in the fields of public health, public policy and public administration on cutting edge topics in global health. Submission deadline is November 28. Go here for more information; questions should be directed to conference@globalhealth.org.
invites researchers to submit abstracts from a country-specific, regional, or global perspective, and submissions from international collaborations are highly encouraged. The conference, jointly sponsored by WHO, World Bank, Kaiser Permanente, and UC Berkeley will take place from April 4 - 5, 2008 in Berkeley, California, USA. Email abstracts to Amy
Nuttbrock by November 30, 2007 (17:00 PDT). View the Call
for Abstracts (please note the deadline has been extended for UCSF researchers).
We have, and will continue to add, many new and exciting features. Go to http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/ and tell us what you think.
November 8, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Laurel Heights Room 474: Representatives from Rotary International and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation will discuss funding opportunities for global health research, particularly faculty and dissertation research. Contact Hannah
Leslie for more information.
November 8, 5:00 -7:00 pm, Parnassus Clinical Sciences Building, C-130: Representatives from a variety of funding organizations will discuss opportunities for health professional and research students to pursue global health. Organizations include: Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), Rotary International, Fulbright, Fogarty International Center, and the CDC. Allison
Chen (476-1923) for more information.
These events are sponsored by the Health Diplomacy Initiative and the Office of International Programs, SOM. Websites for further info: IGCC; Rotary Intl; Fogarty Intl Center; Fulbright Program
On Friday, November 9 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm all prospective medical and non-medical aid workers may attend a presentation, film, and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work and put your ideals into practice. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications. Location is the Renaissance Center, 275 5th Street, San Francisco. For more information or to register, visit Doctors
without Borders.
Save the date of Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, to join Dean Kathy Dracup and the International Nursing Group at the Nursing Third Floor Mezzanine Lounge for wine, appetizers, dessert, and great raffle prizes.
Speak Out and MEDICC will present the exciting feature-length documentary about Cuba's health care system at Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland. Tickets available online at Brown
Paper Tickets. For more information call Speak Out at 510-601-0182 or email.
Global Health Sciences is very pleased to announce that the Academic Senate unanimously approved the Masters degree in Global Health Sciences proposal on June 21. After review and approval from the Executive Vice Chancellor, the proposal will be forwarded to the UC Office of the President for final approval. The projected start for the new program is Fall 2008.
This month UCSF and the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania signed an International Institutional Affiliation Agreement which formalizes a long term commitment by both institutions to scientific and academic exchange. The agreement serves as the foundation for the development of collaborative research and training programs and for faculty and student exchange between the schools of both institutions. GHS Executive Director Haile Debas, GHS Director of Program Development and Planning Sarah Macfarlane, and GHS Coordinator for East Africa Craig Cohen recently returned from four days of planning meetings with MUCHS leadership during which the agreement was signed. For more information about opportunities to collaborate with MUCHS faculty contact Judy
Dang, International Programs Coordinator.
June 4 to 8, 2007, in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, the World Health Organization and the World Bank, UCSF Global Health Sciences organized the above conference at the Rockefeller Foundations Bellagio Center. The meeting brought together African leaders from Eritrea, Kenya, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, and representatives of international organizations, with expertise in health policy, health systems, health economics, surgery, anesthesia, and epidemiology. UCSF was represented by Haile Debas (GHS Executive Director), Sarah Macfarlane (GHS Director, Program Development and Planning), Dean Jamison (Professor of Health Economics), and Charlie Wilson (Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery). The meeting assessed health system and human resource constraints to integrating surgical services at district level and below; and prepared a roadmap of activities to improve access to surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa and to engage national and international stakeholders to advocate for and implement this roadmap. Participants agreed to promote the meetings recommendations in their own countries - an immediate outcome was the unanimous endorsement on June 22 by the Government of South Sudans first National Health Assembly to train clinical officers and nurses in emergency surgery.
Full-time Analyst II to work with the education programs. Please see the Human
Resources listing (#23252BR) for further information. All applications must go through Human Resources.
Building
Global Health for Today and Tomorrow. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 12-13, 2008.
The Summer
Program on Global Health Diplomacy, co-directed by Tom
Novotny, welcomed a group of eighteen participants from ten countries and addressed the key challenges and goals of global health diplomacy, the changing interface of foreign policy and health, and the attempts to create policy coherence between development partners and across ministries. The big response generated illustrates the growing interest within the diplomatic and the health arena in such executive education and HEI will offer another program in the summer of 2008.
Half-time position; person hired will immediately be involved in planning a neurosurgical center in Tbilisi, Georgia (former Soviet Union). Applications due by July 15. For more information, contact alicejgruber@yahoo.com. Further information on Global Healing and their current project can be found at www.globalhealing.org
In a follow-up to
their chapter in Disease Control Priorities
in Developing Countries, 2nd edition,
Haile Debas and Dean Jamison, et al.
show that surgical services provided
in low-cost district hospitals in resource-constrained
countries are highly cost-effective.
Work in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, local NGOs, students, and community and health professional volunteers in Jordan to establish micro-clinics to address the widespread diabetes problem. Facilitate health education and training, establish institutional partnerships, launch a media campaign, and evaluate the clinics. This can be a six month or one year opportunity for graduate students in any of the UCSF or UCB programs, clinical fellows, or post doctoral fellows. For more information
and application details please go to our website.
The Center for Public Health Informatics is holding a conference in Seattle, Washington, on September 18-19, 2007.
GHS has accepted its second class of Global Health Clinical Scholars. This program, which is unprecedented nationally, is fulfilling its commitment to integrate global health interest from across the campus. This class includes scholars from medicine, nursing, and dentistry. The 25 health professionals enrolled in the program for 2007 to 2009 will undertake academic training and practical experiences in global health as part of their postdoctoral training.
UCSF Global Health Sciences and IGCC (Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation) presented a policy workshop of Global
Health Diplomacy at the University of California Washington Center in Washington, D.C. on May 30, 2007. This event summarized findings from our March Global
Health Diplomacy conference and presented multinational, governmental, and nongovernmental perspectives by a panel of experts.
Judy Dang will join Global Health Sciences as our first International Programs Coordinator with responsibility for three growing GHS activities: the Global Health Faculty Scholars Program, which facilitates short to medium term faculty volunteer experiences with our partner institutions around the world; the International Visitors Program, which coordinates the visits of international visitors wanting to learn more about UCSF; and, the development of International Affiliation Agreements. Judy brings to GHS experience and applicable skills that come from various UCSF assignments including positions with the Academic Senate Office and, most recently, the Department of Psychiatry where many of her duties directly related to her new GHS responsibilities. Judy can be reached by email at dangj@globalhealth.ucsf.edu.
Please visit for more information.
A summer course that expands on the issues covered at IGCC's Global Health Diplomacy conference will be held June 1823, 2007 at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. The course will focus on health diplomacy as it relates to health issues that cross national boundaries and are global in nature. Dr. Thomas Novotny, UC San Francisco Global Health Sciences, is one of the co-directors of the program. More information is available at http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthindex.html
This is a senior position calling for an MD or public health professional with experience in industry or global health. Potential candidates can see full posting at http://www.oneworldhealth.org/how/details.php?jobID=148 or contact Heather
Tachick at the Institute for OneWorld Health.
Global Health Sciences has recently been featured on the UCSF Today website. To read more, visit the articles on our 2007 Presidential Chair, Jaime
Seplveda, our postdoctoral scholar, Selma
Omer, and the recent signing of letters of intent to collaborate with Vietnam.
GHS held its Spring Lecture, Science, Technology & Health in Africa, at Mission Bay on May 2. As reported in UCSF Today, keynote speaker and UCSF Medal recipient, Dr. Mamphela Ramphele discussed women's
health as a key to economic prosperity in Africa in her address, The Know-Do Gap in Global Health. Also on the agenda, Narciso Matos of the Carnegie Corporation and Winston Soboyejo, Chair of the African Scientific Committee of the Nelson Mandela Institutions, talked respectively about increasing education's
reach and the scientific and technical
capacity of Africa.
Christie Kiefer, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, has a new book written expressly for health professionals entitled Doing
Health Anthropology (Springer Publications, 2007) that explains both the uses of anthropological techniques and how to develop them.
Applications due June 1, 2007. Please see the Micro-Clinic
Project Fellowship site for more information.
Dr. Jaime Seplveda, UCSF Presidential chair and chair of the Institute of Medicines Committee for the Evaluation of the PEPFAR Implementation will present and discuss the findings and recommendations of that committee in a noon time talk on Monday, May 2, noon to 1:00 pm on the Parnassus campus in HSW303. Contact for the event is Robert
Mansfield.
Global Health Sciences
has been asked to inform you of the following
news and events. Please do not reply to this
email -- each event has a contact listed
if additional information is needed.
At the SFGH Primary Care Grand Rounds on Friday, May 4, Dr. Stephanie Tach will talk from a policy perspective about her work as an HIV primary care provider in Tanzania. Carr Auditorium, 12 noon to 1:00 pm. Kay
Judish for more information.
A large group of faculty, staff and students have been working over the past few months to organize a community-wide teach-in that addresses the health effects of the Iraq War. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, May 9, 2-5:30 pm. For more information go to www.iraqactiongroup.org.
Details at http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthprogram.html
The University of California, San Francisco is collaborating with the University of Sydney and University of Edinburgh to offer the first truly global system of postgraduate education in pain management: www.ipep.edu.au. The program is delivered entirely online to make it more accessible for healthcare providers worldwide, particularly those residing or practicing in rural or economically disadvantaged areas, as well as for those healthcare practitioners who are finding it increasingly difficult to leave busy practices to attend live professional education programs. As the newest member of this collaborative effort, UCSF enrolled its first class of students in its Postgraduate Certificate in Pain Management in 2005, and is currently now accepting applications for the 2007-08 academic year (deadline June 1, 2007): http://paincare.ucsfmedicalcenter.org
Dr. Jaime Sepulveda, chair of the Institute of Medicines Committee for the Evaluation of PEPFAR Implementation will present and discuss the findings and recommendations of that committee in a noon time talk. (See related story in fyiucsf in the news for April 2, 2007, and also next Mondays UCSF
News). Dr.
William Holzemer, a committee co-chair, will also be available to discuss the report.
| When |
May 7, 2007
Noon 1:00 pm |
| Where |
HSW 303
Parnassus Campus |
Everyone is invited! Brown bags okay.
The GHS contact for this event is Robert
Mansfield.
More information about the report is available at: http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3783/24770/41804.aspx
GHSs Spring Lecture, May 2, 2007, 3:00 5:00 pm, Robertson Auditorium/Mission Bay Campus. Speakers include Mamphela Ramphele, Wole Soboyejo and Narciso Matos. Admission is free and the public is invited. For more information and directions: http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/springlecture.
Wednesday, April 25, 4:00 pm, N-217, this event will showcase UCSF students international research, projects, or service completed during professional school. Student presentations and a talk by Gail Reed, Executive Director of MEDICC, will be followed by a poster session and reception with food, drinks and music (6:00 pm, Nursing Mezzanine), and a screening of Salud!, a feature documentary on Cubas training of doctors committed to public service (7:00 pm, N-225). Contact Victoria
Ruddick for details.
At the SFGH Primary Care Grand Rounds on Friday, May 4, Dr. Stephanie Tach will talk from a policy perspective about her work as an HIV primary care provider in Tanzania. Carr Auditorium, 12 noon to 1:00 pm. Kay
Judish for more information.
The KEMRI (Kenya Medical Research Institute)-UCSF Infectious Disease Research Training Program has admitted four new scholars for 2007-2008. See details on our website.
The GHS
Education and Training website is updated and live!
SPACES
ARE STILL AVAILABLE for this important conference
on health and immigration: Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 8 am to 5:30 pm at Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley.
SAVE THE DATE for GHSs Spring Lecture, May 2, 2007, 3:00 5:00 pm, Robertson Auditorium/Mission Bay Campus.
Wednesday, April 25, 4:00 pm, N-217, this event will showcase UCSF students international research, projects, or service completed during professional school. Student presentations and a talk by Gail Reed, Executive Director of MEDICC, will be followed by a poster session and reception with food, drinks and music (6:00 pm, Nursing Mezzanine), and a screening of Salud!, a feature documentary on Cubas training of doctors committed to public service (7:00 pm, N-225). Contact Victoria
Ruddick for details.
At the SFGH Primary Care Grand Rounds on Friday, May 4, Dr. Stephanie Tach will talk from a policy perspective about her work as an HIV primary care provider in Tanzania. Carr Auditorium, 12 noon to 1:00 pm. Kay
Judish for more information.
A website with materials from the March 2007 conference in San Diego can be accessed at http://igcc.ucsd.edu. Briefing papers and powerpoint presentations that were made available for public distribution can be viewed. If you would like additional information, please contact Hannah
Leslie.
The GHS
Education and Training website is updated and live!
Can Health Professionals Save the World? The Crisis in North Korea and the Role of Health Diplomacy will take place today, March 22, at 4:00 in HSW 300. Dr. Ricky Choi will moderate discussion with Professors Susan Shirk and Stephen Haggard from UCSD and Professor Hazel Smith, University of Warwick. Refreshments will be provided. Contact Hannah Leslie for more information.
Global Health Sciences
has been asked to inform you of the following
news and events. Please do not reply to this
email -- each event has a contact listed
if additional information is needed.
The NIH-funded UCSF Center to Address Disparities in Childrens Oral Health (CAN DO) is preparing for a competitive renewal application. They are seeking brief letters of intent from UCSF faculty interested in participating with multi-disciplinary teams of investigators. Information about CAN DO projects can be found at their
website and questions about the LOI should be directed to Jane
Weintraub or Terri
Sonoda.
Registration is now open for TRANSNATIONAL
HEALTH: NEW RESEARCH ON HEALTH AND IMMIGRATION, a one-day conference addressing the challenges of health and healthcare in an increasingly global economy. The roster of speakers, drawn from many sectors, will speak to four themes:
The challenges of transnational health
Is there really an immigrant health paradox?
How can we help im/migrants to stay healthy?
Financing im/migrant health care
Co-sponsored by UCSF Global Health Sciences the conference will take place on:
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
8:00 am 5:30 pm
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA
Global Health Sciences is interested in stimulating and supporting innovative research initiatives and strategies for responding to globally emerging health challenges. The Global Health Sciences Innovation Grants are intended to support pilot projects which will leverage existing UC strengths and collaborations while creating opportunities for new collaborations. Details of application can be found here.
Wednesday, April 25, 4:00 pm, N-217, this event will showcase UCSF students international research, projects, or service completed during professional school. Student presentations and a talk by Gail Reed, Executive Director of MEDICC, will be followed by a poster session and reception with food, drinks and music (6:00 pm, Nursing Mezzanine), and a screening of Salud!, a feature documentary on Cubas training of doctors committed to public service (7:00 pm, N-225).
Global Health Sciences
has been asked to inform you of the following
news and events. Please do not reply to this
email -- each event has a contact listed
if additional information is needed.
Thursday, March 8, 6:00 8:30 pm, Mission Bay Conference Center, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco. Featured speakers include Kim Mulvihill, Nancy Padian, Purnima Madhivanan, and Adeoti Oshinowo; special performance by Grrrl Brigade. Sponsorship starts at $300; individual tickets $50. For more information contact CapirasoBing Consulting Inc. 415.821.9693 / email: wghi7@cbcsanfrancisco.com
The International Mental Interest Group series will feature panel discussions of HIV-related mental health work in Vietnam and the recent UCSF Department of Psychiatry delegation to Vietnam. 7:00 pm March 14, 2007, Langley Porter Room 371. Dinner/light appetizers will be served. RSVP to smeffert@gmail.com by Sunday, March 11, so that food needs can be estimated.
UCSF Global Health Sciences kicked off a new seminar series on Global Health Diplomacy with a special panel on HIV
Prevention in Iran on February 12, 2007.
Wednesday, April 25, 4:00 pm, N-217, this event will showcase UCSF students international research, projects, or service completed during professional school. Winners of the abstract competition will present their work followed by a presentation of the Global Health Faculty Mentor Award and screening of Salud!, a feature documentary on Cubas training of doctors committed to public service. Keynote speaker is Gail Reed, International Director of MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba). Poster competition and Cuban-themed reception with food, drinks and music will follow from 6:15 to 8:00 pm, Nursing Mezzanine.
Global Health Sciences
has been asked to inform you of the following
news and events. Please do not reply to this
email -- each event has a contact listed
if additional information is needed.
The 9TH
annual International Health Conference will
take place Saturday, March 3, 8:00
am to 5:00 pm at UC Berkeley. An
afternoon break-out session (3:50-5:00
pm) will feature Dean Jamison and
Haile Debas speaking on The Biggest
Bang for the Buck: Priorities for
Health when Resources are Limited.
This event is cosponsored by UC Berkeley,
UC Davis, UCSF, and Stanford University.
The Global
AIDS Week of Action is held at numerous medical schools nationwide as a week of education and action. Talks held at the Parnassus campus in HSW-303 from noon-1:00 pm will include:
- UCSF Professor Nancy Padian MPH PhD speaking on her research in the field of microbides (Monday, 2/26)
- Board certified sexologist Isadora Alman holding a Q&A session on sexuality entitled Sexual Myths of Our Times (Tuesday, 2/27)
- Multidisciplinary Provider Panel including a physician, a nurse, and a pharmacist talking about their careers in HIV care (Wednesday, 2/28)
- UCSF Professor William Holzemer RN PhD FAAN giving a talk entitled HIV/AIDS Stigma in Africa (Thursday, 3/1)
- UCSF students from the schools of pharmacy, nursing, and medicine holding a slideshow and sharing their personal experiences with HIV including local and global perspectives (Friday, 3/2)
As the culmination of the Global AIDS Week of Action, the Mosaic Variety Show will feature performances from UCSF students and faculty. It will be held Friday (3/2) at 6:00 pm in the Millberry Union Gym. Tickets ($5 in advance and $10 at the door) support the Obafemi Awolowo Clinic in southwestern Nigeria. Contact Jed.Wolpaw@ucsf.edu or Monica.Iskandar@ucsf.edu.
If you would like to promote a program, service,
or event of interest to the UCSF Global Health
Sciences community, please contact
us for
consideration of your posting via the GHS
bulletin.
Save the date of Wednesday, May 2, 2007 for the Global Health Sciences Spring Symposium to be held at Mission Bay from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. Held in conjunction with the Founders Day activities, the topic of the symposium will be Science, Technology and Health in Africa and the keynote speaker will be Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, one of South Africas most celebrated women and 2007 UCSF Medal honoree. Also speaking will be Winston (Wole) Soboyejo, PhD, Princeton professor and chair of Curriculum Development and Faculty Recruitment of the African Scientific Committee of the African Institute of Science and Technology, and Narciso Matos, PhD, Senior Program Officer, Carnegie Corporation of New York. Contact Robert
Mansfield
Health Diplomacy occupies the interface between international health assistance and international political relations. It may be defined as a political change agent that meets the dual goals of improving global health while helping repair failures in diplomacy, particularly in conflict areas and resource-poor countries. The objectives of the Health Diplomacy Initiative are to develop a conceptual framework for the field; to develop curricular content that will educate faculty, students, and others who plan to work abroad; and to define a research agenda for this new field. Supported by UCSF Global Health Sciences (GHS) and the UC-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), the Initiative will launch with the events listed below. For additional information on the Health Diplomacy Initiative or any of the events below, please contact Hannah
Leslie.
Scheduled
for March 11 to 13 in
San
Diego, academics,
diplomats, and policy-makers will define
the overall framework of health diplomacy
from a transdisciplinary perspective
focused around three themes: Health
Diplomacy as Social Responsibility,
Health Diplomacy with Social and Political
Sensitivity, and Health Diplomacy as
Political Negotiation.
The
UCSF GHS Series on Health Diplomacy
will host its inaugural event
on Tuesday, February 12 at 5:00
in room N217 (UCSF Parnassus
campus). “Promises and
Challenges of HIV Prevention
in
Iran” will
feature perspectives on collaboration
between Tehran University and
UC. As the rhetoric heats up
between the United
States and Iran,
this session will show how another
type of diplomacy might help
restore security between these
two countries.
“Can
Health Professionals Save the
World? The Crisis in
North
Korea and
the Role of Health Diplomacy” will
take place on March 22 at 4:00
in HSW 300, featuring a panel
of international experts and
health professionals with experience
in Korea.
Dr. Ricky Choi will moderate
discussion featuring Professors
Susan Shirk and Stephen Haggard
from UCSD and Professor Hazel
Smith, University of Warwick.
Public
lecture by Ed O’Neil, MD,
Founder and President of OmniMed.
Wednesday, February 21, 12:00–1:00 pm
on the
Parnassus campus,
room TBD. Contact Hannah
Leslie.
Global Health Sciences
has been asked to inform you of the following
news and events. Please do not reply to this
email -- each event has a contact listed
if additional information is needed.
UCSF
has been invited to submit two candidates
for the 2007 Packard Fellowship in
Science and Engineering. The Office
of Research will conduct an internal
review to select the UCSF nominee.
Contact Joann
Ang for application documents,
which must be submitted by 5:00 pm
Tuesday, February 20, 2007.
Ruth Macklin, PhD, Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will speak on Ethical Standards in Multinational Research as part of the UCSF Nursing Centennial Lecture Series in HSW-301 on Thursday, February 15, noon to 1:00 pm, reception to follow. For additional information about the Centennial Lecture Series, visit http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/centcalendar.html.
WAR, POVERTY, AND POPULATION will take place Saturday, March 3, 8:00 am - 5:50 pm, UC Berkeley. Come participate in what will be a major gathering for hundreds of individuals actively engaged in improving global health. Topics of talks include war, poverty, population and the interrelationships between them. Go to http://bixby.berkeley.edu. This event is cosponsored by UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCSF, and Stanford University.
Tuesday, February 13, 6:00-8:00 pm, School of Nursing Mezzanine (reception 6-7, open mic 7-8). Sponsored by the International Nursing Group (direct questions to Jennifer.okonsky@ucsf.edu).
The February 2007 issue of the Fogarty International Centers newsletter can be found here  .
If you would like to promote a program, service,
or event of interest to the UCSF Global Health
Sciences community, please contact
us for
consideration of your posting via the GHS
bulletin.
Dr. Haile Debas has appointed Nina Agabian, PhD, interim director for
research for Global Health Sciences. Here's the full
announcement.
GHS has executed formal Letters
of Intent to Collaborate with two Vietnamese
institutions of higher learning:
Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine
and Pharmacy and the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology-Vietnam.
GHSs proposal to the Bellagio Conference
Center for a conference on Increasing Access
to Surgical Services in Resource-Constrained
Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa has been
accepted and will take place the first week
in June. The Rockefeller Foundation, in its
notification letter stated that The Foundation
recognizes that you have highlighted an important
and neglected area of global health. Here
are the proposal
abstract and Surgery Chapter that forms the intellectual
basis of the conference.
GHS has submitted final draft of the Masters
in Science degree in Global Health for campus
review. This multidisciplinary program will
be the flagship for UCSF Global Health Sciences
educational activities. The first students
are expected to enroll in fall 2008. Contact:
Laurie
Kalter (KalterL@globalhealth.ucsf.edu).
Epi 180.10, was launched Monday, January
8, 2006, with 84 initial attendees from all
four UCSF schools and the graduate division.
This course, which meets Mondays noon-1:00
PM, is geared towards first year students
in order to provide an overview of global
health, including the major disease burdens,
the major international organizations and
their approaches in addressing these problems,
and career tracks in global health. On January
17, a special session with students who have
participated in UCSF-sponsored experiential
learning will be held in S-214, 5-7 PM, to
hear their stories and approaches to their
international learning experiences. An additional
section entitled, Making Yourself Useful
in the Third World, coordinated by Drs.
Tom Hall and Kevin Starr, will begin on Tuesday,
January 30 (5-7 PM) for a five week period,
emphasizing grass roots approaches to these
problems. The course is open to UCSF students
from any school. Registration closes January
12, 2007. Contact: Hannah
Leslie (LeslieH@globalhealth.ucsf.edu).
Global Health Sciences
has been asked to inform you of the following
news and events. Please do not reply to this
email -- each event has a contact listed
if additional information is needed.
The Unite
for Sight Fourth Annual International Health
Conference will be held at Stanford
University School of Medicine, California,
on April 14-15, 2007. More than 300 renowned
speakers from North America, Africa, Latin
America and Europe will present.
The 9th
Annual International Health Conference, War,
Poverty, and Population will take place
on Saturday, March 3, 2007 at UC Berkeley.
Co-sponsored by UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis,
and Stanford University, this one-day regional
conference will promote public awareness,
scholarship, and practical action in the
field of international health. Plenary speakers
include , Senior Policy Advisor,
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), , UC Berkeley Visiting Scholar
and former Ambassador to US for Rwanda, and
, UC Berkeley Bixby Professor,
Population and Family Planning. Registration
before February 5 is $30 for students and
residents, $50 professionals, and $75-100
NGO Exhibitor; continental breakfast, box
lunch, breaks and conference materials are
included.
The search has been opened for the 2007-2008
Global Health Outreach Fellow (GHOF). Ideally
the candidate selected would begin on May
30th, 2007. The application deadline is Tuesday,
January 16th. A cover letter should be included
in the notes section of their application.
The GHOF runs the Global Health Councils
University Coalitions
for Global Health.
If you would like to promote a program, service,
or event of interest to the UCSF Global Health
Sciences community, please contact
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